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Jain temples, Shetrunjaya Hill, Palitana
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Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of the
Jain temples on the Satrunjaya Hill, dated 1879.Marianne North
visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst
there. Satrunjaya is the largest Jain temple city in India and an
ancient place of pilgrimage as it is believed to be the place where
Pundarika, the main disciple of the first Jain Tirthankara
Adinatha, obtained enlightenment. On the two summits of the hill,
which rise 600 metres above the plain around the town of Palitana,
there are many hundreds of multi-spired temples where every day
pilgrims come to pay reverence to the different Jain saints. The
sanctuaries are grouped in fortified enclosures or tuks, named
after their founders and are not earlier than the 16th century as
many were destroyed during the 14th-15th centuries by the
Muslims.In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a halppy life' of
1892, Marianne North wrote, "That were crowds of people that day on
the hill, red being the preponderating colour. They looked like a
long garland of flowers against the hillside, climbing the steep
steps. The drawing was most complicated, and no shade was to be got
where I wanted it. I felt thankful as I descended the hill for the
last time that I should have no more temples to puzzle me, but it
was a glorious spot, with distant views of the plain and sea beyond
its temples."
Title: Jain temples, Shetrunjaya Hill, Palitana
Description:
Oil painting on paper by Marianne North of the
Jain temples on the Satrunjaya Hill, dated 1879.
Marianne North
visited India in 1877-79 and completed over 200 paintings whilst
there.
Satrunjaya is the largest Jain temple city in India and an
ancient place of pilgrimage as it is believed to be the place where
Pundarika, the main disciple of the first Jain Tirthankara
Adinatha, obtained enlightenment.
On the two summits of the hill,
which rise 600 metres above the plain around the town of Palitana,
there are many hundreds of multi-spired temples where every day
pilgrims come to pay reverence to the different Jain saints.
The
sanctuaries are grouped in fortified enclosures or tuks, named
after their founders and are not earlier than the 16th century as
many were destroyed during the 14th-15th centuries by the
Muslims.
In her autobiography, 'Recollections of a halppy life' of
1892, Marianne North wrote, "That were crowds of people that day on
the hill, red being the preponderating colour.
They looked like a
long garland of flowers against the hillside, climbing the steep
steps.
The drawing was most complicated, and no shade was to be got
where I wanted it.
I felt thankful as I descended the hill for the
last time that I should have no more temples to puzzle me, but it
was a glorious spot, with distant views of the plain and sea beyond
its temples.
".
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