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CHAP. III. MOUNT ABU. 43 different Tirthankaras they enshrine, chiefly by Tejahpala and his relatives, and dated between A.D. 1230 and A i 236.! The other two temples here are that of Adinatha, close to Tejahpala's on the south-east, of which the bhamti or sur- rounding enclosure of cells has been only partly completed ; the other is a great Chaumukh temple of Adinath, built in the middle of the I5th century three storeys in height with 287. Pillars at Chandravati-. (From Tod's 'Western India.') open domed porticos on the four sides that on the west being the principal, and having seventy-six pillars. As before hinted, there never seems to have been any important town on Mount Abu. It was too inaccessible for that purpose ; but a few miles to the southward on the plain are the remains of an extensive city, called Chandravati, 2 where 1 'Epigraphia Indica,' vol. viii. pp. 200-229. 2 Forbes ' Ras Mala,' vol. i. p. 274 ; Tod, 'Travels in Western India,' p. 134. When the railway from Ahmadabad into Rajputana was making, the contractors destroyed and carted a way, for culverts and permanent way, the marble temples that remained at Chandravati. 'Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. ix. p. 98.