Northwest of Udaipur is a collection of beautiful Jain temples, which are still a popular pilgrimage site for the Jain community.
The temples were built in the fifteenth century by a wealthy Jainmerchant. The fusely carved Adhinatha temple with a thousand elaborate marble pillars is a masterpiece of Jain architecture of this period and region.popular in West Asia than in India. Obviously impressed by the workmanship of Man Singh`s palace, the founder of the Mughal empire hastily quips Though they [the palaces] have all the ingenuity of Hindustan bestowed on them, yet they are but uncomfortable places.
Inside the palace there are courtyards (Man Mandir and Vikram Mandir) with an arrangement of small rooms around them, some two, others four storied (basement and dungeon). The charming character of the palace is achieved by a profusion of ornamentation on the walls, pillars, and brackets. The stone slabs have been carved with several intricate bands of geometric and arabesque designs that run along the walls, twirl around the pillars, and then drop like flower pendants from brackets and ceilings.
Though the sandstone is naked now, without Babur` s whitewash, the surviving colourful tile-work still glows with brilliant intensity as if created yesterday.? South of the palace (200 metres) on a projection of the cliff is a nother historical area with two important temples dating to the eleventh century.