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 JAINA ARCHITECTURE. BOOK V. in 1440, situated in a lonely and deserted glen, running into the western slope of the hills, below Kumbha's favourite fort of Kumalmer. Notwithstanding former neglect, it is still nearly perfect, and is probably the most complicated and extensive Jaina temple in India, and the most complete for the ritual of the sect. It is raised on a lofty basement and from the plan (Woodcut No. 288) it will be perceived that it is nearly a square, 198 ft. by 205 ft., exclusive of the projections on each face. In the I ill 289. View in the Temple at Ran pur. (From a Sketch by the Author.) centre stands the great shrine, open on the four A sides and occupied by a quadruple image in white marble of Adinath or Rishabha, the first Tirthankara, the temple being one of the Chaumukh class. In the upper storey is a similar shrine, approached by doors opening from the terraced roofs of the building. Near the four angles of the court are four smaller shrines, and around them, or on each side of them, are twenty domes, supported by about 420 columns ; four of these domes or mandaps the central ones of each group are three storeys in height, and tower over the others ; and one facing the