Temple of Satrunjaya

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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the foreground, with the Balabhai behind it, to the left. The principal temple on the northern summit is the Caumukh. In front of the enclosure in which it stands is the Chipavasi tuk containing no temple of note; west from it is the tuk of Hemabhai Vakhatchand, the low domes of the temple appearing over the high wall, which is pierced with three windows and flanked with round bastions. Behind it is the tuk of Sakarchand Premchand, and facing it from the west, is another tuk of Hemabhai Vakhatchand. Again, to the south-west of this last, and at the extremity of the ridge, is the tuk of Modi Premchand Lalaji ; and, built against the face of the rock, on the slope between this and the Balabhai, facing the spectator, stands the temple, locally known as Bhima Padam, with a domed porch in front, and a plain square dome-covered temple behind.
3. The view due west repeats part of that just described and brings in the corner of the Vimalavasi tuk on the southern summit, a little to the right of the Vaghano pole.
4. From above the covered tank on the south side of the eastern section of the Vimalavasi tuk, the spectator has the temple of Hirachand Raykaran on his extreme right, with part of the Bhulaoni and the dargah of Angarsa Pir on the northern summit, to the west of it the gateway into the tuk, then the almost pure white temple of Narsi Kesavji Nayak, and still farther to the left, the lofty Caumukh, whilst the view to the north-west is cut off by the temples in the immediate neighbourhood.