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... we had seen our fill of Shatrunjaya (and not eager to climb and decend those steps again) we set off for Jaisalmer. Since Palitana is off the railway grid that meant sharing a bus full of Jain pilgrims to Ahmedabad. As it turns out, the people sitting ...
... honor; it was quite "rustic". When we disembarked in Talaja, it was about 5, and we were first told that the bus to Palitana didn't exist (language misunderstanding) and then, that it was "a little" late. At 6:30, just as it was getting dark, we boarded ...
"Adinath. Adinath," the white-clad monks and laypeople chanted as they clapped inside the marble inner sanctum of the holiest Jain temple. This was Adishwar, the main temple on Shatrunjaya Hill, the place where Adinath, the first tirthankara, or lord, ...
3500 steps up and back and some 900 Jain Temples and the most amazing carving and stone work ever.
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