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(68) Umbarani. 1
A walk about half a mile from the Bhadrakāli shrine by a kachcha-road takes the traveller to an old village of Umbarni which, from the references to it in the inscriptions at Ābu and old Tīrthamālās ( works giving lists of old places of pilgrimage ), was a much bigger place with many Jaina shrines and natives. At present it is a very small hamlet with no Jaina resident in it and no Jaina shrine standing. On its outskirts are ruins of old houses and heaps of mutilated stones which need exploration by archaeologists. The local inhabitants believe that the ancient city of Amarāvati ( referred to above ) extended upto the village of Umbaraṇī, from the site of Hşşhikesha. The village of Mānapur is reached by about a mile's walk from this place. (69) Banās-Bridge..
Near the milestone 16-2, on the river Banās is a long bridge known as “ Rājvāļā Bridge" built from funds collected by old State rulers and jāgirdārs in V. S. 1943-45. It has facilitated transport from Ābu-Road or Kharāļi to the Mount. (70) Kharādi-Abu Road.
About 1} miles by the main road and at about a mile. by a shorter but Kacca-road, is the village of Kharāļī called Ābu-Road in Railway guides. Situated on the Banās river,
1 In the Trigonometrical Survey Maps of India the name is Umarani, in the Sirohi Rājyakā Itihāsa ( by G. H. Ozā ) it is Omarali, and Ombarani in the Prācina Tirthmālā Samgraha. An inscription dated V. S. 1287, in the Lūņavasahi shrine, calls it Uvaraņi. Also see Arbudāchala Pradakshiņā ( in Gujarati) by Muni Jayantavijaya ( Abu, Vol. IV.), p. 31, for an account of this village.
