Shri Sthanakvasi Jain Upashray, Vohrawad, Wadhwan, Surendranagar (Gujarat)

Jain Upashray in Wadhwan, Surendranagar The name "Wadhwan" is said to derive from "Vardhmānpur", after Vardhamana, also known as Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankar of Jainism. According to legend, the site of Wadhwan was originally a place called "Astigram", or "the village of bones", due to the predations of a man-eating yaksha named Shulpani, who lived in a cave on the bank of the Bhogavo river half a mile east of the present town. However, Mahavira visited the town and converted Shulpani, and the relieved inhabitants renamed the town Vardhmanpur in his honour. A temple dedicated to Mahavira now stands on the site said to have been Shulpani's home.