Jaina Antiquities at Jambhira (Keonjhar)

The village Jambhira is situated very near to the site Podasingidi has some Jaina sculptures which are stated to have been shifted from Podasingidi. Among the sculptures the standing figure of Chandraprava with cognizance mark waning moon on its pedestal and another nude figure of a Jaina Tirthankara found placed under a big banyan tree are noteworthy. Ambika with Neminatha found carved on a single piece of stone is found affixed to a raised platform for planting holy basil of a villager. A good number of plaques of Jaina pantheons are said to have been unearthed near the village shrine of Jalakalanga, the gramadevati. The presiding deity of the shrine is a figure of Jaina Sasanadevi Ambika.