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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
THE SHATRUNJAYA HILLS.
Shatrunjaya or Siddhagiri (lit. hill of the perfected) also known as Siddhachal, is a celebrated place of pilgrimage at Palitana in Kathiawad (Bombay Presidency). A full description of this sacred place is to be found in "The Temples of Satrunjaya" by J. Burgess and the following lines from it would be an interesting reading.
"It is truly a wonderful, a unique place, a city of temples for except a few tanks, there is nothing else within the gates. Through court beyond court, the visitor proceeds over smooth pavements of grey chunam, visiting temple after temple most of these built of stone quarried near Gopenath, but a few marble :-all elaborately sculptured and some of striking proportions and as he passes along, the glassy-eyed images of pure white marble, seem to peer out at him from hundreds of cloister cell; such a place is surely without a match in the world and there is a cleanliness withal, about every square and passage, porch and hall, that is itself no mean source of
pleasure."
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