Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 3-4. (Budapest, 1959)

HOPP FERENC KELETÁZSIAI MŰVÉSZETI MÚZEUM - Ervin Baktay: Report on a vovage of study to India 1956/57

Fig. 9. Shatrunjaya, City of Jain temples Then I travelled to Junagadh in Saurashtra. There are some fine and characteristic gates in the old Fort (Fig. 7.), and a Buddhistic cave nearby, but the chief attraction of the place is Girnar Hill, with groups of Jain temples on its higher slopes. It is a hard trip to reach the temples, and the visitor is carried by two men in a swing-like sort of vehicle, called Doli. Disliking to be carried by poor, heavily panting human creatures, I walked almost the whole distance on the steep rocky path, resorting to the small seat of the Doli only at sections where I began to feel dizzy, for the narrow path led upward on the face of a perpendicular wall of rocks. The Jain temple groups are magnificent. Vultures still circled above Bhairav-Japa, the protruding rock cliff (Fig. 8.), from which Jain fanatics used to jump into death and ,,

salvation" many centuries ago. From Junagadh I proceeded to Palitana, in the neighbourhood of which there is another, and even more impressive, Jain temple city, called Shatrunjaya, on top of a hill (Fig. 9.). Due to my experience from the Girnar Hill, I did not care to hire a Doli, but walked the steps up to the gate of the temple city. Shatrunjaya is really a city by itself: thousands of temples are crowded together, encircled by tremendous walls, like a fortress, full of bustling religious