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are to be found in most of the great cities of India, 

 though they do not obtrude their temples on public 

 notice. In Delhi I found a Jain temple which was 

 wholly unknown to Europeans well acquainted with 

 the city ; and on prosecuting inquiry, I got its 

 priests to open to me a concealed chamber containing 

 large statues of several of the Tirthankaras richly 

 ornamented. 



The Jain temples on Girnar are very elaborate and 

 beautiful. The older ones, and older portions of 

 others, are of granite ; but all the modern work has 

 been composed out of a soft oolitic stone which is to 

 be found at the base of Girnar and abounds over 

 Kathiawar. The principal temples, seven in number, 

 are on the ledge which runs above the great preci- 

 piece of Girnar ; but there are others scattered about 

 on the peak rising immediately above, and some of 

 these latter are in course of repair, and also of erec- 

 tion, the funds being supplied not only by Jains, but 

 also by Avealthy, pious Hindus. In outward appear- 

 ance the temples are much in the usual style of 

 Hindu architecture. The most striking character- 

 istics of their interiors are their fine tesselated marble 

 pavements ; their painted domes ; their exquisitely 

 shaped and carved pillars, sometimes of granite and 

 green syenite ; their antique porticoes, beautiful 

 small sculptures, and colossal statues. 



The central dome of the first temple, that to Nemi- 

 nath, is curiously painted and surrounded by female 



