Champapuri
Jain temple · Vasupujya, the twelfth Tirthankara · Champapuri / Nathnagar, Bhagalpur, Bihar
Champapuri is the only place where all five kalyanaks of Bhagwan Vasupujya occurred, which makes it one...
The site of ancient Champa, capital of the Anga mahajanapada, with about twelve Jain temples in the locality and an ancient Champanala temple. A 31-foot statue of Vasupujya was erected in 2014, donated by the Sona Devi Sethi Charitable Trust. Excavation has shown Northern Black Polished Ware occupation of 700-200 BCE with fortification and moat. The Purnabhadra Chaitya, the garden where Mahavira lodged, is associated with the place.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Sultanganj
Festivals
- Mahamastakabhisheka; Mahavir Jayanti (Mar–Apr)
Yatras that include Champapuri
- Jain Yatra: Where Vasupujya, the twelfth Tirthankara, attained nirvana. Bhagalpur.
Experiences here
- Lifting water at Sultanganj: A hundred kilometres on foot in saffron, carrying Ganga water on a pole
- Silk at Bhagalpur: Tussar woven on handlooms in a city that has done it for two hundred years
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Sultanganj
Also around Sultanganj
- Manjusha art of Bhagalpur: The only Indian folk painting told as a strip, in three colours, of the Bihula-Bishahari legend; GI-registered in 2021.
- Bhagalpur silk: The tussar silk of the Silk City, GI-registered in 2013.
- Jardalu mango: Bhagalpur's pale, fragrant mango, sent every year to the President; GI-registered in 2018.
- Katarni rice and chura: The fragrant rice of the Munger-Bhagalpur plain, GI-registered in 2018, best known here as beaten rice.
- Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti: The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
Nearby places
- Ajgaibinath Dham, Sultanganj: Where the kanwar yatra begins, on the north-flowing Ganga
- Ruins of Vikramshila: Buddhist pilgrims and students of the dharma come to one of the two great Pala universities, from which...
- Bateshwar Sthan: To perform jalabhishek at an ancient linga on the Uttarvahini Ganga at the Ganga-Kosi confluence...
- Budhanath Temple: In Shravan the temple draws over a million devotees for Rudrabhishek and Jalabhishek, and the Bhagalpur...
- Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Bhagalpur: It is the mother church of the Catholic diocese covering eastern Bihar, and the focus of the diocesan...
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Champapuri important?
The site of ancient Champa, capital of the Anga mahajanapada, with about twelve Jain temples in the locality and an ancient Champanala temple. A 31-foot statue of Vasupujya was erected in 2014, donated by the Sona Devi Sethi Charitable Trust. Excavation has shown Northern Black Polished Ware occupation of 700-200 BCE with fortification and moat. The Purnabhadra Chaitya, the garden where Mahavira lodged, is associated with the place.
Which festivals are celebrated at Champapuri?
Mahamastakabhisheka; Mahavir Jayanti (Mar–Apr).
Can Tirtham plan a yatra to Champapuri?
Yes. Tell us how long you have and who is going, and Tirtham plans the days, the guide, the car and the stay.
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