[Sidenote: 8. The Dilwarra Temples, Mount Abu.] [Sidenote: 9. The Same, nearer view.] [Sidenote: 10. Door of the Adinat, Mount Abu.] [Sidenote: 11. Sava Munda, Mount Abu.] [Sidenote: 12. The Same, another view.] [Sidenote: 13. Paras Wanath Temple, Mount Abu.] Mount Abu is famous for its Dilwarra temples, probably the most ancient of the Jain temples of India. We heard of the Jains at the close of the last lecture. This is a distant view of the Dilwarra temples among the palm trees. We see that the surface of the plateau is very rugged. Here is a nearer view of the temples, and here a doorway of the most ancient of them, built probably about the time of the Norman Conquest of England. Next we have two views of another temple, erected some two hundred years later. The carving of the small domes and vaults is most delicate, and stands almost unrivalled even in India, a land essentially of painstaking labour in small details. Finally, we have a view of yet another temple, said to have been built by the workmen in their spare time during the erection of the greater temples we have just seen. In spite of the dilapidation of many centuries, and of unskilled restoration in places, these ruins are still extremely beautiful amid the rugged scenery of the Mount. The British Station on Mount Abu was attacked during the Mutiny, but the attack was beaten off. [Sidenote: 14. Sir Pratab Singh.] [Sidenote: 15. Dolat Singh.] [Sidenote: 16. Himat Singh.] One of the most progressive of the Rajput States, and the oldest, is Jodhpur, whose Prime Minister was, until lately, the distinguished officer Sir Pratab Singh, now Maharaja of his own little State of Idar, in the plain at the foot of Mount Abu. We have his portrait here, and those of his son and grandson. [Sidenote: 17. H.H. The Maharana of Udaipur.] [Sidenote: 18. The Palace, Udaipur.] [Sidenote: 19. The Same.] [Sidenote: 20. Udaipur, from the Jag Mandar.] [Sidenote: 21. Jag Mandar, Udaipur.] [Sidenote: 22. Jag Newas, Udaipur.] Udaipur is the capital of another of the greater Rajput States, Mewar, which was founded in the Roman times of European chronology. This is a portrait of the Maharana of Udaipur, who is the highest in esteem of all the Rajput princes. Udaipur is one of the most beautiful cities in India, with its palaces and ghats reflected in the clear waters of a lake. Here are two views of the palace of the Maharana, built of granite and marble, rising to a hundred feet above the surface of the lake. Here we have the city seen across the lake, and then there follow two views showing the temples and terraces by the water’s edge.