Palitana

Palitana was a Gohil Rajput chiefdom beneath the Shatrunjaya hills in southern Saurashtra. In 1337 a Gohil thakur held the fort and surrounding villages, near the sacred Jain pilgrimage site on the hill.

In 1656 the Mughal prince Murad Baksh, governor of Gujarat, granted the town to the Jain banker Shantidas Jhaveri. Care of the temples passed to the Anandji Kalyanji Trust in 1730. The Kathiawar principality also paid tribute to the Gaekwar of Baroda and the Nawab of Junagadh.