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servation, maintenance and improvement of almost all their important places of pilgrimage. The inscriptions both on the pedastal of the images and foot-prints and tablets (Prashastis) commemorating the erection or the repairs of the temples at these places at different times, undoubtedly show that the whole credit belongs to our worthy and venerable Swetâmbar Acharyas under whose religious direction and advice, the Swetambari lay-followers did all they could to keep up their traditon and guard the sanctity of these sacred places all over India, excepting the Southern countries, the homes of the Digambar School. But who cares to devote to the study of these movements of culture from a historic point of view? We have inspected and examined numbers of Digambari images still preserved and worshipped in Swetambari ter ples but have not seen the reverse. It is a matter of satisfaction indeed to find the Digambari temple in Mathian Mahalla in Behar, side by side with a Swetambari temple, like the twin sister churches in charge of the Swetambaris. The Digambari brothers are always welcome to every
