The Girnar Parikrama (also called the Lili Parikrama) is the annual circumambulation of Mount Girnar in Gujarat, held over five days each November and traditionally understood by Jains as the site where the twenty second Tirthankara Neminatha attained nirvana after renouncing his own wedding on hearing the cries of animals destined for slaughter. Girnar has been a place of pilgrimage since before 250 BCE, and its temple complex, reached by nearly four thousand steps, is distinct from and complements the direct ascent pilgrims make to worship at the summit shrines.
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This source names Neminatha directly: "where the twenty second Tirthankara Neminatha attained nirvana after renouncing his own wedding on hearing the cries of animals destined for slaughter."
Source The JainsPaul Dundas
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Paul Dundas, Routledge, 2002on Girnar and Neminatha's nirvanaView the Source Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India
John E. Cort, Oxford University Press, 2001on Jain pilgrimage practice at GirnarView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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