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 CHAP. V. JAINA BASTIS. 75 built about the same time, but which has now lost its jikhara probably destroyed by the Muhammadans. 1 The fine mana- stambha, in the foreground, stands in front of the Parswanatha- 302. Jaina Bastis at Sravana Belgola. (From a Photograph.) swami basti. The jikhara over the cell is always surmounted by a small dome, as is universally the case with every vimana in Dravidian architecture, instead of with the amalaka ornament of the northern jikharas. When we descend the Ghats into Kanara, or the Tuluva country, we come on a totally different state of matters. Jainism is the religion of the country, and nearly all the temples belong to this sect, but there architecture is neither the Dravidian style of the south, nor that of northern India, and indeed is not known to exist anywhere else in India Proper, but something very like it, possessing similar peculiarities, recurs in Nepal. The annexed two views (Woodcuts Nos. 303 and 304) of one of the largest of these temples, found at Mudabidri, in Kanara, about 20 miles north-east from Mangalor, will give a fair idea Rice's ' Inscriptions at Havana Belgola,' pp. 35 and 50,