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quires to be modified ; but more of that anon. At 

 Jiinaghar I was told that Major Lang, when Political 

 Agent in Kathiawar, though a most popular officer, 

 had been prevented from entering the cave vi et 

 armis ; and that when Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, when 

 Governor of Bombay, visited Girnar, all the influence 

 of Bhaoaddin, the brother-in-law of the Xawab and 

 the most powerful man in the state, was exercised 

 in vain to obtain admission to the Amijhara. I have 

 already mentioned that Mr Graham was driven back ; 

 and two attempts made after my visit were not only 

 unsuccessful, but nearly resulted in bloodshed. 



My success was partly a fluke and partly owing to 

 management. I had confided to the wild Kooshal 

 my great desire to see the Amijhara, and promised 

 him a small reward if we succeeded ; on which his 

 protruding luminous eye literally blazed with delight, 

 and he promised to give me every support, though 

 not, I think, so much because of the reward as for 

 the fun itself. "When people visit the Jain temples 

 it is usual to send round with them a few of the 

 priests, or other custodians, and also some of the 

 Arab guard, whose ruffianly appearance has been 

 already noted. The entrance to the concealed 

 temple, beneath which is the Amijhara cave, is in the 

 inner south side of the enclosure of the first temple 

 which the visitor enters a great temple dedicated to 

 Neminatha, the twenty-second Tirthankara. ]N"o one 

 who did not know of it beforehand would suspect 



