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figures. It has beautiful marble pillars ; the pave- 

 ment is composed of alternate slabs of brown and 

 white marble, and it contains a large statue of Nem- 

 inath in black marble, ornamented with gold and 

 jewels, and with a symbol of Vishnu inlaid in the 

 marble floor before it. There are two or three apart- 

 ments off the central dome ; the doors are of carved 

 stone, and there are blocks of stone on marble stands, 

 Avith nearly a thousand small carved footprints of 

 disciples of the Ti'rthankara. Another temple has 

 a colossal statue, covered with marble-like chunam, of 

 Eishaba, the first Ti'rthankara, who is also called Adin- 

 atha and Adi-Biidhanatha. Two temples are sacred 

 to Parishnath, one of them containing a very large 

 white marble statue of that saint, though his proper 

 colour is blue, so dark that he is sometimes mistaken 

 for Neminath. In another, the chief statue is Abhin- 

 andanatha, with Adinatha on one hand and Shamb- 

 havanatha on the other. Great bells are hung in 

 some of the temples. The temples are all beautifully 

 clean ; in themselves fitting receptacles for the grand 

 solemn statues they contain, they are rendered all 

 the more striking by their position on the edge of a 

 great precipice. 



One of my chief objects in visiting Girnar was to 

 gain admission to the Amijhara, or Perspiring Statue 

 of the Jains, which is guarded with the utmost care 

 and preserved from all infidel eyes, only pious Hindus, 

 beyond the Jain sect itself, being permitted to see 



