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Pawapuri in Bihar is a holy site for Jains, located 38 kilometers from Rajgir and 90 kilometers from Patna, India.
Around 500 BC, Lord Mahavira, the last thirthankar and founder of Jainism, breathed his last here. He was cremated at Pawapuri, also known as Apapuri ("the sinless town"). There was a great rush to collect his ashes, with the result that so much soil was removed from the place of his cremation that a pond was created.
Now, a marble temple, the Jalmandir, stands magnificently on a rectangular island in the middle of that pond. Another Jain temple, called Samosharan is located here, where the Lord Mahavira delivered his last teaching.
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