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JAINA TIRTHAS IN INDIA
Figure 136 :-THE JAINA TEMPLE OF DADA-WADI at Lucknow. Lucknow has fourteen Jaina temples which contain hundreds of Jina images of the Mughal period. One of them is illustrated here as an example of their architecture.
Plate 71 Figure 137 :-THE JAINA TEMPLE AT LACHHAWAD in Bihar. Mahāvira, the 24th Tirthankara was born in the village of Kshatriyakunda in Bihar, which is now known by the name of Lachha wäd. The place where he was born and the place of his Chyavana and Diksha are located on the hills near it. At the foot of hill is a Dharmasala of iconolate Svetambara Jainas. The temple is inside that Dharmasala. In the centre of the picture is seen a huge temple surrounded by a broad rampart inside which is the Dharmasālā. Every visitor to Bihar should not fail to see this charming site.
Figure 138 :-THE JAINA TEMPLE ON THE HILL AT KSHATRIYAKUNDA. It is built on the birth-spot of Mahāvīra.
. Plate 72 Figure 139:-THE JAINA TEMPLE AT KAMPILLA-Farukkabad, where the thirteenth Tirthankara Sri-Vimalanātha underwent four Kalyāņakas.
Figure 140 :-THE JAINA TFMPLE AT KULPAKAJI, a town in H.E.H, the Nizam's Dominions.
Plate 73 Figure 141 :-JAGAT SHETH'S JAINA TEMPLE at Katgolā (Bengal). This temple was built by the renowned Jagat Sheth on river bank in the village of of Kațgola on the bank opposite to Murshidabad in Bengal.
Figure 142:-A GENERAL VIEW OF SÅPTA-DHARA. A Jaina temple and a Dharmasala exist near the Railway Station of Räjgir in Bihar and are seen in the picture. The modern village of Rājgir was once Rājagrihi the capital of Magadha.
Plate 74 Figure 143 :-Main enterance of Badridāsa Babu's temple at Calcutta. Figure 144 :-BADRIDASA BABU'S TEMPLE at Calcutta.
Plate 75 Figure 145:-A general view, showing the scenery of the Badridāsa Babu's temple at Calcutta.
This glass temple built in Culcutta by the late Rao Bahadur Badridásji Băbu is famous for its grandeur. He spent laks of Rupees
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