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image of Bahubali on the Indragiri at Shravanabelgola as well as the giant new Bahubali statue in Dharmasthala, the three colossuses—Adinath, Bharata nad Bahubali on the platform of the Teen Moorti Mandir of Podanpur, Borivali, were a fitting last sight before we took off from Bombay airport...
This good luck that had followed us throughout our first journey to sacred centres of Jainism was with us again during our next pilgrimage from early December 1991 to March 1992. Here is not the space to enumerate all the spots we visited and mention all those kind and knowledgeable Jainas who helped us along on our way to places like Humcha in the South, Mangitungi and Deogárh in the Centre, or the solitary Mirpur temple in the West. I will confine myself to a happening which we will hardly ever witness again:
In Indore, where we happened to be asked by the president of Kundakunda Jnanapitha, Shri Kumar Singh Kasliwal, to attend a learned Jaina function, a letter reached us from our good
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