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tliis time from excitement ; and small wonder, con- 

 sidering that they were left to bear the brunt of the 

 shock of the Arab guard. 



The aperture is rather narrow and the steps high 

 which, lead down into the underground chamber. 

 That chamber, which seems to have been excavated 

 out of the rock, is of course quite dark, and, judging 

 roughly, is only about six feet high, little more in 

 breadth, and about eight or nine feet long ; but that 

 does not include the considerable space of the niches 

 in which four statues, if sitting figures may so be 

 called, are placed. The Amijhara itself is a figure of 

 Parashvanatha, over life-size, seated squatting, and 

 made of very fine close white marble. I did not see 

 any " hollow in the shoulder, said to have been caused 

 by water that dropped from the ear ; " but a silver 

 plate had been let into the fleshy part of the upper 

 right arm, and possibly this may cover the hollow 

 alluded to ; and beneath this, at the saint's side, there 

 is a trough, about a foot long and a few inches in 

 depth, for the perspiration to run into. There were 

 silver ornaments on the wrists and body ; and, I was 

 told afterwards, silver plates on the soles of the feet, 

 but these I did not myself notice. On the right hand 

 of the visitor, as he faces the Amijhara, there are 

 three other shrines one with another, but smaller, 

 white marble figure of the same Tirthankara. The 

 other two figures were somewhat larger, in black stone, 

 and I came to the conclusion (though I could not now 



