Shri Rujuvaluka Tirth, Barakar, Katwaldih, District-Giridih (Jharkhand)

Mulnayak: Nearly 15 cms long, white-colored foot-idol of Bhagawan Mahavir Swami.

The present day Barker river was the Rujubaluka river of the ancient times. It is believed that this great tirth was Rujuvaluka. On the farm of the farmer Shyamak on the bank of this river under a shali tree at an auspicious time of Vijay Muhurta on the tenth day of the bright half of the month of Vaishakh Bhagawan Mahavir attained omniscience. Thus, this is a very sacred and holy place of Bhagawan Mahavir Swami’s attainment of Omniscience. Rev sadhus of the sixteenth, the seventeenth, and the eighteenth centuries described this tirth in their tirthmalas. Every particle of this place is purified and sanctified by twelve years long severe penance and attainment of omniscience of Bhagawan Mahavir Swami, the twenty- fourth Tirthankara. The grandeur of this place is matchless and beyond description.