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Combining data collection with bhakti is challenging. Picture shows volunteers Pardeep and Megha. There are several tonks at Shikharji that are either unmarked or are not enclosed within a perimeter. These are not being replicated at Siddhachalam.

The charan paduka in most Tonks is between four and eight inches in length. The perimeter of the Tonk of Shri Abhinandan Swami (#18) was damaged by lightning last year. Right picture, taken moments after the one on left, shows monkey eating almonds left by yatris. Note that the laanchan (symbol) of Shri Abhinandan Swami is vaanar (monkey).

Left: A view of Parasvnath Tonk (background top) and other Tonks from the Tonk of Shri Suvadhinath. Right: Siddhachalam field trip volunteers, Rashmi, Megha and Ram at a rest stop after darshan of Tonk of Shri Chandraprabhu.