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the concealed temple ; who had made no demur 

 about taking off his shoes ; who never offered to 

 intrude into any shrine an. inch beyond the point 

 where he was asked to stop ; and who displayed 

 such a respectful interest in Parashvanatha, Abhinan- 

 danatha, and all the other saints ! 



The three attendants who remained never suspected 

 what I was after, when, on our return to the court- 

 yard of the great temple of ^eminath, I expressed a 

 wish to have another look at the outside of that splen- 

 did edifice, and, in order to do so, backed towards 

 the secret door of the concealed temple ; but no 

 sooner was I there than I turned suddenly upon 

 them, threw off the disguise of the third Tirthankara, 

 Shambhavanatha, which I had hitherto been using, 

 and suddenly said " And now we shall go to see 

 the Amijhara." 



Had Adinatha himself risen from the ground they 

 could not have been more thunderstruck ; and they 

 immediately raised a cry of dismay. The man with 

 the keys, which were only two or three bent bars of 

 steel, attempted to run off; but the glittering eye of 

 Kooshal was upon him, and before he had withdrawn 

 three steps the keys were in the latter's hand. There 

 was no torture, threat, or violence of any kind ; 

 simply the keys passed into Kooshal's hand ; the 

 secret door of the concealed temple was opened, and 

 I found myself at the entrance of the excavation 

 below. 



