Udaygiri-Khandgiri caves near Bhuvaneshwar in Orissa.

A Panda in front of Jain idols

Lord Parshwanath as Vishnu, Padmavati as Durga!

Whenever someone visit this place never miss a chance to visit a so called Hindu temple in the mid of the hill. This Hindu temple is nothing but two Jain caves with beautiful ancient Jain idols. Jain pilgrims rarely visit these caves and miss many things that they must know.

There is a row of 24 black idols of Jain Teerthankars followed by 24 Goddesses, which are called as Shasan Devis by Jains. However, on asking to the Pandya who takes care of this says, 'In upper row, they are 24 avatars of Lord Vishnu, and the Goddesses are avatars of Maa Parvati.'

  It was found that the idol of Lord Parshwanath was converted to Lord Vishnu by wearing  him cloths. The same thing was done with the idol of Padmavati to convert her in Durgadevi.

The Pandyas are making thousands of Rupees per day from Hindu pilgrims. This is one of  the reason of converting Jain idols to Hindu one.