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RELIGION & CULTURE OF THE JAINS
The itinerary, though apparently quite formidable, does not exhaust all the places of interest. Some of them are of merely local or regional significance, and there are several centres (like Songarh in Saurashtra), quite big and influential, but only of recent growth. Many towns and cities (such as Delhi, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, and Bombay) on the way, have an attraction for the pilgrims because of their temples, śāstra-bhandāras (religious manuscript-libraries), some saintly person or scholar residing there, and so on. The number of those places is also not inconsiderable, which have been totally forgotten or about the existence of which we have literary traditions but which we are unable to trace or identify at present.
