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2410 Barbie મંત્રી વિમલ શાહે આબૂ પાસેના પ્રદેશમાં શ્રીદેવીને નામથી શ્રીપુર ગામ વસાવ્યું જે આજે “સરોતરાના નામથી વિદ્યમાન છે. એમાં બંધાવેલા મંદિરનાં ખંડિયેરે આજે પણ વિદ્યમાન છે.
વિમલવસહીના જીર્ણોદ્ધાર ઘણા થયા છે. મહામાત્ય વરના and praise, both being entirely of white marble and carved with all the delicacy and richness of ornament which the resources of Indian art at the time of their creation could devise. The amount of ornamental detail spread over these structures in the minutely carved decoration of ceilings, doorways, pillars, panels and niches, is simply marvellous, while the crips thin transculent shall like treatment of the marble surpasses anything seen elsewhere, and some of the designs are just dreams of beauty. The general plan of the temples, too, with its recesses and corridor, lends itself very happily in bright and shade with every change in the Sun's position.
Col. Erskin. It hangs from the centre more like a lustere of crystal drops than a solid mass of marble, and is finished with a delicacy of detail and appropriateness of ornament which is probably unsurpassed by any similar example to be found anywhere else. Those introduced by the Gothic Architects in Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminister, or at Oxford, are coarse clumsy in comparision.
Mr. Ferguesson.
(The Eminent Archeologist ). There are two places, Umeer (Amber) and Jaipur, surpassing all which I have seen of the Kremlin, or heard of the alhambra......and the Jain temples of Aboo........ ............rank above them all.
Bishop Heber. Architectural style is perfect and complete in all parts when we first practically meet with it in the early part of 11th century at Abų or at Girnar. From that point it
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