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that ordinary chiselling would have been disastrous. It is said that much of it was produced by scraping the marble away, and that the masons were paid by the amount of marble dust so removed. "1
Shrī Muni Jayantavijayajī deservedly spent years of labour in studying these venerable monuments at Arbudachala. His results were published in Gujarātī in five parts, one of which is devoted to inscriptions, and another to a objective description of the shrines. Dr. Umākant Shāh has presented the latter volume in an English translation. A useful work for tourists from all over the world, the book introduces these great monuments in an adequate and detailed manner. Two outline drawings showing the ground-plan of the Vimala Vasahi and the Lūņiga Vasahi have been added.
V. S. AGRAWALA.
Banaras Hindu University,
18-4-1954.
1 Architectural Antiquities of Western India, pp. 46-47.
