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PARASNATH

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARASNATH , a See also:

hill and See also:place of Jain See also:pilgrimage in See also:British See also:India, in See also:Hazaribagh See also:district, See also:Bengal; 4480 ft. above the See also:sea; 18 m. from Giridih station on the See also:East See also:Indian railway. It derives its name from the last of the twenty-four Jain See also:saints, who is believed to have here attained See also:nirvana or beatific annihilation. It is crowded with temples, some of See also:recent date; and the scruples of the See also:Jains have prevented it from being utilized as a See also:sanatorium, for which purpose it is otherwise well adapted.

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