Kulpakji Temple

Kulpakji, also called the Kolanupaka Temple, is a Svetambara Jain temple at Kolanupaka in Telangana. Jain tradition traces the site back roughly two millennia and credits the legendary king Bharata Chakravartin with its founding, while the surviving temple took shape from the ninth century, when the Kalachuri ruler Shankaragana granted twelve villages for its upkeep.

It flourished as a Jain centre under the Rashtrakutas and Western Chalukyas: a Kannada inscription of the Chalukya king Someshvara III dated 1125 records its teachers and monasteries. The temple enshrines images of Rishabhanatha, Neminatha and Mahavira, the last a green-stone figure famed as Manikyaswami, which the fourteenth-century monk Jinaprabhasuri celebrated in his pilgrimage work Vividha Tirtha Kalpa.