The best known group of Jain Tirthankar statues on the Gwalior Fort hill are along the western approach route to the hill, in what is known as the Urwahi Valley. While all other sides of the hill are faced with a steep escarpment (on which other statue groups have been cut, the middle of the western face has a relatively more gradual forested valley that leads part-ways up the hill. The approach route has been made in this valley. Along the sides of the valley, also scarped, are two major groups of Jain sculptures.

Before we come to the first of these two major groups, even before we enter the lower fortifications of Urwahi Valley, there is a smaller group with smaller sculptures, which are now controlled/maintained by a new Jain temple at the site. I’m not sure how old these statues are:

The lower fortifications of Urwahi Valley:

The forested Urwahi Valley with the fort on the plateau above:

Rock-cut caves can be seen along a path leading down the escarpment in Urwahi Valley from the fort above:

The first group of statues, on the northern face of the valley, with the fort above:

Note the inscriptions of a sculptor from 1927, probably part of a restoration project:

A small Durga sculpture next to the Jain statues:

The second group of statues, right next to the road along the southern face of the valley:

Road and sculptures. Once again, many of the faces have been remade in plaster:

Sculptures with the stairs leading down from the road:

This large statue has been stitched together from multiple photos to from a vertical panorama, and so may be distorted a little: