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Extract from the Ranakpur Travel Guides:
The complex of
Jain temples
at
RANAKPUR
, 60km north of Udaipur, is the largest of its kind in India, boasting marble work on a par with that of the more famous Dilwara shrines at Mount Abu and Shatrunjaya near Palitana in Gujarat. Unlike the latter two hilltop sites, however, this sacred spot is hidden at the base of a wooded valley. The land, deep in the Aravalli range, was originally gifted to the Jain community in the fifteenth-century by Rana Kumbha, the Hindu ruler of Mewar.
Ranakapur's isolated position has kept it well off the foreign tourist trail, but if you're working your way between Jodhpur...
read the whole Ranakpur Travel Guides...
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