Girnar, a sacred mountain in India, stands in the peninsula of Kathiawar, Bombay province, 10 miles E. of Junnagarh. It is a bare and black rock of granite rising to the height of 3500 feet above the sea; and, as a holy place of Jainism, is covered with ruined temples. One group contains sixteen temples, nearly 3000 feet above the sea.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 220
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