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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
disgusting. All unpleasant images may here, how- 
ever, be speedily banished from the mind. Every 
turn, like a movement of the kaleidoscope, presents 
the beholder with a new and ever-changing scene. 
The wildest and the homeliest are equally varied 
and equally beautiful, and on all sides court the 
admiration of the visitor ; — for here, in truth, it may 
be said that — 
Mighty nature bounds as from her birth ; 
The sun is in the heavens and life on earth, 
Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam, 
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. 
It was in some sequestered nook, among the 
flowery solitudes of these wild mountains, that, 
peaceful, and undisturbed by 
The fall of kings, 
The rage of nations and the crush of states, 
there lived, and died at the age of a hundred years, 
the holy Parswanauth, the twenty-third deified 
saint, and probably the founder of the Jhaina tribe ; 
in honour of whom most of the Jhain temples are 
said to be erected, and whom the colossal figures 
usually attached to them are supposed to represent. 
Most of the glorious deeds of this Parswanauth, 
during his mortal life, are concealed in profound 
mystery, or else are too sacred to be imparted to 
the ears of heretics ; for nothing more than what is 
Jhere told of him can be learnt, except that the place 
