 Paleetana ; street after street, and square after square, extend these shrines of the Jain faith, with their stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised, in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of...  Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ... - Page 6061884Full view - About this book
 | India - 1860 - 600 pages
...stately ' enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised in marble magnifi' cence upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and. like the ' mansions of another...in upper air from the ' ordinary tread of mortals. In the dark recesses of each temple ' one image or more of Adeenath or Ujeeth, or of some other of... | |
 | John William Shaw Wyllie - India - 1875 - 426 pages
...their stately enclosures, half-palace, half fortress, raised in marble magnificence upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another...removed in upper air from the ordinary tread of mortals. In the dark recesses of each temple one image or more of Adinath or Ajit, or of some other of the Tfrthankars,... | |
 | Alexander Kinloch Forbes - Gujarat (India) - 1878 - 844 pages
...stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised, in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another...removed in upper air from the ordinary tread of mortals. In the dark recesses of each temple one image or more of Adeenath, of Ujeet, or of some other of the... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1886 - 536 pages
...their stately enclosures, half-palace, halffortress, raised in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another...in upper air from the ordinary tread of mortals.' Owing to the special sanctity of Satrunjaya, Jains from all parts of India are anxious to construct... | |
 | Alexander Kinloch Forbes - Folklore - 1924 - 520 pages
...stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, raised, in marble magnificence, upon the lonely and majestic mountain, and like the mansions of another...removed in upper air from the ordinary tread of mortals. In the dark recesses of each temple one image or more of Adeenath, of Ujeet, or of some other of the... | |
| |
