Till-: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



PETRIFIED LACE ON THE JAIN HILL OF WISDOM 

 Mount Abu is the charming mountain retreat of barren Rajputana. Its brightest jewel is the Nakhi Lake, 

 excavated in the sandstone plateau by the finger-nails of the Gods. There are two temples where the architect 

 has transformed marble into diaphanous drapery and jewel chains. This is one of the Tirthankar cells, erected 

 to the deified saints of the Jains in the temple of Vimala Sah. 



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