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(great sage) a luminous ochre of dusk, the entrance of the Bahu temple. a statue of Mahavira the 24th Tirthankara with ears of diamonds and enthroned in the Bahu tetnple, the Samosaran temple in Palitana (1986), two flights of steps to the sanctuaries of Pārsvanātha and Mahāvīra, part of the dome and the 108 "identities", Jain girls singing and dancing in honour of Tiffen's visit, young girls dancing and singing for the Tirthankaras, the Jain girls seated in front of the dresser with jars of boiled water, a poor woman waiting serene at the nursery, Ihansniji the Mother Supenor of the Palitana nuns, a ceremony of induction of a nun by the great Jain Brahmans and the gurus of Palitana, a novice nun turning in front of the little tabernacle containing the statue of the Tirthankara Adinatha, two nuns in the Palitana lodging house, the dressing of the bride, the first part of the wedding ceremony in which the future husband presents the bride with a ritual bouquet, and a mother blessing her daughter ties to her husband by a long cord
Of Shankhesvar and Dilwara, eighteen photographs are included here They pertain to a young lady sitting beside the exquisitely carved pillars, a woman bnnging offerings of unusual shape and in strange materials like six pots mounted on one another with metal flags and the tower balanced on her head single-handedly, women clad in the most beautiful saris, the turban wearing bearers of the sacred carriage led by a Jain carrying a lion emblem of Mahāvīra, the sliver carnage with the statue of Mahāvīra and the Brahman in charge of the ceremony mounted on to it, the two temples of Dilwara, Vimala Vasahi and Tejahpala seen over the top of their outer wall on Mount Abu, preparations for one of the day's ceremonies in front of the sacred shrine, one of the parts of the 52 gateways of the temple of Tejahpala, the statue of a
Tīrthankara in a niche in one of the Tejahpala gateways, the wild rocks of Mount Abu seen across the courtyard of Tejahpala temple, inset carvings in the ceilings of the outer gallery of the sanctuary, details of the inset ceiling representing the tutelary goddesses of Adinatha, one of the many domes of the sanctuary of Adinatha dedicated also to the goddess Sarasvati, details of the domes of the mandapa (colonnaded hall) in Vimala Vasahi, the centre of the vast dome in the shape of a lotus flower of exceptional delicacy, another dome of Adinatha's sanctuary in the temple of Vimala vasahi with representations of dancers and tutelary goddesses, details of one of the four pillars surrounding Adinatha's temple, and one of the pillars of almost Gothic style surrounding the alcove of Adinatha
