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that the Committee of Management of the jnana Mandir iad already decided to allow a free use to be made of the valuable Mss. there and that if any scholars so desired, facilities would be given to them for taking copies of any of them and staying in Patan for the purpose of study.
The function was over at about 5-15 p. m, The president and the delegates took an opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the Rani Vav and Sahasralinga Talav, parts of which have been recently excavated by the Archaeological Department of H. H. the Gaikwar. The excavated portion of that lake which was the glory of Patan and a place of pilgrimage for all devout Hindus during the times of the Solanki and Waghela Kings of Anahil wad Patan gives an idea of the vast expanse of the purely preMahoinedan Saivite type of architecture, in which the art of sculpture does not seem to have at all suffered in its growth though subordinated to religion. History records that the water of this lake was ever kept fresh by connecting it with the river Saraswati to the north by a stonebuilt canal and this excavation testifies to the truth of that record.
The sacrifice of knowledge as a tribute to the memory of the Saint Hemacandra commenced in the morning of the 8th instant, in the same Mandap, and lasted till 12 noon on the 9th with agreeable breaks on the former date for a
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