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The drawing:

• Girnar is a hilly town close to Junagadh in Kathiawar, Gujarat with numerous Jain and Hindu (Krishna) temples. It is particularly known as a pilgrimage site for Jains. It is linked to Jain legends about Tirthankara Neminath and believed by them to be the cousin of Krishna god of the Hindus.

• The Vastupala temple is named after one of the donor brothers Tejahpala-Vastupala. It was completed in mid 13th-century, per inscriptions found in the temple. However, the region's religious and political importance is ancient, as some of the oldest known inscriptions in South and Southeast Asia (pre-2nd-century BCE, including some of Ashoka's) have been found in Girnar-Junagadh region.

• This temple is one of 16 found on a ledge on Girnar hill. These temples are about 600 feet above ground, on the way to monuments on the summit which is about 3000 feet above sea level.

• The temple's architectural plan follows the square and circle principle found in historic Sanskrit texts.

• GPS location of the monument:

  21° 31′ 36.3″ N, 70° 31′ 26.3″ E

  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap

  21.526750; 70.523972

• The relative scale and relative dimensions in this architectural drawing are close to the actual but neither exact nor complete. The plan illustrates the design and layout, but some intricate details or parts of the temple may not be shown. In cases where exact measurements were not feasible, the drawing uses best approximations and rounds the best measurements feasible. The drawing uses, in part, the plans of this temple first published by Burgess, and republished in 1910 by James Fergusson in the History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, pages 30–34.

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