Introduction
Pisanhari Madhiya Ji is a holy site for followers of Jain religion. It is a beautiful place located on hills of Madan Mahal region in Jabalpur city of Madhya Pradesh state. It is managed by Pisanhari Marhiya Trust Committee. This holy site has been declared as "Atishaya Kshetra" which means "Place of Miracles". Starting from one small temple, now Pisanhari Madiya ji has been developed as an temple complex, covering whole hill in which we can find many beautiful Jain temples and well maintained garden. Here accommodation facility, parking area is also available for visitors. It location is also very convenient thus large number of visitors from local city and from other cities, use to visit this holy site and spend their valuable time in this historic site.
About Pisanhari Madiya
In order to understand the greatness of this place, it is necessary to go through the history of this site. Just like anyother hill, it was also a normal hill but due to devotion, determination, consistent hard-work and vision had made this place special. It is the landmark of a journey in which a normal place become turns to a sacred place. As per records and provided information in board, about 600 years back, their was an old woman who lives in this place whose source of earning was money generated through hand-driven flour grinder. In those days, Jabalpur was not a big city and electricity was also not discovered. In that time, Garha area had human establishment due to presence of Garha-fort in this area. Pisanhari Madiya Ji location is just close to Garha thus local people use to visit that woman's house for wheat grinding. She had a vision to develop a temple from her savings thus she was trying to work hard to realize her dream. She was inspired by the preaches of Jain Saint thus decided to dedicate her dream for development of a small Jain temple. On knowing about her pledge, local people also came forward to offer their contribution in development of a Jain temple and finally one day, dream was realized in the form of a temple. Earlier their was plan to install Gold pot on top of the pinnacle but later people decided to install those two flour-grinder who make way for construction of temple as those grinder are more precious than Gold thus as a way to give due respect, those grinders were installed and it is still present their. During that time, nobody has expected this place to become a famous pilgrimage point thus nobody kept record with then actual name of that lady. As it was constructed through the money generated through Grinding wheat thus its name was given as "Pisanhari Madhiya" means temple of a Grinder.
