14. Jain History | Archaeological Survey of India, Found hundreds of Jain idols

14. Jain History | Archaeological Survey of India, Found hundreds of Jain idols

14. Jain History | Archaeological Survey of India, Found hundreds of Jain idols

The Archaeological Survey of India excavated Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh in 1999. They found hundreds of Jain idols, the foundation stone of a Jain temple with the date, a sandstone chamber filled with decapitated and broken idols of Jain Tirthankars with legible inscriptions dating it back to 11 AD. They also found a red sandstone idol of Ambika Devi dating back to 2 AD and Saraswati Devi’s idol dating back to 1010 AD.

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