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Kachner
Kachner is 35 kilometers away from Aurangabad and can be reached via road.
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History

Kachner is the little town that became famous after it witnessed the miraculous arrival of a divine figurine of Chintamani Parshvanath nearly 250 years ago. The idol was soon believed to be the one that satisfies one’s sincere desires and frees them of their troubles. Kachner is today one of the important Jain religious places in India and is visited by the pilgrims in great numbers.

The famous idol of Parshvanath here was found and established through interesting incidents. It began when an old woman from the village found that her cow everyday went outside the village and poured out her milk at a certain spot. One day, the old woman tied up her cow to prevent her from doing that, but the cow broke the rope and ran away to complete her routine. Out of curiosity, the old woman gathered some villagers and they dug the place out, and, to their amazement, found a hatch with a door under the ground. They entered the hatch and there the idol of Parshvanath was found. The idol was respectfully brought to the village and established in a temple.

However, a few years later in an unnerving incident, the head of the idol separated from its torso and toppled down to the ground. The villagers were alarmed due to this bad omen. So, to nullify the unfortunate incident, they decided to bring an idol of Lord Mahaveer from Jintur and immerse the broken idol of Parshvanath into a pond. Thus an idol of Mahaveer was brought. But before the idol of Parshvanath was immersed, a social worker from the village named Lachiram Kasliwal received a message in his dream from Lord Parshvanath asking the villagers not to be immersed into a pond but instead to be immersed into a pit dug in a room filled up to the brim with ghee and sugar. The villagers obliged to this, and as per the lord’s further request, locked the room for seven days and sat and prayed outside it.

After seven days, when the idol was recovered from the pit of ghee and sugar, miraculously, its head had been joined with the body. However, a mark of the severance can still be seen on the neck of the idol. This incident freed the villagers of all their worries regarding the inauspicious incident.

Further, the idol gained the trust of the devotees as the one that listened to their pleas and ended their worries. Thus, this idol of Parshvanath was attributed the prefix Chintamani, the remover of worries.

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