Sammet Shikhar. The Land of Tirthankara’s salvation.

Sammet Shikar and Shatrunjaya are the most important Jain pilgrimages among all the Jain pilgrimages. In the western part of India shatrunjaya tirth is the most prominent and in the east the Sammed shikhar.

Location:

Sammet Shikhar is situated in Jharkhand state in district of Giridhi , in Inida.

It is impossible for the human mind to estimate the cosmic and the eternal power and purity of that land on which even one tirthankaras attained the salvation, so what would be the condition for the human brains where twenty tirthankaras attained salvation.

Even though first salvation was attained on himalaya but today that pilgrimage is invisible to us. In this case sammet shikhar is the only place which is known as the mountain of salvation. This is also true as except bhagvan Rishabdev, bhagvan Vasupujaya, bhagvan Nemihatha and bhagvan Mahavira all the twenty tirthankaras attained salvation here on the sammet shikar hills.

Names of tirthankara who attained salvation on Sammet Shikhar:

• Shri Ajitnath Bhagwan

• Shri Sambhavanath Bhagwan

• Shri Abhinandan Bhagwan

• Shri Sumatinath Bhagwan

• Shri Padmaprabhu Bhagwan

• Shri Suparshvanath Bhagwan

• Lord Chandraprabhu

• Shri Suvidhinath Bhagwan

• Shri Sheetalnath Bhagwan

• Shri Shreyansanath Bhagwan

• Shri Vimalnath Bhagwan

• Lord Anantnath

• Lord Dharmanath

• Shri Shantinath Bhagwan

• Shri Kunthunath Bhagwan

• Shri Arnath Bhagwan

• Shri Mallinath Bhagwan

• Shri Munisuvratnath Bhagwan

• Shri Neminath Bhagwan

• Shree Parshvanath Bhagwan

Word meaning of Sammet Shikhar:

Literal meaning of sammed shikhar is mountain of purifying powers. The more influencing meaning is that mountain blessed by touch of the most powerful and eternal persons (the tirhtankaras) and are residing, is the sammet shikhar.

Sammet Shikhar tirth is also known as the tirth raj of all the jain tirths. This sacred tirth was known by the names – Samet Giri, Samet Shikhari, Samadhi Giri, Samidi Giri etc. At present, it is known as Sammet Shikhar or Parshvanath hill. It is known as Sammet Shikhar for Swetambar and Sammed Shikhar for Digamber, it is not due to the religious conflict between them, but due to the ancient language used by each of them. Swetambar used Ardhmargi Prakrit and Digambar used Saursaini Prakrit.