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from time to time go there, find at proper season of the year, the lake decked with lotuses and the picturesque temple standing in the middle with its dazzling whiteness and the hills of Rajgir at a distance as a suitable back-ground with tall Tai trees scattered here and there all over the country. There is another ancient temple known as Gaon Yandir.
It has now beer ascertained from the inscription (Prashasti) that the old temple was reprired during the reign of Emperor Shah Jalian in 1641 A.D. There is another temple known as Sarnos:rran. This word Samo. saran' is not a corruption of 'Sravansala' as suggested by Sir A Cunningham in his Reports Vol. XI. p. 171; but it is a noun from the verb 'Samavasarati' 'to present one's-self! The tra lition is that the place where a Tirthankar presents himself 10 preach his sermons, people sit in concentric circle. around. It is also said that this whole arrangement is made by gods who also șsed to attend His lectures.
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