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Description of the Temple of Párśwanát'ha, at Samét Síkhar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2009

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At the foot of Párśwanát'hás mountain (Samét Sikhar), on the Ramghur frontier, and one hundred and thirty-six miles south of Bhágalpur, are situated the temples dedicated to Párśwanát'há Iswara (the twenty-third deified saint of the Jains), and constituting one of the principal places of the Jain worship in Hindust'han. They consist of large square brick buildings painted white, with a dome in the centre, and four smaller domes at the four corners. The centre dome is crowned with a gilded spire, like the Piathas of the Buddhaic temples of Ava, as described by Colonel Symes.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1827

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page 527 note * Mount Sammeya or Samet sic'hara.—As. Res. vol. ix, p. 310.Google Scholar

page 528 note * Agreeably to the Jain tenets, these flags bear the following meaning:

1. Jnyána, knowledge;

2. Dars'ana, a sight of the divinity;

3. Charitra, worship of Párswanát'ha.

page 529 note * Jangala, forest, and tarái, marsh: the woody, and marshy district south of Bhagalpur.