History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c24.s8.63

v2.c24.s8.63

Mukhtagiri, instead of being situated on a hill, as the tîrthas of the Jains usually are, is in a deep romantic valley, and the largest group of temples is situated on a platform at the foot of a waterfall that thunders down from the height of 60 ft. above them. Like those of Sonâgarh, they are all of the modern domed style, copied from Moslim art, and none of them, so far as can be ascertained from such illustrations as exist, remarkable for beauty of design. It would, however, be difficult to find another place in India where architecture is so happily combined with the beauties of nature, and produces so pleasing an impression on the lover of the picturesque, though nearer acquaintance may result in disappointment to the antiquarian student of the style.¹