Jain house temple
A house temple (Ghar Derasar or Griha Chaityalaya) is a private Jain shrine that is placed within a personal residence.[1][2] Sometimes it is separate room or structure in a compound.
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Jain scholars prescribe that the height of a pratima in a house shrine should not exceed 11 aṅgulas, i.e. about 21 cm.
The formal communal temple is often referred to as a shikharbandi Jinalaya, i.e. with a shikhara. Sometimes a temple starts as a house temple, which grows into a formal shikharbandi Jinalaya when the community grows to be sufficiently large.[3][4]
Jain author Haribhadra Suri states in one of his famous grantha Sambodh prakran that-
If a lay person has savings more than 100 rupees, then there must be a Ghar derasar at his/her home. Further he says that the house which does not have a Ghar derasar is not a home, it is a graveyard.
In that derasar, a pratima of Tirthankara must be installed, on which the rituals of anjanashalaka(Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava) must be done.
Click here to view a video of Pratishtha ceremony at one Ghar Derasar.[5]
See also
References
- Jaina iconography: The Tīrthaṅkara in Jaina scriptures, art and rituals, Part 1, Jyotindra Jain, Eberhard Fischer, BRILL, 1978, p17.
- Jain Pratima Vigyan, Balchandra Jain Sahityashastri, Jabalpur, 1974, p.14
- As Mumbai Jain temple wraps up celebrations, silence shrouds its predecessor in Pakistan Yashwant K. Malaiya, Express Tribune, May 18, 2012
- श्री गोड़ी पार्श्वनाथ, Acharya Vimal Sagar Suri, शेठ अमीचंदभाई ने आराधना के लिए अपने घर में गृह जिनालय बनाया था।
- Highlights of Shree Sumatinath Bhagwan Ghar Mandir Pratishtha Dewas, retrieved 20 December 2019