Book Title: Encyclopaedia Of Jainism
Author(s): P C Nahar, K C Ghosh
Publisher: Satguru Publications

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________________ Visitors will find very picturesque scenery of large groups of the Jain temples on different tonks of summits of the hill. The most important of these are (1) Tonk of Adishwar Bhagwan. It is Adishwar or Rishavdeya's image consecrated by his son Bahubal that imparts its peculiar sanctity to Shatrunjava. Although the old image is replaced, yet it is regarded as the greatest of the Tirthas by the Swetambaris as the whole hill i; considered very sacred, it being the place where a large number of saints entered on Nirvan. (2) Khartar vasi Touk. (3) Chhipa vasi Tonk. (4) Bimal vasi Tonk. (5) Choumukhji Tonk. All of these have temples, large or small, built by the Jains of different ages and climes. We refer to the learned article by D:. Buhler, The Jain inscriptions from Shatrunjaya', published in Epigraphia Indica Vol: II p. 34-36 where it number of important inscription have been translated with the text and other useful historical 681

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