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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARASNATH , a

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hill and

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PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of Jain

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PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

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BRITISH

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India, in

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HAZARIBAGH

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DISTRICT

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Bengal; 4480 ft. above the

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sea; 18 m. from Giridih station on the

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INDIAN

Indian railway . It derives its name from the last of the twenty-four Jain

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SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints, who is believed to have here attained

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NIRVANA

nirvana or beatific annihilation . It is crowded with temples, some of

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RECENT

recent date; and the scruples of the

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JAINS

Jains have prevented it from being utilized as a

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SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium, for which purpose it is otherwise well adapted .

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