Girnar

Sacred site (tirtha) on a hill outside the
city of Junagadh in the state of Gujarat.
Girnar has been a holy site for at least
2,000 years and remains an important
place for several religious communities.
The hill’s summit is an important pilgrimage site for the Jains and has a cluster of Jain temples, some of them dating
back to the twelfth century. It also has a
long history as a center for Hindu
ascetics—the Brahmachari Sanyasis
(Brahmacharin) have an ashram there,
and the summit is said to have a set of
footprints left by Dattatreya, a famous
mythic figure who is considered a partial
avatar of the god Vishnu and a
paradigm for asceticism. Girnar is the
site of a large Hindu ascetic gathering
on Kartik Purnima, the full moon
in the lunar month of Kartik
(October–November).