Show SACRED CITY OF THE JAINS one of the most remarkable of the sights the traveler sees in india Pall taua tana Is among the most wonderful places in that land of marvels it Is in the kattawar Katla war peninsula to the north of bombay anil and is the capital of bf the small state of the came same name which adjoins haroildo Haro ild the town stands on the river whose overflowing has frequently caused disaster and above rise the twin peaks of hill nearly 2000 feet above the plain it la Is the most sacred of the five acred hills of the jains and their city crowns the summit the jains who ho today form one of the large merchant castes may way be described as a heretical and ultra humanitarian sect of Ilind hinduism ulam its it founder was contemporary with ith buddha the baitis in all ages have bein bet at great temple builders their most marked peculiarity pecullar it in this respect being their tradition of building cities composed entirely of temples and con no human habitations what ever |