Padampura is the site of Padampura Digambara Jain

Jainism

Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...

 Atishay kshetra in Shivdaspura town in Jaipur

Jaipur

Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

 district of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India. It is located at a distance of 35 km from Jaipur on Jaipur-Kota road.

It was on baishak shukla panchami samvat 2001 (1944 AD) one simple boy named Moola Jat was digging foundation for constructing his house when he struck with a stone statue. Experts later identified it as that of the Tirthankara Padmaprabha

Padmaprabha

Padmaprabha was the sixth Jain Tirthankar of the present age . According to Jain beliefs, he became a siddha - a liberated soul which has destroyed all of its karma. Padmaprabha was born to King Shridhar Raja and Queen Susimadevi at Koushambi in the Ikshvaku clan...

. This area has been developed as Padampura Digambar Jain Atishay kshetra.

External links

• http://www.jainteerth.com/teerth/padampura.asp
• Padampura, Padamprabhuji