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 In one vol., extra large folio, price Rs. 150.-Only three copies left. Subscribers' names registered by D. H. SYKES & Co., c/o “TIMES OF INDIA” OFFICE, Bombay.

THE TEMPLES OF SHATRUNJAYA, THE CELEBRATED JAINA PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE NEAR PALITANA, IN KATHIAwad, PHOTOGRAPHED BY D. H. SYKES.

witH HIs To Rica, L AND DEscRIPTIVE INTRoDUcTio N, By J. BURGESS, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.

This large Album (17 by 21 inches) contains forty-five large photographs, besides the Frontispiece, illustrating very fully the splendid City of Temples which the Shráwaks have reared in the course of centuries and at such enormous cost. The Introduction is both historical and descriptive, giving an account of the Jains, their religion and history, and a description of all the buildings of note on the sacred hill, illustrated by a plan of one of the larger Temples. Contents of the Introduction, 1.

Káthiàwád and the Jainas.

2. The Tirthan

karas or Jinas. 3. Yatis, Priests, Ceremonies, Sects, &c. 4, Historical notices—with inscriptions and grants of the Mughuls. 5. The Shatrunjaya Mahāt

mya. 6. The Shatrunjaya Hill.

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Description,

history, inscriptions, &c. of the Temples, &c. (represent ed in the Plates 1-4—General Views). 8. The Temples in the Khaqtaravasi Tuk or enclosure—(5-14). 9. Temples in the six smaller enclosures on the Northern Summit—(15-21). 10. The Temples in the Valley— (22-30). 11. The Temples in the Vimalavasi Tuk or Southern Summit—(31-45). Opinions of the Press.

Self, full of interesting local information and anti quarian knowledge regarding the sect of the Jains, to whom all the temples on that hill belong. (Friend of India, 5th August 1869.) If even Mr. Fergusson confesses that he knows little of Jain architecture and the Jains except what he has seen at Mount Abu and the Kutb Minar, it is high time that scholars and artists in India began to study the records and

publish descriptions of the temples. We welcome the forty five large photographs of the temples at Shatrunjaya, taken by Messrs. Sykes and Dwyer, with an admirably condensed

historical introduction by James Burgess, of Bombay, as a first step towards the removal of our ignorance.

able to scholars as to artists.

(Report of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, May, 1870.)

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In his Ras Mala, Forbes declares that this city of temples might “represent one of the fancied halls of eastern

romance, the inhabitants of which have been instantaneously Mr. James Burgess, of Bombay, has just completed a splendid work on the great Temple City of Palitana. This work which is illustrated by forty-five photographs

changed into marble, but which fairy hands are ever em

by Mr. Sykes, is preceded by an introduction by him

praises of the Devas.”

ployed upon, burning perfumes, and keeping all clean and brilliant, while fairy voices haunt the air in the voluptuous

In large oblong folio (14 by 19 inches), price Rs. 135.-Only two copies left. FORTY-ONE LARGE PHOTOGRAPHS

SO MA NATH, G I R N A R, J U N AG A D H, AND OTHER PLACES IN KATHIAWAD, VVITH

DESCRIPTIVE

INTRODUCTION.

By J. BURGESS, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. Cave at Talājā. 2-4. Caves at Sáná, 5. Ad-Poshkar. 6-8. Old Temple of Bhimanáth near Práchi Kunda. 9.

Interior of Vastupéla Téjapāla's Temple. 32. Shrine of Shambhavanātha. 33. Temple of Ambá Mátá on the summit of Girnar. 34. Peaks of Dattatreya and

Interior of the old Temple at Kadwar.

Neminátha.

Photographs :–1. The Ebhal Mandap Buddhist

10-15. Views and Interior of the Great Temple of Somanáth. 16. The Surya Kunda at Pattan Somanáth. 17, Temple of Surya Nārāyana at Pattan Somanáth. 18. Buddhist Cave at Junágadh. 19. Mount Girnar

35. Banian Tree at Bhaunāth. 36. Rock inscribed with the edicts of Ashoka, 250, B.C. 37, 38. Maqbara of Máji Sahiba. 39, 40. Maqbaras or Tombs of the Junágadh Nawābs. 41. Gate of the old Palace at Pālitáná.

from Junágadh. 20, 21. Wiews of the Jaina Temples on Mount Girnar. 22. Temples of Kumārapāla and Parshwa nātha, 23. Interior of the Portico of Kumārapāla's

Temple. 24, 25. Views of the Temples to the S. W. and S. on Mt. Girnar.

26. The Great Temple of

Neminátha. 27. Temple of Samprati Raja and Summit of Girnar.

28, 29. Views of Samprati Rája's and

Kumārapāla's Temples, &c.

30, 31. Exterior and

(Report of the Royal Asiatic Society, May, 1870.) The same author has also published forty-one

photographs taken by the same artist during an ex pedition to the caves of Talaja and Sana, and the temples of Somnath and Girnar. The text to this book is not so elaborate as that of the previous work, but is sufficient to describe and explain the history of the monuments it illustrates.