The Jaina Narrative of Neminātha and the Girnar Sacred Landscape

Record summary

Neminātha, the twenty-second Jaina tīrthaṅkara, is associated with renunciation, liberation, and Mount Girnar, where later tradition identifies important places connected with his life and final release. The story is relevant to boundary research because a physical mountain becomes a route between ordinary social life, ascetic withdrawal, and liberation beyond rebirth. Its narrative belongs to religious hagiography and pilgrimage tradition rather than incident reporting. Textual accounts, temple inscriptions, local guides, and sectarian traditions do not always agree on chronology or topography.