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JAIN PLACES OF PILGRIMAGE.
Visitors will find very picturesque scenery of large groups of the Jain temples on different tonks or summits of the hill. The most important of these are (1) Tonk of Adishwar Bhagwan. It is Adishwar or Rishavdeva's image consecrated by his son Bahubal that imparts its peculiar sanctity to Shatrunjaya. Although the old image is replaced, yet it is regarded as the greatest of the Tirthas by the Swetambaris as the whole hill i; cousidered very sacred, it being the place where a large number of saints entered on Nirvan.
(2) Khartar vasi Tonk. (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 Di. Buhler, The Jain inscriptions from Shatrunjaya', published in Epigraphia Indica Vol : II p. 34-36 where a number of importuit inscriptions have been translated with the text and other useful historical
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