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The shrine is built upon a high peak of the Ābu mountains, from the upper floor of which one can see before him, the extensive green plains below and the distant villages studded amongst trees and hillocks.
Besides the above mentioned 14 bronzes, there is a small bronze Pañchatirthi image and one small bronze of a single Jina. These together with the two Kāusaggiyās of marble mentioned before and nine other marble images of Jinas make a total of 27 images + I stone-Pațţa of footprints. (2) Shrine of Shri Adīshvara.
On a slightly lower level than the Chaumukha shrine, as shown before, is the temple dedicated to Adinātha. The central image, according to the inscription on it, was installed in V.S. 1721 (c. 1665 A.D.) and was the gift of Dosi Shāntidāsa Sheth, of Ahmedabad, Shrimāli baniã by caste. There are two more marble images on the sides of the image of Ādinātha. This temple was erected about 200-300 years ago, possibly by Shāntidāsa Sheth. kāvya, the principal bronzes on the northern and southern faces of the chaumukha on the ground floor, weigh 120 maunds each, this being in Bengali or North Indian maunds of 80 seers each, the two would weigh 480 Gujarāti maunds, and the four principle bronzes, if they are almost equal in weight, would weigh 960 Gujarāti maunds in all. It is just possible that the weight of the remaining eight or ten bronzes when added to above, would make a total weight of 1400 or 1444 maunds,
1 People believe that the temple was so constructed that King Kumbhakarņa can pay his respects to the Jinas on the upper floor, from the balcony of his own palace mentioned above. But the legend is not correct as Kumbhakarna died in V.S. 1525 while the shrine was built in V-S.-1516. The legend can only be associated with Rao Jagamāla of Sirohi in whose reign the Chaumukha shrine was erected...
