162 Account of the Jain Temples [Apriz, 
dicated, but to the riches that are to be so generally found among the 
Banions their votaries. 
Jain temples are to be met with in Guzerdt, Kattywdr, Cutch and 
Parkur, as well as in other countries both in the southern and northern 
parts of the Peninsula, but next to those on Abi, the most celebrated 
ones on the western side of India, are at Politanaand Girnar in Katty- 
war, at both of which places also they have been built on the tops of 
hills. The antiquity of the schism between this and the Hind4 sect is 
not accurately ascertained, but the oldest temple on Abd appears to have 
been built An. Vicramajit 1016, (A. D. 960,) or something more than 
eight hundred years ago. 
The temple now alluded to is dedicated to Rrxaspezo, (or as Mr. 
Ward has it, ‘‘ Rishusnu-pevu,’’) the founder of the sect and first in 
order of their deified saints, and is known by the name of Adisurjé 
deval. The four temples are built in the form of a cross, and this is the 
most westerly. It is in the figure of an oblong square, forty four paces 
long by twenty two wide (or perhaps 100 feet by 50) ; within the build- 
ing, and in the centre of the area so inclosed, stands the pagoda, in which 
the great image of the god is placed facing eastward. In front of this 
there is an octagon of 24 feet, supporting, on pillars and arches of 
marble, a cupola of the same: The pillars may be from 12 to 15 feet 
high. The entrance to the temple is from a small door opposite this 
cupola, and the grandeur of the building is discoverable at once on en- 
tering it, and has a very imposing effect. On all sides of the area there 
is a colonnade, the long sides having a double row of pillars supporting 
small domes, within each of which are cells in the walls to the number 
of 56, in all of which are marble images of the god. In the south west 
corner, and inachamber detached from the building, is a colossal figure 
of NE'MINATH cut in black stone. 
The whole of the building is of the richest white marble, superbly 
cut into numerous devices; and it is worthy of remark that there is not 
an inch of stone unornamented, and not two domes of the same pattern, 
though one hundred and thirty-three in number, and all are carved. 
The grand dome is a most chaste piece of workmanship, and so light do 
the pillars appear, that it could hardly be imagined they could + pied 
the superincumbent weight. 
Adjoining to this building is a room called ‘‘ Hdthésal” or the elephant 
hall, which seems once to have also had a roof of domes, and in which 
are the figures of ten marble elephants with drivers, each about four 
feet high, and caparisoned in the modern style of those of the Native 
princes, with every rope, tassel andcloth beautifully and correctly carved, 
