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GAUTEMALA
Gautemala's Peten region is the heartland of ancient Maya.[35A). Peten - 'Island' is a 14,000 sq miles sweep of uneven tropical forest and savanna covering the one third of nothern Gautemala. Maya civilization flickered into being in the first millennium BC shone brilliantly between 300 BC and AD 900 and then disappeared in what is called the classic Maya collapse. El-Mirador and Nakabe have largest temples. El-Mirador was a seat of Maya's political and economic power in the Peten. Elmirador controlled trade network extending to Yucatan peninsula and south. (See fig. ) Fig.3 depicts pava temple in the El-mirador campus This very name is connected with pava temple, the nirvana place of Lord Mahavira in Bihar which is an another proof that the pyramids in the Yucatan peninsula were influenced by Jainism.
