Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.619

v3.c43.t1.619

The Jain Pillar.—Higher up, and nearly about the centre, is a remarkable square pillar, called the Khawasan-sthamba (column).³ It is seventy-five feet and a half in height, thirty feet in diameter at the base, and fifteen at the top, and covered with Jain figures. It is very ancient, and I found a fragment of an inscription at its base, which shows that it was dedicated to Adinath, the first of the twenty-four Jain pontiffs: “By Sri Adinath, and the twentyfour Jineswara, Pundarikaksha, Ganesa, Surya, and the nine planets, may you be preserved! S. 952 (A.D. 896) Baisakh (sudi) the 30th, Guruvar (Thursday) ” [764].