{"id":401,"date":"2018-06-06T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muktagiri.org\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2018-07-12T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T07:43:30","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/?page_id=401","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

 About Muktagiri :  <\/strong>Muktagiri Siddha Kshetra is situated in the lap of the \u2018Satpuda\u2019 Mountain range and it is surrounded by beautiful natural vegetation. It is ancient Siddha & Atishaya Kshetra. Its another name is also \u2018Mendhagiri\u2019 or \u2018 Medhrgiri\u2019. According to \u201cPrakrit Nirvan Kand\u201d and other texts, Muktagiri is place of attainment of Nirvan. About 3 & half crores of \u2018Muniraj\u2019 (Saints) have done meditation and attained salvation from here.
\nThe Samavsharan of 10th Teerthankar Bhagwan Sheetalnath also arrived here and so it became sacred by footsteps of Bhagwan Sheetalnath.
\nMany miracles do happen here from time to time. This Kshetra is quite ancient and according to inscription on \u2018 palate of copper\u2019 (Tamrapatra) got from Achalpur; the \u2018Guha (Cave) Mandir\u2019 was  constructed on this hill by the emperor of Magadh \u2018Shrenik Bimbasar\u2019. King \u2018Shrenik\u2019 was the contemporary of Bhagwan Mahaveer about 2500 years ago.
\nAfter Shrenik, about 1000 years ago from today King \u2018Ail Shripal\u2019 of Elichpur (Achalpur) developed this Kshetra. Thus Muktagiri became famous Teerth Kshetra at that time. Many temples and idols were reverenced by him. Many idols were got carved artistically by King Ail Shripal at Muktagiri like Antariksha Parshvanath & Ellora and the cave temples were also got constructed by  him. As per the records available at Muktagiri Sansthan, the entire Temples and Dharamshala was maintained  and managed since<\/p>\n

200 years by Kalamkar Family residing at Sultanpur (Achalpur).   In 1923 Late. Shri. Nathusa Pasusa Kalamkar purchased the entire range of Satpuda Hill along with 52 Digambar Jain Temples from Mr. Khaparde who was holding the malgujari and collecting a surcharge from Jain devotee\u2019s coming for worship.  Then Nathusa Pasusa build Dharamshala and Mahavir Temple on the foothill of the holy place.  In 1956 the public trust was formed and till today the entire management is looked after by Kalamkar Family.  This holy place has given a complete face-lift after 1980 when 108 Shri. Vidyasagar Maharaj completed a chaturmas at \u201cMuktagiri\u201d.<\/p>\n

How this place was named as  \u2018Muktagiri\u2019<\/em><\/strong>: –
\nIt is said that at the time when Samavsharan of 10th Teerthankar Bhagwan Sheetalnath arrived here, there was shower of pearls (Moti, Mukta). It is because of this shower of pearls the name of this holy place became Muktagiri.<\/p>\n

The secret behind the name \u2013 \u2018Mendhagiri\u2019<\/em><\/strong>: –
\nIt is said that in ancient times one Muniraj was engrossed in meditation & Tapa near waterfall. At that time one Mendha (male sheep – Lamb), which came near waterfall  slipped and fell near Muniraj. The Muniraj recited \u2018Namokar Mantra\u2019 to the dying Mendha. As a result of recitation of \u2018Namokar Mantra\u2019, Mendha attained eternity & peace and became Dev. This Dev showered pearls on this hill. As the Mendha attained eternity here so name of this place became \u2018Mendhagiri\u2019 and due to shower of pearls it became \u2018Muktagiri\u2019. Even today the shower of saffron takes place on the hill at Ashtami, Chaturdashi & Poornima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 About Muktagiri :  Muktagiri Siddha Kshetra is situated in the lap of the \u2018Satpuda\u2019 Mountain range and it is surrounded by beautiful natural vegetation. It is ancient Siddha & Atishaya Kshetra. Its another name is also \u2018Mendhagiri\u2019 or \u2018 Medhrgiri\u2019. According to \u201cPrakrit Nirvan Kand\u201d and other texts, Muktagiri is place of attainment of Nirvan. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muktagiri.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}