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 So JAINA ARCHITECTURE. BOOK V. the neighbourhood of Mudabidri. Three of these are illustrated in the annexed woodcut (No. 307). They vary much in size and magnificence, some being from three to five or seven storeys in height ; but they are not, like the storeys of Dravidian temples, ornamented with simulated cells and finishing with domical roofs. The division of each storey is a sloping roof like those of the Tombs of Priests, Mftdabidri. (From a Photograph.) pagodas at Kathmandu, and in China or Tibet. In India they are quite anomalous. In the first place, no tombs of priests are known to exist anywhere else, and their forms, too, are quite unlike any other building now known to be standing in any other part of India. Though not the grandest, certainly the most elegant and graceful objects to be found in Kanara belonging to the Jaina style of architecture are the stambhas, which are found attached to many of their temples. These are not, however, peculiar to the place or style. They are used sometimes by the Hindus,