PALITANA  , a native

state of India in the Kathiawar agency of the Bombay presidency . Area, 289 sq. m.; pop . (1901),52,856, showing a decrease of 15% in the decade . The chief is a Gohel Rajput, with the title of Thakur Sahib . Gross revenue, £42,000; tribute jointly to the gaekwar of Baroda and the nawab of Junagarh, £700 . The capital of the state is Palitana; pop . 12,800 . Above the town to the west rises the hill of Satrunja, sacred to the Jains . On this hill, which is truly a city of temples, all the peculiarities of Jain architecture are found in a marked degree . Some of the temples are as old as the rrth century, and they are spread over the intervening period down to the present . The hill is visited by crowds of pilgrims every year . See J .

Burgess, Notes of a Visit to Satrunjaya Hill (Bombay, 1869) . PALK STRAITS, the channel lying between the mainland of India and the island of Ceylon . It is named after Robert Palk, governor of Madras (1755-1763) . The straits lie north of the line of reefs called Adam's Bridge, while the Gulf of Manaar lies south of it . The two channels are connected by the Pamban passage .