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JAIN A ARCHITECTURE
Book V.
shrine. And the shrine itself with the pradakshina would
occupy about 17 ft. to the west of these pilasters.
At the south-west corner, near where the shrine would have
been, lies a life-sized figure of Adinath, and from this, with the
Jaina figures excavated by General Cunningham, one of them
293. Temple at Gyaraspur. (From a Photograph.)
dated in A.D. 1085, we learn that, late in the 1 ith century the
Jains had the place in possession. But it is also plain that they
were reconstructing it of materials from older Hindu structures.
And the absence of debris suggests that either the walls and
great spire never were constructed or that, at a later date, the
entire materials were carefully removed. How long before
the nth century the eight sandstone pillars were first carved
JAIN A ARCHITECTURE
Book V.
shrine. And the shrine itself with the pradakshina would
occupy about 17 ft. to the west of these pilasters.
At the south-west corner, near where the shrine would have
been, lies a life-sized figure of Adinath, and from this, with the
Jaina figures excavated by General Cunningham, one of them
293. Temple at Gyaraspur. (From a Photograph.)
dated in A.D. 1085, we learn that, late in the 1 ith century the
Jains had the place in possession. But it is also plain that they
were reconstructing it of materials from older Hindu structures.
And the absence of debris suggests that either the walls and
great spire never were constructed or that, at a later date, the
entire materials were carefully removed. How long before
the nth century the eight sandstone pillars were first carved