On Sunday, Vikash and I took a full day Karnataka State Tourism tour to three temples: Shravanabelagola, Belur and Halebid. We headed to the tourism office at 6:30 for a 7:15 bus. The first stop was Shravanabelagola, one of the most important Jain pilgrim centers. It was literally, a temple on a rock. Hundreds of stairs were carved into this huge rock, leading up to a temple and the world’s tallest monolithic statue, measuring 17 meters. The temple also has the highest number of inscriptions in India. I’m not sure why that’s super special but the tour guide was really proud. We walked through the complex, looking at all the statues of ten important gods in Jainism and then arrived in the center, where the statue is. The statue was really impressive, especially because it
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