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 54 JAINA 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 nth 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