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

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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.