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Who Wrote Holy Abu? Muni Jayantvijay's Guide to Abu
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"Holy Abu" was written by Muni Shri Jayantavijaya (Jayantvijay). It is his guide to Mount Abu and its Jain shrines; the English edition was translated by U.P. Shah and published at Bhavnagar in 1954.
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Holy Abu was written by Muni Shri Jayantavijaya — Jayantvijay. It is his guide to Mount Abu and its Jain shrines, and the English edition was translated by U.P. Shah and published at Bhavnagar in 1954. It is still cited in the scholarly literature on Abu as a reference for the temples' inscriptions, sculpture and plan.
Holy Abu is one part of a much larger project. Jayantvijay gave the mountain a whole series of volumes:
- Arbudachal Pradakshina (Abu part 4) — a circuit of Arbudachal and its Jain sites, in Hindi.
- Arbudachal Pradakshina Jain Lekh Sandoh (Abu part 5, 1949) — a collection of the Jain inscriptions of the Abu region.
- Achalgadh Sachitra Aetihasik Varnan (Abu part 3, 1948) — an illustrated historical account of Achalgarh and its surroundings, in Gujarati.
- Delwara Jain Temples — a short English guide to the Delwara complex, covering the Mahavirswami temple, Vimal Vasahi, the Hastishala, Luna Vasahi and Pittalhar, published by the Seth Kalyanji Parmanandji Pedhi.
Taken together these are the standard descriptive account of Jain Abu, and the inscription volume in particular is the source later writers draw on when dating the shrines.
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