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તીર્થાધિરાજ શ્રી શત્રુંજય (ર) વહીવટ અને વિસ્તાર
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in and about the towns, is here conspicuous by its absence; and this it is, together with its thoroughly isolated position among the clouds, that at once gives it that charm and mysterious air which is so peculiarly its own. Tennyson might almost have had it in mind when he wrote:
And I rodo on and found a mighty hill, And on the top a city walled: the spires Prick'd with incredible pinnacles into heaven.'
-Archaeological Survey of India, (Somanatha and other mediaeval Temples in Kathiawad) (Ed. 1931) pp. 73-74.
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