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 JAINA ARCHITECTURE. BOOK V. and most exquisitely adorned building. Altogether they may perhaps be more modern than the principal Hindu shrines. The Jaina temples form a fairly compact group to the south-east of the others, and the largest and finest of them is the Pamvanath temple, which extends to about 62 ft. in length by half that in breadth. It has an outside porch on two advanced pil- lars with two square engaged ones by the sides of the entrance. Inside, the mandapa, about 22 ft. by 17 ft, has four pillars, with respondent pilasters supporting the domed roof, constructed in the usual way by cusped recesses forming a re- markably beautiful design. Beyond the hall is the shrine, surrounded by a pradakshina passage. The outside walls are ornamented with numerous bands of mouldings and with three rows of statues, as is shown in the photo- graphic view, Plate XVIII. (frontispiece). At the back or west end an outside shrine is attached, projecting about 9 ft. The temple was repaired and re-occupied by the Jains about 1860; but it had been restored and altered at a much earlier date. 1 290. Temple of Adinath at Khajuraho. (From a Photograph.) 1 An inscription on the door jamb, in characters of the I3th century, seems to be a copy from a grant made in A.D. 955 which may be about the date of the temple. But this doorway, Mr Cousens says, bears a figure of Vishnu on Garuda, and may have been -taken from some Hindu temple.