Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Vol 01 Jaina Art and Architecture

Author(s): Sagarmal Jain, Others
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Catalog link: https://jainqq.org/explore/006774/1

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PEE H PARSH WANATH VIDYAPEETH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH CR CS CS & C PARSHWA PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWAT PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA About the Volume Volume 1 entitled Jaina Ant and Architecture has been written by Prof. 11. NP Tiwari. Prof. Kamal Giri and Prot. Hurihar Singh. It is dividod into three parts Part I written by Prof. Harihar Singh gives a detailed account of Jaina buildings available in the forns of stupa, rock-cut caves and temples and structural temples spread throughout the country Besides it discusses the architectural materials contained in the Jaina canonical texts as they copiously make reference to both the religious and secular buildings. Part Il authored by Prof. Tiwari discusses the sculptures of the Tirthankaras and their Yaksus and Yaksis, other Jaina gods and goddesses, Bahubali and such sculptural manifestations as Samavasaran, Sammeta Sikhar. Nandisvaradvipa. Astamangalaka etein the light of the available textual references. In the treatment of the subject the author has taken into account not only the chronological perspective but also the aesthetic and iconographic Standpoint. Part III written by Prof. Kamal Giri deals with Jaina paintings available in mural and miniature fornis. The writer has discussed at length the wall paintings of Ellora. Siltannavasal and Tiruparuttikunram. Under the miniature paintings the authoress has discussed illustrated palm-lear and paper manuscripts of important Jaina texts, Patalis and Patacitras in chronological order. The work is fully illustrated and has glossary of technical terms and detailed bibliography.important Jaina texts. Patalis and Patacitrus in chronological order. The entire work is fully illustrated and has glossary of technical terms and detailed bibliography. PARSHWANATH VIDYAPE PARSHWA PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PET PARSH WANATH VIDYAPEE LOGGAR & Gece Georges PARSHWA APEET PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWAN APE ET PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PARSHWINA TH VIDYAPEETH areer cage PARSHWA PEETH PARSH WANITH VIDYAPEE PARSHWA APEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PIRSHWA APE THOPARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH RSHWA ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF JAINA STUDIES Volumes under preparation Vol. II Ethics and Moral Code : its Modern Relevance Vol. III History of Jainism Vol.IV. Language and Literature Vol. V Science & Technology Vol. VI Philosophy & Psychology Vol.VII. Religious Practices APE ETH PARSHWINATH VIDYAPEET W PEETH PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH PARSHWA PEETH PRSHWITH VIDY PEETH PIRSHW APEETH PARSHWINTHIDYAPEE PEETH PARSHWA

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Vol. - I Jaina Art & Architecture Chief Editor Prof. Sagarmal Jain Editors Prof. Maruti Nandan Pd. Tiwari Prof. Kamal Giri Prof. Harihar Singh PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH 2010 Jain Education Intemational

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Parshwanath Vidyapeeth Series No. 155 (c) Parshwanath Vidyapeeth ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER COPYRIGHT ACT OF INDIA First Edition 2010 ISBN: 81-86715-89-4 Price : Rs. 4000.00 US $: 100.00 PRINTED IN INDIA Published by: PARSHWANATH VIDYAPEETH I. T. I. Road, Karaundi, Varanasi- 221005 (INDIA) No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission, in writing from this publisher. Jain Education Intemational

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Dedicated to Late Lala Harjas Rai Jain Jain Education Intemational

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Late Lala Harjas Rai Jain (13.06.1896 - 18.06.1986) Jain Education Intemational

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LALA HARJAS RAI JAIN Late Lala Harjas Raiji was a visionary and a man of principles who had a clean and transparent public life of the highest order. He was one of the founders of Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, a research institute for Jaina studies. Parshwanath Vidyapeeth is a living monument of his selfless services and dedication to Jaina studies. All his life as an Honorary Secretary of this august institution, he performed his duties by head and heart. He dedicated both his time and money to build up this institute of Jainological Research. Lala Harjas Raiji developed deep interest in Jaina literature and felt an urgent need for research and translation of works not only in Jaina philosophy and religion, but also in all the branches of Jinistic literature comprising science, geography, astronomy, art and architecture, the occult and religious practices, philosophy, management, political and social science and history which for the major part are composed in various ancient Indian languages such as Prakrit, Pali, Sanskrit, Apabhramsha, Ardhamagadhi, Kannad, Gujarati etc. Lala Harjas Raiji, known for his integrity and dedication, both in public and private life, was compassionate, calm and composed with clear goals. He was a pious person with true devotion, never one to compromise his principles. In the words of his very close and intimate friend Late Shri Sardari Lal Khanna, "Harjas Rai was a man of forbearance, gentle, soft-spoken and heedful in nature. He was never aggressive but at the same time he was not prepared to lose sight of his objectives or his values". His sobriety, affable manners and cheerful disposition always attracted people, not only of the Jaina community, his friends and relatives but also of those who came in his contact. In short he was the personification of all virtues. What was planted as a seedling and nurtured so lovingly by him has today grown to be a tree that has become a Global name and a centre of higher studies in Jainology and Indic Studies. Parshwanath Vidyapeeth continues to be nurtured by his family till date, now in the third generation with the same dedication and selfless zeal to the cause. This Volume of Jaina Art and Architecture is hence dedicated to the great soul that was Lala Harjas Raiji, who devoted his full life for this noble cause. "Tvadiyam vastu Govindam tubhyameva samarpaye" (We dedicate to you - all that was received from you) Jain Education Intemational

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EDITORIAL The Jaina tradition is one of the oldest and richest traditions of the world. Through the ages it has preserved many of its original doctrinal characteristics. The Jaina thinkers have contributed in every branch of knowledge from the earliest time but unfortunately it is not well recognized, as there is no source for ready reference. At present, there is an awakening of interest world over in the study of Jaina philosophy, religion, theology, psychology, history, art, culture and sciences. A constant flow of publications on these subjects through research in modern languages is the great need of the day. Keeping in view the same Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, which has research publications of more than 156 to its credit, decided to take a mammoth project of preparation of Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies. Aims & Objectives The primary aim in bringing forth this Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies is to present a complete picture of the Jaina religion with its various aspects and dimensions in a possible manner so that it could satisfy the curiosity of layman as well as necessities of a scholar. The work will cover Jaina spirituality, religious culture besides covering Jaina contributions to literature, sciences, art and architecture, Jaina rites, ceremonies, festivals and customs. It will explain each Jaina school and movement in the proper perspective along with scholarly interpretations and observations. The aim is also to discuss each and every concept in its historical perspective. This Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies is to cover the following subject areas: Art & Architecture Temples, stupa, caves, pillars, Jaina iconography, Jaina deities and their iconographical characteristics, paintings and Jaina antiquities in foreign museums. Ethics and Moral Code : its Modern Relevance Moral standards of Jainas, postulates of Jaina morality, determinism and free will, threefold path of liberation, code of conduct of monks and householders, transgressions of Jaina code of conduct, Jaina theory of punishment, and Jaina doctrine of passions and aurations. History of Jainism From prehistoric times onwards, brief life-sketches of selected Tirthankaras and other torchbearers, history of the development of Jaina sects, literary, social and political history of Jainas, prominent Jaina monks and nuns, kings and devotees, Jainism through the ages till modern times both in India and abroad and Jaina holy places. Language and Literature Prakrit and its dialects, Jaina Canonical works and their commentaries in Prakrit and Sanskrit, Jaina philosophical and religious works, Jaina narrative literature in different languages, technical literature, Jaina literature in modern Indian and Western languages, Apabhraisa literature, doctoral dissertations, and Jaina journals, catalogues, etc. Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Science & Technology Cosmology, geography, mathematics, physical sciences, life sciences, technical sciences, environmental sciences, food and medical sciences. Philosophy & Psychology Basic assumptions, ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of karma and omniscience, Jaina psychology, theism and atheism, bondage and liberation. .Religious Practices Concept of five Paragons (Panca Paramesthins) and Fordmakers (Tirthankaras), austerities, Jaina Yoga and Meditation and other spiritual practices, six essentials for the monks and householders, Jaina way of worship, its various forms and objects, rituals, festivals, ceremonies, Sarsakaras, Mantra and Tantra in Jainism, Sanllekhana, and evolution of pure consciousness. The Organization and people behind the Project A memorial to Pujya Acharya Sohanlalji Maharaj was set up in 1937 as "Parshwanath Vidyashram" (presently known as Parshwanath Vidyapeeth) at Varanasi. During 73 years of its working, the Institute has done commendable work in teaching, research and publications in the field of Jaina studies. The Institute is recognized by Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, for Ph. D. Degree and till date 61 scholars have been awarded Ph.D. Degree. In this noble effort the Institute has been fortunate to receive the guidance of distinguished and well known scholars like Pt. Sukhlalji Sanghvi, Acharya Narendra Devaji, Dr. Vasudeva Sharan Agrawala, Pt. Bechardas Doshi and Padmabhushan Pt. Dalsukh Malvania. Further, the Institute has received the blessings, patronage and inspiration of many Acaryas, Sadhus and Sadhvis. The Team of Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Parshwanath Vidyapeeth has engaged many scholars of repute to this prestigious project which is first of its kind. Led by Prof. Sagarmal Jain, Chief Editor, Shri Indrabhooti Barar, Chief Coordinator and Dr. Shriprakash Pandey, Asstt. Director, Prashwanath Vidyapeeth, the team consists of the following selected experts from all over India. Prof. Maheshwari Prasad, Prof. Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari, Prof. Kamal Giri, Prof. Harihar Singh, Prof. Nand Lal Jain, Prof. Ratan Chand Jain, Prof. Raman Bhai C. Shah, Prof. S. S. Lishk, Prof. Raj Kumar Jain, Prof. Jyotirmitra, Dr. Arun Pratap Singh, Dr. Ashok Kumar Singh and Dr. Shriprakash Pandey. Out of these thirteen scholars, four have left this world. We pay our sincere tribute to Prof. Nand Lal Jain, Prof. S. S. Lishk, Prof. Jyotirmitra and Prof. Raman Bhai C. Shah whose sudden demise was a great loss for us as well as this project. Volume I of this mega project entitled Jaina Art and Architecture has been written by Prof. M. N. P. Tiwari, Prof. Kamal Giri and Prof. Harihar Singh. It is divided into three parts. Part I which has been written by Prof. Harihar Singh gives a detailed account of Jaina buildings available in the forms of stupa, rock-cut caves and temples, and structural temples spread throughout the length and breadth of the country. Besides, it discusses the architectural materials contained in the Jaina canonical texts as they copiously make reference to both the religious and secular buildings. To facilitate the readers Prof. Singh has given first region-wise and then site-wise description of Jaina edifices with their approximate date. Jain Education Intemational a

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Editorial Part II authored by Prof. Tiwari discusses in detail the sculptures of the Tirthankaras and their Yaksas and Yaksis, other Jaina gods and goddesses , Bahubali, and such sculptural manifestations as Samavasarana, Sammeta Sikhara, Nandisvaradvipa, Astamangalaka etc. in the light of the available textual references. In the treatment of the subject the author has taken into account not only the chronological perspective but also the aesthetic and iconographic standpoint. Part III written by Prof. Kamal Giri deals with Jaina paintings which are found both in mural and miniature forms. The writer has discussed at length the wall paintings of Ellora, Sittannavasal and Tiruparuttikunram. Under the miniature paintings the authoress has discussed illustrated palm-leaf and paper manuscripts of important Jaina texts, Patalis and Patacitras in chronological order. The entire work is fully enriched with halftone illustrations and line drawings and has glossary of technical terms and detailed bibliography. We express our sincere thanks and gratitude to all the three authors as well as editors for their full cooperation in the completion of this volume. The ist Volume of Encyclopedia of Jaina Studies has been sponsored by Harjas Rai Jain Public Charitable Trust, Faridabad. We extend our hearty thanks to the Trustees. We are very thankful to Shri B. N. Jain, Ex-President, Shri Romesh C. Barar, President, Shri Indrabhooti Barar, Secretary, Managing Committee, Parshwanath Vidyapeeth and Chief Coordinator of this project and Prof. S. L. Jain, Director of the Institute, for extending their full support and arranging infrastructure for the completion of this volume. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Shriprakash Pandey, Asst. Director, Parshwanath Vidyapeeth and one of the editors of the Volume on Jaina Philosophy & Psychology for his dedication towards the project and hard work to get this volume published. We are thankful to Shri Sunil Kumar, Add-vision and Shri Vimal Chand Mishra for composing the text methodically. We thank to Jauhari Printers Pvt. Ltd., Varanasi for fine printing of this volume. Sagarmal Jain Jain Education Intemational

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PREFACE The present volume is a study of Jaina art and architecture from the earliest time to the thirteenth century A.D., but in regard to Jaina painting it goes even beyond this time bracket since the bulk of material available to us is posterior to this date. It is of late that the world of scholars started recognising Jaina contributions to Indian art and architecture and wrote some handsome volumes on them. But the materials so far published are scattered and brief and hence it is very hard for the readers to have a complete picture of the subject at one place. Another point worthy of note is that the earlier works do not contain an elaborate glossary of required technical terms to facilitate not only the common readers but also to the researchers to comprehend the contents fairly well. Therefore, the entire material on Jaina art and architecture has been collected and collated in a chronological order, or in a thematic order wherever necessary, in one volume. This encyclopaedic work is divided into three parts - architecture, sculpture and iconography, and painting and treats the entire contents into 23 chapters and 12 appendices. Part I is on architecture and consists of six chapters dealing virtually with all types of secular and religious buildings the Jainas have either raised out of love and devotion to their faith or made reference to them in their literature. Chapter I is introductory and aims at giving a brief outline of architectural development of Jaina monuments during the period under review. It also deals with various other aspects which would hopefully prove to be useful for the comprehension of Jaina edifices. Chapter II gives a detailed account of different types of secular and religious buildings that are described in the Jaina canonical texts. We know a lot about the religious buildings but this chapter is significant because it throws welcome light on the secular buildings. Chapter III discusses the ruined Jaina stupa of Mathura which is the lone Jaina stupa so far known to us in concrete form. Here, an attempt has been made to restore the past glory of this stupa by piecing together all the evidences for the mode of its construction and decoration and also by making a comparative study of the Jaina stupa with its Buddhist counterpart. A special attention has been rendered to its railing which is fully decorated with varieties of full-blown lotus flowers on account of which it has been rightly called Padmavaravedika, a name given to this type of railing in the Jaina texts only. Chapter IV gives a state-wise description of rock-cut Jaina caves excavated throughout the country both in the cut-in and cut-out forms as we find with regard to Brahmanical excavations. The history of Jaina cave architecture begins with the dwelling caves at Rajgir in the third century B.C. and it continues in this form at Udayagiri-Khandagiri, Pabhosa and Junagadh. But when it reaches the soil of the Deccan and South India it takes the form of shrines which were produced at Ankai-Tankai even as late as the twelfth century A.D. All these Jaina caves have been described in their entirety so that one can make an estimate of Jaina share of rock-cut architecture which is second only to the Buddhist. Chapters V and VI deal with structural Jaina temples of North and South India respectively in the same pattern as we notice in case of rock-cut architecture. The structural temples which constitute a major part of Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies this volume are the latest development of Indian architecture beginning from the 5th-6th century A.D. Here, we have made an extensive survey of all the intact Jaina temples and described them in an intelligible manner with a good number of line drawings pertaining to plan and elevation. In describing the temples an extensive use of Sanskrit technical terms contained in the Indian architectural texts for indicating different components of temples has been made because the English alternatives do not always carry the exact meaning of the Sanskrit words. The Jaina temples are not very different from the Brahmanical ones in the general plan and design but the compartments like mukhamandapa and devakulikas in the Jaina temples of Western India are exclusively Jaina features. Another point worth mentioning is that many Jaina temples are stupendous in size and very rich in decoration and bear precise dates of their foundation. The Mahavira temple at Osian, the Vimalavasahi and Lunavasahi at Abu, the Jaina temple at Jhalrapatan, Mahavira temple at Kumbharia, Neminatha temple and Vastupalavihara at Girnar, Meguti temple at Aihole, Akkana-basadi at Sravanabelagola, the Great Jaina temple at Lakkundi, Parsvanatha temple at Halebid, the Jaina temple at Belgaum etc. are some such temples which are precisely dated by inscriptional evidences. These dated temples provide us definite clues not only for ascertaining the relative chronology of both the Jaina and non-Jaina temples but also for tracing the evolution of their style in a particular region. Part II deals with Jaina Sculpture and Iconography in seven chapters and six appendices. It brings out important aspects of the renderings of the Jinas and their Sasanadevatas (Yaksas and Yaksis) and other Jaina gods and goddesses such as Mahavidyas, Laksmi, Sarasvati, Brahmasanti and Kaparddi Yaksas, Astadikpalas, Navagrahas, Santidevi, Vijaya-Vijayanta-Jayanta-Aparajita, Nine-Naradas, Eleven-Rudras, Kamadevas, GanipitakaYaksaraja and Tribhuvana-Svamini. Besides, other important sculptural manifestations like those of Bahubali and Bharata Muni, Jaina-Ayagapata, Samavasarana, Astamangala, Nandisvara-dvipa, Sammeta-Sikhara and PancaMeru, Manastambha and Parents of the Jinas are also discussed to make the study complete. The study is based on the corroborative and analytical study of both the textual and sculptural data with comparative and aesthetic assessment thereof. Chapter VII of Volume is an Introduction which gives background of Jaina Sculptures and Iconography by way of succinct mention of the patronage, pantheon and landmarks of the Jaina sculptures of North and South India. Some observations on art and aesthetics have also been made as it is alleged that the Jaina art is monotonous and merely spiritual in content and expression. Chapter VIII deals at length with the iconography of each of the 24 Jinas or Tirthankaras on the basis of texts and images. The iconographic features and formulations are outlined with suitable explanations for particular association. In tracing the development of the images of each of the 24 Jinas their iconography and regional features have been discussed on the basis of the data procured from important Jaina sites of Svetambara and Digambara traditions of North and South India. Examples from different important museums of India and abroad are also included. Chapter IX discusses Yaksas and Yaksis (Sasanadevatas) shown invariably with the Jinas. While Vitaragi Jinas represent the highest moral and ethical values of truth, non-violence, austerity, renunciation and nonacquisition, the Yaksas and Yaksis, shown in close association with the Jinas from Gupta period and gradually occupying independent status to enjoy veneration, were as per texts capable of fulfilling worldly aspirations of the worshippers and removing the sorrow and pangs caused by grahas, bhutas and pisacas. It also takes note of the process of interaction between the Brahmanical and Jaina cults in so far as the iconography of Yaksas and Yaksis is concerned. Jain Education Intemational ucation Intermational

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Preface Chapter X deals with sixteen Mahavidyas who were important Jaina Goddesses of Tantric impact and whose iconography is enunciated both in Svetambara and Digambara texts. However, their renderings were confined mainly to the Svetambara Jaina sites of Osian, Delvada, Kumbharia, Taranga etc. Chapter XI deals with some other important Jaina gods and goddesses such as Sarasvati, Laksmi or Sridevi, Ganesa, Brahmasanti Yaksa, Kaparddi Yaksa, Ksetrapala, Harinaigamesi or Naigamesa, Astadikpalas, Navagrahas, Dikkumaris, Santidevi, Pratiharas, Vijaya-Vijayanta-Jayanta-Aparajita, Nine-Naradas, Eleven-Rudras, Kamadevas, Ganipitaka-Yaksaraja and Tribhuvan-Svamini. Chapter XII deals with the images of Bahubali, Bharata Muni and Jivantasvami. Bahubali and Bharata Muni were two sons of Rsabhanatha and were accorded veneration on account of their rigorous austerity and renunciation. As a consequence of this their images, particularly of Bahubali, were carved in abundance. Jivantasvami image represents Mahavira prior to his renunciation. He is shown in art as standing in kayotsargamudra with royal ornaments. This concept was subsequently extended to several other Jinas also. Chapter XIII pertains to some important artistic and iconographic manifestations, namely Jaina Ayagapata, Samavasarana, Astamangala, Nandisvara-Dvipa, Sammeta-Sikhara and Panca-Meru, Manastambha and Parents of Jinas. The first five Appendices deal with the names of the original texts along with their dates and authorship, list of important Jaina sites with their dates, and tables showing the iconography of Jinas, Yaksa-Yaksi and Mahavidyas. A map of important Jaina sites is in the form of Appendix VI. These will make the whole discussion more understandable in terms of time, space and details. Part III deals with Jaina paintings in ten chapters and six appendices. It begins with Chapter XIV which is introductory giving an outline of Jaina miniature paintings from the 11th century A.D. to early 18th century. Here, it has been tried to show that it were the murals of Ellora (Indra Sabha) and Ajanta which inspired the artists of the Jaina miniature paintings to produce illustrated manuscripts first in palm-leaf and then in paper. It also discusses the history of Jaina miniature painting in a chronological order so that the readers might comprehend its stylistic development. Chapter XV is on Adipurana which describes the cosmic cycle of the life of Tirthankara Rsabhanatha, his ten former births and the life of Cakravartin Bharata. The painted paper manuscripts of Adipurana datable to 15th-16th century A.D. illustrate different stories narrated in the text. Chapter XVI deals with Kalpasutra which is taken to be the most revered book by the Svetambaras. The text consists of three parts - Jinacarita (lives of Jinas), Sthaviravali (succession of pontiffs) and Sadhu-samacari (rules for monks at the time of Paryusana) - and all these, particularly the lives of Mahavira, Parsvanatha, Aristanemi and Rsabhanatha under Jinacarita, have been discussed in reference to their illustrations. Chapter XVII is related with Kalakacaryakatha which is a Svetambara legend pertaining to the life of monk Kalaka. This text is generally treated as an integral part of Kalpasutra. During the 13th century A.D. the Kalakacaryakatha and the Kalpasutra were transcribed even as hyphenated texts. Both these texts were embellished with illustrations from A.D. 1250 to 1555. The illustrations of the text represent different episodes from the life of monk Kalaka. Chapter XVIII deals with Uttaradhyayanasutra, a text commendable for describing in 36 chapters the various duties of Jaina monks. The manuscripts of this text belong to 15th-16th century A.D. and the scenes illustrated therein show only some minor changes in different manuscripts. We have discussed here the different chapters of the text in the light of their illustrations. Jain Education Intemational

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xiv Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Chapter XIX is on Yasodharacarita which imparts religious instructions through stories interwoven with the life of king Yasodhara. The stories are carefully illustrated in the manuscripts of the text in prominent colours like red, indigo blue, yellow, white etc. but the illustrations lack the landscape. The illustrated manuscripts range in date from 15th century A.D. to 18th century. Chapter XX exclusively discusses the wall paintings available in Jaina edifices of Ellora, Sittannavasala, Kundavi Jinalaya and Tiruparuttikunram. The murals of the Indra Sabha at Ellora depict maximum number of human figures. These have been discussed in detail with reference to their placement, subject and colour, comparing also with those of other caves there. The paintings in the Jaina cave at Sittannavasal are the earliest examples of frescoes and their technique is similar to those of Ajanta and Bagh. The wall paintings in Kundavi Jinalaya at Tirumalai depict Samavasarana of Neminatha and is of less artistic merit but its importance lies in that. It shows angular treatment of nose and chin and also the protrusion of farther eye into space. The art of wall painting was encouraged at the time of Vijayanagar rulers in the 15th century A.D. at Tiruparuttikunram. As a result, a number of Jaina temples were endowed with the representation of the life and birth of Tirthankaras. Chapter XXI deals with Patali (wooden book-covers for palm-leaf and paper manuscripts) which bears paintings not only of flora and fauna but also of scenes of historical importance, Jaina Acaryas, Tirthankaras, mothers of Jinas, Salakapurusas, Mahavidyas etc. Chapter XXIV discusses Pata-citras (cloth painting) which are available in the form of painted scrolls, banners etc. They are of two types - Tantric and Non-Tantric. The Tantric Pata-citras show yantras, mantras, symbols, syllables and images of deities, while the Non-Tantric ones consist of pictures with religious contents. The Jambudvipa-pata, Vidya-pata, Surimantra-pata and Tirtha-pata are some examples of Pata-citra. Chapter XXIII deals with Samavasarana which is a celestial assembly hall raised by gods for the first sermon of a Jina. It has been represented not only in wall and miniature paintings but also in sculptural form. We have discussed it in detail with regard to its structure, shape and representation of figures of gods, goddesses, human beings and animals who assembled to witness this occasion. The six Appendices entitled Citta-sabha (Picture Gallery) and Citta-kamma (Art of painting), life of Tirthankaras, Painting and Jaina canonical literature, Jnana-bhandara, Bhattaraka (Administrative head of the Jaina religious establishment) and Tada (Palmyra Tree) would further elaborate the subject. The scheme of writing this volume on Jaina Art and Architecture was chalked out about a decade ago by the dignitaries of the Parshwanath Vidyapeeth of Varanasi and the work was entrusted to us. We are happy that this difficult task has ultimately been completed and the book will soon go in the hands of the readers. For its completion and all sorts of help and cooperation we offer our sincere thanks and gratitudes to Prof. Sagarmal Jain, Chief Editor of this volume, Shri Indrabhooti Barar, Secretary, Prof. Sudarshan Lal Jain, Director, Dr. Shriprakash Pandey, Asst. Director, Shri Om Prakash Singh, Librarian, and other staff of the Vidyapeeth. We are deeply indebted to all those authors whose sources have been utilised in writing this Volume. We shall fail in our duty if we do not place on record our indebtedness to individuals and institutions whose illustrations have been reproduced and acknowledged. We also thank Shri Sunil Kumar and Shri Vimal Chandra Mishra for composing and scanning the manuscript and photographs. Mahavira Jayanti M.N.P. Tiwari 28th March, 2010 Kamal Giri Harihar Singh Jain Education Intemational

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are indebted to the following institutions and individuals for the reproduction of illustrations published in their books or kept in their possession. 1. American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon, Haryana : Pls. 1 - 43, 46, 49-51, 54 62, 64 -75, 78-118, 122, 123, 126, 129-132, 134, 135, 141-145, 147, 149, 152-154, 156, 159, 163, 164, 166-172, 177-181, 185-187, 191, 192, 194, 200-207, 209-214, 218, 219, 221-226, 230, 233-236. Text Figs. 47-49, 55-58, 65-76, 102, 103, 106, 107, 113, 115-119. 2. Author is thankful to Dr. Saryu Doshi for her permission to use her publications and illustrations in Part III: Pls. 242-245, 247-249, 252, 253, 255, 256, 259-261, 283-286. 3. Bharat Kala Bhavan, B.H.U., Varanasi : Pls. 246, 250, 251, 257, 291-293. 4. Moti Chandra and Karl Khandalavala, 'New Documents of Indian Paintings': Pls. 258, 287. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. W.N. Brown, 'Manuscript Illustrations of the Uttaradhyayanasutra': Pls. 262-282. P. Pal, "Jaina Art and Architecture' : Pls. 254, 288-290. Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi : Figs. 1 - 44, 59-64, 77-80, 88-96, 100, 101, 104, 114, 121. Pt. Bhagwan Das Jain, 'Prasadamandana': Figs. 45, 46, 50. Department of Archaeology, Govt. of Gujarat : Figs. 81-87, reproduced after M. A. Dhaky. George Michell, 'Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture,' Vol. 1, Pt. 1: Figs. 97-99, reproduced after M. A. Dhaky. 10. 11. Department of Archaeology, Karnataka : Figs. 105, 108, 109-112, 120, reproduced after M. A. Dhaky. 12. D.R. Das, Arihanta', Vol. 3 : Figs. 51-54. Jain Education Intemational cation International

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Editorial Preface Acknowledgments Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V CONTENTS PART I-ARCHITECTURE By Prof. Harihar Singh Deptt. of A.L.H.C. & Archaeology, Faculty of Arts Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005 : Introduction : Architectural Data in the Jaina Canons Secular Architecture - Village Planning 6, Town Planning 8, Palace 8, Other Buildings 10 Religious Architecture Stupa 11, Layana 12, Jinalaya 13 : Jaina Stupa Architecture Jaina Stupa of Mathura 14 : Rock-cut Jaina Architecture Bihar Rajgir 24 Uttar Pradesh - Pabhosa 24 Orissa Udayagiri 27, Khandagiri 31 Gujarat Junagadh 35 Madhya Pradesh - Udayagiri 37 Maharashtra Dharashiv 39, Ellora 40, Patna 52, Ankai-Tankai 53, Chamar 58, Bhamer 58, Anjaneri 58, Chandor 58 Karnataka Badami 58, Aihole 60, Melkote 60 Tamil Nadu Vilappakkam 60, Pecciparai 61, Sittannavasal 61, Armamalai 62, Vallimalai 62 Kerala Tiruccaranattumalai 62, Kallil 63 Jaina Temple Architecture North India Historical Background 65, Architectural Features 70 Bihar Rajgir 78 Bengal Pakbira 80, Deuliya 80, Paresanath 81, Ambikanagar 81, Deoli 81, - Page vii xi XV 1-6 7-13 14-22 23-63 .64-186

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xviii Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Chara 83, Harmashra 83, Deulbhira 83 Uttar Pradesh - Deogadh 84, Banpur 91 Madhya Pradesh - Kundalpur 92, Pithaora 92, Gyaraspur 93, Khajuraho 96, Un 105 Chhattisgarh - Arang 106 Rajasthan - Osian 108, Varman 112, Rajorgadh 112, Ghanerav 113, Pali 117, Lodrava 117, Nagada 122, Nadlai 122, Nadol 124, Nana 125, Nandia 126, Ahad 126, Sewadi 129, Abu (Dilwara) 131, Jhalrapatan 139, Jhadoli 140, Sadri 140, Phalodhi 141, Mungthala 141 Gujarat - Vadnagar 142, Than 144, Taranga 145, Kumbharia 151, Girnar 169, Sejakpur 175, Satrunjaya 177, Bhadreshwar 179, Sarotra 180, Miani 183, Kanthkot 184 Jaina Temple Architecture : South India ... .................... 187-249 Historical Background 187, Architectural Features 192 Karnataka - Aihole 195, Hallur 203, Humca 204, Pattadakal 207, Kambadahalli 210, Sravanabelagola 213, Annigeri 223, Angadi 223, Harasur 225, Konnur 226, Lakkundi 226, Mulgund 231, Ron 232, Nagai 233, Kuppatur 233, Laksmesvara 233, Huli 236, Hangal 237, Halebid 239, Heragu 242, Puspagiri 242, Nittur 242, Heggere 243, Udri 245, Jinanathapuram 245, Belgaum 246 Tamil Nadu - Tirupparuttikunram 247, Vijaymangalam 248 Chapter VI : Chapter VII : PART II-JAINA SCULPTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY By Prof. Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari Deptt. of History of Art, Faculty of Arts Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005 Introduction ......... 253-261 Patronage 253, Pantheon 253, North India 255, South India 259, Art and Aesthetics 260 Jinas or Tirthankaras .... ...... 262-290 Rsabhanatha or Adinatha 263, Ajitanatha 266, Sambhavanatha 267, Abhinandana 267, Sumatinatha 268, Padmaprabha 268, Suparsvanatha 269, Candraprabha 270, Suvidhinatha 271, Sitalanatha 272, Sreyamsanatha 272, Vasupujya 272, Vimalanatha 273, Anantanatha 273, Dharmanatha 273, Santinatha 274, Kunthunatha 275, Aranatha 276, Mallinatha 276, Munisuvrata 277, Naminatha 278, Neminatha 278, Parsvanatha 281, Mahavira 285, Dvitirthi and Tritirthi Jina Images 287, Jina Caumukhi 288, Chapter VIII : Jain Education Intemational

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Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Contents Jina Caturvimsatika 290 : Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata Gomukha 293, Cakresvari 294, Mahayaksa 295, Ajita 295, Trimukha 296, Duritari 296, Isvara 297, Kalika 297, Tumbaru 297, Mahakali 297, Kusuma 298, Acyuta 298, Matanga 298, Santa 299, Vijaya 299, Bhrkuti 299, Ajita 300, Sutara 300, Brahma 300, Asoka 301, Isvara 301, Manavi 301, Kumara 302, Canda 302, Sanmukha 302, Vidita 303, Patala 303, Ankusa 303, Kinnara 303, Kandarpa 304, Garuda 304, Nirvani 304, Gandharva 305, Bala 305, Yaksendra 305, Dharani 306, Kubera 306, Vairotya 306, Varuna 306, Naradatta 307, Bhrkuti 307, Gandhari 308, Gomedha 308, Ambika 309, Parsva or Dharanendra 311, Padmavati 313, Matanga 315, Siddhayika 315 Vidyadevis : Other Jaina Gods and Goddesses Sarasvati 326, Laksmi 328, Ganesa 329, Brahmasanti Yaksa 330, Kaparddi Yaksa 331, Ksetrapala 332, Harinaigamesi 333, Astadikpalas 333, Navagrahas 336, Laukantika Gods 337, Dikkumaris 338, Santi Devi 338, Pratiharas 339, Vijaya-Vijayanta-Jayanta-Aparajita 340, Nine Naradas 340, Eleven Rudras 340, Kamadevas 340, Ganipitaka-Yaksaraja 341, Tribhuvana Svamini Devi 341 : Bahubali, Bharata Muni, Jivantasvami Images Bahubali 342, Bharata Muni 345, Jivantasvami 346 : Some Other Aspects of Jaina Art Jaina Ayagapata 349, Samavasarana 349, Astamangala 350, NandisvaraDvipa 351, Sammeta-Sikhara and Panca-Meru 352, Manastambha 352, Parents of Jinas 352 Appendices I-VI : I. Texts and their Dates II. Jaina Sites and their Dates III. Jina Iconography IV. Yaksa-Yaksi Iconography V. Mahavidyas Iconography VI. Map of Important Jaina Sites xix 291-317 318-325 326-341 .......... 342-348 .349-354 355-371 355 356-358 359-360 361-368 369-370 371

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies ............................... PART III-JAINA PAINTING By Prof. Kamal Giri, Ex-Professor Deptt. of History of Art, Faculty of Arts Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005 Chapter XIV : Introduction .... 375-382 Chapter XV : Adipurana ............... 383-384 Chapter XVI : Kalpasutra .... ..... 385-390 Life of Mahavira 384, Life of Parsvanatha 385, Life of Aristanemi 385, Life of Rsabhanatha 386, Sthaviravali 386, Sadhu-Samacari 386 Chapter XVII: Kalakacaryakatha ............. 391-392 Chapter XVIII : Uttaradhyayanasutra 393-399 Chapter XIX : Yasodhara-carita .................................................................. ................ 400-403 Chapter XX : Wall Painting .............. 404-409 Ellora 402, Sittannavasal 403, Sri Kundavi Jinalaya 403, Tirupparuttikunram 404, Chapter XXI : Pasali (Wooden Book Covers) ............. 410-411 Chapter XXII : Pata-Citra (Cloth Painting) ............. 412-415 Chapter XXIII: Samavasarana .................................................................. 416-419 Appendices I-VI: ........... ................. 420-497 I. Citta-Sabha (Picture Gallery) and Citta-Kamma (Art of Painting) II. Life of Tirthankaras in Painting 422 III. Painting and Jaina Canonical Literature 426 IV. Jnana-Bhandara 429 V. Bhattaraka (Administrative Head of the Jaina Religious Establishment) 431 VI. Tada (Palmyra Tree) 432 Glossary 433-447 Bibliography 448-456 Index 457-479 List of Illustrations 480-497 Text Figs : 1-120 Plates : 1-293 420 Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Architecture By Prof. Harihar Singh Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The term architecture called Vastuvidya (Prakrit Vatthuvijja) in Indian tradition means the art and science of building. This connotation applies only to the visual and material aspect of the building and not to the conceptual one, though it is for the latter that the Indian buildings, particularly the religious ones, are justly famous. Indeed, the Indian religious buildings, including also the Jaina, are not only a material record of the Indian people but also a cultural record of their thought. belief, cult-worship and material life. The term "Jaina Architecture" was first used by James Fergusson in his famous treatise entitled History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (London, 1876) in order to distinguish it from the "Buddhist Architecture" as the two are almost contemporaneous and their religious buildings, in many respects, closely resemble to each other. The present nomenclature of "Jaina Architecture" was, however, not adopted in the later works on the subject. This is obvious from the Indian Architecture of Percy Brown (Bombay, 1949) which deals with the whole of ancient Indian architecture under the Buddhist and Hindu periods only, although Brahmanism, Buddhism and Jainism, the three principal religions of India, flourished side by side and the followers of each of these sects raised buildings in accordance with their own religious requirements, following of course a common code of prescriptions contained in the Vastusastras and the Dharmasastras. It is hard to say why the modern scholars of ancient Indian architecture had not used the above terminology for Jaina buildings after Fergusson. This was due probably to the fact that, except for the enshrined image, there is nothing Jaina, Buddhist or Brahmanical in Indian architecture. But in the latter half of the 20th century some such works as the Studies in Jaina art (Varanasi, 1955), Aspects of Jaina Art and Architecture (Ahmedabad, 1975), Jaina Art and Architecture (New Delhi, 1975) etc. were published with an exclusively Jaina title, suggesting that the Jainas, like other sects, ought to be recognized by their own name in the field of art and architecture as well. As a result of this it has now become a general trend to call the various traditions by their respective names, so that their contribution to different aspects of Indian history and culture can be properly estimated. In the present Volume of the Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies also the above title of Jaina Art and Architecture has been upheld. The architectural data available in the Jaina texts (see next Chapter) and the innumerable Jaina buildings located throughout the country may be divided into two broad groups & secular and religious. The secular buildings consist of dwelling houses which, in old days, were made of wattle-and-daub and hence could not outlive the ravages of time. These were perhaps the houses of the common people raised mostly in the villages. Besides these buildings, there were fortified towns and palatial buildings which were built in somewhat durable material for the elite class. All these buildings are not represented by the actual examples but by the literary references preserved in the Jaina texts. A glimpse of the thatched cottages and the rampart embellished with battlements may, however, be had from the relief carvings found in the Jaina caves at Udayagiri-Khandagiri (Orissa). The Jaina religious buildings consist of stupa, rock-cut monastery and shrine, and structural temple. All of these buildings, barring the dwelling caves, enshrine an image of some or the other of the 24 Tirthankaras. Since the Jainas consider the Tirthankaras to be the most exalted Beings on the earth, they worship them alone. This does not, however, mean that the Jainas do not have a pantheon of their own, but the Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies divine figures in Jaina shrines have always been kept in a subordinate position because they are regarded to be inferior to the Tirthankaras. The stupa is a visible symbol of the Great Beings like the Tirthankaras who once existed and whose relics were enshrined in it. It is thus a sacred monument being worshipped by the Jainas. There is plenty of information about stupa in the Jaina texts, but at present we know of only one Jaina stupa, the others were probably destroyed during the course of time. The lone Jaina stupa, that too in a very ruinous condition, is located at Kankali Tila (Mathura); its architecture has been discussed in detail in the Chapter on Jaina Stupa Architecture of this Volume. The rock-cut caves, which form the subject matter of Chapter IV, consist of both the monastery and the shrine and are represented by about 150 examples ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the 15th century A.D. The caves were primarily excavated for the Jaina recluses to live in and do the penance as evident from the dwelling caves hewn at Rajgir, Udayagiri-Khandagiri, Junagadh etc., but later when the image-worship became popular and the construction of structural temples came in vogue, a good number of rock-cut shrines with Tirthankara images were executed at Udayagiri (M.P.), Ellora, Aihole, Badami, Sittannavasal, Ankai-Tankai etc. in the similar fashion as was being done in the contemporary structural temples. These caves fulfilled the requirement of both the monastery and the shrine. Now, we come to the structural temples which are incorporated in Chapters V and VI and show the latest form of architectural development of the Jaina religious buildings. They are largest in number and are located at almost all the places where the Jaina community lives or has lived. The exigency of structural temples was primarily felt in the plains where the bulk of population lived, but owing to the absence of rocky hills the rock-cut temples could not be executed there. From the architectural point of view also, the erection of structural temples was advantageous because they might be raised at any place of the choice of the builder, only that the latter had to compile the required building materials at the chosen site. Another advantage was that there was full scope for alteration and renovation. This is why the Jainas and the followers of other sects preferred to erect structural temples in durable materials like baked bricks and stone from the 6th century A.D. or even from the earlier time. The Jaina shrine (Jinalaya) was, and now is, raised housing a Jina (Tirthankara) image for worship. In the actual monument a dark glooming chamber (garbhagsha) with Jina figure has been made for worshipping and a hall (mandapa) to perform the other religious works. While the interior of the garbhagrha is left quite plain, the exterior and the whole of attached mandapa or mandapas are usually embellished with divine figures and a variety of decorative patterns. The statuary and decorative elements, which bequeath us a plethora of information about the religious and material life of the contemporary period, are believed to have been displayed to protect the monument from the evil spirits because the plain surface is considered to be ugly and inauspicious in Indian tradition. The Jaina shrines were not only a place of worship but also a place where the Jaina ascetics used to stay during the rainy season. After four months stay at a place during rainy season the Jaina ascetics have been enjoined to wander from place to place to preach Jaina tenets to the people and collect alms necessary for their sustenance. But about the 5h-6th century A.D. some Jaina monks used to stay for a longer duration of time in the Jaina monasteries and temples. In the beginning they stayed therein just to read and write Jaina texts, but later they made them their permanent abode. As a result, the Caityavasa tradition belonging to both the Svetambara and Digambara sects came into existence. Owing to their permanent settlement the Jaina ascetics Jain Education Intemational

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Introduction of this tradition became lethargic and increased their belongings. Some of the Caityavasins (monks living in the temples) grew so influential that they got nonCaityavasins ousted from the capital city of Anahillapataka (modern Patan in Gujarat) during the time of the Capa ruler Vanaraja who ruled from about A.D. 745. Though there was a marked decline in the general ethics of the Caityavasins (Svetambara) and the Bhattarakas (Digambara), their permanent living in the Jaina shrines proved very fruitful for the foundation of many Jaina Bhandaras (Libraries) within the premises of the temples. It was indeed at these centres of learning that thousands of Jaina texts were written after the 9th 10th century A.D. On account of its usefulness, such libraries were also established at other places with a good number of Jaina texts. Prior to the installation of the printing press, the copying and distribution of various texts were made from these places. The Jaina Bhandaras housed in the Jaina temples at Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Patan, Cambay, Kolhapur, Moodabidri etc. exist to this day with a good collection of handwritten manuscripts. The Jaina caves are located at places where there are rocky hills. These places lie far from the residential areas and, except for a few places, are not reckoned among the religious centres of the Jainas. The Jaina stupa and structural temples, on the other hand, are generally situated amidst the Jaina localities or at the sacred Jaina spots. After the 6th century A.D. when the temple-building got a momentum, a large number of Jaina holy places (tirthaksetras) associated with the life of the Tirthankaras and other Jaina ascetics were spotted and temples in honour of the Tirthankaras were raised there. Some of these places, e.g. Satrunjaya in Gujarat, have such a large concentration of Jaina temples that they have developed into a temple-city. In the construction of Jaina religious buildings various kinds of building materials have been used. Prior to the Mauryan period, the buildings were mostly made of wood, bamboo and straw. Burnt bricks were also used, but they were employed more frequently later 3 than earlier. The use of stone as a building material started from the Mauryan period in the 4th-3rd century B.C. This is evident from the remains of a palatial building at Pataliputra (Patna, Bihar), monolithic pillars, stupa, and rock-cut Jaina caves at Rajgir (Bihar). In the Jaina stupa of Mathura we find both burnt bricks and stone; rocky hills were a quarry for Jaina caves; and sandstone formed the basic building material of the structural temples. In the construction of Jaina temples different shades of sandstone have been used. This was due indeed to the fact that what shade and quality of stone was locally available was used in the construction of Jaina temples. Since sandstone was available in plenty throughout the country and was very tractable, it came to be used as the most common building material. Side by side sandstone, white marble in Rajasthan and Gujarat, soapstone in Karnataka and granite in Tamil Nadu were also used. Wood has always been an important building material as it was easily available, it had the advantage of reducing the weight without affecting the strength of the structure, and was amenable to elaborate carvings not possible in brick or stone. The only limitation with wood is its perishable nature. It was employed in doors, windows, pillars, beams, brackets and railings. Teak wood was the first choice of the artist as it would last long and its oil content might preserve nails from rust. The railing of the Jaina stupa of Mathura is also worked out on the pattern of woodcraft. Many medieval Jaina temples and houses in Gujarat and Rajasthan were made of wood, bearing a wealth of carvings, because this region was comparatively drier than other parts of the country and the heat resistant quality of wood made the living very comfortable. Wooden beams may still be seen in the Ajitanatha temple at Taranga (Gujarat) built in A.D. 1164. Here they have been used to strengthen the domical ceiling in the upper storey of the gudhamandapa (closed hall in front of sanctum). If we enlist all the Jaina buildings mentioned in the Jaina texts and the modern works on the subject,

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the number would not be in hundreds but in thousands, in spite of the fact that a large number of them were destroyed during the course of time. It is, therefore, worthwhile enumerating those factors which were responsible for their spoliation. The first and foremost is the natural one caused by earthquake, torrential rainfall etc. The second is foreign and continental invasions led by the bigoted Muslims who not only destroyed the religious Jaina buildings but also plundered them ruthlessly and converted them into mosques. Sometimes, the Muslims purposely dismantled the Jaina shrines to procure building materials for the construction of their mosques and tombs. The third is the internal disturbance caused by religious rivalry. Take for instance the case of the Solanki king Ajayapala who being a staunch Saiva persecuted the Jainas and destroyed their temples. The fourth is the philanthropic outlook of the Jainas who, out of zeal for preservation, have so inadvertently repaired and altered their religious buildings that their originality has considerably been marred. This is due to the fact that in Jaina tradition to build or rebuild a temple or to place an image therein was considered to be a highly meritorious act since it would secure them benefits here and hereafter. However repaired the Jaina buildings are, the Jainas must be commended for their philanthropic attitude for preserving monuments, because it was the result of this that the Jaina buildings are well-preserved to this day, retaining of course many restorations and alterations. In the description of Jaina buildings the original Sanskrit and Prakrit words have been used to denote the various components of the building. This has to be done because the English synonyms of Indian words do not always carry the appropriate meaning. For clarification, however, a glossary has been appended at the end of the Volume. All the Jaina buildings of the period under reference are indigenous in their origins and development and bear no testimony of foreign influence, notwithstanding the fact that India had to face many outside inroads led from time to time by the Persians, Greeks, Sakas, Pahlavas, Kusanas, Hunas and the Muslims. The reason behind this was that, except for the Muslims, all of these tribes completely merged in the Indian society and adopted the latter's customs and beliefs. The Muslims, on the other hand, always maintained their independent entity and forcibly spread Islam in the subcontinent treating Indians as infidels because of the latter being idolaters. In the field of architecture also, the Muslims introduced a building style of their own consisting of mosque and tomb, which were built on the principle of true arch and dome. Although such buildings as these started making their appearance with the foundation of the Muslim rule in northern India in c. A.D. 1200 as exemplified by the Adhai-dina-ka-Jhopra at Ajmer (Rajsthan) which is nothing but a Jaina temple converted into a mosque, the construction of Jaina temples was continued without any modification in the indigenous style, and it is only after the 13th century A.D. that the Islamic traits such as arch, dome, merlon etc. are seen in the Jaina temples. in the construction of Jaina temples well-dressed and finely jointed ashlars of various shapes and sizes have been used for the facing and rough-dressed stones for the hearting. The courses are laid dry one upon the other and kept in position by their weight and balance. The different courses of the wall up to the top of the plinth are splayed out by offsetting to counteract the lateral thrust, while the perpendicular walls are made solid or accommodate balconied windows and stone trellis with an overhanging cornice. The roofing is worked out by horizontal arch and dome and not by vertical arch of radiating voussoirs which was prevalent in the Roman and Western architecture. The simplest mode of roofing a small square space supported by four pillars is merely to run a stone beam from each pillar and cover the intermediate opening by a plain stone slab. In the second stage when the square space is Jain Education Intemational dication Intemational

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Introduction increased, the opening is covered by 5, 9 or 13 stones by cutting off the corners. In the third stage when the square space is increased as much as to be hardly covered by this process, then a dome of circular courses and central pendant is devised with its load supported on twelve pillars, four standing at the four corners and eight, two on each side, at the intermediate points. To bring the vertical pressure of the dome over the pillars, figure struts and cusped and corbelled arches are also employed. The spire or sikhara, whether curvilinear or pyramidal, over the square base of the cubical walls, is composed of horizontal square courses receding as they ascend and is capped at the top by a massive circular coping stone and vase. This method of roofing is called kadalikakaranavidhi (corbelling method) in ancient Indian architecture. The advantage of the horizontal mode of roofing is this that it does not have the defect of lateral thrust, while the vertical arches do suffer from it and to counteract it such expedients as buttresses and pinnacles have to be made. This is why the Jaina temples raised as they are in the indigenous tradition stand to this day in good condition. The dates of the Jaina buildings are primarily fixed on the basis of inscription engraved on some or the other part of the Jaina edifice. The inscriptions being a contemporary document help us more than one way in the dating. Firstly, if an inscription has a date in Vikrama, Saka or Vira era which is current even to this day, the concerned Jaina building is assigned a precise date. Secondly, if it does not contain the date, the palaeography of the inscription helps us in ascertaining the date since we notice a continuous change and development in ancient Indian script. Thirdly, if the inscription has a reference to some known historical fact, then also the related building is assignable a nearly accurate date. In absence of the inscriptional evidence the style of the building is our only guide to ascertain its date. In fixing the relative date based on stylistic features we take note of the provenance of the building, the building material, the disposition and decoration of various parts on the 5 plane of plan and elevation, the mode of construction, the buildings contemporary to the Jaina buildings, and the various sculptures and decorative patterns. Even though the Jainas have a rich heritage of their art and religion, they did not ever cross the boundaries of the subcontinent. As a result, no Jaina temple prior to Indian independence is to be seen outside the country. But recently many Jaina families have migrated to the European and American countries and got some Jaina temples built there. The history of Jaina architecture begins with a couple of dwelling caves excavated at Rajgir during the Mauryan rule in the 3rd century B.C. This is followed by a small cave at Pabhosa, by a series of ornate caves at Udayagiri-Khandagiri and by a group of plain caves at Junagadh. These are also dwelling caves and were excavated from B.C. 200 to A.D. 200. During this period a Jaina stupa of great artistic merit was built at Mathura; later the same was repaired also. What is remarkable of these Jaina buildings is that they do not have the Jina images; it were the epigraphical records which prove their Jaina affiliation. But the later repaired stupa at Mathura certainly has a large number of Jina images and many stone slabs with auspicious Jaina symbols. Similarly, a large number of Jina images and the images of their Yaksas and Yaksis were carved in the Khandagiri caves during the early medieval period. As we enter the classical phase of Indian history which is roughly dated from the 4th century A.D. to the end of the 6th century A.D., the work of excavating Jaina cave, e.g. the Jaina cave at Udayagiri (M.P.), is continued but it now contains Jina images for worship. Another significant development of this period is that structural temples make their appearance, housing a Jina figure in the sanctum. We know of as many as five kinds of structural temples having been made during this period (S.K. Saraswati, in The Classical Age, Bombay, 1954, p. 501). One of these is circular or cylindrical. Fortunately, a ruined Jaina temple of this variety still exists at Rajgir.

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies From the 7" century A.D. to the end of the 13th century A.D. which is reckoned to be the last phase of the history of ancient India, the work of excavating caves was abandoned in northern India and new sites like Ellora, Dharashiv, Ankai-Tankai etc. in Maharashtra, Badami and Aihole in Karnataka, and Vilappakkam, Sittannavasal etc. in Tamil Nadu, all located in southern India, were patronised with rock-cut architecture. Some of these sites like Ellora etc. are adorned with beautiful Jaina caves. At Ellora some monolithic Jaina temples imitating the style of the structural temples were also executed. The architectural development of this long period, however, is to be particularly seen in the structural Jaina temples which manifested in a number of regional styles. The Jaina buildings are so numerous and varied that it is very difficult to describe them all in one Volume. Secondly, the majority of Jaina temples of the medieval and modern periods have not yet been properly studied and documented, and all that is published is very sketchy. We have, therefore, discussed here the Jaina buildings erected up to the 13th century A.D. only, those of the later period will be incorporated in the next Volume of this series. The Jaina buildings are described here in the chronological order. But where there are more than one building, all the Jaina buildings of that site are taken together putting only the earliest one in the general chronological order, the others follow the chronological sequence at the site. This is followed in case of Jaina temples only. As regards the rock-cut Jaina caves, they are described in the same order as they are numbered today. In order to have a glimpse of the architectural development of the style in the various regions, the Jaina buildings are grouped State-wise and then described site-wise within that State. Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER II ARCHITECTURAL DATA IN THE JAINA CANONS The Jaina canons, like the Buddhist and Brahmanical with fortification, garden, lake etc. They have been ones, adequately deal with different aspects of ancient discussed here under the following headings. Indian architecture. They have ascribed vatthuvijja as Village Planning (Grama-sannivesa) - The the art of building and vaddhai, the architect. The man Brhatkalpasutrabhasya, which copiously deals with having the qualification for testing a building-site was ancient Indian villages and their planning, enumerates known as vatthupadhaga. For building a new house, it ten types of villages : (1) a village planned in a circle has been said that after examining and levelling the ground with a well at the centre (uttana-mallakakara), (2) a the land rings (undiyao) were cast on different places circular village with a temple or tree at the centre fit for different constituents of the building. Then the (avanmukha), (3) a village having the shape of a half ground was dug, the foundation laid, a well pressed and circle (khanda), (4) a variant of the first being called a platform of brick-masonry raised (J.C. Jain, Life in uttanaka-khanda-malla samsthita, (5) a variant of the Ancient India as Depicted in Jaina Canons, Bombay, second being called avanmukha samputaka, (6) a village 1947, pp. 187-88). planned along the boundary wall with parallel rows of The Jaina canons have information about both the trees planted in the east and the sides, (7) avenue type secular and religious buildings. If we set aside the of village (patalika), (8) a village with trees planted at architectural materials of the Indus Valley Civilization the four corners (rucaka), (9) a village having uneven which are undoubtedly secular in nature, almost all the ground ringed with trees (valabhi), and (10) a village known structural and rock-cut buildings of ancient India having triangular shape (kasyapa). The text also gives are religious edifices built as abodes of gods, exalted other criterion for the classification of villages. Thus, persons like the Jina and the Buddha or seers and saints, a village with distant surroundings was known as or erected to fulfil some religious need. They consist madamba, a cow-herds' village was called ghosa, a of stupa (caitya), vihara (monastery) and Jinalaya (Jina mining village was named akara, and a village where shrine). Of these the stupa has been described in detail the farmers or traders having their business elsewhere in the Jaina texts, but the other two find very sporadical kept their earnings for safety was called samvaha. Each reference in them, although they were built in large village had its own boundaries, but the limit of a village number throughout the country. This is, however, not was also decided by the distance the cattle went for the case with the secular architecture. The Jaina canons grazing or a wood-cutter went to fetch his wood. The indeed describe many varieties of secular buildings, but plough-lands (kheta) of the village were enclosed with the information about their shape, size and mode of a mud-wall (dhuli-prakara). Every fair-sized village had construction is very scanty and the technical terms by its own bhanda-sala and panita-sala where the potters which they are referred to are not always self-explanatory. made and sold their earthen works; a kamma-sala where SECULAR ARCHITECTURE the village-smith did his work; and agamana-grha where The secular buildings were mostly built for guests were provided with food and shelter. Every residential purposes in the towns and villages. They village also had a sabhagrha (assembly hall) of devakula range from a cottage house to a palatial building provided (shrine) in the centre of the village. The villages had Jain Education Intemational

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8 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies various types of granaries catuhsala, avaparaka, kosthaka, kosthapalla etc. The most common type was made by piling straw rings on the floor and by plastering the outer and inner surfaces with mud and cowdung. Another type was made of bamboo and straw, but it was raised on a platform (manca) supported on bamboo posts (see, A. Ray, Villages, Towns and Secular Buildings in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1957, pp. 28-29). Town Planning (Nagara-sannivesa) - The Rayapaseniyasutta gives an elaborate description of the town-planning in the account of the city of Amalakappa where Tirthankara Mahavira had once stayed. It describes that the town was surrounded by a high, wide and deep moat (khata and phaliha). The khata was wider above and narrower below, while the phaliha had perpendicular sides throughout. Probably, the khata was filled up with slippery materials like linseed etc. and the phaliha simply with water. The town was enclosed on the inner side of the moat by a curved rampart (pagara) resembling a bow. The rampart had a pronounced batter the proportion of which at the base, middle and top was 1:24. It was thus of the tapering type resembling a cow-tail (gopuccha). The rampart's top was embellished with circular battlements (kavisisaya), each measuring in proportion of one in length, half in thickness and a little more than one in height. The battlements were painted in black, blue, red, yellow and white colours. The rampart was provided with high gateways (daragopura) on all sides and had bastions (attalaya) for watchmen. The gateways had double heavy door-leaves (jamalakavada) provided with such appliances as discs (cakka), clubs (gaya), maces (bhasumdi), barriers (oroha) and war-machines (sayagghi), and strongly fitted with traverse bars (phaliha) and bolts (imdakila). Expert carpenters were employed to make the doorways almost impregnable. The royal road (rayamagga) connecting the town with the fort (durga) was made in such a way that one could not easily approach the fort. The roads of the town crossed one another forming junctions of three, four and more roads, resembling thus the thorny fruit of trapanataus (simghadaga-tiya-caukka-caccara). The town was adorned with beautiful caityas (ayaravamta-ceiya), attractive brothels (juaivisitthasannivitthabahula), pleasure gardens (aramaujjana), wells (agada), tanks (talaga), lakes (dihiya), ponds (vappi) and beautiful shops (panyapana......suramma) (see H. Singh, Architectural Data in the Rayapasenya', Bharati, No. 17, pp. 173-80). Palace (Prasada-vinyasa) The Rayapaseniya bequeaths us a fine description of palace architecture in the account of the Vimana of the heavenly god Suryabhadeva. The Vimana-palace is said to have been erected on hundreds of well-planted pillars embellished with graceful figures of Salabhanjikas (women standing with distended boughs). The pillars were surmounted by capitals bearing hovering figures of Vidyadharas in pairs. The walls of the palace were adorned with figures of fabulous animals (ihamiya), bull (usabha), horse (turaga), man (nara), crocodile (magara), deer (ruru), lion (sarabha), yak (camara) and elephant (kumjara), motifs of wild creepers (vanalaya) and lotus creepers (paumalaya), and similar numerous decorative figures (ruvagasahassakaliya). The palace was approached from three sides by three stairways (tisovana), each consisting of landing (pirma), pedestal (paithana), upright posts (khambha), planks (phalaga), cross-bars (sui), bonds (samdhi), base (avalambana) and coping (avalambanabaha). In front of each stairway was a beautiful toranagateway decorated with eight auspicious Jaina symbols (sotthiya, sirivaccha, pandiyavatta, vaddhamanaga, bhaddasana, kalasa, maccha and dappana), fly-whisk (camarajjhaya), and pendants of umbrella, flag, bell and varieties of lotuses. The floor of the palace was quite smooth and was paved with jewels and precious stones. In the centre of the palace was a Theatre Hall (picchagharamamdava) supported on pillars and bearing decorative motifs recounted above. Its roof (sihara) was adorned with bells and flags and had finials (thubhiya)

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Architectural Data in the Jaina Canons on the top, while the ceiling (ulloya) was adorned with the spaces on either side of the doors were filled with lotus creepers. In the central part of the hall was a stage rows of sandalwood pitchers, festoons of pearls, (akkhadaga) with a throne (simhasana). Around the throne, necklaces, gavaksa motif and small tinklers, and incensein different quarters, were placed chairs for courtiers, pots (dhuvaghada) suspended from hooked ivory nails queens, members of the three Assembly Halls - inner (nagadamta or gajadamta) socketed into the 'walls. assembly (abhimtaraparisa), middle assembly The torana of the gateways was decorated with (majjhimaparisa) and outer assembly (bahiraparisa), pendants of red lotus (pauma-hatthaga); graceful figures seven commanders-in-chief and personal body-guards. of usual Salabhanjika; ivory nails with usual festoons; The doors (dara) of the palace consisted of pairs of horses (hayasamghada), elephants (gaya), landing (aimma), pedestal (paitthana), pillars (Khambha), kimnara (a mongrel with the body of a human being floor (kottimatala), threshold (eluya), bolt (imdakila), and the head of a horse), kimpurisa (a mongrel with doorjambs (pedhya), lintel (uttararga), doorplanks (sui), the body of a horse and the head of a human being), joints (samdhi), sockets (samuggaya), wooden traverse tritons (mahoraga), heavenly musicians (g bar behind door-leaves (aggala), sockets for doorpins and pairs of bulls (usabhasamghada), arranged in a row (aggalapasaya) and hinges (avattanapedhya). The closely having their faces in one direction (parkti), placed face fitted heavy doors were provided with shutting stile to face (vihi) or displayed embracing each other (uttarapasaga) and had on their leaves 256 bosses (mihuna); varieties of rhizomes pertaining to nagalaya, (bhittiguliya) placed on bed-steads (gomanasiyatattiya). asogalaya, campagalaya, cuyalaya, vanalaya, The doors were embellished with figures of fabulous vasartiyalaya, aimuttayalaya, kurdalaya and samalaya; animals (valaruvaga) and graceful figures of motifs of sovatthiya, cardanakalasa, spouted water vessel Salabhanjikas in playful attitudes. "The Salabhanjikas (bhimgara) and mirror (ayarsa); large circular dishes were standing in various graceful poses and were well- (nabhithala) full of rice, circular tubs (paia) full of water supported (on couchant figures) and beautifully and green fruits, caskets full of unguents (supaittha ornamented, wearing garments of various colours, bhamda), nagadartas with hanging vayakaragas (fragrant garlands of various designs and double coiled head- pots) covered with cloths of variegated colours, and dress, having slim waist, round prominent breasts, eyes boxes full of jewels (rayanakaraga): faces of horse, with red corners and black curly hair, standing under elephant, nara, kimnara, kimpurisa, mahoraga, Asoka trees and holding their distended boughs, stealing gandhavva, and bull; baskets full of flowers (puppha), the heart of gods as it were with their rolling glances, garlands (malla), fragrant powders (cunna), scents and teasing as it were with the play of their eyes." (V.S. (gamdha), garments (vattha), ornaments (abharana), Agrawala, Indian Art, Varanasi, 1965, p. 224). In the mustard seeds (siddhattha) and brooms (lomahattha); description of doors the Rayapaseniya gives some more things like throne (simhasana), umbrella (chatta) and architectural terms such as elevation (usseha), lattices flywhisk (camara); and ten kinds of cosmetic caskets (jalapamjara), large posts (vamsaga), traverse beams full of oil (tella), leaf (patta), bark (coyaga), tagara (padivasaga), upright smaller posts fixed in the ground (tabernaemountana coronaria), cardamom (ela), yellow (bhoma), side walls (pakkha), bamboos for side walls orpiment (hariyala), sulphate of mercury (himgulaya), (pakkhavaha), cross-beams (vamsa), ribbings red arsenic (manosila) and collyrium (amjana). (varsakavelluya), panels (pattiya), screen walls The palace was provided with gardens (vana), (ohadani), thatched layers above the ribbings lawns (bhumibhaga), ponds (vavi), tanks (sara) and (uvaripumchani), ceiling (chayana) and peaks (kuda). wells (bila). The gardens consisted of asoga, sattavanna, Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies campaga and cuya (mango) trees. The lawns were of nimma, paitthana, khambha, phalaya, studed with numerous precious stones and grasses. The kalevarasamghada (pair of figures), ruva (motif), ponds were of various shapes and sizes. There were ruvasamghada (pair of motifs), pakkha, pakkhabaha, four types of ponds - (1) vavi (square), (2) pukkharini varsa, varsakavelluya, pattiya, ohadani, uvaripumchana (circular), (3) dihi (rectangular) and (4) gumjaliya (a and acchayana. It was decorated with garlands of golden pond having irregular sides). The tanks and wells were necklaces (hemajala), gavaksa motif (gavakkhajala), made in rows (saraparkti and bilaparnkti). The water small bells (khimkhinijala), bells (ghamtajala), pearls pools had four corners; their banks were made of stones (muttajala), jewels (manijala), golden ornaments (pasana) and had even surface (samatira); their floor (kanagajala) and red lotus (paumajala), punctuated with (tala) was covered with sand (valuya); they were deep golden pendants, and embellished with pairs of figures and were filled up with cold water (gambhirasiyajala); of horse, bull etc. This handsome railing was known their bathing places were well-furnished (titthayasu- as paumavaraveiya (padmavaravedika) since "on its baddha); there was a fine arrangement of landing and several parts (dese dese), in several places (tahim tahim), ascending (suhoyarasuuttara); they were provided with on the rails (veiya), on the stairway balustrades a high coping on the top (padalapaccoyada); their terrace (veiyabaha), on rail planks (veiyaphalaya), in between was handsome and pleasant (acchaosanhao rayayamaya- two rails on the uprights (veiyapudartara), on the kulao); and they were surrounded by a railing decorated uprights (Khambha), on their copings (kharbhasisa), in with lotus rhizome (paumavaraveiya). They were between two pillars (Khambhapudamtara), on crossbars approached by three stairways (tisovana). In between (sui), in between crossbar sockets (suimukha), on the the water pools were different types of water pavilions sides of crossbar (suiphalaya), on the spaces of the side known as dagamamdava, dagamamcaga, dagamalaya pillars (pakkhapudamtara) were carved such kinds of and dagapasaya. lotuses as blue lotus (uppala), red lotus (pauma), lily The palace had different types of houses called (kumuya), nalina, subhaga, sogamdhiya (perfumed lotus), reception house (acchanaghara), theatre house white lotus (pumdariya), sayavatta and sahassavatta" (picchanaghara), bathing house (majjanaghara), dressing (Singh, H., op. cit., pp. 175-79; V.S. Agrawala, Indian house (pasahanaghara), inner house (gabbhaghara), Art, pp. 221-22). sleeping house (mohanaghara), salaghara (open house), Other Buildings - From the Rayapaseniya we latticed house jalaghara), house decorated with paintings know the names of several other buildings known as (cittaghara), music house (gamdhavvaghara), mirror house kudagarasala (building with peaked top having finials), (ayamsaghara) and some such houses as aliyaghara, mulapasaya (main palace surrounded by other palaces), maliyaghara, kayalighara, layaghara and kusumaghara, suhammasabha (assembly hall of Indra) confronted by named after different plants. Similarly, there were different a muhamamdava, a pecchaghara and a thubha (stupa), types of thatched cottages known as jaimamdava, paharanakosa (armoury), Siddhayatana (an eternal juhiyamamdava, malliyamamdava, navamaliyamarndava, shrine), abhisegasabha (hall of religious ceremonies), vasamtiyamamdava, dahivasuyamamdava, suralliya- alamkarasabha (hall of dress and ornaments) and mamdava, tambolimamdava, muddiyamamdava, vavasayasabha (office or library) (Singh, op. cit., pp. nagalayamamdava, aimuttayalayamamdava, apphoya- 179-80). mamdava and maulayamamdava. The Nayadhammakaha (1.7) gives an account of The palace was provided with a secretarial building the sleeping chamber (varagharaya) of a queen which (uvagariyalaya) surrounded by a railing which consisted consisted of an outer courtyard (caukattha), an assembly Jain Education Intemational

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Architectural Data in the Jaina Canons hall polished (ghattha-mattha) and well-set with pillars adorned with Salabhanjika figures, latticed windows (jala), moonstone at the foot of the stairway (addhacaida), projecting ledges (nijjuha), and a room on the roof (caidasaliya). Its exterior was white-washed (dhumiya), the interior was decorated with paintings (cittakamma), the floor was studed with semi-precious stones (mani), and the ceiling had a painted canopy (ulloyacittiya) decorated with lotus flowers and creepers (paumalaya). Its doorways were beautifully adorned with auspicious golden pitchers, lotus flowers and necklaces of pearls and jewels. The Jaina canons also make mention of siyahara (cold-house) which was used in summer, bhumihara (subterranean house), and of such halls as vagharanasala (wedding hall), attanasala (hall for gymnastic exercises), nhanamamdava (bath-room), uvatthanasala (attendance hall) and posahasala (fasting hall) (see, J.C. Jain, Life in Ancient India as Depicted in Jaina Canons, pp. 189-90) RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE There are three types of religious buildings, viz. stupa (caitya), layana (cave) and Jinalaya (Jina shrine). Of these the stupa has been copiously dealt with in the Jaina canons, but the other two are rarely mentioned therein, probably because the early Jaina caves were excavated just for the stay of Jaina monks, while the later ones as well as the Jaina shrines, a place where the Jaina monks used to stay and do worship, being posterior to the time of the redaction of the Jaina canons find no mention of them. Stupa - The stupa, Prakrit thubha and Hindi thuha, was a mound of earth raised on the cremation ground after collecting the bone relics of a deceased person to commemorate his nirvana or death. It was also known as caitya because it was piled up on the site of the funeral pyre (cita). There was a practice also to mark the spot of cremation by planting a tree there. The association of caitya with tree (vrksa) was termed caitya- vrksa. But the caitya-vrksa was not confined to the cremation ground only. Tree-worship was, and still is, in vogue in India and the tree like Pipala was considered sacred for worship. All the Jaina Tirthankaras are, in fact, known to have attained their omniscience under a certain tree, and hence the trees of their association are worshipful. This is exemplified in the relief carvings of the rock-cut Jaina caves at Udayagiri-Khandagiri (Orissa). Similarly, an edifice housing a caitya (stupa) is called caityagrha, a type of shrine which the Buddhists embraced the most. The original tumulus (anda) of earth served as a core for later encasing, first by baked bricks and then by stone with or without a ground railing (vedika) and gateways (toranadvara), replacing probably the original wooden ones. The literary reference to stupa goes back to the time of the Rgveda (7.2.1) where the flaming pile of Agni's light is spoken of as a stupa, but the actual monument of Brahmanical affiliation is still wanting, probably it was abandoned long back and the evidences were eroded away by the lapse of time. On having been asked by his chief disciple Ananda, the Tathagata Buddha enjoined to raise stupa on the remains of the Tathagata as was being done in case of the Cakravartin King. The stupas, according to the Buddhist tradition, were of three kinds (1) Saririka (bodily relic), (2) Uddesika (stupas erected for the sake of the Buddha) and (3) Paribhogika (stupas erected over the articles of Buddha's personal use, e.g. Bodhimanda, begging bowl etc.). Apart from these, there were made votive stupas just as an object of worship. The Buddhist texts like Mahavamsa also contains a vivid account about the construction of a stupa. Thus, it seems almost mandatory for the Buddhists to erect stupa and worship it. As regards the Jaina tradition, the Acaranga (12.1.3.3.) which is taken to be the earliest Jaina canonical text by the Svetambaras speaks of caityakstavrksa and caityakrta-stupa, meaning a tree planted on the spot of the funeral pyre and a stupa raised on the Jain Education Intemational dication Intemational

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12 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies cremation ground respectively. At another place (2.2.3.116) it enjoins on a Jaina monk not to ease himself or pass urine on the sites of funeral caityas or funeral stupas (mrtakacaityesu or mstakastupikasu), simply because it was a relic sanctuary demarcating a sacred spot. The Jaina canons also make reference to different daivatacaityas which were generally located on the outskirts of a village or town, and Tirthankara Mahavira is often reported to have stayed in them during his wanderings. The daivatacaityas were actually a shrine of the Vyantara class of deities like Yaksa etc. In the Vipakasutra (34) we indeed find the term Yaksayatana for this type of shrine. The Purnabhadra- caitya of the Aupapatikasutra (2) named after the Yaksa Purnabhadra was one such shrine to the north-east of the city of Campa where Mahavira had stayed The Jaina canons like Bhagavatisutra (20.9.684) also make mention of an Arihanta (Tirthankara) caitya to be worshipped at Nandisvaradvipa. The Arihanta- caityas were probably the Jina-ayatanas or Siddhayatanas a detailed description of which comes down to us from the Sthananga (4.2.307), a text compiled during the first few centuries of the Christian era. There we are told that in the central part of the Nandisvaradvipa (a land of delight for the gods paying homage to the Tirthankaras there are four Anjana mountains in the four directions. On the top of each of these mountains is a Jina shrine having four doors. In front of each door is a mukhamandapa and in front of each mukhamandapa is a preksagrha (theatre). In front of each preksagrha is a caitya-stupa on manipithika (jewelled platform). In front of each caitya-stupa is a manipithika with four Jina images seated in padmasana and then follow a caityavsksa, a staff with flags, a lotus lake and a garden respectively. This is obviously an account of a heavenly shrine whose counterpart cannot be traced on the earth. The Jaina stupa, like the Buddhist, was erected on the cremation site after collecting the bone relics of a Tirthankara (Jambudvipaprajnapti, 2.33). The Jaina texts also make reference to stupa-worship. Thus, according to the Avasyakacurni (Ratlam, 1919, p. 567), a stupa of Tirthankara Munisuvrata was being worshipped at Vaishali. But no archaeological evidence of this stupa has so far come down to us. Jinaprabhasuri, a Svetambara Jaina monk, describes in his Vividhatirthakalpa (Mathurapurikalpa), a text of the 14" century A.D., that there was a stupa of Suparsvanatha at Mathura, made of gold and jewels and erected by a goddess in one night when a controversy arose with the Buddhists and others about its ownership. Once Tirthankara Parsvanatha came to Mathura and preached Jaina tenets to the people there. After his departure the local goddess asked the inhabitants of Mathura to protect the priceless stupa by encasing it with bricks and install in its front a stone image of Parsvanatha to establish its Jaina claim. And it was done. The Digambara texts also give an account of this stupa. In the Brhatkathakosa of Harisena (A.D. 932), Story No. 12, it is said that there were built five Jaina stupas by the gods during a controversy with the Buddhists. The Yasastilakacampu (6.17-18) of Somadevasuri gives a similar account but speaks of only one Devanirmita-stupa of Mathura (see, U.P. Shah, Studies in Jaina Art, pp. 62-63). This stupa has been identified with the ruined Jaina stupa at Kankali Tila, Mathura (U.P.). An inscription of the 2nd century A.D. engraved on the pedestal of a Jina image found at Kankali Tila also makes mention of the Devanirmitastupa (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, No. 20). This stupa was called Devanirmita-stupa because it was so old that people would not have known its age during the historical period and hence attributed its erection to gods (Devanirmita). This is a solitary Jaina stupa so far known to us. Its architectural details will be discussed in the Chapter entitled Jaina Stupa Architecture. Layana - There are two types of religious buildings in ancient India. One of these is structural and the other, rock-cut. The layana belongs to the rock-cut architecture. If we leave aside over 50 Jaina caves excavated in the fort-hill of Gwalior in the 15th century A.D., there are still nearly 90 Jaina excavations located throughout the Jain Education Intemational

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Architectural Data in the Jaina Canons country and ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the 12th century A.D. The rock-cut caves are of two types-monastery and shrine. These two were called vihara (monastery) and caityagrha (an apsidal building housing a stupa) in the Buddhist tradition and were made side by side at almost all the Buddhist sites possessing rock-cut caves. The Jainas, however, excavated only the monasteries from the 3rd century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. and shrines or both afterwards but no caityagrha during the entire period of time. It is very surprising that the Jaina canons, which speak so high of stupa, are quite silent about these excavations. Their non-representation was due probably to the fact that the Jaina caves, particularly the early ones, were mostly dwelling caves and hence unworthy of being mentioned because the Jaina recluses are not allowed to stay in such houses which are specially made for their residence. As regards the later Jaina caves. they are like the shrines and were built later than the time of the redaction of Jaina canons. In the Anuyogadara (sutta 99) also the layana is mentioned as a resort of ascetics. This is evident from this that Dharasena, who was the last Acarya to have partial knowledge of the original Jaina canons, lived in the Candragupha at Girinagara (Junagadh, Gujarat) which has been presently identified with the semi-circular cave at Girnar. Jinalaya - In the Jaina tradition the temples, which stand latest among the religious buildings of ancient India, are called Jinalaya, Jinabhavana, Basadi, Basti, Vihara etc. It is a building housing an image of Jina for worship. In the beginning it was both rock- cut and structural, but subsequently it fully remained structural. Its exigency was particularly felt in the plains where the bulk of population lived, but due to the absence of rocky hills the rock-cut shrines could not be made there. Secondly, from the time of the Imperial Guptas when the structural temples in durable materials like stone made their appearance in the 5th century A.D., the Jaina monks used to live in the temples (Caityavasin). Thirdly, there was no scope for alteration in the rockcut buildings. As a result, structural temples were preferred to rock-cut from the 7th century A.D. The change over from rock-cut to structural buildings proved to be so useful that almost all the temples, big and small, of this as well as later period were made structural. The lineaments of Jaina temples are the same as we notice in case of Brahmanical shrines, consisting thus of a sanctum enshrining a Jina image and a mandapa or mandapas to be used for other religious purposes. In ornamentation the temples of the two sects hardly make any difference. We have a stock description of Jaina shrine in the context of Siddhayatana (an eternal shrine) in the Jivajivabhigama (3.2.137) and Rayapaseniya (177-79). According to these texts, it consisted of a shrine provided with three entrance doors, cach topped by vedika motif, torana and Salabhanjika figures. It had beautiful pillars adorned with varieties of figures and ornaments. In front of each entrance was a mukhamandapa (portico) decorated with astamangalaka symbols. In front of each mukhamandapa was a preksagsha (assembly hall) followed in its turn by a caitya-stupa perched on a jewelled platform. On four sides of each stupa were Jina figures seated in padmasana on a jewelled seat. In front of each stupa was a flag of god Indra and then a water reservoir. Inside the shrine was a jewelled platform carrying a Devacchandaka with 108 figures of Jinas. It seems that a Jaina temple consisted of a sanctum, an entrance porch and an assembly hall. This arrangement of plan of the Jaina temple tallies well with that of the Gupta temples, but the account of decorative elements belongs to the Kusana age and sometimes to the age of the Bharhut and Sanchi stupas (U.P. Shah, Studies in Jaina Art, pp. 57-58). Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER III JAINA STUPA ARCHITECTURE The stupa is a sepulchral monument raised as a mark of respect to the deceased person. In India the disposal of the dead body of a deceased person is performed by cremation, immersion or burial. The stupabuilding is connected with the rite of cremation as there was a practice of raising a mound of earth called stupa over the bone relics collected at the site of cremation. Being piled up on the funeral pyre (cita) it is also known as caitya. This earthly mound formed the core for later encasing, first by baked bricks and then by stone with or without a ground railing having gateways in the four cardinal directions. The literary account with regard to stupa architecture has been discussed at length in Chapter II of this Volume and hence it is useless to recount it again, but such portions as are necessary will certainly be alluded to for elucidation. The stupa-building was an old practice adopted by all the three principal sects (Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jaina) of India, but later it remained associated mainly with the Buddhists. This is clearly reflected from the fact that all the known examples of stupa, barring the one reported from Kankali Tila, are Buddhist. The information about an old tradition for building a stupa comes from the Buddhist text itself. Indeed, the Mahaparinibbanasutta says that the Tathagata Buddha asked his chief disciple Anand to raise a stupa for Him in the same way as was being done for the remains of a Cakravartin King. This evidently shows that there was an ancient practice to build a stupa even prior to the time of the Buddha who died at the age of 80 years in c. B.C. 486. Fortunately, we have a literary reference in Jaina tradition to show the erection of a Jaina stupa at Mathura during the time of the 23 Tirthankara Parsvanatha who is said to have flourished in the 8th century B.C. This Jaina stupa is presently identified with that located at Kankali Tila, Mathura district (U.P.). This is the lone Jaina stupa known so far. The Jaina Stupa of Mathura and According to the Brhatkathakosa of Harisena, there were five Jaina stupas at Mathura. These stupas are known to have been repaired some time later. It is also known that there was a Jaina sect called Pancastupanvaya at Mathura and Jinasena, the author of the Jayadhavala, claims to have belonged to this lineage. The Paharapura Copper Plate of A.D. 478 makes mention of Pancastupanikaya as well. But Jinaprabhasuri in his Vividhatirthakalpa Somadeva in his Yasastilakacampu refer to only one Devanirmita stupa at Mathura. This Jaina stupa, according to Jinaprabha, was originally built in honour of the 7th Tirthankara Suparsvanatha and was repaired during the time of the 23rd Tirthankara Parsvanatha. At the time of repair an image of Parsvanatha was also installed in front of the stupa since there arose a controversy with the Buddhists regarding the ownership of the stupa (see, U.P. Shah, Studies in Jaina Art, pp. 62-63). The antiquity of the Jaina stupa of Mathura, according to the literary account, thus goes at least to the time of Parsvanatha, but the archaeological materials recovered from Kankali Tila and now preserved in Mathura, Lucknow and other museums hardly go beyond the 2nd century B.C. The reason behind this is that the stupa had been renovated more than once and consequently the materials available belong to different strata of time. It appears that the original stupa at Kankali Tila was made of earth; later it was converted into a brick stupa; and in the third stage it was transformed into a stone stupa together with the addition of a large stone railing and four gateways in the four directions with a good deal of carvings. The archaeological excavations carried out at Kankali Tila have indeed revealed a large number

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Jaina Stupa Architecture of sculptures and architectural pieces which positively belonged to two stupas, one built in the 2nd century B.C. and the other in the 1" century A.D. The stupas can also be classified by the form and design of their railings. While the railing pillars (Fig. 6) of the early stupa (2 century B.C.) are octagonal in section and carry decoration of several varieties of lotus flowers, those of the later stupa (1" century A.D.) are square in section and bear divine and human figures on the front face and two full and two half lotus medallions on the back (Fig. 8). The purpose of erecting a new stupa or repairing the old one was to establish the Jaina claim on the site which had been challenged by the Buddhists for the simple reason that the old Jaina stupa, which was intact at that time, had no image of Jina to prove its Jaina affiliation. This exigency of Jina statuary was completely removed in the new stupa of the 19 century A.D. The anda (dome) of the stupa probably dates from the 2nd century B.C. and is made of baked bricks. On plan it measures 62 ft. in diameter and thus it was only slightly smaller than the contemporary Buddhist stupa located at Bharhut (M.P.). In its construction different sizes of bricks have been used. Some were about 15 inches square and 6 inches thick, while others were long and comparatively narrow. The smallest bricks were about 7 inches broad and 2 inches thick. It is difficult to make out the exact shape of the dome from its plan and section (Figs. 4 and 5) published by V.A. Smith in his monograph entitled The Jaina Stupa and Other Antiquities of Mathura. However, from the carving of a miniature stupa (Fig. 1) appearing on the architrave of a gateway it seems that the dome of early stupa belonging to the 2nd century B.C. was hemispherical in shape and decreased in diameter towards the elongated top. The body of the anda was adorned with two railings and the diameter of anda was reduced at the level of each of these railings. The top of the anda was levelled to make a harmika (mansion of god) enclosed by a railing. The harmika is the most sacred spot of the stupa as it was here that the casket containing relics was preserved. In the centre of the harmika was inserted an upright post with umbrella from the rim of which suspended streamers and garlands. The stupa also had a ground railing to fence the pradaksinapatha. The stupa was being worshipped not only by human beings but also by semi-divine beings who have actually been represented in the above panel. It is hard to say if the two railings appearing on the anda had any architectural purpose or they were just carved as decorative motif, because there was no arrangement of stairway to reach the berm of each railing. But since the stairway is found present in the contemporary Buddhist stupas of Sanchi, Raisen district (M.P.), it may have been constructed in the Jaina stupa as well. In the Lonasobhika slab (Smith, Pl. CIII) of the 1st century A.D. the stairway is indeed present to reach the terrace of the stupa. The internal structure of the Jaina stupa was not entirely made up of bricks or clay but it was a mixed one, a device commonly used in the Kusana age in North India and in the Satavahana and Iksvaku periods in the South. Here it consists of two concentric circular walls and eight cross-walls emanating as radii from a central circular wall, while the spaces between the cross-walls were filled up with clay (Fig. 4). The cross-walls were elevated to such heights as required to maintain the circulatory of the dome. The advantage of this device was that it minimised the use of brick-masonry. The archaeological excavation at Kankali Tila has unearthed numerous carved ayagapatas the actual purpose of which has not yet been known. Probably, they were installed as votive slabs around the anda of the stupa so that people might pay their homage to them. This is evident from the fact that they bear figure of Jina, auspicious Jaina symbols, and the relief of stupa. On the ground the early stupa was surrounded by a stone railing (vedika) with four gateways (torana) pierced into it in the four cardinal directions. Enclosing an open space for circumambulation the railing consists of upright posts (stambha), three crossbars (suci) between Jain Education Intemational national

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Jaina Stupa Architecture 19 each pair of posts, and coping stone (usnisa). The different members of the railing are bonded together by the tenon-and-socket method, a device adopted from the woodcraft. The lower part of the posts was fixed into the ground, their visible portion has been made octagonal by bevelling the corners, and their top has been treated as a tenon inserted into the socket made on the flat underside surface of the coping stones. The three crossbars resemble the bulbous pillows and are separated from one another by narrow spaces. The two ends of the cross-bars are inserted into the lenticular sockets made on the narrow lateral sides of the posts. The coping stones are square and flat below and circular above. The underside of the coping stones has sockets at regular intervals for receiving the tops of the posts. About the distribution of pillars we have an important piece of information in the Rayapaseniyasutta (126) which says that there were sixteen pillars on each side of the gateways, making thus a total of sixty-four pillars for the entire railing, a number which has exactly been found in the railing of the Buddhist stupa at Bharhut. The ground railing of the early stupa is elaborately carved with numerous ornaments in low relief. The upright posts, at the outer and inner faces, carry three lotus medallions in the middle and one half each below and above (Fig. 6). The crossbars also depict lotus medallions on both the faces (Fig. 7). All these medallions show several varieties of lotus flowers and other decorative designs. The most instructive of these is a high-tailed fabulous animal the body of which is of fish and the head is made of an animal. The fish- tailed animals are elephant, crocodile, winged lion, wolf, eagle etc. Another decoration worth noticing is of winged animal representing lion, antelope, wolf, goat or crocodile. A good number of medallions evince auspicious symbols like stupa, srivatsa, tree in railing (caitya-vrksa), wish-fulfilling creeper (kalpalata), triratna, cakra (wheel), winged conch-shell (sarkha) and begging bowl placed on a raised pedestal, living animals such as wolf, deer, bull, elephant, lion and goat, birds, mythical animals having head of a boar or human being and body of a lion and reversely the head of a lion and the body of a bird, and such decorative designs as honey-suckle, flower bouquet, etc. But above all these decorations there are several varieties of six-, eight-, ten-, twelve- and sixteen-petalled in rare case in odd numbers) lotus flowers consisting of one or two rows of petals and a central pistil. In some cases the lotus is stylized; in some other cases the inner row of petals is differently treated. The coping stones bear a number of floral and animal decorations. At one place it shows bells and buds tied to a beaded band above and honey-suckle with tiger and boar (or some other animals like rhinoceros, goat, bull, deer etc.) below (Fig. 9). At another place fine lotus rhizome makes its appearance below and usual bells and buds above. Since the entire railing shows an enrichment of lotus flowers and creepers, it has been rightly called Padmavaravedika, a term applied for this type of railing in the Rayapaseniyasutta (see, supra, p. 10). Of the torana-gateway of the early stupa, only some pillars and a lintel have survived. The pillars have octagonal plain shaft; their capital consists of an inverted carved pitcher surmounted by winged figures of seated lions. The lintel, which formed the lowest architrave of the gateway, represents carvings on the central part of its obverse, reverse and soffit (Figs. 1 and 2). The obverse shows a three-tiered hemispherical stupa worked out in decreasing diameter towards the elongated top. Each tier is ornamented with a railing design which consists of the usual members of posts, crossbars and copings. The semi-circular dome has a harmika on its top. The harmika is denoted by a square railing and a pillar surmounted by an umbrella carrying suspended streamers and garlands. The stupa is being worshipped by two Suparnas (man-headed birds) and five Kinnaras (man-headed horses). One of the former offers a garland and the other as well as three Kinnaras brings a basket of flowers, the remaining two Kinnaras hold broom of fly-whisk. The stupa is flanked on each side by a tree Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Stupa Architecture TE Fig. 9. Details of Railing Coping-stone of Jaina Stupa, Kankali Tila, Mathura. P ! an Fig. 8. Details of Railing Pillars of Jaina Stupa, Kankali Tila, Mathura. Jain Education Intemational

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22 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies with the Suparna seated on or hovering above its bending branches nearest to the stupa. Behind the scene are some more trees. The reverse depicts a procession of three horsemen, an elephant with two riders, two pedestrians, and a covered bullock-cart filled with males and females; possibly they are going to worship the stupa represented on the obverse. In the centre of the soffit is carved a full-blown lotus flower. The later stupa, which was probably built in the 1" century A.D. when the region around Mathura came under the aegis of the Kusana rulers, shows some change and advancement. This is evident from the ayagapata (tablet of homage) of Lonasobhika datable to this time. From the carving of this tablet it appears that the stupa was built on a high terrace surrounded by a railing with high gateway approachable from the ground by a stairway, also provided with railing. The hemispherical dome (anda) was comparatively short and was perched on an elongated lofty drum provided with two railings. The anda had a harmika with railing and umbrella on its top. The railing of the later stupa is very similar to the early one, but it is lower in height and the front face of its upright posts is differently treated. Here the front face is square in section and is boldly relieved with a male or female figure standing under a tree. Of the five pillars displayed by Smith (Pls. LX-LXIV) four are occupied by women and one by man. The women stand on crouching grotesque dwarfs or on a carved pedestal and wear anklet, loin-girdle, necklace, earring, armlet and a series of bangles. They are shown holding sword, braiding hair with garlands, standing at ease with the right hand resting on the waist, or showing shyness for nudity. All these female figures have been wrought with utmost care, stand in handsome poses, and look perfect on aesthetic plane. Except for the loin-girdle they are quite naked, probably to emphasize their femininity. The male (Fig. 8) seems to be a royal person wearing a dhoti, shawl, beaded garland, heavy kundala and crown. The trees under which these figures stand are in each case of a distinct type. The back face of the posts is three-faceted and depicts two lotus medallions in the middle and one half each below and above. These medallions are beautifully carved and show different varieties of lotuses. The torana-gateway of the later stupa as evident from the Lonasobhika ayagapata as well as from the ayagapata of Sivayasa (Fig. 3) consists of three architraves put across two tall pillars and separated from one another by square blocks of stones placed right above the pillars. The gateway was probably reinforced by a series of small balusters inserted between the architraves and by two bracket figures of Salabhanjikas emerging from the upper section of the pillars and tenoned into the underside of the lower architrave. In the Sivayasa ayagapata the ends of the three architraves are incurved like the tail of a crocodile. The upper architrave has a honey-suckle pattern carrying Dharmacakra, now broken off, in the middle and a triratna symbol representing right perception (samyak-darsana), right knowledge (samyak-jnana) and right conduct (samyak-caritra), which are considered to be the true path of liberation in Jainism, on each side of it, while the lower carries a heavy wreath suspending from it. The various parts of the gateway have been put together, without any cementing material and iron clamp, on the principle of weight and balance as is found in the contemporary Buddhist stupas of Bharhut and Sanchi. The entire gateway bears a wealth of carvings. REFERENCES V.A. Smith, The Jaina Stupa and Other Antiquities of Mathura, reprint, Varanasi, 1969; V.S. Agrawala, Indian Art, Varanasi, 1965; U.P. Shah, Studies in Jaina Art, Benaras, 1955; H. Singh, 'A Comparative Study of the Jaina and Buddhist Stupas', Bharati, Vol. 23 (1996-97), Varanasi, pp. 125-32; Sagarmal Jain, 'Jainagama Sahitya mem Stupa', Pt. Bechardas Doshi Commemorative Volume, Varanasi, 1987, pp. 132-40. * Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER IV ROCK-CUT JAINA ARCHITECTURE Jainism, like Buddhism, being a monastic religion enjoins on its followers to lead a life of mendicants for the attainment of liberation from the transmigration of rebirth. These mendicants lived on alms and used to stay in the natural caverns or in such abodes which lay far from the residential areas. Such abodes as these suited them well for meditation and other religious practices. In the beginning these caverns and some such hermitages as Yaksayatanas sufficed their needs, but when the mendicants increased in number, the caves were excavated as well in the rocky hills for their retreats. Subsequently, the caves were also adorned with figure sculptures and decorative patterns. We know at present of about 150 Jaina caves that were hewn from time to time in different parts of the country. Architecturally, they may be divided into two groups - monastery and shrine, the former being the dwelling caves made for the Jaina recluses to live in and do the penance, and the latter the religious sanctuaries containing the Jina images for worship. All the early Jaina caves that are so far known to us are monastic resorts since they do not possess Jina images, and if they have them at all, e.g. the Khandagiri caves in Orissa, the images of such caves were carved later than the excavation of the caves, while all the later caves the excavation of which began from the early 5th century A.D. have been worked out like temples, fulfilling both the residential and religious needs. The history of the rock-cut Jaina caves, if we leave aside the natural caverns, begins from the age of the Mauryas who united nearly the whole of India into one great kingdom and extended their support to all the religious sects including also the Jaina. This is evidently known from two Jaina caves at Rajgir (Bihar) which are contemporaneous with the Ajivaka caves at Barabar and Nagarjuni excavated by emperor Asoka and his grandson Dasaratha in the 3rd century B.C. It was perhaps Samprati, another grandson of Asoka, who inspired the Jaina excavation at Rajgir because the Jaina texts speak as high of him as the Buddhist do of Asoka. From the end of the Mauryan rule to the rise of the Imperial Guptas (c. 200 B.C.-300 A.D.) the northern part of India was chiefly governed by the Sungas and the Kusanas, while the southern part was ruled by the Satavahanas and the Iksvakus. This period envisages a political turmoil caused by the external and internal inroads, but the building activity went on unabated during the entire period of time. Another point worthy of note at this time is that Jainism spread from its epicenter in Bihar to other parts of the country. This is apparently known from the provenance of Jaina caves hewn during this period. Thus a cave small in size was excavated at Pabhosa (U.P.) for the residence of Jaina monks. In the twin hills of Udayagiri-Khandagiri (Orissa) the Cedi king Kharavela and his royalty excavated as many as 33 dwelling caves for the Jaina monks. Such a long series of Jaina caves was excavated neither earlier nor later. In a hill at Junagadh, a group of fifteen Jaina caves was excavated during the times of the Ksatrapas. During the Gupta-Vakataka age (c. 300-600 A.D.) the country emerged as a strong political and economic power; there was peace and tranquility in the kingdom; and the kings had very liberal outlook towards all the religious sects of the period. Under the impact of such a healthy atmosphere therefore we naturally find an upsurge in all the branches of knowledge. In the field of art and architecture this is visualized in the form of structural temples. The image-worship, which had since been prohibited inside the rock-cut caves, was Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies allowed at this time by all the sects. This is clearly caves known as Son Bhandar or Golden Treasury (Figs. evident from the excavation of a Jaina cave at Udayagiri 10-11; Pl. 1). These caves are very similar to the (M.P.) housing an image of Tirthankara Parsvanatha. Mauryan caves at Barabar and Nagarjuni and, like the After the decline and extinction of the Imperial latter, are laid out parallel to the rock. Guptas the country disintegrated into a number of big The larger of these two caves is very similar on and small principalities the rulers of which often fought plan to the Karna Chopar cave at Barabar, measuring for the supremacy and expansion of their power, but 34 ft. by 17 ft. Its walls are plain but polished to the none of them succeeded and ultimately they were defeated height of 6 ft. 9 inches and thence rise to 11 ft. 6 inches and their kingdoms assimilated by the Muslim conquerors in the centre of a slightly pointed arch. The cave has in the 124-13h century A.D. During this long period a doorway with sloping jambs towards the right end of Indian history, only the temples, whether rock-cut and a window about three feet square at the left. This or structural, of various shapes and sizes were produced. is the earliest example of window in the excavated caves The period was actually dominated by the Brahmanical in India. Outside the cave is a verandah 8 ft. deep and caves and temples, but at the same time it also witnessed extending at right end beyond the cave, so that the a fervent state of Jainism as the latter enjoyed the royal window would remain opened. The varandah has gone patronage of some of the Rastrakuta kings of the Deccan, as it was made of wood, but its existence is well detected early Calukya kings of Vatapi, and the Pallavas of Kanci. from the mortises in the rock which once received the This is apparently known from the presence of some ends of the wooden rafters of the verandah. beautiful Jaina caves at Ellora, Ankai-Tankai etc. in The other Son Bhandar cave, which lies just 30 ft. Maharashtra, Badami and Aihole in Karnataka, and from the larger cave, is similar in all respects to the larger Sittannavasal etc. in Tamil Nadu. The rock-cut sculptures one, but it measures only 22 ft. by 17 ft. Its roof has almost at Dhank in Gujarat and the famous colossal of Bahubali fallen in and a mortise exists to show that it had a wooden at Sravanabelagola also belong to this period. While verandah similar to that in the larger cave. the followers of other sects almost abandoned the On the facade of the larger cave is an inscription excavation work after the 10th century A.D., the Jainas of the 4th century A.D., saying that Acarya Vairadeva continued it up to the 12h-13th century A.D. and excavated consecrated Arhat images in these caves, but the images some ornate Jaina caves at Ankai-Tankai in the fashion do not exist now. This apparently shows that these of the contemporary structural temples. The Jainas appear caves were in possession of the Jainas at least up to to have great liking for rock-cut caves and sculptures this date. as they resumed the excavation work after a gap of Probably, the Son Bhadar caves were excavated nearly 250 years and got many Jaina caves and colossuses as abodes for Jaina monks by the Maurya king Samprati made on all sides of the hilly fort of Gwalior in the in the 3rd century B.C. as Asoka and his grandson 15th century A.D. Dasaratha did for Ajivakas at Barabar and Nagarjuni, With this short background we now proceed to give and the wooden verandah was added when the Arhat an account of the Jaina caves located in various States. images were installed in the 4th century A.D. BIHAR UTTAR PRADESH RAJGIR PABHOSA Rajgir or Rajagrih in Nalanda district of Bihar is Pabhosa is a hilly village 32 miles south-west of an old city. It was the capital of Magadha Janapada. Allahabad city in Uttar Pradesh. In the quartzite rock Rajgir is also the name of a hill there with two Jaina of the hill is executed a small Jaina cave measuring SA Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture 9 ft. deep by 7% ft. wide and 3/4 ft. high. It has a very low doorway (24/4 ft. by 134 ft.), so much so that one kneels into it. On one side of the door are two small windows. Inside, to the left, is a rock-cut bench (9 ft. by 134 ft. by 114 ft.) for the sitting of Jaina monks. The ceiling of the cave is semi-circular in the middle and flat on the two sides. There are two inscriptions according to which this cave was excavated by Asadhasena of Ahicchatra for the Arhats of the Kasyapagotra to which scion the 24th Tirthankara Mahavira also belonged. On the basis of the palaeography of these inscriptions this cave is datable to the 1' century A.D. ORISSA UDAYAGIRI AND KHANDAGIRI Udayagiri and Khandagiri in Puri district of Orissa are twin hills rising abruptly amidst a wide expanse of arid laterite soil and separated from each other by a narrow gorge through which passes a modern road leading to Bhubaneswar. They lie just four miles north- west of Bhubaneswar and six miles from the ancient capital of Sisupalagadha. There are eighteen caves in the Udayagiri hill and fifteen in the higher Khandagiri, all belonging to the Jaina sect and excavated in the coarse-grained sandstone of varied texture and colour. The stone here being of soft variety, the caves have fallen an easy prey not only to the inclemencies of weather but also to human beings who have quarried them for building material without heeding for their cultural importance. Almost all the caves have local names suffixed by gumpha (local word for cave), but here the caves of each hill have been described in regular numbers retaining of course their current local names. These caves have been excavated by the Cedi king Kharavela and his queen and relatives in the 1" century B.C. for the abodes of Jaina monks, so that they could go on begging rounds and do penance in these hermitages. Surprisingly, none of these caves may be designated as shrine, though in the contemporary Buddhist caves of western India, both the shrine and monastery (caityagrha and vihara) are found side by side. Probably, the shrine was structural; fortunately, the remains of an apsidal shrine have actually been found above the natural cavern of Hathigumpha. In the 11th 12th century A.D., however, some caves of the Khandagiri hill were converted into shrines by carving Jina images therein, by removing the partition walls between the inner cells and the front verandah, and by deepening the floor level, so that they might be more accommodative. Since there is no river flowing by the side of the caves, a few water reservoirs were also cut into the rock of both the hills to hold rain-water. These monastic retreats are not laid out on a preconceived plan but at different heights following the configuration of rock and connected, wherever necessary, by rock-cut steps. To lessen the load over the caves the excavation is usually done near the top of the ledge, because the rock is of the brittle variety. The caves of Udayagiri are large and better preserved, those of Khandagiri are small and sustain alterations. Ordinarily, the caves consist of one to four rectangular cells preceded by a common verandah. The cells in some caves are also wrought on the lateral sides. In rare case the cell has no verandah. Some of the larger caves, i.e. Ranigumpha, are two-storeyed. The upper storey has not been made right above the lower one, but it recedes back leaving an open space on the fore part either to relieve the lower storey of the load of the upper one or to provide space for a common gathering. The Ranigumpha and a few others have a quadrangular court as well. The cells are quite plain and their partition walls thin. The number of doors varies from one to four, according to the size of the cells. The jambs of the doors sometimes incline inwards. The doorframes have holes for hinges at the threshold and lintel for receiving wooden doors. Their ceilings are often arched and convex. They do not have niches for keeping necessary articles. Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture The Jaina recluses being known for their rigorous UDAYAGIRI CAVES asceticism and extreme mortification, these caves provide The Caves on the Udayagiri hill are approached little amenities to them. The height of most of the caves, by flights of steps and an ancient ramp rising gradually including even the larger ones, does not allow a man from the foot of the hill and reaching the high terrace to stand erect. Some of the caves are so narrow that in front of Cave 14 (Hathigumpha). On reaching the one cannot even stretch oneself. The floor of the cells lowest terrace one comes across the Cave 1. has a sloping rise at the rear end, serving of course Cave 1 (Ranigumpha) - This is the largest and the purpose of a pillow. The doors of the cells are most interesting cave on the Udayagiri-Khandagiri hills. invariably small; some doors being so small that one It is a two-storeyed excavation (Figs. 13-15; Pl. 2) with crawls into them. These cells were actually meant for a courtyard enclosed on three sides by dwelling cells, Jaina monks to sit or lie and do penance. the fourth side providing the entrance. The upper storey The verandah, which is laid out on a floor lower does not exactly rest over the lower one but recedes than the cells, has a row of pillars and pilasters on the back to form an open terrace in the front. The cave front and a plain or ornate wall at the back. Its roof is known not as for its architecture as for sculptures projects outwardly in the form of incurved eave-cornice which are badly damaged due to the collapse of the to ward off rain-water. It has rock benches to sit on pillared verandah of the lower storey of the main wing. and shelves to keep articles of bare necessity. The The right wing of the lower storey consists of a columns are generally square below and above and single cell with three entrance doors and a pillared octagonal in the middle, and are surmounted by cut- verandah with a bench at the rear end. The terminal out brackets, often ornamented with animal figures. The pilasters carry two sentries holding spear in the right square facets of the columns touching the narrow hand and a sheathed sword hanging from the left octagonal section are rounded off and their small corners shoulder. The capitals of the pilasters are adorned with so formed are bevelled. On the front facets of the wall elephant and horse figures. The pillars have disappeared pilasters stand the figures of boldly relieved sentries except for the stepped bases and ornate capitals bearing holding spears. figures of bulls and lions. The verandah has a shelf The back walls of the verandah have plain and on each side. The pilasters flanking the entrance doors square pilasters flanking the doorways. The capitals of show figures of bull, winged lion etc. on their corbels. the pilasters are very ornamental. From the capitals From the corbels emerge torana-arches which are adorned emerge semi-circular torana-arch forming an ornament with honey-suckle design or creepers. The flat walls over the door. The arches are relieved with varied above the railing pattern are relieved with four scenes creepers issuing from the mouth of animals and crowned representing an adoring human couple with two in the centre by a srivatsa or triratna symbol, or made attendants, a royal person with his two queens (with pointed. The circular space formed by the arch is often folded hands) and two female attendants, a female filled with various sculptures and decorative motifs, dancer with musicians, and a man (with folded hands) while the outside spaces between the arches are covered accompanied by a boy and two females carrying a tray with various scenes selected from popular folk lore and of offerings respectively. contemporary life. Below the scenes is a decoration of The left wing of the lower storey has three cells railing (vedika) consisting of two or three crossbars on three sides of the verandah with usual doors (three supported below by the bracket figures of diminutive in the rear cell and one in each side cell) and pilasters. ganas, Yaksas and Yaksis. The pillars have completely gone and the figures of Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies sentries are weather-worn. The rear or main wing of the lower storey has four cells, three on the back side of the verandah and the fourth on the right side. The roof of the 50 ft. long verandah and its six pillars have gone. The central rear cell has three doors and the side ones have two each, while the remainder has only one doorway. The doors, pilasters and arches are ornate like those in the right wing. The railings connecting the arches are supported by the bracket figures of Yaksas and Yaksis and the spaces above them are filled with nine scenes representing probably the victorious campaign of king Kharavela. At the two corners formed by the sides of the three wings of the lower storey are two small rooms; on the outer walls of both of these is a scene of the capture of elephants by monkeys and the turning of a monkey into an ascetic. The upper storey consists of a 63 ft. long verandah and six cells of which four are excavated in the rear wing and one each in the left and right wings. Though the upper storey is better preserved, the front portion of the verandah together with seven of the nine pillars has disappeared. All the four cells in the rear wing of the upper storey have two doors each, flanked by two pilasters with a torana-arch. The capitals of the pilasters are formed by a set of two winged addorsed animals like horse, bull, lion, elephant etc. The arches are relieved with flowers, lotus, creepers, and animals chased by boys, and are crowned by srivatsa, nandipada, snake and lotus symbols. The spaces between the arches above the railing pattern depict nine scenes of hovering Vidyadhara, three mad elephants attacking a panicky crowd, the rape of a woman, the first meeting of Dusyanta with Sakuntala (Pl. 3), dance and music, a scene having obliterated, three amorous couples enjoying drinks, a scene having damaged, and a hovering Vidyadhara respectively. The guard on the terminal pilaster on the right is pot-bellied and stands on a lion, and that on the left mounting a bull is damaged. The cell in the right wing of the upper storey has benched verandah with one pillar and two pilasters. The guard on the left pilaster is clad in schythian dress and carries a sheathed sword, and that on the corresponding right side is in Indian garb, also carrying a sheathed sword. The cell in the left wing of the upper storey is not in front of the benched verandah but lies to its left; it is lighted by a small window. Its own verandah is narrow and has two pilasters only. Cave 2 (Bajagharagumpha) - It consists of two independent cells with their own verandahs, each having one pillar and two pilasters. The front wall of the left cell, the bench and the left pilaster of its verandah are gone. The capital of the extant pilaster is adorned with a pair of bird-headed animals. The capital of the pillar has two pairs of animals of which one is winged. The front wall of the right cell and the pillar of its verandah are also gone. The intact pilasters have elephant brackets. Cave 3 (Chota Hathigumpha) - It is a small cave without verandah. It has a single door and a low ceiling. The facade is very rich in sculptures. It shows six vigorous elephants heading towards the pointed arch executed over the door; the arch is decorated with lotus flowers and plants. On the extreme right is a mango tree. Below the elephants, on each side, is a three-barred railing with uprights carved with half medallions. The pilasters flanking the doorway are surmounted by winged animal capitals. There is a short inscription, now worn out. Cave 4 (Alkapurigumpha) - It consists of two caves one over the other, each having a spacious cell and a verandah. The ceiling of each cell is convex. The partition wall between the cell and verandah of the lower cave being removed and the floors having dug down for stone, it presents a very bare appearance. The Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture 29 extant pilaster of the verandah carries on its top a pair of winged galloping horses. The upper cave is approached by a flight of rock- cut steps. Of the two restored pillars of the benched verandah the capitals are intact. The inner bracket in one capital is what looks like a royal elephant with attending ones, that in the other has a lion holding a prey in its mouth; the side brackets are relieved with pairs of winged animals with the head of a bird or human being. The pilaster on left shows on its top a man carrying a woman and that on right has an elephant entwined by a serpent. The cell has three entrance doors. Cave 5 (Jayavijayagumpha) - It consists of two cells with a common verandah supported on two pilasters and a modern pillar. The front face of the left pilaster shows a standing male figure, now damaged, on the shaft and a lion on the capital, and that of the right depicts a female fondling a parrot perched on her flingers and a Salabhanjika respectively: Each cell has a single door with pilasters surmounted by winged animals. The arches over the doors are decorated with lotuses or creepers. The space between the arches depicts, above the three-barred railing, a sacred tree in square railing which is being worshipped on either side by a human couple. Cave 6 (Panasagumpha) - The cave is so named because there is a panasa (Artocarpus integrifolia) tree in the front. Owing to large scale quarrying it is now open on the front. Cave 7 (Thakuranigumpha) - It has two storeys one above the other, each comprising of a cell and a benched verandah. The lower cell is comparatively spacious and high and has convex ceiling. The verandah has an usual pillar with a pair of winged animals on the inner bracket of the capital. The tops of the pillar and pilasters are adorned with addorsed crocodiles and winged animals, some being bird-headed. The upper cell is a smaller one; its verandah has no pillar. Cave 8 (Patalapurigumpha) - It consists of four cells, two at the back and one on each side of the benched verandah. The roof of the verandah is supported by two pillars (originally three) and two pilasters. The tops of the pillars are adorned with crude figures of winged animals standing back to back. One extant bracket of the capital depicts an armed man fighting a lion. The cells are high enough to stand erect. Their ceiling is arched and the facade is left plain. Cave 9 (Mancapuri and Svargapuri) - It consists of two storeys, the lower called Mancapuri and the upper, Svargapuri. The Mancapuri has four cells in two wings, three in the main wing at the back and one on the right side of the benched verandah. The ceilings of the back cells are slightly arched. The four guards occupying the front face of the pilasters in two wings are carved in high relief and carry a long sheathed sword. The four pillars have been restored. Their outer brackets are all gone; the inner ones are relieved with a pair of cavaliers or a figure of woman. All the doorways are flanked by pilasters having ghata-base and animal capitals. The arches over the doors are adorned with floral pattern; in one case it shows animals and chasing boys in alternate folds of creepers. The arches are crowned by srivatsa or triratna. The space above the two-barred railing connecting the arches of the second and third doorways is relieved with an unidentified Jaina symbol being worshipped by a group of six votaries of which one with turreted crown looks like a king. The scene is witnessed by the Sun god and Vidyadharas as well. The spaces between the other arches depict three-barred railing only. There is an inscription recording the dedication of the cave by king Kudepasiri or Vakradeva whose relation with Kharavela is not known. The right wing of the cave has a single cell preceded by a verandah with two pilasters and a pillar, all devoid of carvings. The Svargapuri does not rest immediately above the Mancapuri but is recessed back to form an open Jain Education Intemational www.ainelibrary.org

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies terrace on the front, reached by a ramp. It consists of a long cell with three doorways at the back, a smaller one with single door on the side and a common benched verandah in the front, the last one having collapsed. The pilasters flanking the doors carry winged animals (horse and deer being identified) on their tops and the arches surmounting them are decorated with creepers issuing from the mouths of makaras. The arches are connected by the representation of roof supported on bracket figures and crowned by finials. There is an inscription recording the dedication of the cave by the chief queen of king Kharavela. The terrace is fenced on the front by a three-barred ornate railing. Cave 10 (Ganesagumpha) - The cave is named after Ganesa whose image is carved on the back wall of the right cell. It consists of two cells with low ceiling and a benched verandah. There were five pillars in the verandah of which two on right side were probably knocked off to provide more space in front of the right cell. At the time of alteration two detached elephants, each holding the branches of a mango tree over a lotus, were probably added on two sides of the approach to this cell. The pilaster carries a figure of guard holding spear on the front face and a recumbent bull on the bracket. The pillar brackets are relieved with male or female figures holding flowers, spouted vessel, tray etc. The lower portion of the back wall of the verandah is carved with railing pattern. Each cell has two doorways with sloping jambs. The pilasters flanking the doors have a stepped base and carry addorsed figures of deer, bull, horse and lion on the capitals. The arches over the doors are carved with lotuses or creepers emerging from the mouths of makaras and crowned by srivatsa or triratna. The lower ends of the arches are connected by three-barred railing borne by pot-bellied squatting male and female figures. The spaces at two places above the railing are filled with a rape scene of a woman (similar to that in cave 1) and a scene depicting the storey of Udayana and Vasavadatta. The remaining spaces have the representation of barrelvaulted roof crowned by finials against the background of railing supported by squatting figures. The floors of the cells are raised in the rear end. The left cell has a crude late representation of Jina figure. The right cell has an inscription of the 8th 9th century A.D. recording the name of physician Bhimata and engraved in the reign of the Bhauma king Santikara. Cave 11 (Jambesvaragumpha) - It consists of a low cell with two plain doorways preceded by a benched verandah with two pilasters and a pillar. There is a an inscription saying that it was the cave of Nakiya, wife of Mahamada. Cave 12 (Baghagumpha) - The cave is so called because its front resembles the head of a tiger (bagha). The expanded upper jaw with a row of formidable teeth forms the roof of the verandah, while the gullet has the entrance door to the inner cell. The door with sloping jambs is flanked by two pilasters having a ghata-base on stepped pedestal and a pair of crouching elephants on the capital. The arch over the door is pointed at the top and has a railing decoration on each side. At one place in the ceiling of the verandah is a representation of lizard. An inscription in the cave says that it was the cave of the town-judge Sabhuti. Cave 13 (Sarpagumpha) - The cave was called Sarpagumpha on account of the three-hooded serpent carved on the facade of the narrow verandah excavated in front of a small cell with a doorway with jambs sloping inwards at a considerable angle. It has an inscription stating that the cave was a gift of Kamma and Halakhina. Cave 14 (Hathigumpha) - This is a natural cavern. The cave is not known for its architecture but for the famous inscription of king Kharavela carved on the rock above the cavern. Cave 15 (Dhanagharagumpha) - It consists of a long cell with low ceiling and three doorways, and a benched verandah with two pillars and two pilasters. Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture The left pilaster depicts a guard standing with a long staff on the front face and an elephant on the corbel. The other corbels of the pillars and pilasters, including also those flanking the doorways, are relieved with floral patterns or animal figures. The arches surmounting the doors are plain and the spaces between them are filled with barrel-shaped roofs supported by bracket figures and crowned by two-barred railing. Cave 16 (Haridasagumpha) - The cave is called after the name of sadhu (saint) Haridasa who lived there some time in the 19h century. It consists of a spacious high cell with a slightly curved ceiling and three doorways, and a benched verandah with two pilasters and a pillar, all devoid of carvings. An inscription carved on the facade of the cave says that it was a gift of Culakama and Kothaji. Cave 17 (Jagannathagumpha) - The cave is so called because it had a late drawing, now non-existent, of that god on the inner wall. It has a spacious cell, longest in the Udayagiri hill, with four doorways and a benched verandah with three pillars and two pilasters, the central pillar being multi-faceted. The tops of the pillars and pilasters are adorned with seated addorsed deer, hybrid winged figure with the tail of a makara and the head of a single-horned animal, another with the body of an animal and the forepart of a bird, purnaghata, fish, bird and flowers. Their inner brackets are lost; the four outer intact brackets carry a seated gana supporting the roof, a Vidyadhara holding a tray of flowers, winged Kinnara holding a garland, and a standing gana supporting the roof. Cave 18 (Rasuigumpha) - The present name was given due to its conversion into a kitchen room when the painted figure of Jagannatha in Cave 17 was in worship. It consists of a small cell and a narrow verandah, the latter being quite plain, devoid even of a pillar. KHANDAGIRI CAVES From Cave 17 of the Udayagiri hill one comes down to the main road by a flight of steps and thence goes up to Cave 1 of the Khandagiri hill by a rocky track. The first two caves at Khandagiri are called Tatovagumpha as they have the figures of parrots (tatova) on the arches of their doorways. Cave 1 (Tatovagumpha No. 1) - It consists of a low cell with two doorways and a benched verandah with a pillar and two pilasters. The front face of the pilasters carries two sentries armed with sword. The inner bracket of the pillar is carved with lotus etc. The verandah has a shelf on each side wall. Each doorway is flanked by two pilasters, each having a pair of addorsed bull or lion on the capital. From the capitals spring the semi-circular arches adorned with creepers or lotuses alternating with honey-suckles, both issuing from the mouth of makaras. On two sides of the arches are carved the figures of parrots. The spaces between the arches and the end walls are filled with barrel-vaulted roofs supported on bracket figures and crowned by a row of finials carved against the background of the railing pattern. There is a short inscription saying that it was the cave of Kusuma of Padamulika. Cave 2 (Tatovagumpha No. 2) - This cave is similar on plan to the preceding one, but it is larger in size and more elaborate in decoration. The cell has a high and curved ceiling and is entered by three doorways, each ornamented with two pilasters and a torana-arch. The pilasters have a ghata-base on stepped pedestal; their shaft is square below and octagonal above; and the capital consists of an inverted lotus, square abacus and a pair of spirited lions, elephants or bulls. The three arches are decorated with honey-suckles, lotuses and vines respectively, have doves and parrots on either side of the two arches and a pair of deer in the remaining one; they are crowned by nandipada. The arches have the carving of rafter ends on their underside. The semi-circular spaces inside the arches are filled with a honey-suckle in the middle arch and a garland with lotus and lotus-buds in the side ones. The arches are connected by a railing motif followed above by a Jain Education Intemational align memational

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32 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies device of barrel-vaulted roof with finials flanked by a lion on one end and by an elephant on the other. The roof of the verandah is supported by two pilasters and two lately restored pillars. The columns have cut-out brackets adorned with lotus-and-honey- suckle, figures of dancers and musicians, and a female holding a tray of flowers and a lotus stalk. The back wall of the cell retains some letters of the Brahmi script of the 1" century B.C. Cave 3 (Anantagumpha) - The cave is named after the figures of twin serpents (ananta) carved on the door-arches. It consists of a long cell (24/2 ft. by 7 ft.) with four doorways, a benched verandah (27 ft. by 7 ft.) with three pillars and two pilasters, and an open court (Fig. 12; PI. 4). The cell has a convex ceiling and is high enough for a man to stand erect. On the back wall of the cell is represented a nandipada on a stepped pedestal flanked on each side by triratna, srivatsa and svastika symbols, the first two being also placed on stepped pedestal. Subsequently, an unfinished Jina image was carved on the right side below the symbols. The pilasters flanking the four doorways are very ornamental. They have ghata-base on stepped pedestal; their shaft depicts bead-and-reel, lozenge, spiral flutings with bead-and-reel or flowers in vertical rows between half lotus medallions below and above; and the capital consists of an inverted lotus, square abacus and animal figures like bull, lion etc. The four arches over the doorways are decorated with rosettes in garland loops, frieze with boys chasing animals, again a frieze of boys and animals, and a row of geese holding lotus stalk in their beaks respectively. The arches are crowned by a srivatsa or nandipada. The underside of the arches are relieved with rafter ends. The semi-circular spaces inside the arches above the lintel are filled with four different representations- a royal elephant attended by two smaller ones, a turbaned personage with two female cauri-bearers in a chariot drawn by four spirited horses (probably Sun god with his two wives), Gajalaksmi, and a sacred tree in square railing (Pl. 5) being worshipped by man and woman. in the spaces between the arches are hovering Vidyadharas coming out of pillared halls to shower flowers on the objects of worship in the arches. Above these is the representation of railing interrupted at places by battlements and lotuses. The two pilasters of the verandah carry elephant figures on the inner brackets and cavaliers on the outer ones, but the front facets of their shaft are left uncarved. The inner brackets of three pillars have each two women with folded hands and their outer brackets show potbellied demonic ganas. The cave has an inscription saying that it was the cave of the monks of Dohada. Cave 4 (Tentuligumpha) - The cave is named after a tamarind (tentuli) tree which once stood near it. It consists of a small cell with two doorways, and a benched verandah with a pillar and two unfinished pilasters. The pilasters flanking the doorways have ghatabase on stepped pedestal; their square shaft is ribbed in the middle; and the capital consists of an inverted lotus, square abacus and couchant elephant or lion. The arches over the doors are plain but pointed at the top. the inner bracket of the pillar shows a woman holding lotus buds in both hands and the outer one depicts a walking elephant. Cave 5 (Khandagirigumpha) - It is from the cracks (khanda) that the cave is called Khandagirigumpha. From the cave a modern stairway descends to the main road. It has two plain cells one above the other, both sadly damaged. Cave 6 (Dhyanagumpha) - This cave of meditation (dhyana) originally consisted of a cell and a verandah with two pillars, but it has now turned into a spacious room with the deliberate removal of the partition wall and also due to the fall of two pillars. The sloping eaves above the architrave have four handlelike perforations. Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture Cave 7 (Navamunigumpha) - The cave is so called because it has a group of nine (nava) Tirthankara (muni) figures. Originally, it consisted of two cells and a common verandah with two pillars, but subsequently it was converted into a spacious sanctuary by removing the front and interior partition walls, deepening the floor level, and carving the Tirthankara figures. It has four handle-like perforations in the eave-cornice. The cave has five inscriptions one of which, carved on the inner side of the architrave of the verandah, mentions that it was the work (alteration work) of Subhacandra, disciple of Kulacandra of Desigana, carried out in the 18th regnal year of Udyotakesari of the Somavamsi dynasty ruling in Orissa in the 11" century A.D. On the back wall of the right cell are carved in high relief seven images of seated Tirthankaras(Rsabha, Ajita, Sambhava, Abhinandana, Vasupujya, Parsva and Nemi) with their respective cognizances. Below them are the lalitasana figures of their Sasanadevis (Cakresvari, Rohini, Prajnapti, Vajrasnkhala, Gandhari, Padmavati and Ambika) carved in medium relief with their respective mounts. On the left end of the goddesses is also represented an image of Ganesa. On the right wall are two figures of Rsabha and Parsva, both seated cross- legged on a lotus flanked by cauri-bearers; their bull and snake mounts are also represented. On the left wall is depicted a small seated figure of Candraprabha; below the seat is his moon cognizance. . Cave 8 (Barabhujigumpha) - The cave is called Barabhuji (twelve-armed) from the presence of two such images on the side walls of the verandah. Originally. it consisted of a cell with convex ceiling and three doorways, and a benched verandah with two pillars and two pilasters, but later on it was converted into a long sanctuary by removing the partition wall and by deepening the floor level. Two pillars are also the restored ones, but the brackets of their capitals carved with lotus-and-honeysuckle are original. The verandah has a shelf in the left wall and an eave projecting over the architrave. On the three walls of the cell are carved altogether twenty-five figures of Tirthankaras (Parsvanatha appearing twice) with their respective cognizances and Sasanadevis - (1) Rsabha (bull, Cakresvari), (2) Ajita (elephant, Rohini), (3) Sambhava (horse, Prajnapti), (4) Abhinandana (monkey, Vajrasonkhala), (5) Sumati (curlew, Purusadatta), (6) Padmaprabha (lotus, Manovega), (7) Suparsva (svastika, Kali), (8) Candraprabha (moon, Jvalamalini), (9) Suvidhi (alligator, Mahakali), (10) Sitala (srivatsa, Manavi), (11) Sreyamsa (rhinoceros, Gauri), (12) Vasupujya (buffalo, Gandhari), (13) Vimala (boar, Vairotya), (14) Ananta (falcon, Anantamati), (15) Dharma (thunderbolt, Manasi), (16) Santi (deer, Mahamanasi)(17) Kunthu (goat, Jaya), (18) Ara (nandyavarta, Tara). (19) Malli (pitcher, Aparajita), (20) Munisuvrata (tortoise, Bahurupini), (21) Nami (blue lotus, Camunda), (22) Nemi (conch-shell, Ambika), (23) Parsva (snake, Padmavati) and (24) Mahavira (lion, Siddhayika). All the Tirthankara figures are seated cross-legged under the trees, have triple umbrella over the heads, and are flanked on either side by a cauri-bearer. Except for Parsvanatha, each of these figures has a halo round the head. Below them, in separate compartments, are their Sasanadevis seated in lalitasna with their respective mounts, but Mahamanasi is seated cross-legged and Bahurupini is shown lying. The central or 25th figure on the back wall is of Parsvanatha (the chief lord in the series) represented in kayotsarga posture with a seven-hooded cobra-canopy. This image is larger in size and is flanked on either side by a seated naga and a cauri-bearer. The left wall of the verandah depicts a twelvearmed image of Cakresvari seated in lalitasana on double-petalled lotus with her Garuda mount, and the corresponding right wall has a figure of Rohini, also twelve-armed and seated in the same pose, with her bull mount. Cave 9 (Trisulagumpha) - It originally consisted tucation Intermational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture 35 of a dwelling cell with three doorways and a verandah having two pillars and two pilasters, with two shelves on either end, but later on it was converted into a sanctuary by removing the walls between the doorways and by lowering the floor-level. On the three walls of the cell are carved 24 robeless figures of Tirthankaras of crude workmanship dating not earlier than the 15th century A.D. Eight of these, viz. Rsabha, Ajita, Sitala, Parsva, Vasupujya, Vimala, Sreyamsa and Mahavira, appear to be more important as they are standing in kayotsarga pose and are larger than the seated ones. All of them are attended upon by two cauri-bearers. At the rear end of the cell are three chlorite images of Rsabhanatha installed on a masonry alter. These images did not originally belong to this cave but were transferred there from elsewhere. Stylistically, they seem to belong to the 11th 12th century A.D. Cave 10 - This cave has been completely destroyed by large-scale quarrying. Only three relief figures, two of Rsabha and one of Ambika, are now intact on the back wall of the cell. Both the figures of Rsabha stand robeless in kayotsarga pose on a lotus and have a triple umbrella over the head. The figure of Ambika is a fine piece of work. It stands in three-flexured posture under a mango-tree with a boy near her right palm and her lion mount below the seat. Cave 11 (Lalatendukesarigumpha) - Like the preceding cave it has also been destroyed by quarrying. Originally, it consisted of two cells with a common pillared verandah. On the back and left walls of the left cell are carved two figures of Rsabhanatha and three of Parsvanatha, all standing in kayotsarga posture with usual paraphernalia. The right cell has two figures of Parsvanatha and one of Rsabhanatha in the same posture. In addition, it has an inscription of the Somavamsi king Udyotakesari recording the restoration of a decayed step-well (probably the Akasaganga near the cave) and decayed temples on the Kumara hill (Khandagiri), and also setting up of twenty-four Tirthankaras there. Caves 12-15 - The Cave 12 consists of two cells with the floor having raised at the rear end. The Cave 13 consists of two long cells and a benched pillared verandah, all in ruins. The Cave 14 is a long dwelling cell open in front. Its roof is supported by a modern masonry pillar. The Cave 15, also open in front, consists of a small cell with raised floor at the rear end. GUJARAT JUNAGADH Four miles east of the district town of Junagadh (Gujarat) is the famous Girnar hill where three of the five kalyanakas (auspicious events), viz. diksa (initiation), kevalajnana (attainment of omniscience), and moksa (liberation), of the 22nd Tirthankara Neminatha are known to have taken place. It has a group of 15 Jaina caves located within the walls of Bava Pyara Matha or Monastery. The caves (Fig. 16) are arranged in three rows; the upper and lower rows of caves lay nearly parallel in east-west line and face south, and the third row of caves, at the eastern ends of the other two, faces mostly the east. They were excavated for the residence of Jaina monks. This is evident from this that Dharasenacarya, who taught Jaina tenets to Puspadanta and Bhutabali, the authors of the famous Digambara Jaina text entitled Satkhandagam, lived in one of these caves. The upper or north row of four caves runs eastwest and consists of a large cave at the west end and three smaller ones in a line at the east. The larger cave has a hall measuring 28 ft. by 16 ft. with two (originally three) plain square pillars in a line supporting the roof. At the west end of the hall is a chamber (17 ft. by 6 ft.) screened off by two plain square pillars and two pilasters, while at the back or north side are three cells, each about 11 ft. square. The front portion of the hall is partly destroyed, but it still has three square pillars with chamfered necks. On the facade is a fragment of caitya-gavaksa ornament carved in low relief. The three smaller caves consist each of a verandah (13 to 16 ft. Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture long by 4 12 to 52 ft. wide) with two pillars in the front and a cell at the back. The lower or south row of five caves runs westnorth-west. Each of these caves consists of a verandah with two pillars and two windows in the front and one or two square cells at the back. The second cell from the east end is larger in size and contains an octagonal pillar in the centre of the floor supporting the roof. The third or east row of six caves runs almost in north-south direction. In the central part is a 50 ft. long open court with a verandah (39 ft. long by nearly 8 ft. wide) on the west. The verandah has a row of six square pillars, each with a strut of sardula supporting the projecting eaves. At each end wall of the verandah is also carved a sardula in low relief. The facade of the verandah is adorned with crude caitya-gavaksas. In its back wall are three doors, the central one leading into a large apsidal room measuring 20 ft. wide and 26 ft. deep to the extremity of the apse at the back. It has a flat roof supported by four square pillars. It is probably this apsidal cave (Candragupha) where Dharasena resided. This we know from Virasenacarya who wrote a Dhavala sommentary on the Satkhandagama in the 8th 9th century A.D. The other two doors in the back wall of the verandah lead into small rooms excavated on two sides of the apsidal chamber. At the north end of the court, at a higher level, is another cave approached by a stair of five steps. It consists of a verandah (19 ft. 7 inches by 6 ft. 10 inches) with two square pillars and two windows in the front and two rooms (each about 9 34 ft. square) at the back. On the east side of the court are two cells, each with a small verandah supported by two square pillars in the front, and the commencement of the third one. In the court just in front of these caves was found a loose inscription of Jayadamana's grandson, Rudrasimha I (A.D. 103-118), which makes mention of men who attained perfect knowledge (kevalajnana) and were free from old age and death (jaramarana). These are purely Jaina technical terms and show the association of Jainas with these caves. Outside the court to the south is a cave with a small sunk area in the front, verandah with two square pillars in the middle, and two cells (K) at the back. On the door (Fig. 18) of one cell are executed two circular pillarettes inserted into a vase and surmounted by a cogged abacus and lion capital; the lintel is decorated with floral patterns and carries two sardulas at the ends. The door (Fig. 17) of the other cell has full vase on both sides at the base and two horse-riders as bracket figures supporting the lintel above. On the lintel are carved eleven auspicious Jaina symbols of which svastika, sthapana, pair of fish, srivatsa, fullvase, nandyavarta, lotus, and mirror could be identified. To the south of the last cave is another small cave with a bench round the small outer court and a cell inside. The door of the cell has an arch over it. The rock in which these caves are executed slopes down considerably to the south so that the roofs of the south row are beneath the level of the floors of the upper row of caves. All of these caves are plain and without any architectural pretension. They seem to have been excavated just for the residence of Jaina recluses. These caves appear to have been excavated in the 1st-2nd century A.D. MADHYA PRADESH UDAYAGIRI Udayagiri is the name of a hill on the other side of the river Betwa, lying nearly three miles north-west of the district town of Vidisha (M.P.). It has a group of twenty caves of which Cave 20 on the eastern end is Jaina (Pl. 6) excavated in sandstone. This is the largest cave at Udayagiri measuring 50 ft. by 16 ft. it has five niches with Jina figures seated in dhyanamudra, but they are very much mutilated now. One of these is a graceful figure of Tirthankara Parsvanatha sitting on a lion-throne with wheel symbol carved in its centre. He has a cobra canopy and triple Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture umbrella over the head and is accompanied by two attendants and other accessory figures. According to an inscription engraved upon the image and dated in the Gupta era 106 (A.D. 426), this image of Parsvanatha was consecrated by Jaina Acarya Gosarma of Kurudesa. MAHARASHTRA DHARASHIV Dharashiv is a small town lying about twelve miles north-east of Usmanabad district headquarters in Maharashtra. About two miles north-east of the town are seven Jaina caves divided into two groups by a natural ravine. Four of these are excavated in the north side of the ravine and the other three on the opposite side. They are excavated in a soft conglomerate rock and consequently are greatly dilapidated through its decay. The literary account preserved in the Karakandacariu, written in Apabhramsa by Kanakamara in the 11th century A.D., reveals that they were handsome caves. Cave 1 from the west end is a small unfinished cave. Cave 2 is a large handsome cave (Fig. 19) consisting of a verandah in the front, a hall surrounded by twenty-two cells in the middle, and a shrine in the central part at the back. The verandah, now damaged, measures 76 ft. long by 10 ft. 4 inches wide and is supported by six massive square pillars and two pilasters with richly carved bracket capitals. Above the columns is a frieze sculptured with Jina figures and caitya- gavaksa ornament. The hall inside measures 82 ft. deep, from 79 ft. to 85 ft. wide and 12 ft. high and is entered from the verandah by five doors. Its roof is supported by thirty- two pillars arranged in a square of twenty and an inner square of twelve pillars. The pillars are square in section and carry bracket capitals bearing floriated ornaments. Four pillars in front of the shrine, however, have round shafts and cushion type capitals. Of the twenty-two cells round the hall, eight are excavated on left, eight on right and six at the back. Each cell is almost 9 ft square and has its door almost in the middle. Similar arrangement of cells for the residence of monks is also found in the Buddhist monasteries of western India, and it were perhaps the latter that inspired the Jainas for such an undertaking. The shrine measures 19 ft. 3 inches by 15 ft. by 13 ft. and contains an image of Parsvanatha seated on an ornate throne in dhyanamudra and canopied overhead by a seven-hooded cobra, each with a small crown. The image is carved in the round, providing thus an ambulatory around it. Like the Indra Sabha at Ellora, the cave has an open court in the front, which has collapsed now. On the left of the entrance is a water-cistern. Cave 3, also a monastery for the residence of Jaina monks, follows the general plan of the preceding cave consisting thus of a verandah, hall and shrine. The verandah is supported by six plain octagonal pillars and has an unfinished cell in the right end, with a large block of rock in the middle of it. The hall measures 59 ft. square by 11 ft. 3 inches high and has five entrance doors. Its flat roof is supported by twenty square pillars (two on each lateral side being round) arranged in a square with six on each side. The cells round the hall are twelve in number. The shrine at the back is just a copy of that in Cave 2. Cave 4 consists of a hall and a shrine and is in a very miserable condition. The hall is 28 ft. deep by 26 12 ft. wide and has four pillars in the middle and four cells in the wall, but all the pillars are broken, only the capitals are hanging from the roof. The shrine has been broken through into the cell on the right of it. Cave 5, which belongs to the second group of Jaina caves at Dharashiv, consists of three compartments, each of no interest. Cave 6 in this group consists of a verandah supported by plain square pillars with wavy-bracket capitals, a hall with two cells and five entrance doors, and a shrine. Jain Education Intemational ation Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Cave 7 has a verandah and a hall, the latter having worked out (Pl. 7). Here the prastara-hara of the lower eleven entrance doors with figures of animals etc. on storey is made up of kapota, a rectangular fillet underlined their lintel. with joist-ends, recess, projecting band, recess and kapota All these caves at Dharashiv seem to have been with triangular blocks, and is left plain; so also is the excavated in the 7th century A.D. central panjara-kostha (instead of bhadrasala) except ELLORA that it is topped by a bold kirttimukha spewing festoons. It is situated about twelve miles east of the district The second storey is somewhat ornate. The prastaratown of Aurangabad in Maharashtra. It has the largest wall of its karna offset shows a well-shaped pitcher at and most varied group of cave temples belonging to the corner and seated Vidyadhara couples in niches on the Buddhist, Hindu and Jaina sects. The caves are the sides, the kapota of the prastara is decorated with excavated in the scarp of a large plateau running north- nasi-gavaksas (caitya-window), the mouldings above south for over a mile. It were the Buddhists who first the kapota are plain, and the kutas of the hara are arrived here and excavated twelve caves in the southern ornamented with nasi-gavaksas. The bhadra offset end. The Hindus followed next and excavated seventeen displays a large panjara-kosta borne by Vidyadharas caves in the middle part of the hill. The Jainas were appearing at the lower ends. The facade of the kostha the last occupants at Ellora; they excavated five caves is bordered by pearl festoons and is flanked by uprising (Nos. 30-34) in the northern end of the hill during the creepers. Inside the kostha is a series of struts. The wall Rastrakuta period. In the Jaina tradition the northern of the third storey shows vyala figures at the corners spur of Jaina caves is called Caranadri, i.e. the hills and Yakasais and divine couples on the sides, while of sages. To the east of the main Jaina group is an its hara has karnakutas with nasi-kosthas. On the front unfinished monolithic Jaina shrine called Chota Kailasa, side of the superstructure is a sukanasa with large nasiand to the north-west is a rectangular hall shrine, also kostha flanked by Nidhi figures and bordered by pearl incomplete. festoons. Inside the kostha is a framed figure of Jina Chota Kailasa (Cave 30) - It is an imitation of seated in meditative posture on a lion-throne. the Great Kailasanatha Temple (Cave 16) at Ellora, but the interior of the vimana-garbhagrha the floor on a much smaller scale. The whole temple has been of which is higher than that of the gudhamandapa is wrought on a mass of rock left in a pit (130 ft. by approached from the latter by a flight of four steps. 80 ft.) hewn out of the rock. This west-facing temple The stairway is stepped up by a moonstone and is consists of a tritala vamana (three-storeyed sanctum), flanked on each side by a crouchant elephant. Its antarala, and gudhamandapa with entrance porches on pancasakha (five jambs) doorway consists of ratna the front and lateral sides. It is entered from the west (diamond), Gandharava (heavenly musicians), stambha through an unfinished small pratoli (gateway) attached (pillar), valli (creepers) and depressed outer khalvawith an enclosing wall having battlements. sakha. The door-lintel shows a string of kutas. Inside The basement and wall of the dvi-anga vimana the sanctum is a fine rock-cut image of Jina sitting in (for lineaments of south Indian temples see Chapter VI) meditation on a lion-throne and accompanied by male comprising bhadra and karna are not worked out, the cauri-bearers. On the north wall is carved an eightupper storeys with their appliqued hara are short, and armed seated figure of Cakresvari, suggesting that the the griva (neck) and sikhara (spire) are missing. The temple was dedicated to Adinatha. southern portion of the superstructure, however, is The antarala shows two ornate pilasters and a Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture two-fold torana-arch emerging from the mouth of a crocodile treated as corbel and supported by a female bracket figure. In the centre of the meeting point of the folds is a figure of seated Jina. The pilasters have plain base and capital. The lower part of their shaft is square and plain, while the upper part successively shows a standing Jina on the inner face and males on the sides with corners bearing flutes, a band of pearl festoons punctuated with figures of Gandharvas, diamond-and-bead band, and nasis with lotuses on the fluted lasuna. The double padma (cyma recta) of the capital is also fluted, but the cushion-shaped bulbous kumbha is plain. The gudhamandapa (about 36 ft. square) is also dvi-anga on plan with shallow salilantaras (recesses) containing panjara-kosthas in between. The lower part of the wall is largely incomplete, but that of the upper portion on the south side is almost finished. Here the karnas show flying Vidyadhara couples having one of their two hands raised up in adoration, while the panjara- kosthas contain seated Yaksa or Yaksi in the cavity and Vidyadharas on the upper flanks. The tetragonal wall pilasters are plain, but the roll-brackets of their capital depict vine creepers. The prastara consists of plain beam, a frieze of bhutas, a kapota with floral, animal or Gandharva head in corner nasis and creepers in between them, and a plain prati-kantha. The hara, wherever available, shows bhadrasalas, karnakutas and panjara-kosthas, all uncarved. The roof shows a raised circular platform but is not carved with lotus umbrella, though present in the great Kailasa temple. In the interior, the gudhamandapa shows sixteen pillars in four lines of four each with corresponding pilasters. The pillars are of three different orders. The four central pillars are of the square variety with corners chamfered into three angles. Their base consists of a narrow plinth course, inverted cyma recta, torus and inverted cyma. Below, the shaft is plain and above, it shows an ornamental vertical band suspending from pearl-festoons on each face. Above this occurs a diamond-and-bead band and then comes sloping plain shoulder course (vase-shaped lasuna) of the shaft. The capital has double padma (cyma recta) and a bulbous abacus surmounted by roll-brackets. The four corner pillars are of the mixed circular order. The remaining eight pillars standing on the main axis are of the mixed octagonal order. Their base is like that of the central pillars. The lower section of the shaft is square with stereotyped ghatapallava on the upper part, while the upper section is octagonal bearing decorative bands of festoons, carved diamonds and beads, and small nasis at the basal part of a kalasa. The capital, also octagonal, is of the usual type, but the cushion is adorned with a diamond-and-bead band. The corbels above the capital are either wavy (taranga-potika) or have carved central band (citra-potika). The cross-beams and ceilings are flat and uncarved. The wall of the gudhamandapa bears images of the seated Jinas and standing Parsvanatha, totalling fourteen in all. Each of the three entrance porches of the gudhamandapa consists of two dwarf pillars and two pilasters and is roofed by an uncarved flat ceiling. Their adhisthana and the kaksasana above are only blocked out, but the pillars, pilasters and doorway are finished. The pillars are very similar to those of the antarala. The trisakha doorway consists of ratna, Vidyadhara (in couple) and stambha, and is surmounted on the lintel by a hara of three salas with two panjaras in between. The doorway in the west as well as south porch is flanked on either side by a dvarapala (door guardian) placed sideway. The dvarapalas are absent in the north porch. The front porch is flanked in the west wall of the gudhamandapa by eight-armed images of dancing Indras (Saudharmendra and Isanendra). The pratoli (or small gopura) has a plain doorframe and is roofed over by a curved eave-cornice and salasikhara carrying a figure of lion on either end at the top and ornate nasis in the central and side faces. Jain Education Intemational ein Education Intemational

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42 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies There is a small cave, opposite the southern entrance porch, in the south wall of the courtyard. It shows two dwarf pillars in the front, carrying kapota form of eave and a long sala-sikhara borne by Vidyadharas. The pillars are plain and square below; then they turn octagonal bearing a stripe of garland loops and a band of diamonds and beads; and lastly comes a circular kalasa or lasuna with vertical flutes. Their capital, circular in section, consists of double padma with carvings of petals, bulbous kumbha with diamond-and-bead band, padma, phalaka (square abacus) and flattened curved brackets. Inside are two similar pillars with two-fold crude torana-arch. In the flat ceiling is relieved a large lotus flower with two rows of petals and a central bud. Since this cave-temple is an imitation of the Great Kailasa Temple (A.D. 756-773) at Ellora, it may have been executed a generation later after the Kailasa, probably in the early 9th century A.D. This date is applicable to the main temple only, the southern cave seems to have been excavated a little later. Cave 30 A - Near the Chota Kailasa, to the north- west, is an unfinished rectangular excavation consisting of garbhagyha, mandapa enclosed on the front by a parapet wall, and an entrance porch, also enclosed by a parapet wall (Pl. 8). The porch, so also the mandapa, stands on a very low plinth of plain upana and jagati mouldings. The parapet wall consists of vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana, all elaborately carved. The vedika shows elongated stupa motifs between pilasters. From the vedika and plinth project out eight elephants bearing the eave of the asanapatta on their back. The asanapatta resembles a plain kapota underlined with a band of half lotus flowers. The kaksasana of the porch shows purnaghalas between pairs of segmented pilasters and is topped by a band of scrolls; the same in the mandapa is constricted like a coping depicting four- petalled flowers in sunk niches of stepped diamonds. The parapet wall of the porch support four dwarf pillars carrying a large curved eave-cornice on architraves spanned across them and an unfinished prastara-hara with varied sculptures and aedicules. The eave-cornice carries flying figures of Gandharvas and Vidyadharas and decoration of creepers on the upper side and of rafters on the underside. The dwarf pillars are carved and fluted and show ghatapallava, constricted kalasa or Tasuna, double padma, bulbous abacus with a decorative band, and citra-potika borne be atlantes. The inner wall of the porch has been reinforced by uncarved square pilasters. The mandapa is incomplete. Some of its pillars, however, are worked out. One of these is thin, plain and square with recessed corners; the other is massive and carefully chiselled. The latter pillar has a square moulded base; the shaft shows a square plain section below, fine ghatapallava in the middle and fluted kalasa above; and the capital, also fluted, displays double padma, kumbha and flattened curved corbel. The central ceiling of the mandapa shows in high relief a full-blown lotus flower with two rows of petals and a central pistil. This lotus ceiling is superior to that found in the Great Kailasa Temple there. On a wall of the mandapa is a standing image of Jina. Stylistically, this cave is datable to the late gth or early 9th century A.D. Cave 31 - This is a small rectangular cave facing south. It consists of a sanctum and a hall with a row of four pillars dividing it into a front and a rear mandapa. The front mandapa is enclosed on its fore part by an ornate parapet wall with entrance opening at the centre. On the parapet wall stand carved dwarf pillars of circular and square order, supporting the outer ledge of the cave. The inner wall of the parapet shows an amorous couple and a shrine model of the Dravida style. At the east wall of the front mandapa is a panel containing a standing image of Parsvanatha with a seven-hooded cobra canopy. On his left is another panel showing Mahavira in padmasana and dhyanamudra. On the corresponding west wall stands Bahubali entwined Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture with creepers. Inside the sanctum, on the back wall, is carved an image of Mahavira sitting in dhyanamudra. Cave 32 (Indra Sabha) - It is not a single cave but a group of Jaina caves excavated in two storeys (Figs. 20-21). It has a rectangular courtyard (56 ft. by 48 ft.) in the front, which is entered from the south through a small gopura made at the centre of a low prakara-wall bearing plain battlements (Pl. 9). In the centre of the court and facing the gopura is a monolithic Sarvatobhadra-vimana (four-faced shrine) approached from the front as well as rear side by a flight of about nine steps. In the fore court, to the right of the vimana, is a free-standing pillar or Manastambha (27 feet 4 inches high) and in the corresponding left side is a large elephant carved in the round. The pillar with corners chamfered into three angles stands on a moulded pedestal made up of jagati, inverted padma, tripatta kumuda, usual padma and prati. The shaft is square below with a sculptured niche on each face; then it turns into an octagonal and sixteen-sided sections with a recessed padma between and a scroll band on the top; and lastly comes a circular fluted kalasa. The fluted capital consists of triple padma, bulbous ghata with a scroll band, pali and circular abacus supporting a quadruple of Yaksa. The Sarvatobhadra-vimana (Pl. 10) is dvi-anga on plan consisting of bhadra and karna. Its adhisthana consists of tall jagati, inverted padma, tripatta kumuda, kantha with floral diamonds, and kapota decorated with nasis. The wall has openings in all the four directions with a short pillared porch in front of each. The pillars have a square moulded base; their shaft shows square, octagonal, sixteen-sided and circular sections, and the capital consists of double padma, bulbous kumbha and curved corbel. All these pillars are plain. The kumbha supports brackets of vyala and lion figures. The wall cantoned at corners by square plain pilasters is shaded by a large kapota bearing enrichment of creepers on the upper side and of rafters on the soffit. Above the kapota comes a band of makaras and square-shaped flowers. Each corner above the decorative band is occupied by a small kuta with nasis and stupi, while the cardinal space on each face is occupied by a large, fine panjara-nasi sheltering a kayotsarga Jina. Each panjara-nasi is borne by two Vidyadharas appearing at corners. Above this comes the second storey (tala) carrying panjara-nasis (not the kutsas) with seated Jinas, a band of vyalas and elephants above the kapota, and bhutas (goblins) blowing conch-shell at the corners. The vedi, griva and sikhara are octagonal and perfectly worked out. The vedi is plain, the griva has small kosthas, and the sikhara carries tiny vimana models. The stupi has disappeared. Behind each door is an antechamber with a flat ceiling. The ceiling in the south chamber is carved with a beautiful lotus flower having two rows of petals and a central pistil. In the centre of the shrine is a Samavasarana panel with Jina on each of the four faces. On the west side of the court, opposite the Sarvatobhadra-vimana, is a cave with two pillars in front and four inside. In the central compartment of its south wall is a large standing image of Parsvanatha and in the corresponding north wall is that of Bahubali. At the back is a shrine containing a seated image of Mahavira with attendant figures. Outside the shrine, but flanking the door, are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika mounting elephant and lion respectively. Adjoining this cave, at the end of the court, is a small cave with two attractive images of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. On the corresponding east side also are two caves, but they do not have pillars. The one opposite the Sarvatobhadravimana is quite plain, while the other towards the northern end has a shrine with hall containing four Jina images. Outside the court, on the east, is a cave or hall with two pillars in front and two more at the back. On the north wall of the hall is depicted the temptation scene of Parsvanatha and on that of south the asceticism Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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Jain Education Intemational 11111 TILL ! dituen WITHIN 21(CCCC **DIS TO SIA Rock-cut Jaina Architecture Fig. 23 Fig. 22 Fig. 24 Fig. 25 Figs. 22-24. Pillars in Central Hall, Upper Storey, Indra Sabha, Ellora. Fig. 25. Pillar in Verandah, Upper Storey, Indra Sabha, Ellora.

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46 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies (tapas) of Bahubali. At the back wall of the hall is a shows twelve beautiful pillars in a rectangular framework, shrine having a seated image of Mahavira; Sarvanubhuti dividing the entire area into a central nave and and Ambika flank the door. surrounding aisle. The wall enclosing the aisle has Behind the court are two verandahs (each screened carved pilasters in alignment with the pillars, and the by two pillars and two pilasters), a twelve-pillared bays formed by them are occupied by Jina figures. In incomplete hall, a vestibule with two pillars, and a the central bay on each side is a seated image of shrine with an image of Mahavira seated in dhyanamudra. Mahavira with attendants, while the other bays contain At the west end of the front verandah, which is each a pair of seated Jinas. The two extreme bays of approached from the court by a staircase, is a cave with the back wall and the two pilasters flanking the shrine hall and shrine. The hall has usual figures of Parsvanatha carry each a standing Jina; the two intermediary bays and Bahubali but has no pillars, while the shrine contains have images of Parsvanatha and Bahubali respectively. an image of Mahavira seated in dhyanamudra, with The image of Bahubali is the best at Ellora. Sarvanubhuti and Ambika flanking the door. The two The twelve pillars of the hall are of three different pilasters at the west end of the front verandah carry orders. The four corner pillars are square in section; two colossuses of santinatha with an inscription of the their base consists of jagati, inverted padma, tripatta 8th-9th century A.D. saying that they were made by kumuda and usual padma; the shaft has plain cube, a Sohila. A cave with similar set of sculptures has also belt with standing Jina on each face, a belt with two been excavated at the east end of the front verandah. decorative bands of garlands and scrolls, and fluted Near the east cave is a stone stair which leads to the kalasa; and the fluted capital shows double padma, verandah of the upper storey. bulbous ghata and flattened round corbel (Fig. 23). The The upper storey consists of a verandah, a hall, four central pillars in front and back rows are identical a shrine and two caves flanking the court. The verandah to the corner ones, but their fluted kalasa and capital (54 ft. by 10 ft.) shows two square dwarf pillars (with are round in shape and the two middle belts are replaced recessed corners and ornate shaft) and two pilasters on by a large cube bearing decoration of excellent fluted a parapet wall on the front, and two mixed varieties ghatapallava on each face (Fig. 22; Pl. 11). The four of pillars (with square base, sixteen-sided ornate shaft central pillars on the lateral sides are similar to the and plain capital, Fig. 25) and two pilasters with a low preceding ones, but the three-fourth square section of partition wall between on the back. At either end of the shaft is left plain and one-fourth top section is the verandah is a 14 12 ft. high image, Sarvanubhuti decorated with stylised ghatapallava with a seated Jina in the west and Ambika in the east, sitting with their on each face (Fig. 24). In the central part of the nave attendants under the banyan and mango trees respectively. is a quadruple of Jina, now sadly damaged, and in the The parapet consists of vedika, asana-patta and ceiling above it is carved a large lotus. The ceilings kaksasana. The vedika is decorated with fore parts of of the hall retain a good deal of paintings. elephants and pilasters, the asanapatta is treated as a The catussakha door of the shrine, which is stepped plain urdhvapadma, and the kaksasana is adorned with up from a moonstone, consists of ratna, stambha, Jina purnaghatas between pairs of segmented pillarettes. The and Vidyadhari respectively. The two outer sakhas and verandah is shaded above by a rocky ledge bearing ratnasakha are also extended over the door-lintel, but carvings on their facade. the space between the tops of the stambhasakhas is The great hall (78 ft. by 55 ft.) behind the verandah filled with a sculptural panel representing seated and Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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48 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies standing Jinas (Fig. 26). On the lower part of the sakhas This cave seems to have been excavated in the stand dvarapalas. Inside the shrine is an image of first quarter of the 9th century A.D. Mahavira seated in dhyanamudra. Cave 33 (Jagannatha Sabha) - It lies to the west Behind the colossuses of the verandah, but entered of the Indra Sabha and has been excavated so close from the side aisles of the hall, is a small cell which to the latter that the west wall of its upper storey has provides access to the caves on each side of the court. been broken through into a cell on the east side of the From each cell a few steps lead down to a smaller cell upper storey of the Jagannatha Sabha. It is also a twocarved all round with Jina figures. The smaller cell opens storeyed cave (Figs. 27-28) with a square open court up in a verandah which has two pillars in front and (38 ft. by 38 ft.) in the front, but the screen wall and two on the behind with corresponding pilasters, standing monolithic shrine, if present, have now disappeared. On on a low parapet wall. At the south end of the verandah the west side of the court is a cave with verandah, hall of the east cave is an image of Ambika facing the and a central shrine with one more on either end. The entrance and at the right or north side of the entrance verandah, opened on the front and screened by two is that of Sarvanubhuti. Behind the verandah is a four- heavy square pillars and two pilasters on the back, has pillared hall (25 ft. by 23 Y2 ft.) with a standing image an image of Sarvanubhuti at the south end and of of Parsvanatha in the central panel on the left and of Ambika at the north. The hall (27 ft. square and 12 Bahubali in that of right, while the smaller panels ft. high) shows four massive pillars supporting a flat between the pilasters contain seated images of Mahavira. ceiling carved with an eight-petalled fine lotus flower On the back wall of the shrine is an image of Mahavira (Pl. 13). The pillars have a square moulded base of seated in dhyanamudra, and on the pilasters flanking jagati, inverted padma and pattika, the last two being the shrine door stand nude dvarapalas. clasped on each face by a plain triangular boss. The The cave on the west side of the court is almost shaft is square below, sixteen-sided in the middle and identical in plan, design and sculptural setup to that on octagonal above, with a sixteen-faceted constricted lasuna the east, but its entrance door has a four-armed image (vase). The square section is plain below and has a of female divinity on one side and of an eight-armed stylised ghatapallava above. The sixteen-sided section Sarasvati on the other. Besides, its facade is very is unadorned. The octagonal section bears a band of ornamental. Its lower storey in the centre shows a garland loops with gana figures, a band of diamonds vertical panel representing fighting scene, religious and beads, and a pattika with eight ornate nasis occupying discourse and seated Parsvanatha. The parapet wall alternate facets of the lasuna. The capital, also faceted, enclosing the verandah of the upper storey shows consists of double padma, phalaka with diamond-band alternate elephants and vyalas on the vedika, purnaghatas and flattened round corbel. The two central panels of on the kaksasana and an amorous couple in the central the hall shelter a standing image of Parsvanatha in the part. The entablature above the pillars of the upper left wall and that of Bahubali in the right, while other storey, shows a heavy curved eave-cornice with panels and pilasters carry some other Jinas. In the back Vidyadharas and other figures on the facade, and a wall of the hall is a shrine (9ft. by 8 12 ft. and sculptural panel showing Jinas in projecting niches and about 9 ft. high) with an image of Mahavira seated in goddesses in alternate recesses. In the centre of the dhyanamudra. Opposite to this cave, on the other side panel is a large sala-sikhara representing Jina in kantha of the court, is a small cave with usual figures but and Parsvanatha in the lalatanasi. without pillars.

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture The cave at the back of the court and facing south facing south. It has a seated figure of Mahavira in the consists of a verandah, hall (24 ft. square and about shrine and two usual standing figures of Parsvanatha 14 ft. high), vestibule and shrine (9 ft. by 7 ft. and and Bahubali in the astylar hall. On the east side of about 11 ft. high). The verandah shows two square this cave is a stairway which leads to the upper storey pillars on the parapet wall in front and two more on of the Jagannatha Sabha. a low partition wall separating the verandah from the The upper storey consists of a large twelve-pillared hall at the back. The parapet wall, which has been oblong hall (57 ft. by 44 ft. and about 14 ft. high) with finished only on the left of the entrance, carries elephant corresponding pilasters and a shrine carved in the back heads on the vedika and purnaghatas on the kaksasana. wall. The hall, divided into a central nave and In the west and east ends of the verandah are the images surrounding aisle by a score of twelve pillars, is enclosed of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika sitting under trees with on the front by a low parapet wall with two pillars and attendants, all very sharply cut. The parapet pillars are two pilasters. The four corner pillars of the hall have square in section and consist of only shaft and capital. a square moulded base of jagati, inverted padma, fluted The shaft is plain below and fluted above, the latter kumuda and inverted padma; the two-third lower shaft showing a figure in niche on each face of the fluted is square and plain below and the one-third upper part square section, a band of jewelled and floral festoons is treated as circular fluted lasuna above, the latter with gana figures, carved diamond-band and short lasuna. carrying four cones adorned with floriated creepers and The capital shows double padma, bulbous ghata with extended up from the square shaft. The circular fluted a scroll band, and round corbel (Fig. 29). The other capital consists of triple padma, flattened bulbous ghata two pillars of the verandah are similar to those seen decorated with scroll-band, and a round corbel with in the west cave of the court, but the base is absent median scroll-band. The base and capital of the central here and the capital takes the shape of bulbous ghata pillars are similar to the corner ones but the shaft is with jewelled band. circular here and shows a narrow faceted section, a The hall of this cave shows four square massive large fluted section, four very attractive and elaborate pillars in the slightly raised nave and ornate pilasters foliages, and constricted lasuna decorated with pearl at the peripheral wall. The nave pillars have a plain and floral festoons (Fig. 31; Pl. 12). The walls of the moulded base of jagati, inverted padma, kumuda and hall carry a large number of sculptures of Mahavira padma, all clasped by a flat triangular boss. The shaft and Parsvanatha, and its ceiling has remains of paintings. is square and plain below; above, it shows a beautiful On either side of the shrine is a pair of standing Jinas ghatapallava and a short fluted lasuna. The fluted round followed in their turn by Sarvanubhuti on left flank and capital has double padma, bulbous ghata with a scroll Ambika on right. The door of the shrine shows fine band and round corbel (Fig. 30). The wall has the usual padma-, Vidyadhari-, and Jina-sakhas. On the lower standing figures of Parsvanatha and Bahubali with part of the sakhas stand the river goddesses Ganga and attendant figures in the two central niches and seated Yamuna with their makara and kacchapa (tortoise) Jinas in the other six between the pilasters. mounts on proper right and left respectively. Inside the The vestibule is entered through a fine torana- shrine is a Jina seated in meditation on a lion throne arch. The shrine contains a figure of Mahavira seated with triple umbrella. in dhyanamudra on the throne. The two parapet pillars are similar to the corner To the east of this cave is another cave, also pillars of the hall with this difference that the base is Jain Education Intemational

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52 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies absent here. The outer face of the parapet consists of ornate vedika and kaksasana. The vedika shows a large elephant head at either end and in front of each pillar, and smaller figures of human beings in the central division and of animals in the two side divisions. The kaksasana carries purnaghatas between pairs of small colonnettes; the body of the ghatas is carved with human or other figures. The facade of the rock drip above has been carved with ganas and other sculptures that are now much weather-worn, while its soffit bears decorations of ribs and circular bosses and is supported by bracket figures emerging from the pillar capitals. The front aisle of the hall of the upper storey has a cell on each end. The cell on east end leads through a hole into the west wing of the Indra Sabha. This cave was excavated in the 9th century A.D. Cave 34 It lies close to the Jagannatha Sabha and has been excavated to the west side of the court of the latter. It consists of a verandah, a hall (201/2 ft. wide by 22 ft. deep and about 10 ft. high), an antarala and a shrine. The right side wall of the hall has been cut into a cell of the west wing of the Jagannatha Sabha. The verandah, which had two pillars and two pilasters, is gone. At the back it has two pilasters, a central door leading to the hall, and two side windows. The hall has four square short pillars and corresponding pilasters. The pillars have a square moulded base with triangular flat boss on each face. Below, their shaft is square with a plain section and a pair of foliated creeper on each face, and above, it is sixteen-sided with jewelled and floral festoons, a band of carved diamonds, and eight nasis. The faceted round capital consists of double padma, flattened bulbous ghata with a band of diamonds, and round corbel. The hall has usual standing images of Parsvanatha and Bahubali in the central niches, pairs of seated Jinas in other niches, and Sarvanubhuti and Ambika, also seated, flanking the entrance to shrine containing an image of Mahavira seated in dhyanamudra. This cave is datable in the 9th century A.D. PATNA Patna is an old village, now deserted, near the Buddhist site of Pitalkhora in Khandesh district of Maharashtra. On the east side of the village is a hill with two Jaina excavations known as Sita Nahani and Nagarjuna Kothari. Sita Nahani It is a very irregular unfinished cave consisting of a verandah and a hall. The verandah is 28 ft. long and has two rudely blocked out pillars. The hall measures about 24 ft. by 13 ft. and has two rough pillars near the middle of it. Nagarjuna Kothari - It is also an irregular cave (Fig. 38) following the general plan of the Sita Nahini, but it has a good number of sculptures. Its verandah is 18 ft. long by 6 ft. to 4 ft. wide and is supported in front by two pillars, one square and the other rhomboidal. At the left or south end of the verandah is a small cell with a bench along the back wall. The hall is about 20 ft. long by 14 ft. deep with two irregular pillars in the middle. At the base of the left pillar is Sarvanubhuti sitting on an uncarved mass of rock, and at that of the right is Ambika seated with a child under a tree laden with birds, fruits and foliage. On the back wall of the hall is an image of Jina seated cross-legged on a lotus seat. The back of the seat is carved with two elephants' heads, two standing Jinas, two cauri-bearers, makaras, Vidyadharas etc. Over the central figure of the Jina is a triple umbrella with foliage hanging down. The south wall near the back bears a life-size standing Jina with nimbus, triple umbrella and small attendant figures. There are three empty niches in the north wall, one such niche in the south and a small irregular cell in the back wall near the south end. Stylistically, these caves at Patna were probably excavated in the 9th or 10th century A.D. ANKAI-TANKAI Lying four or five miles south of Manmad Railway Station in Maharashtra, Ankai and Tankai are the names of two hills connected by a short ridge. The western

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture The door leads to a narrow balcony which is damaged now. The hall and its entrance door are incomplete, but the excavation of some parts shows that it was intended to be about 20 ft. square with four pillars. The shrine is about 9 ft. by 6 ft. and has only a seat against the back wall for the receipt of the image. Cave 3 - It is (Fig. 40) like the lower storey of Cave 1 but has a perforated screen wall in the front, now much weather-worn, and a vestibule preceding the shrine. Its verandah measures 25 ft. by 9 ft. and has a life-sized image of Sarvanubhuti at the left wall and of Ambika at the right, both seated on their respective mounts with attendant figures and set up between two pilasters crowned by makara-torana arch. The mango- tree associated with Ambika is represented here by six conventionalized sprays hanging at equal distance under the arch. The hall, which is entered from the verandah by a doorway with only a moderate amount of carvings, measures 25 ft. long by 21 ft. deep and has usual arrangement of four square pillars with a fine ceiling (Pl. 16). The pillars have a square moulded base with an uncarved triangular boss on each face. Their shaft is plain and square below; then it turns into faceted circular and square sections respectively, the last one decorated with scrolls and kirttimukhas; and lastly comes an uncarved kalasa. The capital consists of a karnaka like ghata, round abacus and corbels of bharaputrakas. The architraves across the pillars are thin and flat. The flat ceiling is boldly relieved with four concentric rows of lotus petals and a central pistil. The first and fourth (innermost) rows consist of twenty-four and sixteen plain petals respectively. The second row consists of twenty- four petals, each occupied by some divine figure, singly or with a companion, and mounted on animal or bird. The third row contains sixteen petals, each carved with a figure of dancer or musician. The whole lotus is enclosed by an octagonal border carved with diamonds and beads; outside this, in one corner, is a single male figure standing on one foot, and the other three have each a larger figure dancing or making music, with two smaller ones (Fig. 41). The back wall of the hall, on each side of the vestibule, has about a life-sized, standing, robeless figure of Santinatha on left and of Parsvanatha on right, both set into an ornamental niche with their accompaniments. The shrine door is incomplete as its two jambs alone have been worked out. The shrine inside measures 12 ft. square and has a seat for the image in the middle of it. Behind the seat to the right is a hole into a small room containing a Jina figure transferred there during the time of Muslim iconoclasm. Cave 4 - It has a verandah in front, hall in the middle and shrine at the back (Fig. 39). The verandah measuring 30 ft. by 8 ft. has two massive plain square pillars and two pilasters in front and a low bench on either end. The entrance door of the hall is similar to that of Cave 1, but here it is more ornate. The hall is 24 ft. long and 18 ft. deep; its roof is supported by two pillars across the middle, one pilaster in alignment with them on each side wall, two corresponding pilasters on the front as well as the back, and a quarter one at each corner. The corbels of the columns are adorned with scrolls instead of bharaputrakas. A low bench has been wrought along the back wall, which serves as a step to the shrine door. The shrine has only a seat with an incomplete arched recess at the back. On a pillar of the verandah is an inscription of the 11th 12th century A.D., which is also the date of these excavations at Tankai. Caves 5-7 - These caves are smaller and much damaged and have doors similar to those found in Caves 1 and 2. In the shrine of one of these is a figure of Jina seated in dhyanamudra on lion-throne with triple umbrella above. CHAMAR The Chamar hill lies a few miles north of Nasik town in Maharashtra. The hill contains two Jaina caves Jain Education Intemational ucation Intermational

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56 SECTION OF JAINA CAVE NO. 1. Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies PLAN OF UPPER STOREY OF CAVE II Fig. 36. PLAN OF GROUND FLOOR OF CAVE II. Scale to Sga 18. Fig. 37. Fig. 35. Figs. 35-37. Plans and Section of Jaina Cave 2, Ankai-Tankai. hsrh 701 Fig. 40. Plan of JainaCave 3, Ankai-Tankai. Fig. 39. Plan of Jaina Cave 4, Ankai-Tankai. QF Fig. 38. Plan of Nagarjuna Kothari, Patna.

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Scale of Rock-cut Jaina Architecture PANAMAHER Jols Fig. 42. Hall Doorway, Lower Storey, Jaina Cave 1, Ankai-Tankai. 2000 M meel- 'ttii Fig. 41. Hall Ceiling of Jaina Cave 3, Ankai-Tankai. 10 feet. 57

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies facing the roadside which passes not far from the foot small cave supported upon rough square pillars. Inside of the hill. They are excavated in a coarse porous rock the cave is an image of Jina Candraprabha. The cave and probably belong to the 11th or 12th century A.D. was probably excavated in the 13th century A.D. They have a good deal of crude figures of seated or KARNATAKA standing Jinas with usual images of Sarvanubhuti and BADAMI Ambika. The wall of one of these caves also carries a There are four caves at Badami, the capital town small image of Jina seated on a lion-throne with attendant of Early Calukyas. Three of these are Brahmanical and figures, two other small Jinas on either side of his head, one, Cave 4, is Jaina. The Jaina cave (Fig. 44) is the and nineteen more in the sculptural border around, smallest in the series and has been excavated at the making 24 in all. Beside the caves is a large open east end of the scarp. After an ascent of seven steps excavation with a colossal bust shaded by snake-hood. one finds himself in a long rectangular open portico The image was no doubt intended for Parsvanatha but with an overhanging rocky roof having curved profile was left unfinished. in the front. The soffit of the roof is carved with ribs, BHAMER a pattern copied from the wooden rafters, while in its Bhamer is a village lying thirty miles west of central part is an image of Kubera. Dhulia in Maharashtra. Beside the village are two hills Behind the portico is a verandah measuring 31 with a plain dwelling cave in one of them, and two ft. by 6 ft. and confronted by four square pillars and cellars and a large cave in the other. The larger cave two pilasters. The pillars, the intercolumniation between consists of a 74 ft. long verandah with an unfinished the central pillars of which is greater than that in the cell at the left end and three juxtaposed halls, each side ones, stand on a plain base; their shaft shows entered from the verandah by its own door. Each hall enrichments of lotus, amorous couple, scroll, makara measures about 24 ft. by 20 ft. and has four square etc. in circular medallions on the four faces, jewelled pillars and corresponding pilasters supporting the roof. and floral festoons, a band of diamonds, and a fluted On the walls are many crude sculptures of Parsvanatha lasuna; and the capital consists of double padma, bulbous and other Jinas, but they are much defaced due to the ghata and round corbel. The lasuna supports bracket decay of the coarse rock. figures of sardulas. The beams spanned across the These caves seem to be contemporaneous with columns are plain, but the ceilings at some places are those at Chamar. relieved with figures of Vidyadharas. The walls carry ANJANERI 7 ft. 6 inches high standing image of Parsvanatha on At Anjaneri, 14 miles from Nasik district left and of Bahubali on right. headquarters in Maharashtra, is a hill with an ornate At the back of the verandah is a hall (25/2 ft. long Jaina cave excavated in A.D. 1288. It consists of a hall, by 16 ft. deep) with two pillars and two pilasters that vestibule and shrine. The hall is enclosed on the front shut it off from the verandah. The pillars are similar to by a low parapet wall with pillars supporting the eave. those of the verandah, but the lower part of the shaft It has grille-windows, ornate ceilings, and carved pillars bears standing figures of the Jinas. On each lateral side and doorways. Inside the shrine is a mutilated figure of the hall is a rectangular cell screened off by two of Jina. pillars and two pilasters. The walls of the hall have a CHANDOR large number of sculptures of the Tirthankaras (Pl. 17). Chandor is a village lying 30 miles north-east of From the hall an ascent of four steps leads into the district town of Nasik (Maharashtra). There is a the shrine carved deep into the rear rock. The stair is Jain Education Intemational

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60 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies stepped up from a moonstone. The pancasakha doorway two pillars. The wall on either flank of the entrance of the shrine is ornate. Besides other ornaments it shows carries a figure of dvarapala with a male or female dvarapalas on the lower section of the doorjambs and dwarf. The pillars stand on a square plain base; their miniature shrines sheltering Jinas on the lintel. Inside shaft shows a short octagonal section, a long fluted one, the shrine is an image of Mahavira sitting on lion- usual octagonal section and faceted kalasa or lasuna; throne against the back wall, with cauri-bearer, sardula and the faceted capital is composed of padma, ghata and makara's head on either side. and bevelled corbel. Inside the shrine, at the back wall, This cave seems to have been excavated in the is an image Mahavira sitting on a lion-throne with 7th century A.D. cauri-bearers and worshippers. AIHOLE This cave was probably excavated in the early part There are only two caves at Aihole. One of these of the 8th century A.D. is Jaina and the other Brahmanical. The Jaina cave (Fig. MELKOTE 43) at Aihole, which is larger than that at Badami and Melkote is situated near Mysore in Karnataka. It faces south-south-west, has a verandah in the front, hall has two Jaina caves excavated one above the other in in the middle and shrine at the back. The verandah, the scarp overlooking a valley between two hills of about 32 ft. long and 7/2 ft. deep, is supported in front granite rock. They do not present any outstanding by four square plain pillars and has decorations of architectural feature and are devoid of sculptures. They makaras, frets and flowers in the roof. The wall on left were probably excavated in the 80-90h century A.D. depicts an alto-relievo figure of Parsvanatha standing TAMIL NADU under the five-hooded cobra-canopy with Padmavati VILAPPAKKAM standing with umbrella on his right and Dharanendra Vilappakkam is situated in the North Arcot district sitting with folded hands on the left, and that on right of Tamil Nadu. There is a large unfinished Jaina cave shows a standing image of Bahubali with Brahmi and going by the name of Pancapandava and excavated in Sundari, his two sisters. granite rock in the time of the Pallava king The entrance to the hall from the verandah is Mahendravarman (c. A.D. 580-630). This is a nine feet 8 ft. wide divided up into three apertures by two pillars. high rectangular cave of mandapa-type with two rows The hall measures 15 ft. by 17 ft. 8 inches and has of six pillars and two pilasters each, dividing the entire a chapel (14 ft. by 5 ft.) on each side screened off interior into a front mukhamandapa and a narrow rear by two pillars in front of each. The central ceiling (Pl. ardhamandapa (half the size of mandapa). All the pillars 14) of the hall depicts a large lotus flower at the centre, are square throughout and do not possess an octagonal four smaller ones at the corners, and decorations of section between the square sections, though this is an makaras, fishes, flowers and caitya-windows with human essential feature of the Pallava pillars of this period. heads in the intervening spaces. The chapel to the left The corbels of the pillars are incomplete and a few of of the hall carries at its back wall an image of Mahavira them that have been worked out are round in shape. sitting on a lion-throne with cauri-bearers and devotees, The cave is shaded by a rocky ledge of plane cornice while that on the right is empty. having one foot width. On six feet height from the The shrine at the back, about 8 ft. 3 inches square, cornice is a water chute and on four feet height from is approached by a flight of three steps and its entrance, the latter is a shallow niche carved in the central part like that to the hall, is divided into three apertures by of the facade. The niche contains an image of Tirthankara Jain Education Intemational ducation International

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture in low relief. The floor of the cave, which has a slope front. The shrine is 10 ft. square and 7 ft. high and of three inches from the back to the front, is four feet is entered through a doorway (5 12 ft. by 2 12 ft.) high from the ground and had no approach of stairway, approachable from the ardhamandapa by a stairway due of course to its being incomplete, but two stairs having vyala banister. On the inner walls of the shrine are now built on two ends. The inner roof of the cave are carved three images in high relief, Mahavira is flat and uncarved. In the back wall are seven rectangular appearing on the west or back side, Adinatha on the niches between the columns. Each niche, now vacant, north and an Acarya or Arhat on the south. This is measures 5 12 ft. by 2 12 ft. and 1 ft. deep, is slightly apparent from the carving of triple umbrella over the projected into the ardhamandapa, and is carved three head of the Tirthankara images and a single parasol feet above the floor. According to K.R. Srinivasan (see, over the Arhat. The flat ceiling of the shrine is carved Cave Temples of the Pallavas), the cave primarily with a Dharmacakra. belonged to Saiva sect and was excavated in the closing The ardhamandapa measures 22 12 ft. by 7 1/2 ft. years of Mahendravarman I, but later it was occupied by 8 12 ft. and has two massive square pillars and two by the Jainas. But the presence of a Jina figure atop pilasters on the front. The columns are square below the cave and the complete absence of Saiva evidence and above and octagonal in the middle, have horizontally hardly leave any doubt for its being a Jaina cave. fluted roll-corbels, and bear adornment of lotus PECCIPARAI medallions on the square faces of their shaft. Across Pecciparai is situated near Kadayanallur village in the columns are plain beams with flexed cornice. The Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. It has a Jaina cave lateral walls of the ardhamandapa have sculptured niches. on the higher slope of the hill, consisting of two The niche on south contains a figure of Parsvanatha unfinished shrines facing each other across the two ends with a five-hooded cobra canopy and that on the north of a common hall. The shrines have doorframe and has a figure of Jaina teacher seated in dhyanamudra well-formed cornices. Inside the shrines are some with an umbrella over the head. That the figure on north incomplete figures, but the carving of cobrahood (for is of a Jaina teacher is clearly evident from an inscription Parsvanatha) definitely shows the Jaina affiliation of the on a nearby pillar mentioning him as tiruvasiriyan, i.e. cave. The back wall of the hall has been left plain, the venerable teacher. The entire surface of the walls, probably for a niche-figure. The facade of the cave has ceiling, pillars etc. are richly painted in the tradition a cornice carved with nail-heads. of wall paintings of Ajanta. Unfortunately, they are SITTANNAVASAL badly damaged, but what remains shows the grandeur The Arivar Kovil cave-temple at Sittannavasal in of Jaina paintings in the whole of South India. The the Tiruchirapalli district of Tamil Nadu is excavated notable among these are the Samavasarana scene, the on the eastern face of the rock. There also is a natural Puskara-lake with lotus, geese, fish etc., the royal couple cavern with beds and an old Tamil-Barahmi inscription and some figures of dancers (for details see Chapter Sittannavasal is especially famous for its wall paintings on Paintings of this Volume). some of which are still preserved in the cave. These The mukhamandapa is an open pillared hall added are the earliest known remains of Jaina paintings in India. to preserve the main cave during the reign of the Pandya The cave at Sittannavasal consists of a square king Avanipasekhara Sri Vallabha (c. A.D. 815-862). shrine at the back, a transverse rectangular ardhamandapa The main cave, however, was excavated in the grh in the middle and a structural mukhamandapa in the century A.D. Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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62 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies ARMAMALAI Armamalai is situated in the North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu. It has a large natural cavern converted later by brick masonry walls into three shrines standing in a line and containing fragments of paintings belonging to the Gangas of Talkad (c. A.D. 900-100). From the debris of the cave have been recovered two stone sculptures of the dvarapalas carved in low relief, two slabs with lotus carving, and broken pieces of stone pilasters. The two dvarapalas possibly guarded the larger central shrine dedicated to Tirthankara, while the smaller lateral shrines housed his Yaksa and Yaksi. The paintings are represented in the ceiling of the cavern and on the plastered surface of the partition walls. In one scene, as in Sittannvasal cave paintings, are shown lotus flowers, elephants, fish etc. in the waters of a pond. In another scene only the portrait figure of a royal personage has survived. Other fragments depict riding couples, geese etc. One such couple is identifiable with Dikpala Agni riding a ram with his consort and another with Dikpala Yama mounting a buffalo with his consort. VALLIMALAI At Vallimalai in North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu are some natural caverns with sculptures of Jinas and attendant figures relieved on the rock faces. The Jinas mostly represent Mahavira, Parsvanatha and Bahubali, while the attendant figures are identifiable with Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. Besides, there are Vidya- dharas and cauri-bearers shown on either side above the shoulders of the Jinas. But the most exquisite sculpture is a portrait of some lady standing in graceful posture. These sculptures seem to have been carved in the 10th century A.D., when this area came under the sway of the Gangas of Talkad. KERALA TIRUCCARANATTUMALAI It is situated near Chitaral in the Kanyakumari district of Kerala. There is a natural cavern formed by overhanging rock with relief carvings on one side. Of the reliefs the most important are the images of Parsvanatha and Padmavati, both standing with cobracanopy over the head. To the left of these are six small seated Jinas in two lines of three each. To the left of this panel is the central niche which contains an image of Mahavira seated in dhyanamudra with two attendants and two Vidyadharas. To his left is a small niche with a beautiful figure of Ambika standing in three-flexured posture with two children and her lion mount. Above these panels are nine small seated Jinas in a single row. These are inscribed votive images carved by the visitors hailing from distant places. The cavern has an inscription of Ay king Vikramaditya Varaguna (c. A.D. 885 - 925), recording a gift of some gold ornaments to the Bhatariyar of Tiruccaranattumalai. The sculptures of the cavern also appear to have belonged to the 9th century A.D. The cavern has now been converted into a Bhagavati shrine. KALLIL It is situated near Perumbavur in the Ernakulam district of Kerala. It has a rock-shrine, now converted into a Bhagavati shrine. On the facade of the cavern is carved an unfinished seated figure of Mahavira. The back wall, now obscured by the walls of the Bhagavati shrine, also carries a figure of Mahavira with two cauribearers and a triple umbrella over the head. The cavern looks contemporaneous with that at Tiruccaranattumalai. REFERENCES J. Fergusson and J. Burgess, The Cave Temples of India, reprint, Delhi, 1969; H. Singh, Bharata Ki Jaina Guphayer (in Hindi), Varanasi, 1997; J. Burgess, Report on Ellora Cave Temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina Caves in Western India, reprint, Varanasi, 1970; U.P. Shah and M.A. Dhaky (Eds.), Aspects of Jaina Art and Architecture, Ahmedabad, 1975; H.L. Jaina, Bharatiya Samskrti mem Jainadharma Ka Yogadana (in Hindi), Bhopal, 1975; A. Fuhrer, 'Pabhosa Jain Education Intemational

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Rock-cut Jaina Architecture inscriptions', Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II; A. Ghosh (Ed.), Jaina Art and Architecture, New Delhi, 1964; c. Sivaramamurti, Indian Paintings, Delhi, 1970; K.R. Srinivasan, Temples of South India, New Delhi, 1964; K.R. Srinivasan, Cave Temples of the Pallavas, New Delhi, 1964; V.S. Agrawala, Indian Art, Varanasi, 1965; P. Brown, Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods), Bombay, 1976; Debala Mitra, Udayagiri and Khandagiri, New Delhi, 1975; M.W. Meister (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, Vol. I, Pt. 2, Delhi, 1986; R.S. Gupte and B.D. Mahajan, Ajanta, Ellora and Aurangabad Caves, Bombay, 1962; S.G. Dawne, Ellora and Environs, Aurangabad, 1966; M.H. Kuraishi, Rajgir, New Delhi, 1987. Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER V JAINA TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE : NORTH INDIA The Jaina temple is generally called Jinalaya or vihara in North India and basadi or basti in South. The Jainas had not evolved their own style of temple architecture but followed what was prevalent in the Brahmanical tradition. The temple in Brahmanical tradition is a symbol of the universe conceived in terms of human body. The names of various limbs of human body from its foot to the crown of the head, viz. feet, legs, thighs, chest, shoulder, neck and head, are actually applied to different parts of the temple. As the body becomes lifeless without the inhabitant soul, so the temple is useless for worship if the life-ceremony (pranapratistha) of the principal image (Tirthankara in case of Jaina temple and a deity in that of Brahmanical temple) is not performed in the sanctum. To perform the rituals and other ceremonial works the sanctum is provided with other compartments. The sanctum is always a dark chamber enclosed by solid walls and its interior is dimly lit by flickering flames of a lamp. This suggests that the divine spirit or immortal soul installed in the sanctum is illumining the enveloped universe. If the sanctum is a microcosm, the whole temple is a macrocosm of the universe inhabited by gods, demi-gods, human beings, and birds and animals represented on the facade of the temple. Hence the temple is meritorious not only to the visitor but also to its builder. The construction of temples, mostly structural, began from the age of the Imperial Guptas. Before that, the religious needs of the people were generally fulfilled by the stupas and caityagrhas, both structural and rockcut. During the Gupta period we notice different types of temples which took their forms from the already existent buildings. But as we pass on the next period when, after the death of Harsa of Kannauj in about A.D. 647, the Gurjara Pratiharas of Kannauj, the Palas of Bengal and the Rastrakutas of the Deccan were fighting among themselves for the paramountancy of their power, we find new architectural trends in the contemporary Jaina temples of central and western India located at Osian, Pithaora, Deogadh, Gyaraspur etc., and earlier in the Meguti temple at Aihole. After these three powers went off the scene, a large number of strong dynasties came to power and carved out their independent principalities. In spite of wars among themselves and the Muslim onslaughts from outside, the architectural activities continued to flourish in full swing and a large number of both big and small temples were produced in every nook and cranny of the country, bearing of course local trends and mannerism. This was the period when regional idioms became fully established and we can even trace their evolution in a particular region itself. After the downfall of the indigenous rule at the end of the 12th century A.D. in North India and 13th century A.D. in South India, the country passed in the hands of the Muslim rulers, but the architectural activities went on unabated with usual fervour following purely the indigenous traits. The Jaina temples of India may be divided into two broad groups of North and South, with the Vindhya mountain as the dividing line. Each group has a large number of Jaina temples bearing their own traits. Before the description of temples it is worthwhile to give a brief outline of the politico-cultural background of the contemporary period and the general architectural features of temples, so that one can gain an insight into the subject. The actual examples of Jaina temples of the period under review hail from Bihar, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajsthan and Gujarat, probably these regions were the main concentration of Jaina population during this period. The Jaina temples

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India are built of various shades of locally available sandstone Nagabhata was succeeded by his son Ramabhadra or marble or schist and bear testimony of repairs and and the latter by his son Bhoja (c. A.D. 836-892). After alterations, particularly those in the private possession. consolidating his position at home, which has been Compared to those of the South, the temples of North disturbed during the short reign of Ramabhadra, Bhoja India have suffered more in the hands of the Muslim measured his strength with the Pala king Devapala of iconoclasts, but enough remains to show the rich heritage Bengal, Rastrakuta Dhruva of the Lata branch and of the Jainas, Kalacuri Kokkalla of Dahala, but sustained defeats at Historical Background the hands of each. Later, however, he defeated the Pala The Gurjara Pratiharas of Kanyakubja (c.A.D. king Narayanapala and Rastrakuta Krsna II, brought 730-1000) - The Pratiharas were an important power Gujarat and Saurashtra under the sphere of his influence, of North India after the Imperial Guptas. They founded and annexed east Punjab. Thus he became a paramount a kingdom near Jodhpur in Rajasthan in about the mid- ruler of North India and stood as a bulwark against sixth century A.D. Haricandra, the founder of the dynasty, the Muslim aggression. Bhoja himself was a devotee was a Brahmana, well-versed in the Sastras. The of Bhagavati, but Jainism flourished well in his kingdom. Pratiharas came into prominence when Nagabhata I This is evident from two Jaina temples at Phithaora and (c. A.D. 730-756) defeated the Arabs of Sindh. The Rajorgadh built about this time. next important ruler was Vatsaraja (c. A.D. 772-794) Bhoja was succeeded by his son Mahendrapala as he defeated the lord of Gauda (probably Dharmapala) (c. A.D. 892-908) who extended his empire in the east and made Indrayudha of Kannauj accept his vassalage, by annexing Magadh and North Bengal. After but he was badly routed and forced to retreat into the Mahendrapala there was perhaps a war for succession desert of Rajasthan by the Rastrakuta king Dhruva of between Bhoja II and Mahipala, the sons of Manyakheta. When Dhruva returned to the Deccan, Mahendrapala, and Mahipala (c. A.D. 912-930) Dharmapala took advantage of the situation and installed ultimately succeeded in occupying the throne. The poet Cakrayudha in place of Indrayudha on the throne of Rajasekhara, who graced the courts of both Mahendrapala Kannauj. Vatsaraja prominently figures in the Jaina and Mahipala, credits the latter with the conquest of literature. His name also occurs in an inscription found "Muralas, Mekalas, Kalingas, Keralas, Kulutas, Kuntalas in the Mahavira temple at Osian built at this time. The and Ramathas", covering almost the whole of India. Maladevi temple at Gyaraspur and the Mahavira temple This obviously is a poetic stunt, but there is no doubt at Varman were also built about this time. that he retained the vast North Indian empire he inherited. Vatsaraja was succeeded by his son Nagabhata II The Pratihara rulers after Mahipala were too weak to (c. A.D. 794-833) who retrieved the situation by routing withstand the mounting pressure of the Rastrakutas, the both Dharmapala and Cakrayudha and shifted his capital Candellas and the Muslims and, at last, in the first to Kanyakubja (Kannauj district, U.P.). But his imperial quarter of the 11th century A.D. the Pratihara empire ambition was curved by Rastrakuta Govinda III. vanished. Jainism continued to flourish during this period Nagavaloka (Nagabhata II), according to the Jaina texts, as is evident from a Jaina temple at Banpur and another became a Jaina, went on pilgrimage to holy Jaina sites at Rajorgadh. A doorway added to Temple No. 12 at and built temples to the Jinas. This shows high position Deogadh, dated in A.D. 994, was also built at this time. of Jainism in the kingdom. That Jainism was well The Kacchapaghatas of Dubkund - There are received in the State is also substantiated by two extant three branches of the Kacchapaghatas ruling from Jaina temples (Nos. 12 and 15) at Deogadh. Gwalior, Dubkund and Narwar respectively. The first Jain Education Intemational

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66 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies known king of the Kacchapaghata branch of Dubkund, a town 76 miles north-west of Gwalior, was Arjuna who slew the Pratihara king Rajyapala of Kannauj as a feudatory of Candella Vidyadhara. His son and successor Abhimanyu was an ally of Paramara Bhoja (c. A.D. 1010-1055) of Dhara. Abhimanyu was succeeded by his son Vijayapala, and the latter by his son Vikramasimha whose known date is A.D. 1088. It was perhaps in the reign of Abhimanyu that the Santinatha temple at Jhalrapatana (Jhalawar district, M.P.) was built. The Kalacuris of Ratanpur - Of many branches of the Kalacuris the one ruling at Ratanpur, sixteen miles north of Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), was an offshoot of the renowned Kalacuri dynasty of Tripuri (Jabalpur, M.P.). The house of Ratanpur was founded by Kalingaraja in the early 11th century A.D. He was succeeded by his son Kamalaraja, and the latter by his son Ratanaraja who founded the city of Ratanpur. Ratanaraja was followed by his son Prthvideva who is known to have been ruling in A.D. 1079. All these rulers acknowledged the sovereignty of the Kalacuris of Tripuri. But the next ruler, Jajalladeva I, became independent about A.D. 1114. His reign was eventful, and he established the power and prestige of the kingdom by scoring a number of victories. After him seven more kings ruled at Ratanpur. The last of these was Pratapamalla whose reign ended in A.D. 1218. We know little of Jainism in the Kalacuri kingdom of Ratanpur, but the presence of a Jaina temple at Aranga (Raipur district, Chhattisgarh) indicates that people certainly adhered to Jainism there. The Candellas of Khajuraho - The Candellas were an aboriginal tribe of Bhars and Gonds that came to power at Khajuraho (Chhatarpur district, M.P.) in the beginning of the 9th century A.D. Nannuka, the first ruling king at Khajuraho, and five others following him in order of succession were vassal chiefs of the Pratiharas of Kannauj. The seventh Candella king was Yasovarman (c. A.D. 925-950) who defied the authority of the Pratiharas to become independent. He built a magnificent temple of Visnu at Khajuraho, identifiable with the famous Laksamana temple. Yasovarman was succeeded by his son Dhanga (c. A.D. 950-1002) who threw off the yoke of the Pratiharas and consolidated his empire by extensive conquests. His kingdom extended from Gwalior in the west to Vidisha in the east and Kasi (Varanasi) in the north to the Narmada in the south. From the time of Dhanga Saivism became a dominant religion in the Candella kingdom. Side by side, Jainism also flourished, particularly among the merchant class. This is clearly reflected from the construction of two fine Jaina temples, the Parsvanatha and the Ghantai, at Khajuraho at this time. Dhanga was succeeded by his son Ganda (c. A.D. 1003-1017), and the latter by his son Vidyadhara (c. A.D. 1018-1029) who raised the Candella power to its zenith. Vidyadhara was followed in succession by Vijayapala (c. A.D. 1030-1050), Devavarman (c. A.D. 1050-1060) and Kirttivarman (c. A.D. 1060-1100), during whose reigns the Candella power gradually declined, but the building activity at Khajuraho was continued as is attested to by the extant Adinatha temple and a few Brahmanical temples. The Cahamanas of Sakambhari - The Cahamanas were a ruling class of Rajasthan with Sakambhari, modern Sambhar in Jaipur, as the capital city. Their territory was also known as Sapadalaksa. They started their political career as feudatories of the Imperial Pratiharas of Kannauj. The dynasty was founded by Vasudeva. The thirteenth king from him was Vakpatiraja who ruled in the first quarter of the 10th century A.D. He had four sons - Simharaja, Vindhyaraja, Vatsaraja and Laksamanaraja. Simharaja began his independent rule at Sakambhari in the middle of the 10th century A.D. and assumed the title of Maharajadhiraja, while his brother Laksamanaraja founded a kingdom at Naddula, modern Nadol in Jodhpur. Simharaja was succeeded by his son Vigraharaja II who was a very powerful king and

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India defeated Caulukya Mularaja I of Anahillapataka and at loss and sometime at gain in the contemporary Barappa of Lata. His son and successor, Durlabharaja II, political scenario. invaded the territory of Laksamanaraja's grandson Vaisnavism as well as Saivism was prevalent in Mahendra of Naddula. In the end of the 10th century the Cahamana kingdom of Nadol. Jainism, particularly A.D. the Cahamana territory of Sakambhari extended Svetambara, has also been in a flourishing condition. at least from Sikar in the north to Ajmer in the south This is gleaned from the remains of several Jaina and Jaipur in the east to Jodhpur in the west. After temples built or rebuilt at Nadol, Nadlai, Sadri and Durlabharaja II seventeen more kings ruled at Sewadi between the 10h and 12th centuries A.D. or even Sakambhari. The twelfth in order of succession was beyond that. Armoraja (c. A.D. 1130-1150) who paved the path that The Guhils of Medapata - The Guhils or Guhilots got its maximum length in the time of Vigraharaja IV of Medapata (Mewar) founded a kingdom at Udaipur (c. A.D. 1150-1164) and Prthviraja III (c. A.D. (Rajasthan) in the 10th century A.D. with Aghata as their 1178-1192). capital city. They trace their progeny to Guhadatta, who The Cahamanas were the worshippers of Siva; was probably a Nagara Brahmana of Anandapura goddess Asapuri was their tutelary deity. They also (Vadnagar, Gujarat) and migrated to Medapata sometime have liberal attitude towards Jainism. This is evident in the latter half of the 6th century A.D. A long line from the fact that Arnoraja granted land for the of Guhil kings is known to have ruled after him, construction of a Jaina temple at Ajmer. That Jainism possibly as vassal chiefs of the Imperial Pratiharas or flourished in the kingdom is attested to not only by Rastrakutas. Bhartspatta II was the first king to assume two extant Jaina temples at Lodrava and Phalodhi but the title of Maharajadhiraja which signifies his also by the stray finds of numerous Jina images belonging independent position. This he claims in his own to both the Svetambara and Digambara sects. inscription of A.D. 943. He was succeeded by his son The Cahamanas of Naddula - Laksamanaraja, Allata who was a powerful king as he killed Pratihara the founder of the Naddula branch of the Cahamanas, Devapala in A.D. 954. During his reign Aghata became ruled a territory which touched the boundaries of the an important centre of trade frequented by the merchants Cahamanas of Sakambhari in the north and north-east, of Karnata, Lata and Madhyadesa. Allata was followed, the Rastrakutas of Hastikundi in the south, the country one after the other, by Naravahana, Salivahana and of Vasantagadh in the south-west, and the Guhils of Saktikumara. In the time of Saktikumara, Paramara Medapata in the south-east. His son and successor Munja sacked Aghata. As a result, the Guhil king Sobhita won a victory over Paramara Dharanivaraha of temporarily sought refuge in the court of the Rastrakutas Candravati, but his son and successor Baliraja suffered of Hastikundi. He, However, ruled upto the close of a defeat at the hands of Paramara Munja. Baliraja was the 10 century A.D. succeeded by his uncle Vigrahapala and the latter by During the reigns of the Guhil kings both the his son Mahendra sometime before A.D. 997. During Svetambara and Digambara sects flourished, in spite of Mahendra's reign the Cahamanas of Sakambhari overran their religious rivalry. This is well demonstrated by the the kingdom of Naddula, and Mahendra had to take presence of a Digambara Jaina temple built to shelter in the court of Rastrakuta Dhavala of Hastikundi. Parsvanatha at Nagada and two Svetambara Jaina temples He, however, regained his kingdom within a short time. dedicated to Mahavira at Aghata and Ghanerava. After Mahendra fifteen more kings ruled at Nadol up The Capotkatas of Anahillapataka and to the end of the 12th century A.D.; they were sometime Vardhamanapura (c. A.D. 750-950) - There are two Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies branches of the Capotkatas, one ruling at Anahillapataka Durlabharaja was succeeded by Bhima I (c. A.D. (modern Patan) and the other at Vardhamanapura 1023-1065) who had to face a disastrous inroad of (modern Wadhwan), both in Gujarat. We know of eight Mahmud of Ghazni. He ousted his feudatory Paramara Capotkata rulers of Anahillapataka of whom Vanaraja Dhandhuka of Abu and appointed Vimala as the governor was the first and Bhubhata the last. Not much is known of that province. He joined hands with Kalacuri about their political career, but this is known for certain Laksmikarna and attacked Paramara Bhoja of Dhara; that Bhubhata was killed and his kingdom occupied by in the battle that ensued Paramara Bhoja died. During the Caulukya king Mularaja I in A.D. 941. The main the reign of Bhima the Caulukyas grew in power and religion of the kingdom was saivism. Jainism also prosperity, and Jainism enjoyed the patronage of the flourished as Vanaraja himself built the Pancasara nobility as well. This is evident from the famous Adinatha Parsvanatha temple in his newly founded capital of temple built by Vimala at Abu. Another beautiful temple, Anahillapataka. The main portion of the Adinatha temple dedicated to Mahavira, was built at Kumbharia. Probably, at Vadnagar also belongs to this period. the Sambhavanatha temple at Taranga was also built The Capotkata family of Vardhamanapura has during his reign. seven rulers in order of succession. The first of these Bhima I was followed by his son Karna (c. A.D. was Mahavaraha and the last, Dharanivaraha. Mularaja 1065-1093) who ably maintained the kingdom. He also occupied Vardhamanapura in A.D. 951 by ousting married Mayanalladevi, the daughter of the Kadamba Dharanivaraha. During the reigns of these rulers Jainism king of Goa. Jainism continued to flourish at this time. seems to have flourished in the kingdom. This is evident This is evident from a beautiful temple of Santinatha from the Harivarsapurana which makes mention of two built at Kumbharia. Jaina temples at Vardhamanapura which do not exist Karna was succeeded by his son Jayasimha (c. A.D. now. 1093-1143). He was the most powerful king of the The Caulukyas of Anahillapataka (c. A.D. dynasty. He led successful campaigns in all the directions 950-1300) - The Caulukyas, popularly known as and had friendly relations with the Cahamanas of Solankis, were a powerful dynasty of Gujarat with Sakambhari, the Kalacuris of Dahala and the Anahillapataka as their capital city. Mularaja I (c. A.D. Gahadavalas of Kannauj. During his time the Caulukya 941-996) founded the Caulukya rule at Anahillapataka power reached its climax and the state of Jainism was by killing Capotkata Bhubhata in A.D. 941. He extended very high. This is clearly demonstrated by the presence his empire in the west and south by defeating of four magnificent Jaina temples, viz. the Parsvanatha Dharanivaraha of Vardhamanapura, Lakha of Kutch, and the Neminatha temples at Kumbharia, the Neminatha and Barappa of Lata. He was succeeded by his son temple at Girnar and the Jaina temple at Sejakpur. Camundaraja (c. A.D. 996-1009) and the latter by his Jayasimha was succeeded by Kumarapala (c. A.D. sons Vallabharaja and Durlabharaja (c. A.D. 1009-1023), 1143-1172). He fought a successful battle against who kept the empire intact left by Mularaja. Saivism Cahamana Armoraja of Sakambhari, annexed Malava by continued to hold its grounds at Anahillapataka during killing its ruler Paramara Ballala, defeated Kalacuri this period as well, but Jainism (Svetambara) also enjoyed Gayakarna of Dahala, and included Konkan by killing the royal patronage as Mularaja founded a Jaina temple its ruler Mallikarjuna. His empire stretched from Chitor in the capital and Durlabharaja built a monastery there. in the north to the Tapti in the south and Bhilsa in But they do not survive today. The only extant Jaina the east to Saurashtra and Kutch in the west. He was temple of this period stands at Than. a Saiva in the early days of his life, but later he turned

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India a Jaina by the influence of Acarya Hemacandra. Kumarapala was the greatest supporter of Svetambara Jainism in Gujarat and took all measures for its spread and development. His zeal for Jainism is clearly evident from his founding of the Ajitanatha temple at Taranga which is a grand royal erection. His ministers also patronised Jainism by erecting temples. Thus, Prthvipala added mandapa to the Adinatha temple at Abu and Vagbhata replaced the old shrine of Adinatha at Satrunjaya by a grand new one. The Jaina temple at Bhadreshwar and the Bavanadhvaja Jinalaya at Sarotra were also built at this time. Kumarapala was succeeded by his son Ajayapala (c. A.D. 1172-1175) and the latter by his son Mularaja II (c. A.D. 1175-1178). Ajayapala was a bigoted Saiva and hence no Jaina temple could be erected at this time. Mularaja II was succeeded by his minor younger brother Bhima II (c. A.D. 1178-1241). Taking advantage of his teenage the vassal chiefs tried to become independent. At this predicament the Vaghelas came to the rescue of the throne and, with the assistance of the two brother ministers, Vastupala and Tejapala, ably maintained the kingdom left by Kumarapala. Bhima also protected the kingdom from the attacks of Hoysala Ballala II of Dorasamudra, Yadava Bhillama of Devagiri, Cahamana Prthviraja III of Sakambhari, Paramara Subhatavarman of Malwa, and Iltutmish. During the early part of Bhima's reign the political condition of the country was not conducive to building activity, but when peace and tranquility returned, active support was rendered to Jainism by erecting such magnificent temples as the Lunavasahi at Abu and the Vastupalavihara at Girnar. The Sambhavanatha temple at Kumbharia was also built at this time. Bhima II was succeeded by Tribhuvanapala who ruled for a very short term. After Tribhuvanapala the rein of power passed into the hands of the Vaghelas who ruled at Anahillapataka till the end of the 13th century A.D. During the time of the Vaghelas the power and prestige of Anahillapataka gradually declined and, 69 at last, in the time of Karna, it passed into the hands of the Muslims, but Jainism continued to enjoy the favour of the people. This is well reflected from two extant Jaina temples located at Kanthkot and Miani. The Paramaras of Candravati - They were a branch of the Paramaras of Dhara (Malava) and ruled from Candravati which lay at the foot of Mt. Abu in Rajasthan. The first king of this lineage was Sindhuraja, possibly the brother of Siyaka I of the main Malava line; he ruled as vassal of the Pratiharas in the latter half of the 9th century A.D. Sindhuraja was followed in succession by Utpalaraja, Aranyaraja and Krsnaraja, the last one having ruled in A.D. 997. Krsnaraja was succeeded by Dharanivaraha who suffered a defeat at the hands of Caulukya Mularaja I of Anahillapataka between A.D. 987 and 995. Sometime before A.D. 1031 Dhandhuka, grandson of Dharanivaraha, threw off the overlordship of Caulukya Bhima I and became independent, but he was suppressed to the tutelage position by Vimala, the founder of the Vimalavasahi at Abu. From that time till the end of the 13th century A.D. Abu remained a part of the Caulukya dominion. Though the dominant religion in the area surrounding Candravati was Saivism, the Svetambara Jainism too was effective there. This is apparent not only from a number of Jaina texts written by Svetambara friars but also by the foundation of Jaina temples at Candravati, Bhillamala, Jabalipura and Satyapura. The extant Jaina temples at Ghanerav, Nandia, Nana, Pali, Mungthala and Jhadoli also are indicative of the same. The Paramaras of Malava They are an important ruling class of central India. Their capital was Dhara, modern Dhar in Madhya Pradesh. The first king of the dynasty was Upendra who started his political career as a vassal of the Rastrakuta king Govinda III in the 9th century A.D. The next four kings also avowed to the Rastrakutas. But the sixth ruler, Siyaka II (c. A.D. 945-972), became independent and ruled a kingdom extending from Jhalawar in the north to the Tapti in the south and Bhilsa in the east to the Sabarmati in

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the west. Munja (c. A.D. 973-996) and Sindhuraja (c. A.D. 996-1010) further strengthened the Paramara power, and Bhoja (c. A.D. 1010-1055) rose it to imperial status. After Bhoja the Paramara power gradually declined and shortly after A.D. 1143 the whole of Malava was included in the Caulukya kingdom of Kumarapala (c. A.D. 1143-1172). But in the seventh decade of the 12th century A.D. Vindhyavarman, the 7th ruler after Bhoja, recovered Malava from Caulukya Mularaja II. Shortly after A.D. 1193 Vindhyavarman's son Subhatavarman penetrated deep into the Caulukya kingdom and plundered a large number of Jaina temples at Dabhoi and Cambay. He ruled nearly up to A.D. 1210 and was followed one after the other by eight kings, the last of whom, Mahlakadeva, was killed by a general of Allauddin in A.D. 1305 and Malava was included in the Muslim empire. Saivism was very dominant in the Paramara kingdom. Jainism also flourished as the Jaina writers like Dhanapala etc. graced the Paramara court, but no Jaina foundation prior to Bhoja has come down to us from the main land. But when Malava was assimilated in the Caulukya dominion by Kumarapala, Jainism was well received in the kingdom. This is apparent from two Jaina temples at Un, which lie in the heart of the Paramara empire, following the Solanki style of Gujarat. Architectural Features The Jaina temples of North India, like their Brahmanical counterparts, primarily consist on plan of a square sanctum and an entrance porch, both covered by a flat roof (Jaina temples at Kundalpur, Damoh district, M.P.). Subsequently, an ambulatory was built round the sanctum, and an antarala, gudhamandapa and mukhamandapa were added before the sanctum (e.g. Ajitanatha temple at Taranga). In the Maladevi temple at Gyaraspur, the Parsvanatha temple at Khajuraho and the Adinatha temple at Nadlai, the sanctum and gudhamandapa are built in one enclosing wall. In the larger conception a rangamandapa has been added before the mukhamandapa and a series of 24, 52 or 72 devakulikas with one or two rows of pillars surround the whole temple complex. Externally, the devakulikas provide an outer enclosing wall to the temple-complex and, internally, their pillared corridor gives a covered path for circumambulation (e.g. Vimalavasahi at Abu). Where there is an arrangement of devakulikas, the temple is generally entered from the front through a porch or balanaka. The sanctum has only one doorway, but in the Jaina temple at Banpur (Lalitpur district, U.P.) it has four doorways on the four sides, making it a Sarvatobhadra-prasada (four-faced shrine), a type of temple which became more popular in the medieval period (e.g. at Ranakpur and Satrunjaya). The sanctum and its various mandapas (Figs. 4546) are laid out in one axial line directly on the ground or stand on a jagati-platform from the rear end (e.g. Jaina temples at Khajuraho, M.P., and Kumbharia, Gujarat). The jagati at Khajuraho provides an open perambulation round the temple, but where it is surrounded by devakulikas we find a covered ambulatory. The sanctum as well as gudhamandapa is square internally, but its exterior walls on each side are either straight (Jaina temples at Kundalpur and Than) or broken into offsets from two to five (from dvi-anga to pancanga, in other words, from triratha to navaratha) which have been carried upwards from the base to the top of the spire, which is curvilinear on the sanctum and pyramidal on the gudhamandapa. It is the curvilinear spire, i.e. sikhara, which forms the main cognizance of North Indian temples. In dvi-anga plan (having two offsets) it shows bhadra (cardinal) and karna (corner) offsets. It is triratha if counted diagonally. The bhadra is always larger in size and has only small projection, while the karna is equilateral and has prominent projection. In tri-anga (or pancaratha) plan a pratiratha of the size of karna is inserted between the bhadra and karna; in caturanga (saptaratha) plan a pratibhadra, smaller than the pratiratha, is inserted between the bhadra and pratiratha; and in pancanga (navaratha) plan a pratikarna of the Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India size of pratibhadra is inserted between the karma and pratiratha. Between the offsets are salilantara-recesses and the salilantaras in developed temples are generally reinforced by minor konikas (corners). Like the plan, the elevation of Jaina temples also has distinctive features. The jagati, wherever present, has been made solid with straight and plain sides. The temple stands on a pitha (socle) which is made up of a series of splayed out moulded courses bearing varied ornaments or left plain. The pitha supports the mandovara-wall (Fig. 49) which is divided into three sections - the lower is vedibandha (podium), the middle is jangha (wall-proper), and the upper is varandika (entablature). The vedibandha is composed of a set of five mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, which are either plain or decorated with figure-sculptures and other decorative patterns. The jangha, which is the main attraction of the wall, is generally studded with fine figures of Dikpalas on the karnas and of Jaina divinities and apsarases on the rest. The varandika consists of a few moulded courses and an eave-cornice. The jangha-wall on each bhadra has a sunken niche for an image of Jina. Where the temple has an inner ambulatory, the bhadra offset above the pitha is treated differently. Here it shows a short wall made up of rajasenaka, vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana, all very richly carved. The asanapatta supports pillars that carry architraves with projecting eaves. Between the pillars are fitted perforated stone grilles to admit light to the inner ambulatory. Above the perpendicular walls comes the curvilinear sikhara of which three varieties at least are known - ekandaka, anekandaka (Fig. 50) and bhumija. The ekandaka is mono-spired sikhara with vertical bands bearing lattice of caitya-gavaksas. It may be seen in the Adinatha temple at Khajuraho and in a few other temples. The anekandaka is a multi-turreted sikhara appearing in the Parsvanatha temple at Khajuraho and at many other places. The bhumija sikhara is composed of four spines with a mesh of caitya-gavaksas on the central offsets, and vertical bands of pillarettes with horizontal rows of shrine-models in the quadrants. The bhumija mode of sikhara has been very popular in the temples of the upper Deccan, but it is rarely found in the Jaina temples of North India. So far only two examples, one at Arang (Raipur district, M.P.) and the other at Sewadi (Pali district, Rajasthan), are known. The various offsets of the sikhara terminate at the flat skandha part surmounted by griva, amalaka, candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka. A flag-staff is also installed. A sukanasa, lodged over the antarala, leans upon the front facade of the sikhara, with niched figure on the front face and a figure of lion at the top. The whole of the sikhara is enmeshed with caitya-gavaksas. A water-chute in the form of crocodile (makarapranala) is inserted on one side of the sanctum pltha to drain out oblation water. The sanctum is entered through an ornate doorway from the antarala. Inside is worshipped an image of the Jina. The doorframe of the sanctum as well as the mandapas and devakulikas is ornate displaying one sakha (jamb) to seven sakhas. The doorsill often shows a square or semi-circular carved block in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it and a sculptured niche on either extremity. The door-lintel continues the decorative bands of the jambs and depicts Jina as Talatabimba (crest image). On the lower section of the jambs stand images of door guardians, Jaina goddesses or river goddesses (Ganga and Yamuna), with attendant figures. The doorway is stepped up from a candrasila moonstone). The antarala is a buffer wall formed by the front offset of the sanctum and the rear offset of the gudhamandapa. It is roofed by a sukanasa, has its own ceiling, and carries two niches in the inner walls. But the antarala in the Jaina temples at Khajuraho, Gyaraspur, Osian etc. is in the form of a porch built in front of the sanctum. The gudhamandapa, which is a closed hall somewhat larger than the sanctum, is similar on plan Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies sikhara mandovara Picha mulaprasada antarala sukanasa WAWA gudhamandapa Fig. 45. Elevation of Jaina Temple. 25 mukhamandapa TETET OSDOONOT rangamandapa Jain Education Intemational

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74 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies and elevation to the sanctum, but it is generally entered by three doorways and has a bell or pyramidal roof. In the interior it usually shows an octagonal arrangement of eight columns carrying a domical ceiling on massive architraves put across them. The dome is formed by a set of diminishing circular courses and a pendant hanging down in the centre. The dome is strengthened by some bracket figures stretched across the courses. The four basal corners are generally filled with bold kirttimukhas. The doorframes of the gudhamandapa are comparatively more ornate. In some temples the interior walls have sculptured niches. The gudhamandapa in some early temples of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, e.g. Parsvanatha temple at Khajuraho, Maladevi temple at Gyaraspur, Mahavira temple at Osian etc., however, shows a square bay of four pillars in the interior, with a carved flat or shallow ceiling. The mukhamandapa is a pillared portico built in front of the gudhamandapa of the Jaina temples of Gujarat and Rajasthan only. It rests on a pitha which is but an extension of that of the gudhamandapa, and is sometimes enclosed on the two lateral sides by a short wall of vedika-kaksasana to sit on (e.g. Lunavasahi at Abu). The mukhamandapa has one or three stairways to land up from the front and is divided into three, six or nine bays by beautifully carved pillars. Each bay has a fine ceiling. There are two ornamental khattakas (niches) flanking the door of the gudhamandapa The rangamandapa, built on a lower floor level, is an open pillared hall covered by a large domical ceiling with beautiful bracket figures and a fine central pendant. Where there is an arrangement of devakulikas, the rangamandapa is attached to them by pillared porticoes. The rangamandapa is the chief attraction of Jaina temples of Gujarat and Rajasthan. The devakulikas are small shrines with one or two arcade of pillars for circumambulation round the temple. They are laid out almost on the same floor level as that of the main temple-complex, and are approached from the courtyard and the rangamandapa by a flight of three or four steps executed all around. They have their own doors and are dedicated to one or the other of the twenty-four Jinas. In front of each devakulika is one or two bays with ceilings. Sometimes, the partition walls are not built between them (e.g. Neminatha temple at Kumbharia) and hence the pedestal supporting Jina images runs throughout. On the exterior they have offsetted walls and carry flat roof or Sikhara of their own. The balanaka is an entrance mandapa either open or closed on the front, while the nalamandapa is an open hall built over a stairway that leads from the ground and opens up in the rangamandapa. The nalamandapa is enclosed by a vedika-kaksasana wall on the front and the rear. It is through nalamandapa that light admits to the interior of the rangamandapa. The nalamandapa is also a resting hall for the visitors. The Jaina temples, particularly those of Gujarat and Rajasthan, are justly famous for their varieties of pillars and ceilings. The ceilings are available in so many shapes and sizes as to be hardly met with elsewhere in India. Therefore, a brief outline of pillars and ceilings is given here to comprehend them. The pillars are square or octagonal in form and consist of pedestal, base, shaft and capital. The pedestal is not an essential member; its presence depends upon the need and choice of the architect. It is made of some oulded courses. The shaft of the square pillars in early Jaina temples has ghatapallava base and top, with other ornate bands between, while that of the octagonal pillars is plain or decorated with varied ornaments. In either case the capital has plain or ribbed round abacus surmounted by atlantes of bharaputrakas or roll-brackets. The octagonal pillars in later temples have an octagonal base of moulded courses, their shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular above, the last one generally clasped by a band of grasamukhas spewing festoons. The square pillars generally have their corners cut off; their base is square and moulded; the shaft is square, octagonal, sixteen-sided and circular m Jain Education Intemational ion Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India chadya BORTTITOLD kapota antarapatta kalasa antarapatta kapota LAS vedibandha siravati kumbha THAKALHO bharani udgama khura grasapatti antarapatta karnika cippika TI uparajangha 90 pitha jadyakumbha mancika bhitta 2001 ALLTID INTELIGENT bharani Fig. 48. Pitha and vedibandha of Adinatha Temple, Ahad. udgama narathara talajangha gajathara mancika antarapata grasapatti chadyaki -- antarapatta cippika karnika kapota antarapatta kalasa jadyakumbha kumbha dola bhitta T khura Fig. 47. Pitha of Neminatha Temple, Kumbharia. Fig. 49. Mandovara of Jaina Temple. Jain Education Intemational cation International

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India in upward sequence, the last one and the capital are like those of the octagonal order. The various sections of the shaft in square order are carved with figural sculptures. The pilasters follow the pattern of the pillars. The architraves spanned across the columns are plain or decorated with two or three ornamental bands of scrolls, diamonds and figure sculptures. Attic pillars are also used to raise the height of the roof. The ceilings are of various shapes and sizes. The simplest form is samatala (flat) with plain or ornate surface. In the second type they are made by cutting off the corners. Here also the triangular surfaces so formed in each course and the square central stone are plain or decorated with various ornaments. In the third variety the ceilings are formed by foiling the cusps, both in the receding and projecting order. In the receding order it is hollowed out and in the projecting order it looks like a pendant. By the combination and permutation of these many new types are formed. There is yet another variety which covers a larger space. The ceiling of this variety is like a dome formed by an octagonal, a sixteen-sided and many circular courses. The courses recede in as they go up and the small hole so formed on the top has been finally closed up by a stone having the shape of a pendant or scooped out with a foil. To reinforce the dome many bracket figures are employed across the courses. The bracket figures emerge from square blocks of carved stones inserted into one of the lower courses and tenoned into the upper course. The courses are generally decorated with figural, floral and geometrical patterns, but the most commonly used devices are gajatalu (coffer) and kola (cusp). It is with the combination of kola and gajatalu that all the big and small ceilings have been worked out. Each of the four basal corners of the dome contains a bold kirttimukha, elephant, Jaina divinity etc. In the construction of stone temples the courses are laid dry one upon the other and kept in position by their weight and balance. The roof is worked out 77 not by vertical arch of radiating voussoirs but by horizontal arch of diminishing courses. In the stone temples well-dressed and finely jointed ashlars have been used for the facing and rough-dressed stones for the hearting. The Jaina temples have some individual features. The mukhamandapa, balanaka, nalamandapa and devakulikas are exclusively Jaina features and are found in the Jaina temples of Gujarat and Rajasthan only. The construction of a hastisala with portrait figures of the donor and his family is a characteristic of the Vimalavasahi and Lunavasahi at Abu. Apart from the Jina images, the Jainas worship the Samavasarana, Mt. Meru, Mt. Astapada and Nandisvaradvipa. No temple or a group of temples has so many varieties of ceilings as we find in Jaina temples of Abu. The above enumerated features are more or less present throughout in the Jaina temples of North India with regional variations conditioned by local idioms and requirements. The history of Jaina temple architecture in North India begins with Jaina temples at Kundalpur built not earlier than the 8th century A.D. Stylistically, they follow the Gupta temples in having a square sanctum and an entrance porch covered with flat roof. In the next two centuries the regional features become fully established. This is exemplified, for instance, in the Jaina temples at Deogadh in U.P., Khajuraho (Parsvanatha temple) and Gyaraspur in M.P., Osian and Ghanerav in Rajasthan, and Vadnagar in Gujarat. The style reaches its full maturity in the 11th century at Khajuraho, but in Gujarat and Rajasthan the consummation is noticed in the 12th-13th century A.D. when the Ajitanatha temple at Taranga (Gujarat) and the Lunavasahi at Abu (Rajasthan), for example, were built. After this, decline starts in the temple style. This is clearly seen in the Mahavira temple at Kanthkot (Gujarat). Now we proceed to describe the temples of different States.

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies BIHAR Jaina temples from about the 7th century A.D. to the 130 Bihar, which consisted of three old Janapadas of century A.D. have come down to us, probably they were Vrji, Anga and Magadha, was perhaps the most fertile destroyed during the course of Muslim inroads. land for Jainism since it had the grace of being the RAJGIR birth-place of three Tirthankaras, viz. Vasupujya Rajgir, ancient Rajagsha, lies to the south-east of (Campapuri), Munisuvrata (Rajaglha) and Mahavira the capital town of Patna in Bihar. It is a holy Jaina (Kundagrama), and the nirvana-place of 22 Tirthankaras, place since Munisuvrata, the 20th Tirthankara, was born the exception being that of Adinatha (Astapada) and here and Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, spent many Neminatha (Girnar). Mahavira spent most of his time rainy seasons at Rajgir. It is also the name of a hill in Bihar and preached Jaina tenets to the people there. which consists of seven ranges of Vaibhara, Vipula, During the age of the Nandas and Mauryas (4h-3rd Ratna, Chatha, Saila, Udaya and Sona, each being century B.C.) Bihar became an important centre of adorned with a modern Jaina shrine. On the Vaibhara Jainism as one of the Nanda kings took away a Jina we also encounter with an ancient Jaina temple which image from Kalinga, Candragupta Maurya turned a has been fully exposed and repaired. Jaina during the last days of his reign and migrated Jaina Temple - This old Jaina temple at Vaibhara to South India alongwith Jainacarya Bhadrabahu when consists of an east-facing central cylindrical chamber a dreadful famine occurred in Magadha, Asoka had and a surrounding court with a row of cells all around. liberal outlook towards Nirgranthas, and Samprati, the The central chamber and the cells have wall-niches to grandson of Asoka, was a devout Jaina. This is also contain images. Most of these images have gone now, supported by two Jaina caves excavated during this and of those that exist only the following are worth period at Rajgir and by two Jina images recovered from mentioning. Lohanipur, Dist. Patna. Colour to this is also lent by The niche in the central chamber contains a figure the fact that the First Jaina Council to compile Jaina of Jina seated in dhyanamudra. To the left of this image canons was convened at Pataliputra (Patna) after the is a figure of Rsabhanatha, also seated in dhyanamudra. end of the famine. The image bears an inscription which belongs to the The history of Jainism in Bihar after the fall of the 8th century A.D. and records the pious gift of Mauryas to the rise of the Imperial Guptas is shrouded Vasantanandin. There is also a mutilated figure of in darkness. But soon afterwards we come across a Rsabhanatha with an inscription recording the pious gift hoard of 18 Jaina bronze images recovered from Chausa, of Thiroka. The cells round the central chamber contain Bhojpur district, and a Jaina temple at Rajgir. All these some loose images of Parsvanatha, Mahavira and range in date from the 3rd century A.D. to the close of Sambhavanatha. Adjoining the east wall of the central the 6th century A.D. and bespeak of the prevalence of chamber, on a lower level, is a room containing images Jainism in Bihar. Hiuen Tsang also noted the presence of Neminatha and Mahavira, the latter also having an of Nirgranthas at Rajgir in the 7th century A.D. Jainism inscription of about the 5th century A.D. seems to be in a flourishing condition in Bihar down to The old Jaina temple at Vaibhara hill is datable the close of the 13th century A.D. This is evident from to the 54-6h century A.D. This is corroborated not only a hoard of 29 Jaina bronzes (124h-13th century A.D.) by the inscriptions on the images but also by the recovered in A.D. 1974 from Aluara, Dhanbad district, statement of the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang (7th and many Jaina images now preserved in different century A.D.) that in his time naked ascetics museums and private collections. But it is a pity that no (Nirgranthas) frequented the place in great numbers. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 79 WEST BENGAL West Bengal came into contact with Jainism as early as the time of Mahavira as we learn from the Acaranga that when he travelled in Ladha (West Bengal), many natives attacked and abused him and made dogs run at him. This apparently shows that he was not favourably received there. In the 3rd century B.C. Godasa, a disciple of Bhadrabahu who was a contemporary of Candragupta Maurya, founded Godasagana school which later on split into four branches three of which, viz. Tamraliptika, Kotivarsiya and Pundravardhaniya, belonged to Bengal, the first associated with southern Bengal and the last two with northern Bengal. The presence of Jainism during the age of the Imperial Guptas is attested to by a copper plate inscription of A.D. 478-79 which was recovered during excavations at Paharapura, Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. It records the endowment of lands for the maintenance of the Jaina monastery of Vata-Gohali founded by Guhanandin of the Pancastupa section of Kasi (Varanasi). Jainism was in a flourishing state in northern, southern and eastern Bengal in the 7h century A.D. This is explicitly known from the account of Hiuen Tsang that the Nirgranthas were very numerous in Pundravardhana and Samatata (south-east Bengal). From about the 8th century A.D. to the end of the 12th century A.D. Jainism seems to be in a waning condition in Bengal since we do not have reference to the Jainas and Jainism in the Pala and Sena inscriptions. But, surprisingly enough, most of the Jaina images and temples found at Harmashra, Bahulara, Kendua, Barkola, Paresanath, Ambikanagar, Chitgiri, Chiyada, Deulbhira, Gaukul, Dharapat etc. in Bankura district, Pakbira, Budhapur, Suisa, Palma, Balarampur, Chara, Sanka, Para, Senera, Jhalda, Deoli etc. in Purulia district, and Deuliya, Puchra etc. in Burdwan district belong to this period, although they are in a very mutilated condition and many Jaina temples have been converted even into Brahmanical shrines. During the latter part of the aforesaid period the naked Nirgranthas were probably assimilated in the Avadhuta sect of Bengal and it was only after a few centuries that Jainism was revived in Bengal by the Jaina immigrants of western India, particularly Mewar and Bikaner, who came here to do business in the 17h-18th century A.D. and built Jaina temples, chiefly in white marble, at Berhampur, Azimganj and Kolkata. This is clearly evident from the temple style itself. While the early temples of Bengal are built in the Orissan style, those of the later period are executed in the western Indian style. Architectural Features - The Jaina temples of Bengal do not have their independent style but follow the architectural traits of the Orissan temples. Therefore, in the description of Jaina temples of this region we have used the architectural terms that are currently prevalent in Orissa. On plan the Jaina temples of Bengal consist of a sanctum (rekhadeul), an antarala and a mandapa (assembly hall) with or without a porch. Unfortunately, all the known Jaina temples of the region are survived only by their sanctum which is laid out on a triratha or pancaratha plan. When triratha, the ratio of cardinal (raha) and corner (kanika or karna) offsets is usually 1.5 : 1, while the ratio of cardinal, corner and intermediary (anuratha) offsets in the pancaratha sanctum is 3: 2:1. In elevation the sanctum is divided into four parts, viz. pista (plinth), bada (vertical wall), gandi (curvilinear tower or sikhara) and mastaka (crowning members of the sikhara). While the mastaka is circular in section, the bada and gandi are square. Further, the bada is divided into three (pabhaga, jangha and varanda) or five (pabhaga, talajangha, bandhana, uparajangha and varanda) sections. The pabhaga consists of such mouldings as khura, kumbha and pata. The jangha is always plain, but each cardinal offset (rahapaga) usually contains a sculptured niche resembling a miniature shrine. The corner offsets of the jangha occasionally carry tall and slender pilasters on their two planes. The bandhana, a medial band between two janghas, consists of some thin mouldings. The varanda Jain Education Intemational

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80 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies is of two types. In one variety it consists of two khurasa kanti. The sikhara is curvilinear and is crowned above with kanti (recess) between, and in the other it has its beki by an amalaka and kalasa. The sanctum has khura, pata and kanti. The sikhara in both the triratha a corbelled doorway and two ceilings, the garbhamuda and pancaratha form is curvilinear with or without its put up immediately above the garbhagrha (sanctum) division into bhumi-amalakas. The curvature of the and the ratnamuda acting as a lid on the sikhara to sikhara, in some instances, is not emphatic in the lower support the crowning members. The enshrined image part, it rather rises almost perpendicularly with a in each shrine is missing. From the presence of many pronounced curve at the top. The mastaka above the pillars at the site it seems that there was a pillared flattened vedi (platform) shows beki (neck), a large mandapa in front of the sanctum. amalaka and kalasa, the last one as well as the emblem The third stone temple faces east and is identical of the enshrined image in each shrine having disappeared on plan and elevation to the preceding stone temples, The sanctum is entered through a corbelled triangular but it is comparatively more dilapidated. passageway, occasionally lodged over by a sukanasa The sanctum of the brick temple is pancaratha on crowned by a lion figure. plan and has a tryanga-bada surmounted by curvilinear The interior of the sanctum contains two ceilings - sikhara. The bada has a moulded pabhaga, plain jargha garbhamuda and ratnamuda. The garbhamuda is the and a two-coursed varanda with a recess between. The lowermost ceiling of the sanctuary, while the ratnamuda sikhara rises almost in a straight line and has a pronounced is the topmost ceiling supporting the crowning members curve towards the top. The crowning members of the of the Sikhara. Inside the sanctum is installed a Jina sikhara have gone. The temple is entered through a image which in most cases is missing. corbelled doorway and faces east. There is no object of With this preliminary note we now proceed to worship inside. The bricks are all set in mud; the exterior describe the Jaina temples merely of the following sites and interior are plastered and plain. since they have some remains of the Jaina temples The stone temples were probably built in the 10h intact at the site. century A.D., while the brick temple was built somewhat PAKBIRA later, probably in the 11th century A.D. Pakbira, a small village in the Purulia district, has DEULIYA many Jaina temples and sculptures, but they are all very At Deuliya in Burdwan district is a deserted Jaina mutilated, some being merely a heap of mound. They temple made of bricks and plastered with stucco. Its were already in ruinous condition when Beglar saw sanctum, which alone has survived, is pancaratha on them in 1872-73. At present, three stone temples and plan and shows a pancanga-bada (five-divisioned wall) a large brick temple alone have survived of pabhaga (now embedded in the earth), talajangha, Of the three stone temples the two facing north narrow bandhana, uparajangha and varanda, all having are triratha on plan and elevation. Their pabhaga consists been left plain. The varanda is of special interest here of khura, kumbha, two khuras clasped face to face, and as it consists of a series of oversailing square courses khura (see J.D. Beglar, Archaeological Survey of India instead of the usual moulded courses, making thus a Report, vol. VIII, pl. xv). The jangha with faceted deep wide recess between the wall and the sikhara. The rathas is plain, but each of the central rathas has an ponderous sikhara is divided into several stages of emptied niche treated like miniature shrine. There is bhumi-amalakas and bears an enrichment of scroll and a faceted and segmented pilaster between the central caitya-gavaksa pattern. The crowning members of the and corner rathas. The varanda consists of a khura and sikhara have tumbled down. The temple has a triangular Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 81 door-opening on the front. On stylistic grounds the temple may be placed in the 10th century A.D. From Deuliya has also been procured a miniature shrine which is now housed in the Asutosh Museum of Indian Art. It is a square block of stone with four Jina images on its four faces and a tiered sikhara crowned by a heavy amalaka. PARESANATH At Paresanath in Bankura district is a temple of Parsvanatha built of sandstone. Of the temple, only the plinth has survived. The enshrined image of Parsvanatha, which was found intact on its plinth, is mutilated. The temple is assignable to the 10th 11th century A.D. AMBIKANAGAR Ambikanagar, a village in the Bankura district, is situated on the confluence of the Kamisavati and the Kumari. The village seems to have been named after Ambika (Jaina goddess) whose image is still being worshipped in the village temple as a Brahmanical goddess. In the village is a stone Jaina temple (Figs. 51- 52) of which the sanctum alone has survived. The sanctum is triratha on plan and has a tryanga-bada (three-divisioned wall) consisting of pabhaga, jangha and varanda. The pabhaga, standing on a narrow flat course of kharasila, consists of khura, kumbha, kanti and pata, the last one adorned with heart-shaped foliages. The jangha is quite plain, but the basal and apical parts of its offsets are made up of khura and pata, the latter being adorned with usual foliages. Besides, the jangha has a projecting sunken niche on each of its central offsets for harbouring images that do not exist now. The varanda, which separates the wall from the sikhara, consists of two khuras with a recess between. Of the sikhara, only five courses are intact. The sanctum is entered from the east through a corbelled doorway, Inside the sanctum at present is a Sivalinga which was installed during the later occupation of the temple by the Saivas. This is evident from an image of Rsabhanatha which was originally installed therein, but it now lies by the side of the Linga. A water-chute to drain out oblation water of the enshrined image has been inserted in the third moulding of the plinth on the north side. The above image of Rsabhanatha is robeless and stands in the kayotsarga posture on a double-petalled lotus placed on a pedestal which carries his bull cognizance in the centre and a devotee and a crouching lion on either side. He wears a jatajuta locks of hair above the head) with curls falling down on the sides of the head and over the shoulders. He is accompanied on each side by an attendant and has a multi-tiered umbrella over his head, flanked by a hovering couple of Vidyadharas bearing garlands. Over the umbrella are two pairs of hands playing on cymbals. On the two edges of the slab are small figures of 24 kayotsarga Jinas arranged one above the other in two rows of six pairs each. The rectangular slab is slightly rounded on the top. Behind the head of the principal image is a small plain halo with a branch of tree projecting from its either side. The back of the throne consists of two beaded posts supporting a cross-bar adorned with circular plaques. The image is of fine workmanship and its drooping eyelids and serene countenance show a perfect expression of spirituality. The temple was probably built in the 11th century A.D. DEOLI At Deoli, a village in the Purulia district, stands a ruined Jaina temple (Fig. 54) of the pancayatana variety. The temple was already in the ruinous condition when Beglar reported it in 1872-73 (Archaelogical Survey of India Report, edited by A. Cunningham, Vol. VIII, pp. 189-90) and the condition has further deteriorated since that time. The temple is built of coarse-grained sandstone and faces north. It was once a fine and large temple and had four subsidiary shrines at the four corners and a principal one in the centre, but at present only two subshrines located in the south-west and north-east corners and the central shrine stand there in dilapidated condition. The central shrine, according to Beglar, consisted of a Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies O 2 + 6 8 10 12 14 26FEFT BADALA Fig. 52. South-east view of Rsabhanatha Temple, Ambikanagar. Fig. 54. Plan of Santinatha Temple, Deoli. Fig. 51. Plan of Rsabhanatha Temple, Ambikanagar. Fig. 53. View of garbhagyha of Jaina Temple, Charra. Jain Education Intemational dain Education Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India sanctum, an antarala, a jagamohana (hall), an ardhamandapa and probably a portico, but the last three are now reduced to a heap of debris. What is discernible of the central shrine shows that its sanctum is pancaratha on plan and has three-divisioned wall comprising of pabhaga, jangha and varanda. The pabhaga consists of a square plain moulding; the jangha is severely plain except for an emptied niche on the central offset; and the varanda consists of a khura, pata and kanti. The sikhara is convex in profile and is shorn of its crowning members. The garbhamuda of the sanctum is intact but the ratnamuda is missing. The antarala connecting the sanctum on the one side and the jagamohana on the other is covered by a corbelled vault. The temple was dedicated to Santinatha whose image with his deer cognizance had actually been noticed by Beglar. The two corner shrines are each pancaratha on plan and has a three-divisioned plain wall. The sikhara is tall and curvilinear and is crowned by an amalaka, now damaged. Stylistically, the temple is datable to the 11th century A.D. CHARA At Chara in Purulia district stood, according to the local tradition, many Jaina temples the sanctum (Fig. 53) of one of which may still be seen there. About 21 ft. high and facing east the sanctum in stone is triratha on plan and has a tryanga-bada of pabhaga, jangha and varanda. The pabhaga consists of three mouldings of khura, kumbha and khura, the jangha is plain, and the varanda consists of two khuras with a recess between. The sikhara is tall and curvilinear and is divided into six stages of bhumi-amalakas. Of the crowning members of the Sikhara, only the griva and amalaka are intact. Stylistically, the temple bears close resemblance to the Santinatha temple at Deoli and hence datable to the 11th century A.D. HARMASHRA Harmashra, a village in the Bankura district, has a Jaina temple built of laterite and facing east. It consists of a sanctum and a porch, the latter having gone but for its foundation. The sanctum rising to a height of 21 ft. 6 inches is identical on plan and elevation to that at Chara, but its varanda consists of khura, pata and kanti, the sikhara is not marked by bhumi-amalakas, and it has a corbelled passageway. Besides, the sanctum has been rendered a pancaratha appearance by producing sub-rathas on two sides of the central offset. The temple was probably built in the 11th century A.D. DEULBHIRA Deulbhira, a village in the Bankura district, has a sanctum of mutilated Jaina temple, built of laterite and facing east. On plan it is triratha, but a pancaratha effect has been produced by introducing sub-rathas on two sides of the central offset. The edges of the cardinal and corner offsets are indented. The bada is tri-anga showing a square dado in the pabhaga, a plain jangha with an emptied niche on the central offset, and a threecoursed varanda of khura, pata and kanti. The Sikhara is curvilinear and is not marked by bhumi-amalakas. The crowning members of the sikhara above the griva have disappeared. On the front side of the sanctum is a corbelled passageway below and a two-tiered gablesukanasa surmounted by a lion above. The temple was probably built in the 11th century A.D. UTTAR PRADESH After Bihar it is Uttar Pradesh which seems to be most sacred for the Jainas as 18 of the 24 Tirthankaras such as Rsabhanatha, Neminatha, Parsvanatha etc. were born in this State at the following 11 places - Ayodhya, Sravasti, Kausambi, Varanasi, Candrapura, Bhadrapura, Simhapura, Kampilya, Ratnapura, Hastinapura and Sauripura. Tirthankara Mahavira had also stayed at some of these places during his preaching tour. Historically, however, the antiquity of Jainism in U.P. goes to the time of Parsvanatha (8th century B.C.) when an old Jaina stupa was repaired at Mathura. In Vira era 840 (A.D. 313) a Jaina Council to compile Jaina canons was convened at Mathura as well. But the Jain Education Intemational

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84 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies archaeological materials available at the Jaina stupa-site of Kankali Tila, Mathura, are assignable not earlier than the 2nd century B.C. From this time onward Mathura became an important centre of Jainism and it enjoyed that position down to the time of Akbar (A.D. 1556- 1605) since Rajamalla writes in his Jambusvamicarita that there were 515 stupas at Mathura. Jainism also grew in other parts of the State from about the 5th century A.D. to the 12th century A.D. as evident from a large number of Jaina images recovered from many places and now preserved in the museums of Allahabad, Lucknow, Sarnath and Bharata Kala Bhawan (B.H.U.). That Jainism was in flourishing state is also demonstrated by a Jaina temple at Banpur and by a group of Jaina temples at Deogadh. But, except for these, no other site in the State has Jaina temples of the period under reference, probably they were ruthlessly plundered and destroyed by the Muslim iconoclasts, for the plains of North India were worst-hit by the Muslim attacks. DEOGADH Deogadh, a small village on the right bank of the Betwa, is situated in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. It is only seven miles south-west of Jakhlaun on the Bhopal Jhansi Railway line. To the east of the village is a hilly fort with a group of thirty-one Jaina temples that have undergone repairs from time to time. In the restoration work the old materials have been reused, and consequently one may come across both the old and new materials in a temple. They are built of locally available reddish sandstone and mostly date from the 8th century A.D. to the 12th century A.D. All these Jaina temples belong to the Digambara Jaina sect. Below is given a brief account of these temples. Temple 1 - Originally, it probably was an open mandapa with twenty pillars bearing the flat roof, but now it has only eight ghatapallava pillars in two rows of four each. The mandapa rests on a high platform of well-dressed stones and houses some carved slabs. Temple 2 - It originally seems to have consisted of a small sanctum and an open mandapa with sixteen pillars arranged in four lines of four each, but now the mandapa has been closed on the outer sides by dressed stones, and a screen wall with aperture is built in the second row of pillars from the rear side, dividing thus the entire space into a front verandah and a rear mandapa. The pillars of the front row have gone. The doorway of the sanctum is plain. There is a four-pillared pavilion of the medieval period on the roof. Temple 3 - This north-facing temple is a double shrine with two rectangular sancta, two closed halls and a common verandah. The temple stands on a low platform and has thirty-five pillars arranged in five rows of seven each. The different chambers are formed by solid walls put up between the pillars. The doorways are plain. The temple consisted of two storeys, but its upper storeys have disappeared. Temple 4 - This south-facing temple stands on a low pitha and consists of a square closed hall and a porch, with a pavilion above. The hall has four pillars in the nave and twelve pilasters on the periphery. The doorway is ornate but damaged. The porch is restored and its two pillars bear inscriptions of A.D. 1150 and A.D. 1167 respectively. Temple 5 - This is a four-faced shrine housing a Sahasrakuta panel under a restored curvilinear tower. The temple is laid out in the centre of a low platform, leaving an open space for circumambulation. It has a moulded pitha of bhitta, jadyakumbha, karnika, kumuda and a plain pattika. The catussakha doorframe on east and west is very ornamental, the eastern one also bearing an inscription of A.D. 1063. The other two are sham doorways. Temple 6 - This is a small temple with no architectural merit. It consists of a square sanctum roofed by a sikhara, and a porch with two pillars and two pilasters carrying a flat roof. The doorway is plain. Temple 7 - This is a four-pillared open pavilion built on a platform and housing slabs of caranapadukas, two of which are dated in A.D. 1636 and 1638. In the ceiling is shown a full-blown lotus with four rows of Jain Education Intemational can memation

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 85 petals. The pavilion is a modern erection from old materials. Temple 8 - This oblong structure facing east consists of three rooms with a common verandah supported by four pillars. Each room has a plain doorway. In the interior are housed many sculptures. Temple 9 - It consists of a small sanctum and a mandapa and faces east. The sanctum has an ornate doorway with fine figures of Ganga and Yamuna. Inside are now kept twelve stone slabs carved with various sculptures. The mandapa, the front portion of which has disappeared, has now been converted into a verandah with two pillars keeping intact the two side walls. Temple 10 - This is a four-pillared open pavilion built on a low platform and housing three four-faced pillars, each bearing figures of Jinas, monks, nuns and lay-followers. Temple 11 - Like Temple 3, this temple is also a two-storeyed structure with the upper storey being fully intact. The lower storey consists of a small cella, a pillared mandapa and a verandah. It stands on a moulded pitha made up of bhitta, jadyakumbha, kumuda, antarapatta and grasapatti. The walls are flat and carry vertical decorative bands on the two-third upper part. Inside, the verandah shows a row of four ghatapallava pillars, the mandapa displays four pillars in the nave and twelve pilasters on the periphery, and the cella with plain doorway now houses three Jina images, one of which bears a date of A.D. 1048. The doorframe of the mandapa is richly carved. The temple faces north. The upper storey, which is landed up from the lower one by a flight of steps built in the north-east corner of the mandapa, is identical in plan and disposition to the lower storey, but its verandah on the two lateral sides is enclosed by a short wall of vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana with crude decorations on the outer faces. The roof is flat. The cella has five Jina images one of which is made of white marble. Temple 12 - This west-facing temple (Fig. 55; Pl. 18) is the largest Jaina structure at Deogadh. It is rectangular on plan and consists of a sanctum and a walled vestibule, the whole enclosed by a covered ambulatory and screen wall with entrance doorways on all the four sides. Outside this, on the front, is a pillared assembly hall built during recent years from the old materials. In the east corner of this hall are two old pillars which originally formed part of the entrance porch. The adhisthana of the outer enclosing walls, the lower portion of which has been concealed by subsequent flooring, is composed of kumbha, minor kapota, pattika decorated with scrolls, broad antarapatta adorned with grooved half diamonds, and kapota decorated with caityagavaksa pattern. Above the kapota is a course of alternate plain blocks and roughly moulded kumbhakas (vases) supporting latticed windows and square pillars of the jangha-wall respectively. Each window rests on a blind balustrade decorated with diamonds in niches and canopied by kapota, is inset with a sculptured niche, surmounted by tall udgama-pediment, between vertical trellis of perforated squares of wavy line, and is capped by a kapota underlined with two rows of small rafter ends in alternate set-up. The trellis are surmounted by beaded garland loops and buds. The niches contain inscribed images of Jaina Yaksas, often with their respective Jinas. The wall pillars have ghatapallava base and capital, ornamented shaft depicting grasamukhas or half lotuses with suspended bells and ribbons, and palmette brackets. Above the kapota-and-bracket course of the jangha may be seen a string of big rafter ends adorned with various ornaments, a kapota, a recessed course with smaller rafter ends, and a corrugated eavecornice bearing saw-tooth pattern on the front face. Above the cornice is a broad recess decorated with a stripe of grooved half diamonds between two rows of floral half diamonds, and then follow a ribbed awning and a plain parapet. The sanctum is tri-anga with solid walls and has simple moulded basement and plain wall. The enclosing screen wall has trisakha doorframes opposite the cardinal offsets of the sanctum. The ceilings of the sanctum and Jain Education Intemational

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86 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the ambulatory are flat and uncarved. The pancaratha sikhara of the sanctum, as it looks from outside, rises above the terrace from a moulded base consisting of a pattika decorated with garland loops and buds, a string of ornate rafter ends between two kapotas, and a recessed course with a string of smaller rafter ends. The central and flanking offsets of the sikhara are enmeshed with caitya-gavaksa pattern, while the corner offsets are marked by nine bhumi-amalakas, each consisting of two-tiered kapota with addorsed caitya-gavaksa, spirelet and kapota. The crowning members of the sikhara above the amalaka are modern restoration. The sikhara shows elegant proportion and pleasing curvature The sukanasa, which rises to the fifth bhumi of the sikhara, is very massive and elaborate. It consists of two storeys and a gable of three diminishing stages, crowned by a circular gavaksa containing a figure of seated Jina. The two storeys are each marked on the sides by a stage of bhumi-amalaka. In the central part of the lower storey is an open window flanked on each side by a pair of standing Jinas. The window is surmounted on the upper storey by a tall udgama- pediment, while the Jinas are canopied by niched pediments containing diamonds. The garbhagrha doorway (Pls. 19-20) is very ornate. It consists of seven jambs decorated with diamonds, flowers (bakula), apsarases, mithunas, apsarases, rampant vyalas and creepers respectively. On the lower part of the jambs stand some beautiful female figures, now sadly damaged. The lintel continues the decoration of two inner jambs, but above that it has four friezes of which the lowermost displays Vidyadharas, the second Navagrahas, the third alternate standing and seated Jinas (the prominent among these being Adinatha and Ajitanatha, who appear on the upper and lower lalatas), and the uppermost the sixteen objects seen in dream by the Jina mother at the time of conception. At the terminal ends of the lintel are four seated goddesses one of which is identified with Cakresvari and another with Sarasvati. The doorsill has a mandaraka flanked on each side by a group of dancers and musicians, lion attacking an elephant and a seated goddess. As apparent from an inscription, the doorway has been added in A.D. 994, replacing of course the original old one. T he temple is dedicated to Santinatha whose standing colossal image (17 ft. 3 inches high) is installed in the sanctum. On stylistic grounds and on the basis of the palaeography of the short labels on the images, the temple is placed in the end of the gth century A.D. Temple 13 - This is a small structure adjacent to the north wall of the mandapa of Temple 12. It consists of an east-west oblong hall with an entrance on the north and a sanctum on the shorter west side, both containing sculptures of seated and standing Jinas. Temple 14 - This west-facing temple consists of an oblong north-south sanctum with two doorways and a verandah with a row of six pillars. Inside the sanctum are some Jina images. Its south-east portion is attached to the back wall of Temple 13 and the western end to the north wall of the mandapa of Temple 12. Temple 15 - This west-facing temple is perhaps the oldest structure at the site. It is dvi-anga on plan consisting of bhadra and karna (Fig. 56), and has three shrines on three sides of a common square assembly hall entered through a rectangular porch from the west. The three shrines, of which the central shrine (eastern) is slightly smaller than those on the north and south, are walled at the back with shallow niches on the bhadras of their outside faces. The roof of each shrine is lost and the wall rebuilt, but it almost still retains its original form. The temple does not stand on a moulded pitha but on a vedibandha which consists above the bhitta of a khura, kumbha, kalasa, kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksas, and a plain pattika. The jangha-wall is plain but for shallow sculptured niches surmounted by tall udgama-pediments on two faces of the karnas and on the lateral sides of the entrance porch. The jangha is topped by a decorative band which has survived Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 89 four pillars and four pilasters. The mandapa has undecorated flat wall and a pavilion on its flat roof. The doorway of the mandapa is ornate and bears figures of Ganga, Yamuna, Jinas, Bahubali and Bharata. Inside, it shows four pillars in the nave and twelve pilasters on the periphery. At the rear wall of the mandapa is a long carved pedestal supporting a seated Jina in the middle and double-Jina images on either side. Temple 20 - This south-facing temple originally consisted of a sanctum and a square mandapa, both having a plain wall and flat roof. The mandapa is entered through an ornate doorway bearing figures of Jinas, Ganga-Yamuna etc. In the interior it shows four pillars in the nave and twelve pilasters on the periphery; there are fourteen standing and thirteen seated images of Jinas. The doorframe of the sanctum is sparsely decorated. Inside the sanctum are three seated and two standing Jina figures. Temple 21 - It consists of a central mandapa and two rooms facing each other on its two sides. There is a mutilated, standing Jina figure in the mandapa, one seated and seven standing Jinas in the west room and eight images in the east one. Temple 22 - This south-facing temple consists of a sanctum and a porch with two pillars and two pilasters. The wall has carved pilasters. There is a modern cupola over the sanctum. The doorway is sparsely carved. Inside are three seated Jina figures. Temple 23 - This south-facing temple has a sanctum with modern cupola above and a porch in the front, both standing on a raised platform. The doorway of the sanctum is decorated. Inside are three standing and one seated Jina figures, besides a sculpture of Ambika. Temple 24 - This flat-roofed temple consists of a sanctum and a porch and faces south. The doorway of the sanctum is ornate bearing figures of Jinas, Ganga- Yamuna and other decorations. Inside are three images of seated Jinas, one of standing Jina and a panel depicting Yaksa Dharanendra and Yaksi Padmavati. Temple 25 - It consists of a sanctum and a porch and faces east. The sanctum is roofed by a sikhara; its doorframe is plain. Inside are two seated and three standing Jina figures. Temple 26 - This east-facing temple has an oblong mandapa with two pillars and ten pilasters and is preceded by a verandah with two pillars and side walls. The doorway of the mandapa is sparsely decorated and carries a figure of Suparsvanatha on the lalata. Inside the mandapa are some fine images. One of these is of Yaksa Dharanendra; another is identifiable with Yaksi Padmavati. T emple 27 - This east-facing temple consists of a sanctum with pyramidal sikhara of later date and a closed mandapa. The doorway of the mandapa is carved. on the door-lintel is a seated image of Neminatha occupying the central space, Parsvanatha and Suparavanatha appearing on the two flanks. Inside the sanctum is a Jina-cauvisi panel. Temple 28 - This temple consists of a pancaratha sanctum, an antarala and an entrance porch and faces south. The sanctum being rectangular on plan the rathaoffsets are asymmetrical. The low pitha, perpendicular wall and the pancaratha sikhara with amalaka are unadorned, but the sukanasa lodged over the antarala harbours on its front facade a seated Jina flanked on either side by a standing one. The pancasakha entrance door is very ornate, but that of the sanctum is simple. Inside the sanctum, the floor of which is lower than that of the antarala, are five images of standing Jinas and two of sitting Jinas. Temple 29 - This temple with westerly orientation consists of a single cella housing a slab of Jina-cauvisi dated A.D. 1144. Temple 30 - This west-facing temple consists of a mandapa with two pillars and ten pilasters, and a verandah with four pillars the intercolumniation between the central pillars of which is greater than that in the side ones. The entrance door is carved; the lintel carries the Jina figures. Inside are twelve stone slabs without Jina Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India figures, besides a figure of Jina mother lying on cot. Temple 31 - This south-facing temple is a small structure with sanctum and verandah. The pancasakha doorframe of the sanctum is very ornamental and bears figures of Ganga-Yamuna on the lower section of the jambs and a figure of Neminatha on the lalata. Inside is a large image of Neminatha seated in meditative posture Manastambha - The Manastambhas (Pl. 21), also called Kirttistambhas (pillar of glory), are the free- standing ornamental pillars installed on a pedestal in the front or the side of the temple. There are in all nineteen Manastambhas at Deogadh. They range in height from about 5 ft. to 16 ft. Their basal part is square bearing figures of Jaina gods and goddesses on the four faces. The shaft is square, faceted, fluted or circular, often decorated with chain-and-bells that issue from the mouth of the kirttimukhas. They are rarely clasped by decorative bands. The four faces of the square shaft of some pillars are carved with a series of small Jina figures in horizontal row. At the top of the pillar is a four-faced block of stone which generally carries Jina figures on the three faces and a figure of Jaina Acarya on the fourth. Three of these pillars bear inscriptions of A.D. 1051, 1059 and 1072 respectively. BANPUR Banpur is situated twenty miles east of the district headquarters of Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. It has a four- faced (Sarvatobhadra) Jaina temple consisting of a square sanctum and four rectangular entrance porches (Fig. 57), one on each side. The garbhagrha is dvi-anga on plan consisting of bhadra and karna, the former having the doorway and the latter the solid wall. The temple stands on a low jagati. The sanctum rises direct from a vedibandha which is made up of a jadyakumbha decorated with lotus leaves, khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapata, kapota adorned with caitya-gavaksas, and a pattika. The jangha on four karnas carries handsome figures of four-armed Dikpalas, two appearing on each karna. Each Dikpala stands on a projected console and is canopied overhead by a ribbed awning and a tall udgama-pediment. The varandika above the jangha shows a patrika decorated with interlacing garlands, a kapota, chadyaki, a stripe of rafter ends adorned with floral design, and kapota. The triratha sikhara is of the anekandaka class, covered with a lattice of caitya-gavaksas. The sikhara is divided into twelve stages of bhumi-amalakas of which only four are intact, the rest including even the large amalaka at the top are arbitrarily restored during later times. On the lower part of the sikhara, on each of the four faces, is a triratha Sukanasa crowned by a series of prominent caitya-gavaksas. On the central facet of the sukanasa is a sunken niche containing a figure of seated Jina flanked by attendant figures, while the side ones harbour seated or standing divine-figures. Each of the four doorways of the sanctum consists of three ornamented jambs, the first showing a serpentine body with adoring naga bust, the second adorned with scrolls, and the third treated as square pilaster. On the lower section of the jambs stand the river-goddesses, Ganga on proper right and Yamuna on proper left. The door-lintel depicts a large seated Jina on the lalata, flanked on each side by an elephant and a Yaksi. Above the lintel is a sculptural panel showing a smaller seated Jina flanked by either the Navagrahas or Vidyadharacouples. The doorsill has an ornate mandaraka in the centre, an Udadhikumara on each side of it and a lion attacking an elephant on either end. Inside the sanctum is enshrined an impressive multi-storeyed Sahasrakuta bearing 1008 figures of Jinas with Rsabhanatha as mulanayaka. Each porch consists of two pillars and two pilasters, supporting a flat roof rebuilt in later times. The pillars have a moulded base above the padma-pedestal of inverted cyma recta carved with lotus leaves; their octagonal shaft, with a ghatapallava below and above, is adorned on each cardinal facet with a long chainand-bell issuing from the mouth of a grasa; and the capital consists of a square abacus surmounted by fourarmed curved brackets. The pilasters are similar to the Jain Education Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies pillars, but their square shaft has recessed corners, bears a vertical band of creepers emerging from grasamukha on each facet, and Indra and Upendra as door-guardians on the lower section of the front facet. Stylistically, this temple is assignable to the early 10th century A.D. MADHYA PRADESH Madhya Pradesh as its name itself suggests is the heart land of India, and till November 2000 it was surrounded on all sides by the bordering States of the Indian territory. Owing to its precarious situation thus it had to always bear the brunt of various alien powers, but the cultural activity went on without any hindrance in every field of art and letters. This is also true of Jaina art as we learn from the Jaina works like the Vasudevahindi (5th century A.D.), Avasyakacurni and Nisithacurni (7th century A.D.) that a sandalwood image of Jivantasvami (probably a portrait-image of Mahavira before renunciation as it stands in meditation wearing a crown and other ornaments) was carried away by king Pradyota of Avanti (Ujjain) from Vitabhayapattana in Sindhu-Sauvira region after depositing its exact wooden copy there and installed it at Vidisha for worship. The wooden image too, according to Hemacandra, was brought to Anahillapataka and installed in a new shrine by king Kumarapala in the 12th century A.D. But the archaeological testimony available at the moment only takes us to the time of the Imperial Guptas. This is evident from three Jina images of the time of Ramagupta (c. A.D. 370) and a Jaina cave of the time of Kumaragupta (A.D. 425 ), the former found at Durjanpur and the latter excavated in the Udayagiri hill, both located in the Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh. Although a Jaina temple of the Gupta period is still a desideratum in Madhya Pradesh, we have a group of Jaina shrines at Kundalpur which continue the architectural tradition of the early Gupta temples, but they are not datable prior to the 8th century A.D. During the 9th-10h century A.D. when the region was governed by the Pratiharas of Kannauj, Jainism, according to the Jaina Prabandhas, enjoyed the royal patronage of king Ama who is identified with Pratihara Nagabhata II (died in A.D. 883). The presence of Jainism during this period is also proved by two Jaina temples standing at Pithaora and Gyaraspur. From A.D. 1000 to 1300 Madhya Pradesh was ruled by four powerful dynasties of the Candellas in the north, Kacchapaghatas in the middle, Kalacuris in the east, and the Paramaras in the south and west. Although the rulers of these dynasties were votaries of Brahmanism, they had liberal attitude towards Jainism since an influential section of the population of their respective kingdoms consisting of merchants, bankers and officials was Jaina. This is also evident from the existence of some beautiful temples at Khajuraho and Un. KUNDALPUR Kundalpur, Damoh district (M.P.), has been so named because there is a low hill of the form of a kundala (earring). On the hill is a group of about 50 Jaina temples, while in the valley is a shrine of Mahavira called Bare Baba since it has a large image of Mahavira. Most of these Jaina temples are modern erections, but some are built in the style of the early Gupta temples consisting thus on plan of a square sanctum and an entrance porch, both having a low moulded plinth, flat and plain wall, and flat roof. The roof of the porch rests on two heavy square pillars that have ghatapallava base, plain shaft and curved bracket-capital. Their doorframes are also plain. Stylistically, these temples are datable to a period not earlier than the 8th century A.D. PITHAORA At Pithaora, Satna district (M.P.), is a small Jaina shrine known as Patian Dai, built of plain ashlars. The temple is in ruinous condition, its sanctum alone having survived. It stands on a very low plinth; its uncarved flat walls are having two fillet-type mouldings, one in the middle and the other at the top; and its roof is flat with short cornice. The doorframe of the sanctum, which bears carvings, is of the trisakha variety. The Jain Education Intemational nal

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 93 inner jamb is plain. The middle jamb is in the form of stambhasakha carved with stencilled scrolls and flanked on each side by a band of bakula flowers. The outer jamb is treated as padma incised with lotus petals. On the lower part of jambs is a beautiful three-flexured standing figure of river-goddess Ganga on proper right and Yamuna on proper left, each accompanied on the outer side by a dvarapala holding club and serpent. The doorsill depicts a full-blown half-lotus in the centre and a figure of dwarf on either end. The door-lintel continues the decorative bands of the sakhas, but they are interrupted by three niched figures of seated Jinas, one in the middle and one on each side. The overdoor is ornate as it carries three decorative bands of scroll, saw- tooth pattern, and carved diamonds alternating with beads. The temple of Patian Dai once had an elaborately carved image of the Jaina goddess Ambika which is now housed in the Allahabad Museum. The goddess having all of her four arms broken off stands on a pancaratha carved pedestal. She wears rich jewellry and a karanda-mukuta and has a halo of stellate lotus flower. Above her head was carved the foliages of a mango tree which are now gone. She has two youths as attendant figures. Below the feet of the attendants are two devotees flanked by four standing goddesses, two having been labelled as Prajnapti and Vajrastnkhala. Below these goddesses are tiny figures of Astagrahas. The accompanying pilasters and the lintel depict other Jaina goddesses, all labelled. The top of the stele represents a seated figure of Neminatha in the centre and a seated and a standing Jina on each side. The sculpture has been assigned to the 11th century A.D. (Pramod Chandra, Stone Sculptures in the Allahabad Museum, Poona, 1971, p. 162, No. 470). The temple is datable to c. A.D. 900. GYARASPUR Gyaraspur is situated twenty-four miles north-east of the district town of Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh. It is a picturesque site with a Jaina temple standing on the slope of a hill and going by the name of Maladevi. The temple-site seems to have some association with a Jaina saint who possibly lived there and performed penances, and it was on account of this that a Jaina temple was erected there to make it a sanctified place. The temple is partly rock-cut and partly structural and stands on a large terrace cut out of the hill side. In fact, it has been carefully nestled against a natural crevice and its north-western rock-cut portions adjusted to the structural parts. This east-facing temple is built of sandstone and is in a dilapidated condition. The temple (Fig. 58; Pls. 22-23) is a sandhara rectangular structure consisting of sanctum with an inner ambulatory, antarala and a mandapa, the whole enclosed by a common solid wall with an entrance porch on the shorter east side. Internally, the solid running wall is straight and uncarved. Externally, its sides have been indented into large projections alternating with smaller ones, separated by narrow recesses. There are thus three large and three small projections on the south face, two small ones on the east, and only a small projection on the west and two big and two small projections on the north due to the presence of natural ledge; each projection is broken into five planes. The larger projections have each a balconied window on the jangha-wall and a niche on the basement, while each of the smaller projections carries two niches, one on the wall and the other on the basement at the same level as that below the balcony. But the niches in the north-west corner of the sanctum were never built as the wall is here consisted of the rocky ledge of the hill. The balconied windows are fitted with stone grilles that admit only faint light into the interior. The exterior wall of the sanctum is dvi-anga consisting of bhadra and karna, each broken into five planes. The basement above the terrace consists of khura, tall kumbha, kalasa and kapota. The kalasa is replaced by tulapitha (a string of rafter ends) on the bhadras, decorated with floriated vyalas and kirttimukhas. The kapota shows adornments of caitya-gavaksas on the Jain Education Intemational ton Intermational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies upper section and two minor tulapithas underneath, the shows a sukanasa which has lost its crowning figure lower decorated with lotus buds. The basement niches, of lion. The roofs alongwith internal ceilings of the which are taller on the larger projections, are each antarala, mandapa and entrance porch have all badly capped by a three-tiered pediment of caitya-gavaksas damaged, but from what has survived it appears that and are mostly empty now, but from the fragmentary they were composed of a series of horizontal tiers remains of images in some niches it appears that they adorned with caitya-gavaksas alternating with recessed originally had the multi-armed figures of Jaina goddesses. courses decorated with diamonds. The front roof between The wall niches occurring on the smaller projections the two eastern balcony-projections shows on proper are each crowned by a tall pediment decorated with right a niche containing a figure of eight-armed a lattice of caitya-gavaksas. These niches and the recesses Cakresvari with two female attendants, flanked by two carry multi-armed figures of Jaina Yaksas and Yaksis more niches harbouring seated Jina and Ambika identifiable with Dharanendra, Padmavati etc. The respectively. The roof on the corresponding left side balconied windows of the wall, which are almost has an exact replica of what we have just noticed. decorative, consists of a blind balustrade (vedika or The entrance porch is rectangular on plan consisting rajasenaka), projected broad band, asanapatta and of four ornate pillars supporting a ceiling decorated with kaksasana. The balustrade is decorated with two rows an oval-shaped quatrefoil kola with a circular one at of framed niches alternating with recesses relieved with the centre (Pl. 24). All the four pillars are alike and chequer pattern. The projected band is adorned with stand on a square moulded base with a male or female foliate scrolls and has two tiny tulapithas underneath, figure in a niche on each face, represented as dancing, the lower adorned with lotus buds. The asanapatta is or carrying musical instruments or umbrella. The shaft decorated with scrolls and surmounted by a frieze of is square below and above showing a pot-and-foliage lotus petals. The kaksasana shows vertical stripes of in high relief, while its middle tall section displays lotus scrolls alternated by three shafts of beaded pattern. sixteen-sided fluting decorated on some facets with The roof of the balcony is carried by two ornate short chain-and-bells suspended from a grasapatti. Above this pillars resting on the asanapatta. The pillars support occur a flattened circular cushion with four circular lintel and architrave, each decorated with chequer pattern projections, a square block decorated with kirttimukhas and a frieze of kirttimukhas and crowned by a below and scrolls above, a flat circular cogged disc, magnificent pediment of three-tiered large caitya- and a square block adorned with foliage. The capital gavaksa. The wall is surmounted by an usual kapota consists of two square cushions of ribbed pattern and and a recessed course decorated with half diamonds. four-armed curved brackets with adoring nagas between The navandaka (nine turrets) Sikhara of the sanctum them. The pillars support lintel and architrave decorated is pancaratha marked by seven stages of bhumi-amalakas, with four alternate bands of miniature rathikas and and is clustered around by two rows of karmasrngas chequer pattern. (two over each karna offset) and by eight rows of small The mandapa is entered through a large and rathikas divided into two groups of five and three by elaborate pancasakha doorway consisting of patravalli an usual kapota and ribbed awning over each bhadra. (scrolls), nagapasa (entwined snakes), mithuna, stambha, The offsets of the Sikhara extend well above the shoulder and a jamb forming the bevelled surround of the doorway course, almost touching the large crowning amalaka. and embellished with patravalli. At the base of jambs The whole of the Sikhara is enmeshed with a lattice stand the river-goddesses Ganga on proper right and of caitya-gavaksas. The front facade of the sikhara Yamuna on proper left, with two female attendants and Jain Education Intemational ducation Intemational

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Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies a pair of dvarapalas. The inner face of the jamb is Virabhadra. carved with two Udadhikumaras (water divinities) riding The garbhagrha doorway is similar to that of the on crocodiles. The doorsill shows a large central mandapa, but it carries figures of human, bird, projection carved with lotus stalks entwining paired Vidyadhara, Suparna-mithunas, naga-mithunas, an Kinnaras, elephants representing Diggajas, a pair of elephant and an acrobat fighting a lion on the outer devotees and large sejant lion. The door-lintel shows jamb, Sarasvati and Vidyadevi on two ends of the lintel, a figure of Cakresvari on the lalata and two registers and eight standing robeless Jinas on the architrave. of small rathikas. Inside the sanctum are only three pillars and six The interior of the mandapa has plain walls and plain pilasters on the east and south sides as the threeshows two longitudinal rows of four pillars each, forming fourth rock-ceiling in the north-west is securely supported a square large bay at the centre and a small rectangular on the walls of the sanctum. The mulanayaka image one on the front and the back. The pillars are similar is missing; instead, there is a medieval image of Jina to those of the entrance porch. The lintel and architrave installed on a high pedestal. are decorated with a band of chequer pattern, two rows On the grounds of style and the palaeography of of tiny rathikas, and a frieze of triangular leaves. The inscriptions engraved as labels below Jaina Yaksas and central ceiling is composed of four circular courses of Yaksis, the temple is datable to c. A.D. 850-875. kolas; the one in the front bay is identical to that of KHAJURAHO the entrance porch (Pl. 24); and the ceiling in the back Khajuraho is situated about 29 miles east of bay is flat and decorated with two rows of small square Chhatarpur district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh. It panels depicting Vidyadhara couples, while its central has now become an important tourist place linked both part is carved with kola. by airways and roadways. It is almost midway between The wall of garbhagsha (sanctum sanctorum) is Satna and Harpalpur Railheads connected by good also dvi-anga and shows a rathika on each bhadra and metalled road. The region around Khajuraho is well karna, and on the lateral wall enclosing the antarala covered with trees and shrubs and watered by tanks. in front of sanctum. The south bhadra-niche contains Geologically, it forms a part of the Vindhyan range a seated figure of Jina, and one karna-niche that of which provides fine-grained sandstone of various shades, Cakresvari. The ambulatory is entered on each side by used largely in the construction of the temples of a doorway of three jambs decorated with patravalli (an Khajuraho. abstract form of naga), patravalli and bevelled lotus. Khajuraho had never been a religious or political The basal part of jambs shows a river-goddess flanked centre before the 9th century A.D. It first came into by a pratihara (door-keeper). The door-lintel in the importance when the Candellas (c. A.D. 850-1200) of southern doorway shows a figure of Garuda (mount of Jejakabhukti made it their religious capital by adorning Cakresvari) on the lalata, and the architrave surmounting it with beautiful temples, tanks and gardens. According it has four registers of rathikas crowned by udgama to the local tradition, the Candellas built eighty-five pediments, the lowermost depicting eleven figures of temples at Khajuraho. Of these, twenty-five temples standing Jinas with two female devotees, the second still stand in various stages of preservation, while the having figures of four Jinas, and the upper two left remaining ones may be traced in the ruins that have vacant, but the rathikas in the northern doorway harbour now turned into mounds. Topographically, the extant Saptamatnkas (Camunda, Indrani, Varahi, Vaisnavi, temples are divisible into four groups, viz. Western, Kaumari, Mahesvari and Brahmani) with Ganesa and Eastern, South-eastern and Southern. The Western Group Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 97 shows the main concentration of Khajuraho temples like the Brahmanical Kandaria Mahadeva etc. and has on its southern flank remains of three old tanks. One of these tanks, now known as Nisioi Tal, shows on its embankment the remains of a ruined shrine with its architectural fragments and sculptures identifiable with Parsvanatha, Ambika, Jaina teachers etc. The Eastern Group reveals no remains of Jaina affiliation. The Southern Group possesses a ruined Jaina shrine with a large image of Jina. The South-eastern Group exclusively consists of Jaina temples including the Ghantai and a group of Jaina temples enclosed by a modern wall. This group has four old temples and many new ones built partly with old material and enshrining mostly old images. The Paravanatha temple among these is the largest and best preserved. Immediately to its north is the old temple of Adinatha. In the north- east corner of the Parsvanatha is a small temple, which seems to have been one of the subsidiary shrines of Parsvanatha, the other three being irretrievably lost. There is yet another temple called the Santinatha which enshrines a colossal image of Adinatha dated A.D. 1027. The Santinatha temple, which is the main shrine of modern worship, has been thoroughly renovated and has a rectangular enclosure of shrine-cells, a typical feature of the early medieval Jaina temples. The Ghantai temple is located in the nearby village of Khajuraho and is in a very ruinous condition. Below is given a brief account of the Parsvanatha, Adinatha and Ghantai temples as they alone retain old structures. Parsvanatha Temple - It is oblong on plan (Figs. 59-60; PL. 25) with an axial projection on each of the two shorter sides. The projection on the east is occupied by the entrance porch, while that on the west contains a shrine attached to the back wall of the sanctum which is a very unique feature. The temple consists of a sanctum, antarala and mahamandapa provided with a doorway from the ardhamandapa (porch). All the three compartments have a common ambulatory enclosed by a solid wall which is relived internally by pilasters and externally by three sculptural bands and twelve perforated windows admitting diffused light into the ambulatory. It is very surprising that this temple does not possess balconied windows which are a characteristic feature of the temples of Khajuraho. Though the temple is oblong up to the wall, its sides are indented to produce a navaratha (nine offsets) sanctum and a pancaratha (five offsets) mahamandapa. This is wrought by a series of projections separated by recesses. The projections being continuous in disposition one larger central offset (bhadra) is formed on the longer side of each compartment and one smaller offset on either side of the central projection of the shorter side. The temple stands on a four feet high jagati, the original mouldings of which are all lost. On the jagati rests the pitha which consists of a plain bhitta, jadyakumbha decorated with caitya-gavaksas, karnika bearing a band of gagarakas (frill like ornament) below, pattika decorated with heart-shaped flowers and a band of gagarakas below, antarapata adorned with diamonds, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksas above and gagarakas below. The vedibandha above the pitha shows khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta decorated with caityagavaksas above and rafter ends below, and a projecting pattika decorated with stencilled scrolls. The janghawall shows three rows of fine sculptures, each being smaller than the one below; they are separated from one another by two ornamental bands. The lower row carries standing figures of gods, goddesses and apsarases on the projections and vyalas in the recesses. The middle shows divine couples on the projections as well as the recesses. The third or top row shows Vidyadhara couples, ascetic couples and single Vidyadhara, both on projections and recesses. The divine figures of Brahmanical affinity are identifiable with Siva, SivaParvati, Visnu, Laksmi-Narayana, Krsna, Balarama, SitaRama, Parasurama, Kama-Rati, Brahma, Kubera, Sankhapurusa and eight Dikpalas. Besides these there are figures of seated Jina, standing Padmaprabha and four-armed standing Jaina goddesses, each with two Jain Education Intemational

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98 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Jina figures, all confined to the niches. Of all the figures, only the eight Dikpalas are correctly represented in their respective positions, the others do not have any order. The Saiva and Vaisnava deities are shown almost in an equal preponderance. The top row of jangha sculptures is crowned by a square bharani of arris and cyma recta, and two usual kapotas. The sikhara of the sanctum starts with a series of miniature sikharas (turrets) with pyramidal roof over the projections, but the central projection on the north and south shows a series of three udgama-pediments of caitya-gavaksa ornament in ascending order; the same in the mahamandapa which continues the vertical lineaments of the sanctum up to the bottom row of karnasmigas (turrets on corner offsets), however, carries only one pediment. The lower pediment shows on its each flank a miniature pyramidal tower and two minor tiers of pediments, all occupying the spaces formed by the recesses; the middle pediment is flanked on either side by two karnasrngas; and the upper pediment carries three karnasmigas on each flank, of which the central smga is taller than the side ones. Below the level of the upper karnasmigas we notice a series of niches encircling the roof and containing figures of bearded teachers and disciples. Above the top pediment occurs the central row of niches surmounted by a prominent awning, and beyond this rises the saptaratha central tower marked by eleven bhumi-amalakas and carrying two urah-srrigas (turrets leaning upon central offset) on each facade. The lower urah-smiga is smaller than the upper one and starts from the same level as the higher one: The upper urah-srriga also carries a karnassiga on each flank. All the offsets of the spire are enmeshed with caitya-gavaksas. The central offsets go beyond the shoulder course which is surmounted above the griva by a large amalaka, three candrikas, smaller amalaka, kalasa, candrika with two rims and bijapuraka. On the front facade of the spire is a restored sukanasa with a figure of spirited lion. Of the roof of the mahamandapa only three ascending series of miniature sikharas have survived, the remaining portions are all restored. Originally, it had a bell-roof, The entrance porch, which is approached from the front by a modern staircase, stands on a pitha which is but a continuum of the sanctum up to the kapota, but above that it has a frieze of elephants flanked by mahavats (driver) and couples. The porch consists of two pillars and two pilasters and is covered by a pyramidal roof of which a continuous series of niches containing divine couples and six lions are original, the rest is a modern restoration. The pillars stand on an octagonal base of four moulded courses. The base rests on an octagonal pedestal carved with lotus petals. The plain shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular above. The capital has a circular abacus of plain torus and cyma recta surmounted by four-armed bhuta-brackets with a snake figure in between on each corner. The pilasters are like the pillars but carry a figure of dvarapala below and a band of stencilled or interlacing scrolls throughout above. The brackets of the capital support lintel decorated with stencilled scrolls, grasapatti and triangular frills. On the lintel rests architrave adorned with projecting kirttimukhas which carry sockets on their underside for receiving Salabhanjika brackets supported on snake figures. The architrave is surmounted by a frieze of makara-torana consisting of five loops in the centre and male and female attendants on the sides. The torana-arch rests on projecting kirttimukhas and is preserved only on the east side. The frieze is surmounted by a cornice adorned with stencilled scrolls. The cornice supports a square ceiling decorated with a large circular flower of threetiered kola in the centre and four smaller ones of twotiered kola in the four corners. Each flower carries a pendant of pinecone. The pendant in the central flower is also provided with a large stamenal tube adorned with kirttimukhas, snakes, and chains issuing from the mouth of kirttimukhas and terminating in a pair of flying Vidyadharas. The doorway of the mahamandapa, which is

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100 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies stepped in from a moonstone flanked by conch-shell, consists of seven jambs (saptasakha) of ratna (diamondand-bead), gana (musicians), vyala, stambha, vyala, gana and a sakha forming the bevelled surround of the doorway. The last sakha is decorated with wavy scrolls and is flanked by a frieze of mithunas. The decorations of the first two jambs are also carried up on the lintel, but above that it depicts a bold figure of Cakresvari as lalatabimba in the centre and a figure of seated Yaksi on each end, while the spaces in between them are filled with standing figures of Navagrahas. The overdoor over the bevelled surround of the doorway shows a frieze of seated Jinas with devotees. The frieze is surmounted by a cornice decorated with heart-shaped stencilled scrolls and a band of divine couples. The interior of the mahamandapa is ventilated by the entrance door and twelve perforated windows set upon the bhadras. Its solid wall is reinforced by sixteen almost plain pilasters. The pilasters support carved beams surmounted by three successive courses of ornate cornices. The top cornice supports the rectangular ceilings of the three bays enclosing the mahamandapa. The two lateral ceilings are similar and flat and shows a large lotus flower in the middle and an oval-shaped cusped flower on the two sides. The running wall of the mahamandapa enclosing the ambulatory passage of the sanctum, however, carries two more architraves at the top. These architraves and the interior wall of the sanctum support flat ceilings relieved with lotus flowers. The square central bay of the mahamandapa is laid out on a floor which is slightly raised from the lateral sides and runs from the entrance doorway to the doorway of the sanctum. It consists of four pillars and a ceiling carried by them on a square frame of carved architraves and cornice. The pillars are exactly similar to those of the entrance porch. The ceiling is square but converted into a circle by cutting off the corners. The inner face of the circle is decorated with stencilled scrolls, while each of its four corners has a socket for receiving the usual Salabhanjika bracket resting on the snake figure between the bhuta-brackets of the pillar capital. The ceiling proper shows a flower made up of four courses of sixteen-foil larger, sixteen-foil smaller, eight-foil and circular kolas. The antarala pilasters flanking the sanctum doorway are similar to those flanking the mahamandapa doorway, but the inner bhuta-brackets here show the image of Sarasvati on one side and Laksmi on the other. The bhuta-brackets carry a lintel decorated with half diamonds and triangular frills. The lintel is surmounted by a cornice adorned with stencilled scrolls and grasapattika. The cornice supports a kola course and a flat rectangular ceiling relieved with three lotus flowers. The pancasakha doorway of the sanctum consists of patra (scroll), gana, stambha decorated with frieze of mithunas, gana, and a sakha forming the bevelled surround of the doorway and decorated with wavy scrolls in bold relief. The door-lintel, which continues the decorations of the two inner jambs, shows three projecting niches with Navagrahas in between them. The central niche contains a figure of seated Jina and each of the end niches shelters a standing Jina. The lintel is surmounted by a frieze of seated Jinas with attendant figures. At the base of the doorway surround stands a four-armed dvarapala seen by the Diggaja (an elephant to guard four or eight cardinal points). The doorsill shows a lotus stalk with two pairs of ascetics and two pairs of Vidyadevis on the central projection and four water divinities on two sides, each carrying a water jar and seated on kari-makara (mythical animal with trunk of an elephant and body of a crocodile). The garbhagrha is pancaratha on plan and elevation. Its adhisthana has two series of mouldings, the lower comprising a plain pattika, karnika, jadyakumbha decorated with caitya-gavaksas, karnika and grasapatti, and the upper consisting of khura, kumbha, kalasa, and antarapatta decorated with caitya-gavaksas above and gagarakas below. The adhisthana coincides with the top of the khura rather than the grasapatti. The janghawall repeats the three rows of sculptures of the outer facade and then shows two karnakas, kapota, broad fillet

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 101 decorated with stencilled scrolls, deep fillet, and a grasapatti for the discharge of oblation water from the projecting fillet adorned with caitya-gavaksas. It is above sanctum. Above the pitha is vedibandha which consists this that one end of the ceilings of the ambulatory rests. of khura, kumbha adorned with diamonds in niches, The inner wall of the garbhagrha is reinforced by kalasa, kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksas above four pilasters which have a plain plinth, ornate base, and gagarakas below, and a projecting fillet decorated plain shaft with pot-and-foliage member below and with alternate diamonds and rosettes and a stripe of above, and a plain capital with bhuta-brackets. The gagarakas below. brackets support a lintel carved with half diamonds The jangha-wall shows three rows of sculptures fringed by perforated squares and triangular frills. The of which the upper row is smaller in size. The two lintel is surmounted by a cornice decorated with scrolls, lower rows carry standing figures of four-armed gods two friezes of lotus petals and a band of diamonds and goddesses alternating with apsarases on projections and-rosettes. The cornice supports a ceiling made up and vyalas in recesses, while the top row has figures of two intersecting squares, with a depiction of of Vidyadharas on projections and Vidyadhara couples kirttimukha at each corner. in recesses as carrying garlands or playing on musical Inside the sanctum is installed an image of instruments or brandishing weapons. The north and Parsvanatha made of polished black stone and dated south facades of the antarala and three bhadras of the in A.D. 1860, but the pedestal and ornate parikara sanctum show each four niches of which the lowest (frame) made of buff stone are old. The pedestal shows occurs on the kumbha of the vedibandha and the upper a figure of bull, the cognizance of Rsabhanatha, to three on the level of the three sculptural bands of the whom the temple must have been originally dedicated. jangha. The uppermost niches are each a replica of the The temple was probably built about A.D. 950. balconied window and the three lower niches contain Adinatha Temple - It originally consisted of a images of Jaina deities. The images of the lower row sanctum, antarala, mandapa and ardhamandapa, the last represent eight Dikpalas in their respective positions on two being replaced now by an ugly modern entrance the corner offsets, and the middle row depicts bull-faced chamber. The temple (Figs. 61-62; Pl. 26) is saptaratha Astavasus surmounting the Dikpalas. The kumbha niches on plan and elevation with an additional projection on on the bhadras contain images of Bhairava. Ambika and each central offset (bhadra). Between the offsets (rathas) Cakresvari, while the jangha niches pertain to those are recesses which are not carried down in the pitha. of Jaina Yaksis Padmavati, Camunda, Kali, Cakresvari, The temple faces east. Anantamati, Mahamanasi, Gauri, Purusadatta, Manasi, The temple stands on a high terrace the original Manovega and the like. The sculptural bands of the mouldings of which are all lost. The pitha consists of jangha are separated from one another by a grasapatti a series of eight mouldings which slope out and grip surmounted by a band of circular rosettes. Above the the terrace firmly. The mouldings include a plain bhitta, top row of sculptures is a pillar-capital like member another bhitta decorated with diamonds, plain of bharani which consists of gagarakas, amalaka and jadyakumbha, a projecting course adorned with rosettes, ribbed padma (cyma recta). Above this come two a course with circular top decorated with beaded band kapotas, each decorated with caitya-gavaksas and then and lotus petals, again jadyakumbha embellished with follows a prominent recess which separates the wall minor caitya-gavaksas, karnika decorated with gagarakas from the sikhara. below, and grasapatti bearing a frieze of rosettes below. The ekandaka sikhara is saptaratha on plan and On the north is a makara-pranala inserted into the is divided into sixteen stages by fifteen bhumi-amalakas, Jain Education Intemational

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102 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies each being capped by a kapota adorned with caitya- gavaksas. The offsets of the sikhara terminate at the shoulder course, but the central offsets are extended to the neck surmounted by a large amalaka, two candrikas, smaller amalaka, candrika and kalasa. All the offsets are covered with a lattice of minute caitya-gavaksas. The roof of the antarala, which leans in the form of sukanasa upon the front facade of the sikhara, shows a superposed series of three niches crowned by a three- tiered udgama-pediment flanked on each side by a miniature pyramidal roof. Above this rises the gabled roof (Sala-sikhara) made up of three diminishing rows of caitya-arches, the two lower ones of which are damaged while the trefoil intact upper arch contains a kirttimukha emitting three chains, the central one terminating into a bell and the side ones going into the mouth of crocodiles. The central foil of the upper arch is also flanked on each side by a figure of rearing vyala and is crowned above by a figure of lion pouncing on elephant. The central niche of the sukanasa on the front side contains a four-armed standing image of Yaksi Ambika and the six flanking niches shelter figures of attendant gods and goddesses, while its lateral sides carry each five niches with divine figures. The doorway of the sanctum consists of seven jambs of patra (scrolls), gana (musicians and dancers) stambha, gana, srivatsa alternating with rosettes, a jamb forming the bevelled surround of the doorway and decorated with scrolls issuing from the mouth of a vyala below, and puspa decorated with circular rosettes. Each of the two stambhasakhas depicts four figures of Jaina Yaksis. The base of the doorway shows Ganga on proper right and Yamuna on proper left, both accompanied by female attendants, besides dvarapalas occurring on the doorway surround and the pilasters flanking the doorway. The door-lintel, which continues the decoration of the innermost jamb, shows in niches a seated figure of Cakresvari in the centre, a standing goddess on each side of her, and a seated figure of Ambika on her right end and of Padmavati on her left end. The doorsill shows fine lotus scrolls on square central projection flanked by female attendants, four water-gods carrying water pot and riding on karimakara on their two sides, and sculptured niches on either end. The pilasters flanking the sanctum doorway are profusely ornamented and support a lintel adorned with sixteen objects of dream seen by the Jina mother at the time of conception, circular rosettes alternating with diamonds, grasapattik, and a beaded band. The superstructure above the lintel is lost. The interior of the sanctum shows a square compartment at the back and a rectangular short one on the front demarcated by two bhadraka pilasters, besides quarter ones of similar variety at the four corners. The corner pilasters are almost plain but the two central pilasters carry pot-and-foliage ornament on the lower and upper sections of the shaft and are surmounted by bhuta-brackets. On the pilasters rest plain lintel and cornice supporting flat ceilings. The ceiling in the rectangular compartment is plain and that in the square one is carved with a large lotus flower comprising four rows of petals. That the temple was dedicated to Adinatha is well attested to by the image of his Yaksi Cakresvari carved on the dedicatory block of the lintel of the sanctum doorway. The temple was probably built in the latter half of the 11th century A.D. Ghantai Temple - It lies on the southern extremity of the Khajuraho village and about two furlongs northeast of the Jaina group (Figs. 63-64; Pl. 27). It is on account of the chain-and-bell (ghanta) motif occurring prominently on its tall pillars that the temple is locally called Ghantai. The temple faces east and is a fragmentary structure resembling the Parsvanatha temple in general plan and design, but it is grander in conception and larger in dimension. The sanctum and the antarala, the two important constituents of the temple plan, together with the enclosing walls, have all gone, and all that has survived are the remains of an ardhamandapa and a mahamandapa. Of the enclosing wall a few supporting Jain Education Intemational

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104 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies pilasters have survived which are severely plain in comparison to the ornate pillars of the mandapas. Like all other Jaina temples at Khajuraho, the Ghantai also belongs to the Digambara sect as it has sixteen auspicious Jaina symbols, as against the fourteen in the Svetambara tradition, represented on the door-lintel. Besides, numerous robeless Jina images were found in and around the temple. One of these is a fragmentary image of Adinatha bearing an inscription dated A.D. 1085, which is now preserved in the Museum of Khajuraho. Of the jagati-terrace nothing is known, probably it is hidden in the debris. The pitha shows above the ground two plain bhittas, a jadyakumbha decorated with minor caitya-gavaksas, karnika, deep fillet decorated with diamonds, and projected fillet adorned with heart- shaped stencilled flowers. The ardhamandapa consists of an almost square bay of four pillars supporting a flat but ornate ceiling. The pillars stand on an octagonal pedestal and base, the former decorated with rosettes, scrolls and lotus petals, and the latter carrying mouldings of khura and kumbha, the latter decorated with caitya-gavaksas. The shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular above. The sixteen-sided section is surmounted by an octagonal stripe decorated with kirttimukhas spewing interlocking garland loops enclosing Vidyadharas and surmounted by a string of pendants. It also has a lampstand projection with a bhuta-figure on its soffit. The circular section shows at intervals four decorative bands. The lowest of these is circular and most elaborate; it is ornamented with large garland loops and long chain-and-bells flanked by garlands or streamers and suspended from the mouth of kirttimukhas, and alternating with lotus stalks or chain-and-bells flanked by garlands. The loops of garlands enclose Vidyadharas, ascetics, mithunas, and vyalas. The second is octagonal and carries smaller loops of garlands emerging from the mouth of kirttimukhas with a pair of vyalas in each loop. The third is circular and is decorated with rosettes or minute triangles. From this band also project out four smaller bhuta-brackets which support the struts of the apsarases. The fourth consists of two octagonal belts, the lower showing garland loops enclosing half lotus flowers and the upper, the circular rosettes. The capital has a ribbed round abacus of arris and cyma recta, surmounted by bhuta-brackets with adoring snakes in between. All the bhutas carry sockets in their bellies for the reception of apsara-struts. The brackets carry architraves with three fasciae, the lower two decorated with lotus scrolls and the upper left plain. The architraves are surmounted by a frieze of processional scenes. Above the frieze rests the ornate flat ceiling divided into two concentric rectangular rows of panels and one square central panel. The outer row of rectangular panels carry figures of dancers and musicians flanked by couples, and the inner the stencilled scrolls. The square central panel depicts three courses of twelve-foil, eight-foil and quatrefoil mutilated kolas. The ardhamandapa leads to the mahamandapa which, unlike the Parsvanatha temple, has on its front a vestibule of three bays with plain ceilings. The central bay, which is larger than the side ones, is formed by two rear pillars of the ardhamandapa and two pilasters flanking the mahamandapa doorway. The pilasters have carved pedestal and base and show on the lower part of their shaft two-armed dvarapalas facing each other and a conventional pot-and-foliage above. The shaft carries an attic pillar surmounted by a plain abacus of arris and cyma recta and a curved bracket with volute pattern. The brackets support a lintel embellished with stencilled scrolls and grasapattika. The pilasters in the side bays are quite plain. The doorway of the mahamandapa consists of seven jambs of puspa (rosettes), vyala, gana (musicians and dancers), stambha decorated mithunas, gana, vyala, and a jamb (forming the bevelled surround of the doorway) decorated with scrolls and a frieze of musicians and dancers. The lintel, which continues the decorative bands of the first-three jambs, is divided into two Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 105 registers. The lower register depicts in niches a seated image of eight-armed Cakresvari in the centre and a seated Jina figure on either end, while the intervening space on her right is filled with figures of Navagrahas and that on her left with bull-faced Astavasus. The upper register shows sixteen auspicious symbols - 1. Airavata elephant, 2. bull, 3. rampant lion, 4. Sridevi, 5. garland enclosing a kirttimukha, 6. full moon with an hare in the centre, 7. Sun-god, 8. a pair of fish, 9. a pair of jar, 10. celestial lake, 11. agitated sea, 12. lion throne, 13. Vimana, 14. naga couple, 15. heap of jewels, and 16. seated Agni with flames issuing from his shoulder - seen in dream by Jina's mother at the time of conception. The lower part of the door jambs shows Ganga on proper right and Yamuna on proper left, both accompanied by female cauri-bearers. The river goddesses appear on the inner jambs, while the central and outer ones on each side are occupied by two dvarapalas. The doorsill shows lotus scrolls on the central projection, a two-armed figure of Sarasvati on each side of it, and three water divinities, riding on karimakara and holding water pot, on either end. Below the river goddesses occur gajasardulas and below the dvarapalas are scenes of dance and music. The central square bay of the mahamandapa consists of four ornate pillars and a ceiling supported by them on a square frame of architraves. The pillars are very similar to those of the ardhamandapa. The architraves here also are divided into three fasciae, the lower decorated with intersecting garland loops, the middle adorned with triangles, and the upper left plain. The ceiling is flat and shows a large lotus flower with four rows of petals in the centre. The flower is displayed in a square compartment bordered by three decorative bands of scrolls, rosettes and scrolls. On sculptural and architectural grounds the temple is datable to the end of the 10th century A.D. UN Un is a holy Jaina place in the Khargon district of Madhya Pradesh. In the northern extremity of Un is a Jaina temple which is called Caubara Dera II by the local people. The temple is located in the heart of the Malava region. Caubara Dera II - Built of sandstone and facing north the temple is laid out on a high natural ground. It consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches, mukhamandapa and an entrance porch. The entire temple is in a very ruinous condition. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan comprising bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the bhadra having five planes and the other two, three planes each. Between the angas are recesses reinforced by konikas, each chamfered into three corners. The pitha of the sanctum consists of a plain bhitta, short khura-kumbha decorated with carved half diamonds, minor torus, ratnapatta, jadyakumbha carrying two decorative bands of lotus petals and diamonds on the lower section, karnika, grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The vedibandha of the janghawall consists of five usual courses of khura, tall kumbha, kalasa, antarapata and kapota. The kumbha is very ornate as it shows seated figures of Yaksis and Vidyadevis in niches on the central facets, diamondand bead on the lower section, a narrow plain band on the upper section and stencilled foliage on the shoulder. The kapota is also ornate as it depicts caitya-gavaksas above and gagarakas below. The jangha, borne by mancika with circular pendants underneath, is adorned with a row of standing framed figures of Dikpalas on the karmas, Jaina divinities (now missing) in sunk niches on the bhadras, and Jaina divinities and apsarases on the pratirathas. The jangha figures are crowned by udgama-pediments. Above the pediment occur the round bharani with foliage clasps, kapota and ribbed awning. The superstructure of the sanctum as well as other compartments has disappeared. The doorway of the sanctum is similar to that of the gudhamandapa to be described below. The interior of the sanctum measuring eight feet square shows four plain octagonal pilasters supporting a plain corbelled ceiling. The enshrined image of santinatha dated in Jain Education Intemational

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106 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies A.D. 1185, which is also the date of the temple, has now been preserved in the Indore Museum, but its pedestal may still be seen there. The gudhamandapa follows the horizontal lineaments of the sanctum; it is entered from the front through the mukhamandapa and from each of the lateral sides by a porch made up of two ornate octagonal pillars and two pilasters supporting a ceiling of kola courses. Each of the three doorways consists of five jambs represented by foliate scrolls, abraded and unidentified, stambha, diamond-and-rosettes, and lotus scrolls respectively. The door-lintel shows Jina figure on the lalata and the overdoor fine figures of Jaina Yaksis (Pl. 28). The mukhamandapa consists of four pillars and four pilasters forming three bays in all. In front of the central bay is the entrance porch formed by two pillars. All the pillars are ornate and belong to octagonal order. Each bay contains an ornate ceiling. The temple is datable to the 12 century A.D. Gvalesvara Temple - There is another Jaina temple at Un called Gvalesvara which is similar on plan to the Caubara Dera II. Though the temple is much restored, its sikhara of the Nagara variety can still be seen. Both the temples at Un represent a mixed variety of the Paramara and Solanki styles. CHHATTISGARH Chhattisgarh comprises almost of the same region which was known as Daksina Kosala or Mahakosala in ancient times. After the Imperial Guptas this region was ruled between the 6th and 8th centuries A.D. by three dynasties of Sarabhapuriyas, Panduvamsis (Somavamsis) and Nalas. During this period there were erected many Saiva, Vaisnava and Buddhist temples. The most notable of these is the Laksmana temple at Sirpur (Raipur district), but no evidence of Jaina affiliation from this period has come down to us. The region probably continued to enjoy the sway of the Somavasis until the latter were ousted from there by Kalingaraja, a remote descendant of Kokalla I, the founder of the Kalacuri dynasty of Tripuri, in the early 11th century A.D. From Kalingaraja began the Ratanpur (Bilaspur district) branch of the Kalacuris which ruled in this part of the country at least up to A.D. 1218. During the Kalacuri period Jainism was certainly embraced by the people since a Jaina temple of this period stands to this day at Arang (Raipur district). ARANG The Jaina temple at Arang known as Bhanda Devala (Pl. 29) is built of sandstone and faces west. It is a Bhumija temple located in the farthest east. The temple is in a very dilapidated condition preserving only the sanctum and the constricted vestibule, with no remains of mandapa and entrance porch. Though the sikhara of the sanctum is visible up to the finial, its west face with sukanasa and doorway and much of its north-east and south-east faces are lost and restored in plain plaster. The sanctum is stellate on plan with six offsets on the bhadras and six sets of two kuta-stambhas each on the karnas, all displayed from bottom to top with recesses in between them. The pitha of the sanctum, which rests on a kharasila, is high and elaborate, consisting of a tall bhitta decorated with scrolls, gajathara, asvathara, narathara, ornate jadyakumbha, broad karnika and grasapatti. The vedibandha of the wall is composed of ornate mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa decorated with diamond-and-bead band, a pattika adorned with diamonds alternating with rosettes, and a pattika embellished with scrolls. The kumbha carries figures of Jaina gods and goddesses in niches on the central part, and is divided into two halves by a plain median band, the lower depicting chequer pattern and the upper left plain. The jangha, supported by a mancika underlined with a frieze of gagarakas, is enriched with two rows of sculptures separated by a torus on the kutastambhas and by the cornice of the lower sculptured niche on the bhadras. The main faces of all the six bhadras show niches containing seated Jaina divinities, Yaksis and Vidyadevis in the lower row and Yaksas in the upper, all flanked by figures of apsarases. The kuta-stambhas carry in both the rows the figures of Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 107 gods, goddesses and apsarases. The figures of the lower row are surmounted by a figural band and those of the upper row by a series of three successive mouldings and a vyalapatrika. While the bhadra-niches in the lower row are capped by a simple cornice, those in the upper row are surmounted by udgama-pediments. All the recesses are adorned with erotic couples, vyalas, apsarases and miscellaneous scenes. The jargha is shaded by a heavy ribbed eave-cornice. The sikhara of the sanctum begins with a series of three mouldings of which the upper and lower are plain, while the middle is adorned with a row of geese. Each of the six bhadras carries mainly the lata (latticed spine of the caitya-gavaksas) with a niche sheltering a Yaksi or Vidyadevi on the lower part and two or three rows of figure sculptures on the upper. The kuta- stambhas carry five storeys of two miniature sikharas each. The interior of the sanctum, which has a lower floor level and is reached by a flight of three steps, enshrines standing, robeless, triple Jinas (Pl. 30) of polished black basalt, identified as santinatha, Kunthunatha and Aranatha by their cognizances. Compared to the fine wall sculptures of the Kalacuri style of the 11th century A.D., the enshrined Jina images are stiff and hence later by a century or two. This Bhumija Jaina temple has been produced indeed in the regional Kalacuri style of the late 11th century A.D. RAJASTHAN According to an inscription of A.D. 1277 found in the Mahavira temple at Bhinmal and another one of A.D. 1369 in a Jaina temple at Mungthala, Mahavira had visited these places in Rajasthan. But these being very late records, we cannot give much credence to them as Mahavira is not known to have gone beyond Kausambi, Allahabad district (U.P.), during his preaching tour. Of the period ranging from about B.C. 300 to A.D, 600 we have no specimen of Jaina vestiges in Rajasthan, although Mathura to its north and Valabhi (Gujarat) to the south were flourishing centres of Jainism at this time. This is well demonstrated from the fact that three Jaina councils to compile Jaina canons were convened during this period at Mathura (Second Council) and Valabhi (Third and Fourth Councils). Support to this is also lent by a large number of Jaina bronze images recovered from Valabhi and Akota near Baroda. While the Fourth Council gave the present shape to the Svetambara Jaina canons, the Jaina bronzes exhibited for the first time the Svetambara form of Jina images. These evidences clearly show the strong position of Svetambara Jainism in this part of the country. As we trea' n'he 7th century A.D., we come across some bror. images of the Jina (one precisely dated in A.D. 687) from Vasantgadh, Sirohi district, which are shown wearing a dhoti as lower garment. This obviously shows the popularity of Svetambara Jainism in Rajasthan. During the 8-10 century A.D. Rajasthan was under the sway of the Gurjara Pratiharas of Kannauj who had great respects for the Jainas and Jainism. Nagabhata II even turned a Jaina and patronised Jainism by going on Jaina pilgrimage and by erecting temples to the Jinas. The presence of Jainism is also evident from three extant Jaina temples located at Osian, Varman and Rajorgadh. from about the 10h century A.D. to the close of the 13th century A.D. Rajasthan was ruled by the Chamanas of Sakambhari (Jaipur) and Nadola (Jodhpur), the Guhils of Medapata (Udaipur), the Paramaras of Candravati (Abu) and the Caulukyas of Anahillapataka (Patan, Gujarat). These powers often fought against one and another for their supremacy and territorial gains and they also had to resist the Muslim inroads from time to time, but the building activity went on unabated as evident from a large number of Jaina as well as Brahmanical temples raised during this period. This could have been possible because the ruling chiefs of these dynasties had very liberal attitude towards Jainism, the kings like Caulukya Kumarapala and Cahamana Asvaraja (of Nadola) accepted Jaina religion, a large section of the population was Jaina, the Jainas Jain Education Intemational

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108 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies were rich merchants and had philanthropic outlook, and many Jainas occupied key positions in the court of the ruling chiefs. Of the two sects, Digambara and Svetambara, the latter predominated the scene and, except for a Digambara Jaina temple at Nagda, all the known extant Jaina temples of this period located at Lodrava, Phalodhi, Nadol, Nadlai, Sadri, Sewadi, Ahar, Abu, Nandia, Nana, Pali, Mungthala, Jhalrapatan and Jhalodi indeed belong to the Svetambara sect. OSIAN Osian, ancient Ukesa, is situated in north-northwest of the district town of Jodhpur in Rajasthan. It is an old town owning a group of thirteen temples of the Pratihara age. This is thus the largest group of temples of that age at one place in western India. The place is well-known for the Jainas and Jainism since it is the native place of Ukesavala (Osavala) Jaina community and Ukesavalagaccha of the Svetambara Jaina Church. Of all the Jaina temples at Osian the Mahavira temple is the oldest one. Built of sandstone and facing north this Jaina temple as it now stands is not a work of one period but of several periods retaining of course old remains alongwith later renovations and additions. Mahavira Temple - The temple complex, standing on a large jagati and entered through a two-storeyed nalamandapa from the north, consists of a sanctum enclosed by an ambulatory, an antarala, a gudhamandapa, and a mukhamandapa provided with a porch (Fig. 65). At some distance in front of the porch is a gateway and in the open spaces between them on each lateral side is a pair of devakulikas, while on either side and the back side of the sanctum runs a cloistered corridor. Another devakulika is attached to the east wall of the nalamhandapa. The temple is surrounded by a compound wall which has entrances on the east and west as well, the eastern one having a double porch. The outer wall of the jagati on the east has been reset and carries some decorative bands and mouldings. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan and shows three divisions in the elevation, viz. pitha, wall and sikhara (Pls. 31 and 33). The pitha consists of four bold mouldings of kumbha like bhitta, wide recessed fillet decorated with heavy swirls of scrolls, kapota adorned with caitya-gavaksas interspersed with half lotuses, and a broad pattika embellished with acanthus like scrolls. The vedibandha of the wall shows khura, kumbha, kalasa and kapota, the last decorated with caitya-gavaksas above and a frieze of lotus buds in suspension below. The kumbha on the karmas is inset with sculptured niches. The jangha-wall carries standing figures of twoarmed Dikpalas (Indra, Agni, Yama and Nirsti) on bifacial two karnas in framed niches, each topped by three-tiered udgama-pediment. Above the pitha the jangha prominently projects out on the three bhadras and shows screen wall fitted between the square vaseand-foliage pillars. The screen wall is composed of rajasanaka decorated with perforated stepped diamonds and grooves, vedika enriched with vine creepers alternating with vase-and-foliage pillarettes, asanapatta with rooflets, and stone grilles cut out with squares, stepped diamonds, floral and figural ornaments. The screen wall is shaded by an overhanging corrugated eave-cornice. The wall above this shows a band of half lotuses alternated by grooved half diamonds. The varandika atop the jangha consists of two usual kapotas with an intervening antarapatta decorated with palmettes. The pancaratha sikhara of the sanctum is of the anekandaka class with its central tower marked by six bhumi-amalakas. The Sikhara shows three urah-smigas and a projected balcony over each bhadra, two smigas over each karna, two quarter srngas flanking the uppermost urah-smiga, one smga over each pratiratha, and two small smigas flanking the balcony. The crowning members comprising two amalakas with an intervening candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka are all modern. The front facade of the Sikhara carries a sukanasa with crowning lion. The whole of the sikhara is covered with a lattice of minute caitya-gavaksas. The sikhara is heavily repaired from old and new materials, and its

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110 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies projected balconies and many slngas are datable even to the 15th century A.D. The inner cella of the sanctum is also tri-anga with an emptied niche on each bhadra. The doorframe, the two flanking pilasters and the antarala ceiling have recently been concealed by painting and glass inlay. The exterior wall of the antarala following the vertical sequence of the sanctum shows a figure of Dikpala Isana on the east wall and that of Varuna on the west. Above its varandika is a large figure of Prasadaputra, an early appearance of that feature which gained much popularity after the 14th century A.D. The interior wall of the antarala contains two niches that are vacant now. The gudhamandapa is dvi-anga on plan and shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum, but the jangha images on the north-west karna are identifiable with Apraticakra and Vidyadevi Acchupta, and those on the north-east with Dharanendra Yaksa and Vidyadevi Nirvani. The rear karnas of the jangha, which formerly had sunk niches on the south faces, have now door openings. The gudhamandapa is covered by a fine variety of three-tiered pyramidal roof. Above the varandika it begins with a recessed fillet adorned with figures of heavenly dancers and musicians, apsarases, warriors etc., and shaded by a ribbed awning. Above this comes another fillet decorated with chequer patter. Then follows the first tier of the roof showing a graceful srriga immediately above the varandika on four karnas and a gable like rathika, topped by three-coursed pediment of bold caitya-gavaksas, sheltering rsis (ascetics), on two bhadras. The rathika is flanked on each side by a small srga on the front level and by half pediment at the level of the corner srrigas. The second tier, which is separated from the lower one by a chequer band, shows pharsakutas (miniature square shrine with pyramidal roof) sheltering apsarases on the four corners and usual pediments with seated Jinas in between them. The third tier is separated from the second by ratnapatta (diamond-band) and carries single pediment with Jina figure in each cardinal direction. On the top of the roof is a plain recessed fillet and a flat shoulder course surmounted by a large bell, amalaka and kalasa. The doorway of the gudhamandapa is of the trisakha variety consisting of patravalli (scroll), naga (square flowers clasping thin bands of naga), and padma (lotus petals). At the base of the door stands a female carrying water pot. She is sheltered by a lotus leave with an adoring naga above. The door-lintel depicts a figure of Garuda holding naga tails on the dedicatory block. The overdoor shows two decorative bands below and a frieze of figure sculptures with seated Parsvanatha in projected central niche above. The two ornate flanking pilasters carry standing figures of Ganga and Yamuna above their brackets. The interior of the square gudhamandapa shows two longitudinal row of three pillars each and two ornate pilasters on two corners of each bhadra. Four of these pillars stand in the central nave and two demarcate the antarala. The pillars and pilasters are adorned with ghatapallava, nagapasa (entwined snakes) and grasamukhas. A figural belt runs along the upper end of the enclosing wall. The central ceiling is made up of archaic kolas. The inner wall of the gudhamandapa contains ten sunk niches. Eight of these are vacant, while two in the south wall shelter Dikpalas Kubera and Vayu, thus completing the sequence of eight if they are counted with six of the outer wall. The mukhamandapa is confronted by a row of four pillars with two more forming the porch in the front. All the pillars are of the square order, standing on a square but plain moulded base. Their shaft shows fine ghatapallava below and above with intervening sixteensided fluted shaft. Below the upper ghatapallava in some pillars is a broad figural belt surmounted by a grasapatti. The upper ghatapallava is followed by a torus carved with creepers, octagonal belt clasped by foliage, and volute pattern. The capital has a ribbed square abacus of torus and cyma recta, surmounted by roll-brackets. The space between the mukhamandapa Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India pillars and the wall of the gudhamandapa is covered the jangha occur bharani with foliage clasps, antarapatta by a series of large, curved circular rafters with central decorated with stepped diamonds, kapota decorated with gagarakas and terminal naga busts. The mukhamandapa caitya-gavaksas, and ribbed eave-cornice. The Sikhara has a two-tiered pyramidal roof with karna-srrigas and of the sanctum in each case is pancaratha and ekandaka basal sculptural panels, topped by fine udgama pediments crowned by amalaka, candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka and sheltering figures of Jaina goddesses. The and bearing lattice ornament of caitya-gavaksas, while mukhamandapa is shaded by a corrugated eave-cornice. the porch has a bell-roof with three rathikas containing The square porch also has a two-tiered roof but Jina figures. Each porch consists of two ghatapallava is surmounted by a bell. Above the eave-cornice it pillars and two pilasters, supporting a kola-form of shows a sraga at each corner and a sculptured niche ceiling on a square frame of architraves overshadowed topped by triple udgama on each face. The ceiling by corrugated awning. The doorframe consists of three (Pl. 32) consists of one octagonal and two circular jambs (trisakha) or five jambs (pancasakha). In the tricourses. The octagonal course shows figure sculptures sakha variety it shows patra (scrolls), stambha decorated on the inner face and a kirttimukha at each corner on with figures of Jaina goddesses, and a jamb adorned the underside. The second depicts an eight-foil kola with lotus leaves. The lintel depicts a figure of Jina fringed by a band of creepers. The third is a large in the centre as well as in either end and Vidyadevis circular kola with sixteen radial rafters set up in two in between. In the pancasakha doorframe it shows patra, rings and terminating at each level in naga busts. rupa, rupastambha, rupa and patra. The rupastambha The gorgeous gateway consists of two enriched carries figures of Vidyadevis, each accompanied by two square pillars supporting a graceful triangular torana on attendant figures occupying the rupasakhas. a carved architrave. The torana accommodates within The cloistered corridor behind the main temple its triangular frame addorsed figures of Jinas flanked shows about eight pillars of the ghatapallava order on on each side by a peacock turning its head to the back. the southern side and a devakulika with sikhara on east A remarkable feature of the gateway is this that it as well as west. carries standing images of Jivantasvami on the lower The nalamandapa is a large rectangular hall built square section of the pillar shaft. The gateway is securely over the stairway and two flanking subterranean dated in A.D. 1018 by an inscription carved on the chambers. It is semi-open on the interior south side architrave. fenced by sloping seat-back. It shows twenty-six pillars The four devakulikas are exactly alike, differing in four rows. Eight of these form an octagon in the only in matter of details. Each devakulika consists of centre and support a large domical ceiling on an octagonal a tri-anga sanctum, antarala and porch. Their pitha frame of architraves decorated with diamond and double shows a complete set of mouldings, viz. kharasila volute pattern. The dome is composed of ten diminishing (foundation cap), jadyakumbha, karnika, grasapatti, courses and an apical stone with staminal tube. The first chadyaki (hood), gajathara and narathara, all very neatly course is sixteen-sided. The second is circular treated worked out. The vedibandha of the wall shows usual as karnadardarika The third is decorated with figure five mouldings of khura, kumbha inset with sculptured sculptures. The next three consist of gajatalus and the niches, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota. The jangha-wall last four show kolas. There are sixteen bracket figures carries standing figures of Dikpalas on the karnas, of apsarases thrown against the three gajatalus. In the apsarases on the pratirathas and recesses, Jivantasvami north wall of the hall is a niche having an inscription on the antarala and seated Jinas on the bhadras. Above recording the renovation of this hall by one Jindaka International

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112 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies in A.D. 959. There are other niches also but of no consequence. The devakulika attached to the east wall of the nalamandapa and opening into it stands on a pitha showing above the kharasila a bhitta, chadyaki, jadyakumbha, karnika, and a pattika adorned with scrolls. The vedibandha of its wall consists of five usual members but the kumbha is adorned with half lotuses and half diamonds. The jangha-wall carries images of Dikpalas on the karnas, seated Jinas on the bhadras, apsarases on the pratirathas and vyalas in the recesses. The exterior wall of the antarala shows a standing figure of Sarasvati on both the east and west sides. Above the jangha occur an antarapatta adorned with stepped diamonds and a kapota. The pancaratha ekandaka sikhara bearing a lattice of caitya-gavaksas has a triple udgama-pediment at its base on each side. The bifacial porch located in the eastern extremity of the nalamandapa opens up with a pair of carved pillars both in the inner and outer side. Each porch also has a ceiling carved with full-blown lotus flower The date of the temple has been controversial for quite a long time. This is simply because the temple has been incessantly repaired. However, what looks tangible is that the jagati, bifacial porch, nalamandapa, the main temple complex (barring the sanctum sikhara) and the southern cloistered corridor were built at one time, i.e. when the Pratihara king Vatsaraja (A.D.783- 792) ruled the country according to Jindaka's inscription. Jindaka repaired the nalamandapa. The devakulika attached to the nalamandapa was built a little later. The torana-gateway was set up in A.D. 1018. About this time the sikhara of the main sanctum was also built At last, the six devakulikas (two pairs of them on the front and two at the back of the compound) were added by the end of the 11th century A.D. VARMAN Varman, ancient Brahmana, lies to the western extremity of Mt. Abu in Sirohi district of Rajasthan. The village of Varmana was an important seat of Svetambara monks of Brahmanagaccha. It has a small temple of Mahavira which belongs to this sect. The temple has heavily suffered from repeated renovations as well as damages. Mahavira Temple - The temple originally consisted of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, possibly mukhamandapa, and some devakulikas with colonnaded corridor. The devakulikas have disappeared and the basement of the corridor, which could be seen on the north and east sides some time back, has now been destroyed by recent renovations. The eastern corridor is reported to have possessed two flat ceilings, one carved with an image of Ambika and the other with that of Gajalaksmi. Probably, it was a Caturvimsatijinalaya, a shrine with twenty-four devakulikas, and if so it would be the earliest temple to have this feature. The gudhamandapa is of no consequence as it is a product of later addition and restoration. At present, it has only fragmentary remains of the original temple which may be seen particularly in the basement, pillars and lintel. The pitha of the sanctum is short and plain consisting of bhitta, jadyakumba and pattika. The vedibandha of the wall shows khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, but that of the gudhamandapa has no kalasa and a medial kapota occurs on the wall. the pillars of the corridor are of the square order, with corners chamfered into three angles. Their shaft is elegantly carved with scrolls in medallions, patravalli, ghatapallava and volute pattern, and they are surmounted by atlantes brackets. In another variety the ghatapallva is absent. These pillars have close resemblance with those of the Hindu Brahmanasvami temple there. A lintel fragment depicting Jina figures may have belonged to the original doorway of the sanctum, as the present doorframe is datable to the late 10th or early 11" century A.D. Stylistically, the older parts of the temple are datable to c. A.D. 750-775 and the devakulika pillars, a century later. Jain Education Intemational Jain Education Interational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India RAJORGADH Rajorgadh (Paranagara), medieval Rajyapura, is situated in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. It was the seat of a feudatory branch of the Gurjara Pratiharas ruling in the 10th century A.D. There are in all fourteen temples in various stages of preservation. Of these the temple No. 9 in stone is Jaina with westerly orientation. Temple 9 It consists of a tri-anga sanctum and a hall. The shrine is surrounded by four corner shrines and the hall by two lateral shrines. The temple stands on an undecorated low pitha. The vedibandha of the wall is tall but plain. The wall above and the sikhara have gone. The shrine is dedicated to Jina Santinatha whose colossal image, some 16 ft. 9 inches high, still stands in the ruined sanctum. It was built by Sarvadeva, a disciple of Acarya Surasena of the Dharkata community, at the instance of prince Pulindra. In the ruined hall the bases of the nave columns stand on a slightly raised platform. Compared to that of the main shrine, the pitha of the subsidiary shrines is richly ornamented. The pitha of the four corner shrines shows a tall plain bhitta, jadyakumbha beautifully adorned with lotus petals, kumuda, antarapatta decorated with chequer pattern, grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The two lateral shrines have four pillars each for supporting the roof, now gone. On the top of the pitha of each shrine is a platform which was probably intended to support Nandisvaradvipa, Sahasrakuta, Astapada or Samavasarana. A fragment of fine ceiling recovered from near the site shows four robeless Jaina monks bearing gocchaka-broom instead of peacock-feather broom, suggesting that the temple did not belong to the Digambara sect but to the Botika or Acela-Ksapanaka sect. Ghanerav is a Jaina pilgrimage centre located in the Pali district of Rajasthan. To the east-south-east of 113 the town, at a distance of four miles, is an old temple of Mahavira built of sandstone and facing the north. In elevation the sanctum shows three traditional divisions of pitha, wall and sikhara. The pitha of the sanctum as well as the gudhamandapa consists of two bhittas, jaddyakumbha, kumuda, antarapatta and a pattika, all being well-shaped but undecorated, barring the jadyakumbha which is decorated with caitya-gavaksa pattern. The bhadra projections of the pitha carry sculptured niches which, commencing from the east face of the gudhamandapa and running clockwise, contain images of Padmavati, Cakresvari, Brahmasanti, Nirvani and Gomukha. The vedibandha of the wall consists of five bold mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, the last being adorned with caitya-gavaksa pattern. The jangha-wall above carries boldly carved images of two-armed Dikpalas on the karnas (four on Stylistically, the temple may be placed in the first the bifacial karnas of the sanctum, two on the antarala quarter of the 10th century A.D. GHANERAV walls and two on the front karnas of the gudhamandapa), each standing in a framed niche borne by a bharaputrakaatlantes, and powerful vyalas on gajamunda brackets in the salilantaras. Above each vyala is a Gandharva, Mahavira Temple It (Fig. 66; Pl. 34) consists of a sanctum enclosed by an ambulatory, antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa preceded by a porch and rangamandapa, the last one surrounded by twentyfour devakulikas. The whole of the temple-complex stands on a low platform supporting on its top a prakarawall starting from the point where the devakulikas end. The sanctum is dvi-anga on plan consisting of karna and prominent bhadra; between the angas are salilantara-recesses. The three bhadras of the sanctum are equilateral and have balconied projections above the vedibandha, while the karnas are broken into three planes each. The balconies support screen walls which are made up of fine stone grilles that admit faint light to the interior. The gudhamandapa, though square, is of the size of the sanctum (28 ft. 6 inches wide) and corresponds to the latter in having bhadra projections and elevational lineaments.

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114 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Vidyadhara or Apsara. The temple also carries the ninth and tenth Dikpalas (Brahma and Ananta), a rare representation, on the two mukhamandapa pilasters adjoining the two karnas of the gudhamandapa. The bhadra-balconies above the vedibandha in both the sanctum and gudhamandapa (Fig. 67) are composed of a rajasenaka depicting figure sculptures in panels, vedika adorned with alternate vase-and-foliage pilasters and vertical scroll bands, a complex course of asanapatta embellished with two decorative bands of gagarakas and lotus petals below and caitya-gavaksas above, and kaksasana carved with flamboyant, beautiful figural motifs and vegetal creepers. Above this comes the screen wall formed by dwarf pillars and stone grilles, beautifully carved with rampant vyalas and geometrical patterns and carrying at the top an elaborate composition of dance and music under a festooned arch. The varandika consists of deep fillet, corrugated eave and kapota. The curvilinear tower of the sanctum and the bell-roof of the gudhamandapa are modern erection. The gudhamandapa is entered through an ornate doorway from the mukhamandapa. The doorway consists of six jambs of patra, rupa, rupastambha, rupa, padma and ratna decorated with undulating creepers, vyalas and apsarases, two-armed Jaina Yaksis and Vidyadevis, vyalas and apsarases, lotus leaves, and diamonds respectively. The lintel continues the three inner decorative bands of the jambs and has a seated figure of Parsvanatha on the lalata and Navagrahas above. The pilasters flanking the door carry standing figures of Ganga and Yamuna on the lower section of the shaft. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal arrangement of eight mixed variety of pillars supporting a large but ornate domical ceiling (Pl. 35) on an octagonal frame of carved architraves. The ceiling is composed of ten circular courses. The first is karmadardarika embellished with lotus petals. The second shows grasamukhas alternating with beaded tassels issuing from their mouth. The third is rupakantha bearing a row of dwarf figures. The fourth, fifth and sixth are gajatalus, each having a series of bold, curved, circular rafters terminating in naga busts. The seventh is an eight-foil kola. The eighth is karnadardarika similar to the first course. The ninth is a quatrefoil kola. The tenth is circular kola with a staminal tube clasped by one row of petals. From the third course project out eight elephant brackets supporting struts of charming figures of apsarases or Nayikas tenoned into the lowermost course of kola. The inner walls of the gudhamandapa are reinforced by bhadraka pilasters, and between the pilasters are small niches crowned by udgama-pediments. The inner cella of the sanctum is also dvi-anga on plan and has a vedibandha base and three emptied niches on the cardinal offsets. Its doorway is very similar to that of the gudhamandapa. However, here the lintel shows seated Jinas in panels and standing Jinas in countersunk recesses; above the lintel is a makaratorana with Sankhapala (a hovering male blowing conch) below the loops and Vidyadharas flanking him. The doorsill, which is intact here, shows a flat mandaraka with floral motif in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it, and Vidyadevi in panel on either extremity. The mukhamandapa shares its pitha with the gudhamandapa, but above that it has a broad recessed fillet adorned with figures of Vidyadevis and Gandharvas, besides a large figure of Kumbhapurusa on the north and south sides. The mukhamandapa is divided into three bays by a row of transversely placed four pillars and four pilasters. The square porch in front of the central bay is formed by two additional pillars. The porch also accommodates the staircase which is guarded by two Indras placed in two projecting niches built on two sides. All these columns are of the square order with corners chamfered into three angles. They have a moulded base; their shaft is plain below and ornamental above; and they have a two-tiered abacus crowned by roll-brackets. Each bay contains a very ornate ceiling. The ceiling in the front porch is lenticular in shape comprising six receding tiers of eight-foil larger kola, sixteen-foil small and medium kola, twelve-foil big and Jain Education Intemational

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116 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies kaksasana | 10 |asanapatta Sa HP vedika rajasenaka patrika kapota antarapatta kalasa kumbha khura pattika antarapatta karnika jadyakumbha bhitta FLO Fig. 67. Wall of gudhamandapa, Mahavira Temple, Ghanerav. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 117 small kola, eight-foil kola, large circular kola and a smaller circular kola. In the centre of the last one is inserted a small pendant of flower. A somewhat similar ceiling may be seen in the Maladevi temple at Gyaraspur. The ceiling in the central bay of the mukhamandapa is square and flat and displays three concentric circular bands in a square frame bordered by rectangular panels. The outer circular band depicts vyalas with riders, the middle shows the figures of dancers, and the central is damaged. The square frame is decorated with creepers; a kirttimukha appears at each of the four corners. The rectangular panels are decorated with lotus scrolls of big and small sizes, bearing figures of dancers, musicians and acrobats. The two ceilings in the flanking bays of the mukhamandapa are rectangular and alike, each having a grid of three lenticular flowers in diagonal framework. Each of the two lateral flowers consists of three receding tiers of eight-foil, quatrefoil and circular kolas with flower bud in the centre. The central flower is similar to the lateral ones but has an additional tier comprising twelve-foil kola. What is remarkable here is that the first tier on the soffit forms a continuous chain of cusps. Inside the mukhamandapa, on either side of the gudhamandapa doorway, is an ornamental khattaka- niche supported by bharaputrakas and crowned by deeply cut udgama-pediment The rangamandapa is of no interest. The devakulikas are featureless, except for those in northeastern wing as they carry figures of Vidyadevis, Dikpalas and vyalas on the walls. On stylistic grounds the temple is datable to the mid-10h century A.D. PALI Pali, a district town in Rajasthan, was the native place of the Pallivala-gaccha of the Svetambara sect. It has four extant temples in the town of which the Navalakha Parsvanatha is a Jaina shrine originally dedicated to Mahavira since it has been referred to as "Viranatha Mahacaitya" and "Mahavira-caitya" in the inscriptions of A.D. 1122 and 1145. The originality of the temple has been heavily marred by stucco coating and gaudy paints during recent years. Navalakha Parsvanatha Temple - The temple (Fig. 68) consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, and a rangamandapa surrounded by a series of devakulikas. The rangamandapa, the sikhara of the sanctum and the surrounding devakulikas were added or replaced in A.D. 1629 when the originally enshrined image of Mahavira was replaced by that of Parsvanatha. The sanctum (Fig. 69) is tri-anga with a broad bhadra, thin pratiratha, and a karna half the size of bhadra. Between the angas are salilantaras. The pitha consists of a bhitta, jadyakumbha, kumuda, antarapatta and pattika, all plain and recently replaced by a modern version of old mouldings. The vedibandha of the wall has only four members, viz. khura, kumbha, kalasa and kapota. The kumbha bears interesting decorations of half lotus on the karnas, pair of geese or Kinnaras on the pratirathas and two-tiered plain surasenaka on the bhadras. The kapota has enrichment of caitya-gavaksa and half diamond on the karnas and bhadras and of only caitya-gavaksa on the pratirathas. The jangha of the wall carries emptied niches on the bhadras, standing Jina with a pair of Maladharas above and Surasundari on the outer flank of the pratirathas, and Dikpalas on the karmas. The salilantaras contain figures of simhavyalas and gajavyalas, above each vyala is a large grasamukha. Above the jangha is a simple varandika with two usual kapotas and a curved awning. The bhadra-niche is crowned by a pediment with seated Jina. The doorframe of the sanctum, though painted, is old. It is of the saptasakha variety consisting of patra, vyala, Gandharva, stambha with Jina-mothers in panels, Gandharva, vyala and Maladhara respectively. The gudhamandapa has a straight and featureless exterior. Inside, it shows an octagonal arrangement of eight large, fluted ghatapallava pillars supporting a later built large domical ceiling. The rangamandapa is Jain Education Intemational

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120 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies uninteresting. retouched possibly in the Mughal period. The jangha As regards the date, the temple was probably built is divided into two plain registers by a floral median in the mid-10th century A.D. band and is topped by a band of saw-tooth pattern. The LODRAVA udgama, square bharani with foliage clasps, two kapotas Lodrava, the capital of the Bhattis in the medieval with intervening ratna-pattika and eave, though period, lies a few miles north-west of Jaisalmer in retouched, seem to be original. The sikhara is a late Rajasthan. It had an old Jaina temple which was medieval erection. The doorframe of the garbhagrha abandoned by the Jainas after its spoliation by the consists of seven jambs represented by patra, rupa, Muslim invaders. In the 15th century and subsequently rupastambha, rupa, mala, khalvasakha adorned with in the 17th century the temple was restored and since lotus petals, and a thin vyalasakha respectively. The then it is in worship. doorsill has a circular mandaraka in the centre and a This east-facing temple (Fig. 70) consists of a projecting grasa on its each side. The lintel carrying sanctum enclosed by an ambulatory, a gudhamandapa Jina figures is of late medieval period. and a porch, and measures 73 ft. by 40 ft. in all. The The porch in front of the garbhagrha consists of sanctum and the gudhamandapa have an equal width; two ornate pillars and two bhadraka pilasters, supporting they also are tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, a carved ceiling. The pillars have a moulded base of pratiratha and karna; the angas are broken into three khura, kumbha adorned with half lotuses, kalasa, or five planes; and the bhadras have balconied windows. antarapatta and kapota; their shaft successively shows The restored exterior pitha of the sanctum is built a plain cubical section, a narrow octagonal part decorated up in two series. The lower pitha is higher and consists with half lotuses, a circular fluted section adorned with of a bhitta, khura, kumbha decorated with caitya- chain-and-bells and serpents, fine ghatapallava, a square gavaksas, kalasa, narrow antarapatta, thin kapota bearing belt decorated with creepers, and an octagonal section decoration of half diamond-and-gavaksa and a pattika embellished with a jewelled band and grasapatti; and adorned with floral scrolls. The shorter upper pitha is the capital has a circular ribbed bharani surmounted made up of such mouldings as jadyakumbha ornamented by four-armed double-roll brackets and square blocks with caitya-gavaksas, kumuda, antarapatta carved with carved with diamonds. The pilasters have simplified kunjaraksas and usual kapota, the last three being thin. decoration. The vedika, asanapatta and the sloping grilles applied. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an throughout the building seem to belong to the Mughal octagonal arrangement of eight pillars in the central period. The original wall enclosing the ambulatory nave and twelve pilasters of late date in the surrounding passage was rather thick and had figure sculptures. aisle. The nave pillars support a large carved domical The inner garbhagyha, also tri-ariga on plan, stands ceiling of the 15th century A.D. The pillars correspond with a porch on a moulded pitha consisting of a small to those of the porch but here they are taller, the bhitta, jadyakumbha adorned with lotus leaves, kumuda, kumbha bears flamboyant pattern in semi-circles and antarapatta embellished with kunjaraksas, thin kapota the brackets of the capitals are borne by bharaputrakas. and grasapatti. The vedibandha above the pitha has the The architraves spanned across the pillars show a fullusual five mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, blown lotus with two rows of petals in the centre of antarapatta and kapota having plain surface, sculptured their underside, while their side face depicts a figure niches, uncarved surface, kunjaraksas and gavaksas of grasa spewing creepers in the lower fascia and palmrespectively. The mancika and the jangha have been leaves in the upper. The aisle ceilings also belong to Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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122 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the 15th century. seated Jina figures with worshippers. The four corner shrines whereby it has become The sikhara of the sanctum is of the anekandaka a pancayatana temple are a later addition. Similarly, the class showing three smigas along the bhadra offset and gateway in front of the temple has 15th century torana- one, two and three slngas over the following offsets arch over the 11th century pillars (Pl. 37). respectively. The central tower of the sikhara is crowned On stylistic grounds this temple is placed in the by a large amalaka, candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka. third quarter of the 10th century A.D. At the base of the sikhara, on each bhadra, is a framed NAGADA panel harbouring a standing, robeless figure of Nagada, medieval Nagadraha (snake-lake), is Parsvanatha with attendants. This again shows that the situated in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan. To the temple was dedicated to Parsvanatha and that it was north-east of the Nagadraha lake is a hillock with a of Digambara affiliation, a fact also confirmed by the Jaina temple of Aloka Parsvanatha built of sandstone literary tradition. The whole of the sikhara is covered and facing south. Owing to the interference of the by a fine lattice of caitya-gavaksas. hillock the north-east portion of the sanctum could not According to the Sasanacatustrimsika, a Sanskrit be worked out as was also the case with the Maladevi text written by Madanakirtti in the 13th century A.D., temple at Gyaraspur. the temple was dedicated to Parsva who was worshipped Aloka Parsvanatha Temple - It consists of a as Hari (Visnu) by the Vaisnavas, Buddha by the sanctum (Fig. 71; Pl. 38), an antarala and a Buddhists, and Suli (Siva) by the Mahesvaris in order rangamandapa, the last one being a 16th century to cure leprosy. At present, the sanctuary does not replacement of whatever the structure may or may not possess the enshrined image nor the pedestal on which have been. The sanctum is caturanga on plan comprising it was installed, but there is little doubt that it originally a narrow bhadra, thin pratibhadra and equilateral had an amorphous or rock-cut image or symbol of pratiratha and karna, each being broken into three planes. Parsvanatha. Between the angas are salilantaras. Stylistically, the temple is placed in the last quarter The pitha of the sanctum consists of a bhitta, of the 10th century A.D. jadyakumbha bearing a single caitya-gavaksa motif at NADLAI all the angas except the bhadras where a pair of half Nadlai, old Nadduladagika, was a twin of Nadol, caitya-gavaksas flank the central half carved diamond, the capital city of the Cahamanas who branched off an incipient karnika, antarapatta and a plain pattika. The from the main line of the Cahamanas of Sakambhari vedibandha has the usual five mouldings of khura, (Jaipur), some time in the middle of the 10th century kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, all being plain A.D. It is situated in the Pali district of Rajasthan. but for the kapota which has caitya-gavaksa ornament. Nadlai is a picturesque town with craggy hills and The jangha, divided into two halves by a grasapatti, valleys and is adorned with six Jaina temples nestled is plain excepting the bhadras where a shallow niche beside the main hill. The earliest and largest of these with an udgama-pediment contains a seated figure of is the Adinatha temple which was originally dedicated Paravanatha, proclaiming that the temple was dedicated to Mahavira as evident from inscriptions found in the to him. Above the jangha is a square fluted bharani temple. The temple seems to have been built in great followed in its turn by a kapota adorned with caitya- haste as attested to by its featureless walls, slipshod gavaksas and a curved ribbed eave-cornice. The bharani chiselling, stunted pillars and awkward articulation of at the bhadras is replaced by a figural belt bearing its different parts. Jain Education Intemational

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124 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Adinatha Temple - On plan the Adinatha temple (Fig. 72) consists of a sanctum enclosed by an ambulatory, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, rangamandapa and the surrounding devakulikas, the last two being erected possibly in A.D. 1541 when the temple was extensively repaired. Its elevation directly starts with the vedibandha of the wall as the pitha in the present temple and in the majority of other contemporary temples of this region is conspicuous by its absence. The vedibandha, which appears to be least disturbed, consists of the usual five courses of khura, kumbha, kalasa, anatarapatta and kapota of which the kumbha is decorated with half diamonds and lotuses. The wall is plain but topped by a band of bold lotuses; the entire wall is heavily repaired. The doorframe of the sanctum shows figures of Yaksa Sarvanubhuti and Yaksi Ambika on the sill portion, while its upper part has been restored. The sikhara of the sanctum is later built The gudhamandapa continues the lineaments of the sanctum but does not show the balconied windows on its central offsets. The interior shows double row of columns of which the four in the central bay are of the ghatapallava order. There is a niche with a small black image of the Jina which seems be an original one. The mukhamandapa shows one row of four ghatapallava pillars which are now concealed by thick coat of extravagant colours. These pillars as well as those in the gudhamandapa are short and slender. On the basis of the style coupled with epigraphical and literary references the older portions of this temple may be dated in the end of the 10 century A.D. Other Jaina Temples - The temples next to Adinatha at Nadlai and built possibly a generation later are those of Neminatha atop the southern hill and of Parsvanatha on the opposite hill. The Neminatha temple with its sanctum and gudhamandapa is plain and simple and has an ekandaka sikhara over the sanctum. To its gudhamandapa is attached a devakulika, also surmounted by an ekandaka sikhara. The Parsvanatha temple seems stylistically to be contemporaneous with the Sun temple at Modhera (A.D. 1027), but it has no figural decorations on the walls. At short distance to the south of the last is a temple of Santinatha built in the late 11th century A.D. I" pitha is a developed one but the wall does not carry the images except on the kumbha. The temple has been extensively repaired. The remaining two Jaina temples are built later and are of no interest. NADOL Nadol, medieval Naddula, situated in the Pali district of Rajasthan, was the capital of a branch line of the Cahamanas of Sakambhari (Jaipur) from the middle of the 10th century A.D. From this period onward Jainism considerably prospered in this area. This is evident not only by the patronage rendered to Jainism by the Cahamana rulers of Nadol but also by erecting temples to Neminatha, santinatha and Padmaprabha that stand to this day in various stages of preservation. the earliest of these is the Neminatha temple followed by the other two. Neminatha Temple - Built of sandstone and facing north this temple consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, twenty-four surrounding devakulikas and a balanaka (entrance hall), the whole standing on a platform which is old and original, but the temple proper is a replacement of the 11th century as evident from the plain pitha and wall mouldings (Pl. 39) and the minute lattice ornament of the multiturreted pancaratha sikhara. In the later construction, however, the old fragments bearing the figures of Dikpalas and vyalas have been reused. The basal rathikas of the Sikhara also contain original images of Cakresvari on south and Nirvani on west. The gudhamandapa also carries undecorated mouldings and plain walls as noticed in case of the sanctum; its interior is of no interest. The mukhamandapa too is of no consequence. The devakulikas have completely disappeared. The balanaka is old but uncarved. Santinatha Temple - This Jaina temple with Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 125 easterly orientation seems to have been constructed in the the sanctum, repeats the wall lineaments of the sanctum, middle of the 11" century A.D. The temple has been but the karnas carry deep sunk niches, a feature very rebuilt in the haphazard manner, possibly in the 17th unusual in the temples of this period. These karnacentury A.D. The bhadra-niches of the tri-anga sanctum niches shelter figures of Vidyadevis of whom Vajrankusi, are vacant, but the karmas carry, surprisingly enough, Vajrasnkhala and Rohini may still be seen. If we look female forms of Dikpalas. On the pratirathas may be seen at the size and embellishment of the temple, we shall the figures of Vidyadevis. The gudhamandapa is plain. find that some royal personage may have been Padmaprabha Temple - This Jaina temple is instrumental in its creation. built of white sandstone and faces north. It is the largest Judging from the style of the temple it appears Jaina temple of that age in the whole of Rajasthan. The that this temple was probably built in the third quarter Padmaprabha temple consists of a sanctum, of the 11th century A.D. gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches, NANA mukhamandapa, surrounding devakulikas and a balanaka, Nana is situated in the Pali district of Rajasthan. the last three being of little interest. Similarly, the It has an old Jaina temple of Mahavira in sandstone Sikhara of the sanctum is a 17h century erection, and of the time of the Paramaras of Candravati. the roof of the gudhamandapa is lost beyond recognition. Mahavira Temple - This cast-facing temple is The sanctum of the Padmaprabha temple is tri-anga rectangular on plan (Fig. 73) with a sandhara sanctum on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the and a four-pillared gudhamandapa, both enclosed by a bhadra being broken into seven planes and the other two common solid wall having entrance from the later built into five planes cach. Between the three offsets are mukhamandapa. It seems that originally the temple was recessed salilantaras which have been reinforced by minor surrounded by a prakara-wall with simple gateway on projecting konikas, each broken into three planes. The the east as well as west. Subsequently, some devakulikas pitha of the sanctum is composed of a broad bhitta, a were also added. small bhita, jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta, cippika, The pitha of the temple is plain and short and grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The vedibandha of consists of bhitta, jadyakumbha and pattika. The the wall consists of khura, kumbha carrying figures of vedibandha of the wall is also plain but tall with five lalitasana goddesses in niches, kalasa, antarapatta, and traditional mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, kapota embellished with udgama pattern. The jangha- antarapatta and kapota. The jangha-wall is solid and wall, supported by a mancika with circular pendants plain; the three bhadras, however, have screen openings. underneath, shows Jina figures in sunk niches on the The pancaratha ekandaka sikhara (Pl. 36) with its bhadras, Dikpalas on the karnas and apsarases on the crowning members like amalaka etc. is divided into pratirathas. The figures of the jangha stand between two eight stages of bhumi-amalakas and bears a lattice of segmented circular pilasters on a console carved with minute caitya-gavaksas. The sikhara seems to have been lotus stalks and are surmounted by udgama-pediments replaced in the 12th or 13th century A.D., but the staggered with squatted monkeys on the corners. The bifacial konikas series of gavaksa-pediments over the gudhamandapa are adorned with elongated half diamonds engraved with look original, although they are thoroughly plastered flamboyant pattern. Above the jangha occurs a circular and white-washed. bharani with foliage clasps, and then it is followed by The interior of the garbhagrha is square and plain kapota, antarapatta and ribbed eave-cornice. but has three small niches, now vacant, on the outer The gudhamandapa, which is slightly wider than faces. The doorframe is so thoroughly painted that it Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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126 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies is very hard to make out any thing. The four pillars of the gudhamandapa are of the mixed variety. The mukhamandapa has been added in the 12th or 13th century A.D. and is of no interest, but the moonstone in front of the gudhamandapa doorway is old. The devakulikas preceded by a cloistered corridor also retain some old pieces in the form of some pillars. pilasters, wall decoration and vedika wallings. The original parts of the temple are datable to the last quarter of the 10th century A.D. NANDIA Nandia is an old village of the name of Nandigrama to the south-east of the district headquarters of Sirohi in Rajasthan. It has an old Jaina temple of Mahavira built of sandstone and facing east. The entire temple is savagely stucco-coated and white-washed and sustains many alternations and additions. Mahavira Temple - It (Fig. 74) consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and rangamandapa, the whole being surrounded by a series of 52 devakulikas with a cloistered corridor. The rangamandapa is plain and was added about A.D. 1145. The devakulikas are even later and were added in the 15th century A.D. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan with bhadra, thin pratiratha and karna, separated from one another by wide and deep salilantaras. The pitha is plain and low and consists of two bhittas and a short jadyakumbha. The vedibandha of the wall, also plain, is made up of five usual mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota. The jangha is quite plain. The west bhadra-niche of the jangha is empty; those of north and south were opened up during recent renovations for admitting light to the interior of the sanctum. The sanctum. is covered by an ekandaka sikhara with a sculptured niche at the base on each bhadra. The niche is surmounted by a pediment of fine surasenas. The doorway of the garbhagyha is of the dvisakha variety decorated with creepers and lotus petals respectively and bearing Ganga-Yamuna figures at the bottom. The gudhamandapa is rectangular on plan and is not attached to the sanctum by an antarala which is very unusual feature. It follows the lineaments of its pitha and wall with the sanctum but is roofed by a bellroof made up of receding tiers, each studed with amalakas, but those in the cardinal directions have bells. Its doorframe is of the trisakha variety with decorations of creeper, lotus petals and creepers, and carrying figures of door-keepers, naga and Ganga-Yamuna at the lower end. In the interior it shows four pillars of the mixed variety at the nave and six faceted pilasters at the periphery. The ceiling is of no interest, but the architraves supporting it are finely carved. The mukhamandapa consists of three bays formed by two pillars and six pilasters arranged in two rows of four each. In front of the central bay is a porch formed by two additional pillars and accommodating the staircase. The pillars are of the mixed order and the pilasters are of the faceted class. The mukhamandapa is walled up on lateral sides, with a broad niche on the outer face. Like the gudhamandapa, the mukhamandapa is also plain but for the architraves depicting undulating scrolls and grasapatti. Stylistically, the temple is datable to the third quarter of the 10th century A.D. AHAD Ahad, ancient Aghata, is an old but now deserted town in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan. There are five Jaina temples of which only the Kesariyaji (Adinatha) temple is of some importance, though it has been heavily renovated in the 11th and 15th-16h centuries A.D. This north-facing Jaina temple is situated on the eastern outskirts of the town. Adinatha Temple - It stands on a high jagati with a lately transported small Brahmanical shrine near the north-west corner. Two other subsidiary devakulikas (also Brahmanical) belonging to the 11th century A.D. are transplanted on the left and right sides of the late medieval storeyed balanaka of the Adinatha temple. The doorframe of the temple also is a later replacement of Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 129 the original one. The temple (Fig. 75) consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and a lately added rangamandapa. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan with bhadra, pratiratha and karna, each broken into three planes. The pitha (Fig. 48) consists of a bhitta, cippika, jadyakumbha, karnika and grasapatti. The vedibandha includes khura, kumbha bearing indented half diamonds on the karnas and pratirathas and small niches containing figures of Jaina goddesses on the bhadras. The jangha carries graceful figures of Dikpalas (Pl. 40) on the two faces of the karmas and of apsarases on the pratirathas, all standing within tall and narrow frame topped udgama- pediments, while the salilantaras formed between the angas have vyala figures. The jangha on each bhadra has a beautiful sunken niche with an elegant grille- pattern on each side. The Jina images of the bhadra- niches are missing. Above the jangha is a unique and very handsome panel with seated Jinas flanked by standing ones, and then follows a square bharani replaced at the bhadra by a band of flying Vidyadharas. The varandika consists of two successive kapotas. The sikhara (Pl. 41) with some old remains is of the late 15th or even later period. Inside the sanctum is an image of Adinatha of the late medieval period (the temple originally dedicated to Mahavira), but the frame is original belonging to the 10th century A.D. The gudhamandapa, which is attached to the sanctum by the antarala walls, is square on plan with bhadra, thin pratiratha and karma and shares its pitha and vedibandha with those of the sanctum, but here the kumbha at karnas also bears sculptured niches. The jangha is studed with beautiful sculptures but is rebuilt at some late date. The mukhamandapa is rectangular on plan with six mixed order of pillars disposed in two lines of four each. The pillars and the flat ceilings are all undecorated The rangamandapa, which has been added in the 15h century, is simple and uninteresting. Stylistically, this temple is placed in c. A.D. 1000. SEWADI Mahavira Temple - Sewadi, ancient Samipati, is situated in the Pali district of Rajasthan. Perhaps, it became known after the erection of the present Jaina temple there. The temple (Fig. 76) is built of sandstone and bricks and faces east. This is a Bhumija temple which is rare in this part of the country but very popular in the Deccan. The temple consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and rangamandapa, the whole surrounded by a row of devakulikas. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, each broken into three planes. The karma and pratiratha are equilateral and of the same proportions. Between the angas are salilantaras. The gudhamandapa is articulated at the frontal karna of the sanctum. In elevation it shows three usual components, viz. pitha, wall (Pl. 43) and sikhara. The pitha shows four mouldings of bhitta, jadyakumbha decorated with caityagavaksas, karnika and pattika. The vedibandha of the wall has five bold courses of khura, kumbha adorned with alternate half lotuses and half diamonds, kalasa, antarapatta, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksa device. The jangha-wall is quite plain and is surmounted by a plain band, kapota similar to that seen in the pitha, antarapatta and an eave. The bhadra projections of the jangha have emptied sculptured niches surmounted by two-tiered udgama-pediment. The sikhara of the sanctum, made of bricks and plastered up, is pancaratha and belongs to the Bhumija class. It shows four latas (spines) with large caitya-gavaksa at the base on each side and six storeys of three turrets each in each quadrant. On the front spine is lodged a three-storeyed plain sukanasa. The sikhara (Pl. 42) is crowned above the neck by an amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. Like the wall the Sikhara is also very plain. This Bhumija sikhara is remarkable in that it has no carvings and displays only six storeys in elevation. Actually, it has been produced as a typical Rajasthani temple under the local influence. The gudhamandapa, though nearly square and larger Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 131 in size, is also tri-anga and shares its pitha and wall lineaments with the sanctum, but the jangha carries exquisitely carved two-armed standing figures of Jivantasvami on the bhadra and Vidyadevi Vairotya and Parsva Yaksa on the two karnas of the south face, and Jina Mahavira and Yaksi Cakresvari and Brahma Yaksa on the corresponding offsets of the north face. The bhadra wall above the pitha is also treated differently. Here it shows rajasenaka decorated with seated figure sculptures, vedika carrying standing figure sculptures in niches, asanapatta projecting over the niched sculptures, and screen wall of perforated stone grilles fitted between the two square pilasters and accommodating the jangha images of Jivantasvami and Mahavira. The superstructure of the gudhamandapa has disappeared. The gudhamandapa is entered from the mukhamandapa by a trisakha doorway of patra (creepers), rupastambha decorated with elegant figures of Yaksis and Vidyadevis, and patra (lotus leaves). At the base of the doorjambs stand dvarapalas. The door-lintel shows a figure of Jina Mahavira in the centre and goat-faced Naigamesa and two goddesses on either side. In front of the door is a moonstone. The inner wall of the gudhamandapa is quite plain, but the four square central pillars and the architraves running across them are ornate. The ceilings are flat and uncarved. The antarala is constricted and of no consequence. The sanctum is entered through a trisakha doorway which is very similar to that of the gudhamandapa. The inner wall of the sanctum is plain, with a projecting angle at each corner. The mukhamandapa, which is laid out on a lower floor level, is landed up from the front as well as lateral sides by a flight of three steps and shows two rows of four pillars each and a row of four pilasters, forming thus six bays in all. All the columns are of the octagonal order. They have a moulded base; their shaft is octagonal below and polygonal and circular above; and the capital has a two-coursed round abacus surmounted by roll-brackets. Though the pillars carry very little ornamentation, the presence of geese in pairs on the base is noteworthy as it also occurs in many 10h century temples of Rajasthan. All the mukhamandapa ceilings are plain, but the two khattakas (niches) flanking the doorway of the gudhamandapa are elegantly carved. The rangamandapa is a 15th century addition. The devakulikas were built into two phases. The front and the lateral rows of devakulikas up to the mukhamandapa seem to have been contemporaneous with the main temple, and the back row of devakulikas and those of the remaining lateral sides were probably added in the late 11" century A.D. It thus appears that originally the temple was a Caturvimsatijinalaya (24 shrine-cells) and later it was converted, as it now stands, into a Bavanajinalaya (52 shrine-cells). On stylistic grounds the temple is assigned a date in c. A.D. 1000-25. ABU (DILWARA) This is a sacred hill of the Jainas lying eighteen miles north-west of Abu Road Railway Station in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan. It forms a part of the Aravalli rising 5650 ft. above the sea level and is the highest point between the Himalayas and the Nilgiris. On the top of the hill is a long plateau adorned with mountain peaks and hamlets. One such hamlet is called Dilwara which, lying one and a half miles from Mt. Abu, has a group of five Jaina temples of white marble called Vimalavasahi, Lunavasahi, Pittalahara Kharataravasahi and Mahavira temples. Of these only the first two come under the purview of this Volume. Vimalavasahi - The temple of Adinatha (Fig. 77), popularly known as Vimalavasahi, consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and rangamandapa, the whole standing in an oblong courtyard (128 ft. by 75 ft. inside) surrounded by fifty-two devakulikas with a colonnaded corridor. Outside this and in the same axis as the sanctum and its three compartments are an entrance hall and a portrait gallery called hastisala. The temple is laid out in the east-west direction with its Jain Education Intemational

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132 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies face on the east. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan, the bhadra offset being the longest and the pratiratha the shortest. An offset flanked by recesses separates the sanctum from the gudhamandapa. In elevation it shows five usual divisions. The pitha consists of four courses of bhitta, jadyakumbha, karnika, and pattika and is plain. The vedibandha consists of five usual courses of khura, kumbha inset with half diamonds, kalasa, antarapatta, and kapota adorned with caitya-gavaksas. The jangha- wall, divided into two halves by a plain median band, is also plain but each cardinal offset carries a projecting niche with an image of Jina seated in meditation. The varandika consists of two usual kapotas. The pyramidal roof, instead of curvilinear sikhara, of the sanctum is composed of nine horizontal tiers and has a fluted bell with kalasa and bijapuraka on the top. At the base of the roof are sculptured niches containing images of standing Jinas. The whole of the exterior is now plastered up with white lime. The dvi-sakha door of the sanctum consists of patra (scroll) and stambha (pillar). The door- still shows a semi-circular projection with stemmed lotus in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it, and diamonds on either end. The door-lintel continues the scroll-band of the jamb and has a Jina figure on the crest. In front of the door is a fine moonstone. Inside the sanctum is a pancatirthi (an image with five Jina images) image of Adinatha installed in A.D. 1322 when the temple had been repaired. In the sanctum is also placed a statue of Hiravijayasuri dated in A.D. 1604. The narrow wall between the sanctum and the gudhamandapa contains two niches with images of Jina. The exterior of the gudhamandapa is similar to that of the sanctum, but it is dvi-anga on plan and is entered through an ornate porch from the lateral sides as well. Each of the lateral porches is square on plan and rests on a pitha which is but the continuum of the mukhamandapa. It is reached from the courtyard by a flight of four steps cut across the pitha. It consists of two ornate pillars and two five-faceted pilasters and has a domical ceiling made up of one octagonal and six circular courses, all having been carved. Each of the three entrance doors, of which the front door is well preserved, consists of six jambs of patra, rupa, again rupa, rupastambha, rupa and again rupa. The lower part of jambs is occupied by a four-armed standing goddess with two cauri-bearers and a female carrying water pot, while the part above successively shows five images of lalitasana goddesses, each accompanied by four female attendants. The doorsill shows four moulded courses on the lower section, while its upper section displays a semi-circular projection with stemmed lotus in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it and a niche containing an image of Sarvanubhuti on extreme right and that of Ambika on extreme left. The lintel is divided into two registers. The lower register shows ghatapallava atop the jambs, while the space in between them is filled with the scroll-band of the inner jamb and a row of hovering figures of Maladharas facing the crest image which represents a goddess mounting a lion. The upper register carries four images of goddesses and one image of Parsvanatha (central), each accompanied by the attendant figures. The interior of the square gudhamandapa shows an arrangement of eight ornate pilasters supporting a simple dome on an octagonal frame of carved architraves. There are two standing images of Parsvanatha dated in A.D. 1351 and five images of lay-worshippers dated in A.D. 1341. The mukhamandapa in front of the gudhamandapa is divided into nine bays by ten pillars and two pilasters of its own and four rear pillars of the rangamandapa, all arranged in four lines of four each. It is landed up from the rangamandapa by three stairways, each flanked by walking elephants and having been stepped up by a moonstone. Its pitha on the lateral sides is moulded with five courses of bhitta decorated with diamonds, deep fillet adorned with diamonds, projected narrow band, grasapatti and narathara. The pitha below each pillar has been turned into a pancaratha projection, Jain Education Intemational

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134 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies gradually splayed out below. Of the ten pillars eight which is slightly raised from the floor level of the are of the square order and two are octagonal. The courtyard. It shows an arrangement of twelve square square pillars with cut off corners have a square moulded pillars along the four sides of a square nave with a base. Their shaft is square below carrying standing large but shallow domical ceiling (Pl. 45) supported on figures of gods and goddesses, and then it turns into an octagonal frame of architraves running across the an octagonal section adorned with eight lalitasana figures attic pillars placed over the ground pillars. The pillars of goddesses, sixteen-sided section decorated with sixteen and architraves are similar to those seen in the figures of lay-worshippers, and circular section adorned mukhamandapa but the lower band of architraves is with two or three decorative bands of acanthus leaves, replaced here by a sculptural band. To bring the vertical chain-and-bells, and kirttimukhas spewing festoons that pressure of the dome over the pillars there are thrown are held in position below by a band of diamonds and cusped torana-arches between the pillars. Each arch beads. Their capital consists of a double-round abacus emerges from the side brackets of the ground pillar of arris and cyma recta and a four-armed double-roll capitals and meets in the centre of the soffit of the bracket. The two octagonal pillars have similar moulded architraves. The ornate dome, 25ft. in diameter and 30 base and capital as we notice in case of the square ft. in height from floor to the apex, is composed of pillars, but the shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided eleven circular courses and a long circular pendant. The in the middle and circular on the top, the last two first course is carved with figures of elephants. The sections bearing eight and sixteen figures of lalitasana second is karnadardarika. The third is adorned with goddesses respectively. The five-faceted pilasters figures of lalitasana goddesses. The fourth is gajatalu. correspond in ornamentation to the square pillars but the fifth is decorated with figures of dancers, musicians carry a ghatapallava below the capital. The architraves and warriors. The sixth is gajatalu. The seventh depicts depict two decorative bands of lotus scrolls and diamonds figures of horse-riders. The eighth consists of thirtyon the inner face and a lotus medallion in the centre two-foil kola. The ninth pertains to twenty-eight-foil of their underside. Each bay of the mukhamandapa kola. The tenth is embellished with a series of twocontains a very ornamental ceiling. One of these ceilings armed images of Cakresvari and Vajrasnkhala with displays in diagonal framework four projecting lumas female cauri-bearers. The eleventh is carved with a row (pendants) in the four corners, one projecting luma in of twelve lumas and a figural band of male pitcherthe centre, and some half and smaller ones on the sides, bearers. From the third course project out sixteen square all having the shape of serrated diamond. Another brackets of Vidyadharas carrying sixteen long bracket ceiling shows in diagonal setting four depressed lumas figures of Vidyadevis tenoned into the eighth kola in the four corners, one projecting luma in the centre course. The pendant consists of two courses of eightand four quarter ones at the four ends of the corners, foil and six-foil kolas and a long staminal tube clasped all resembling a serrated diamond. Six ceilings are by a figural band and one row of petals. The four basal domical in shape, each consisting of a series of corners of the dome accommodate images of Ambika ornamental courses and a fine pendant. The remaining (south-west), Brahmasanti (north-west), Kaparddi (southone ceiling is flat (samatala) having been relieved with east) and Sarvanubhuti (north-east) with attendant figures. an elegant creeper. There are two ornamental khattakas The rangamandapa is attached to the devakulikas flanking the gudhamandapa door containing an image by three bays on the front and by six bays on each of Adinatha sitting in meditation. lateral side. The six bays on the lateral sides are formed The rangamandapa (Pl. 44) is laid out on a platform by a row of four octagonal pillars standing on the floor Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 135 of the courtyard. Each bay contains an ornate ceiling. Most of the ceilings in the lateral bays are domical in shape, but in two instances it is almost flat having been boldly relieved with a graceful image of Gajalaksmi or Sarasvati. The figure of Sarasvati is also attended upon by Sutradharas Kela and Loyana, probably the chief architects of the temple. The central ceiling on the front side shows relief carvings of the fight between Bharata and Bahubali, the two sons of Adinatha, while each of the two ceilings flanking it displays eight projecting stellate lumas encircling a larger one of the same variety (Pl. 46). This is one of the best ceilings of this temple. The devakulikas are landed up from the courtyard by a flight of three steps cut across the wide platform on which they are perched. They are screened by a single row of pillars on the back side and by a double row of pillars on the other three sides. The pillars alongwith pilasters flanking the doors of the devakulikas form thus one or two bays before each devakulika. All the pillars and five-faceted pilasters are of the usual octagonal order. Their doors consist of a single jamb or four jambs and are very ornamental. Each bay possesses an ornate ceiling. Except for those displayed from Cell Nos. 18 to 22, all the bays have old ceilings of various forms and designs so much so that no two ceilings are of alike nature. Each devakulika has a Jina worshipped as central image, generally installed during repairs of the temple. The devakulikas are shaded towards the courtyard by a corrugated eave-cornice. The entrance hall with domed roof is a 19th century erection. It has no architectural pretension. The hastisala is a rectangular walled structure with its flat roof supported by six pillars. It is entered from all the four sides through a small porch. Inside the hastisala is an equestrian effigy of Minister Vimalasaha, the donor of the temple. Behind him is a Samavasarana panel of A.D. 1155. Besides, there are ten large elephants adorned with howdah, chains and bells, and trappings. Seven of these were installed by Prthvipala in A.D. 1151 and three by his son Dhanapala in A.D. 1180. The temple is said to have been constructed in A.D. 1031 by Vimalasaha after spending eighteen crore and fifty three lakhs. This may be true in so far as the main complex of the temple is concerned, but its rangamandapa and devakulikas are definitely known from the Prabandhas to have been added by Prthvipala in the latter half of the 12th century A.D. Lunavasahi - The temple of Neminatha (Fig. 78), popularly known as Lunavasahi, follows the general plan and elevation of the Vimalavasahi, but the entrance hall is absent here and the hastisala has been built on the back replacing all the devakulikas of the rear side. The tri-anga sanctum is separated from the gudhamandapa simply by a recess. Its pitha consists of two kharasilas, an inverted cyma recta, bhitta, jadyakumbha, karnika, cippika and pattika. The vedibandha and wall are similar to those of the Vimalavasahi. The varandika consists of kapota and ribbed awning. The pyramidal roof consists of eight receding courses and is crowned by an amalaka, candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka. The four ridges of the roof carry bells with figures of rampant lions and a sculptured niche at each basal end. Its single-sakha door depicts foliate scrolls and a female carrying water pot at the base. The doorsill shows some moulded courses on the lower part and usual lotus stem, kirttimukhas and diamonds on the upper. The door-lintel continues the scroll-band of the jamb and depicts a Jina figure on the dedicatory block. In front of the door is also noticed a moonstone. Inside the sanctum is a black-stone image of Neminatha on a pedestal of white marble. The inner wall between the sanctum and gudhamandapa has two niches with images of Mahavira and Santinatha. The whole of the exterior here also is coated with white lime. The dvi-anga gudhamandapa follows the horizontal lineaments of the sanctum but has a fluted bell on the apex. The exterior wall here also is coated with white lime but the two lateral porches retain their original form. Each porch (Pl. 47) is square on plan and is Jain Education Intemational

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136 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies reached from the courtyard by a flight of five steps for sculptured niches. The front door of the cut across the moulded pitha. It consists of two pillars gudhamandapa is more ornate. It consists of three jambs and two pilasters standing on a low parapet wall of rupa, rupastambha and rupa, all having been rounded enclosing it and is roofed by a dome carried by them off by vertical flutings and diapers. The doorsill is on a square frame of architraves. The pitha consists similar to that of the lateral porches, but the lintel of nine courses of plain bhitta, a bhitta decorated with depicts five miniature shrines, the central having a Jina half diamonds, karnika, khura, kumbha bearing figure and the others, the images of goddesses. decorations of half diamonds on the body and foliage The interior of the gudhamandapa displays an on the shoulder, kalasa adorned with beaded garlands octagonal arrangement of eight pilasters carrying a and rosettes, antarapatta inset with stepped diamonds, domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves. grasapatti and kapota. The parapet wall consists of a The pilasters have a moulded base; their shaft is octagonal mancika decorated with caitya-gavaksas, a short vedika below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular on the in the form of half opened lotus, asanapatta treated as top, the last being clasped below by a band of geese; mancika, and kaksasana adorned with flamboyant pattern and the capital has a short abacus of cyma recta crowned and lotus petal-and-bud ornament. The pillars consist by roll or atlantes brackets. The architraves are similar of only shaft and capital. The shaft in the south porch to those seen in the lateral porches. The dome is is heptagonal, divided into six horizontal belts, each composed of ten courses, the first being sixteen-sided decorated with miniature shrines, while that in the north and the rest circular. The first is decorated with diamonds, is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and the second with half lotuses, and the rest are plain but circular above, bearing decorations of rooflets, lotus for the fourth course which is adorned with lotus petalpetal-and-bud and kirttimukhas spewing festoons and-bud device. The gudhamandapa contains many respectively. The five-faceted pilasters are heavily images of Jinas and an image of Rajimati, the wife decorated with floral patterns. The capital consists of of Neminatha to whom the temple is dedicated. a two-coursed round abacus of arris and cyma recta The mukhamandapa stands on a pitha and is and a four-armed double-roll bracket with foliage. The enclosed on the lateral sides by a low wall, both being architraves are adorned with two decorative bands of a continuum of the lateral porches. It is landed up from lotus scrolls and diamonds. The dome in the south porch the rangamandapa by three staircases of six steps each. consists of an octagonal and six circular courses. The Each stairway is stepped up from a moonstone. On octagonal course depicts diamonds on the inner face either side of the central staircase is a sunken niche and a kirttimukha at each corner on the underside. The with a figure of doorkeeper. Like that of the second is decorated with a band of kirttimukhas. Each Vimalavasahi it is also divided into nine bays by twelve of the remaining courses is adorned with lotus petal- columns of its own and four of the rangamandapa. The and-bud device. The apical stone depicts a full-blown four central pillars are of the octagonal order with lotus flower. The domical ceiling in the north porch moulded base, elaborate shaft and double-roll bracket is like that of its southern counterpart, but here the capital. Below, the shaft is octagonal carrying sculptures second course is treated like an arris and the seventh of eight female dancers on the lower part and eight pertains to eight whorls of four-fold (trefoil + one-foil) lalitasana goddesses on the upper, while above, it is kola. The doorframe is similar to that seen in the clasped by four decorative bands of acanthus, half lotus, sanctum, but here the female pitcher-bearers are replaced Maladharas and kirttimukhas. The other six pillars stand by door-keepers, and diamonds on sill are substituted on the parapet wall and consist of only shaft and capital, Jain Education Intemational

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138 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the latter being similar to that just described, but the ornamentation of the shaft differs. The shaft of two pillars is circular with vertical flutings; the same in other two is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular on the top, the last being surmounted by a band of kirttimukhas emitting beaded strands; and that of the remaining two pillars is square below, octagonal in the middle and circular above, each carrying some moulded courses and decorative ornaments. Each bay of the mukhamandapa contains a highly ornamental ceiling. The ceiling in the central bay depicts thirty, twenty-two and fourteen lumas on three successive courses and a pendant with four oversailing courses of twenty-four-, sixteen-, eight- and quatre-foil kolas. This ceiling is marvellous for the disposition of lumas. Six bays contain domical ceilings with varieties of ornaments. The ceiling in one bay displays in diagonal framework four depressed lumas in the four corners, one in the centre, four half lumas in the four cardinal points and four quarter ones at the end of the four corners, all resembling a serrated diamond. This is one of the best ceilings of the diagonal variety. The remaining ceiling depicts eighty-four small lumas in twelve lines of seven each, each consisting of a quatrefoil and a circular kola with a flower on tip. The two gorgeous khattakas (Pl. 48) with their base, wall and spire have been wrought almost in a diagonal setting with diaper work. The khattaka on right contains an image of Santinatha, and that on left that of Sambhavanatha, both sitting in meditation. The khattakas are a marvellous piece of art. The rangamandapa (PL. 49) displays twelve very ornate pillars along the four sides of a slightly raised square platform adorned on the sides with a band of diamonds. Eight of these pillars support a highly ornate domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves. Two of the twelve pillars are of the square order with cut off corners. Their base consists of five moulded courses. The shaft is square below, octagonal in the middle and circular above. The square section carries framed figures of four-armed standing goddesses; the octagonal section bears eight figures of lalitasana goddesses below and an eight-petalled lotus flower above; and the circular section shows saw-tooth band below and a band of kirttimukhas emitting festoons above. The capital consists of round abacus of arris and cyma recta and a four-armed double-roll bracket. Six pillars are hexagonal in section with their angles deeply cut from base to the abacus. Their base and capital are similar to the preceding ones, but the shaft is elaborately carved. The remaining four pillars are almost round in section and carry deep vertical flutings and angular surfaces, which have been carried up to the top of the shaft. Their base and capital are similar to those just described. All the twelve pillars are provided with ornate attic pillars supporting architraves that are adorned with two bands of lotus scrolls and diamonds respectively. From the side brackets of the capitals of the ground pillars emerge various forms of toranaarches which meet in the underside of the architraves, while other brackets support struts of Salabhanjikas tenoned into the brackets of attic pillars. The dome (Pl. 50) of the rangamandapa, 19 ft. in diameter, is composed of ten circular courses and a very attractive circular pendant. The inner face of the first course displays kapota, deep fillet carved with diamonds and a figural band, while its four underside corners depict an image of god or luma. The second is carved with figures of ascetics. The third is karnadardarika. the fourth is inset with seventy-two Jina figures. The next three are fine gajatalus. The eighth is made up of sixteen whorls of nine-fold (five-foil + trefoil + onefoil) kola. The ninth depicts twenty-four lumas. The tenth consists of twenty-four-foil kola. From the fourth course project out sixteen square bracket figures of sixarmed Vidyadharas supporting sixteen bracket figures of handsome Vidyadevis tenoned into the eighth kola course. The pendant is made up of seven oversailing but diminishing courses of thirty-two-foil kola each and a staminal tube clasped by two rows of petals and a band of dancers and musicians. The dome is so splendid Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 139 that it is very hard to render a graphic picture of it. This is one of the best ceilings of the domical order. On the front and lateral sides the rangamandapa is attached to the devekulikas by a pillared portico of six bays formed by a row of four pillars. Two of these pillars are of the square order and the rest belong to octagonal order, all provided with attic system and having been well wrought. Of the six ceilings in the west or front portico three are relieved with jasmine flowers, one consists of an ornate dome and two depict a big lotus flower or bud. Three of the six ceilings in the north portico are domical in shape and consist of ornate circular and octagonal courses, while the other three depict a mono-form kola, lotus petal-and-bud ornament in reverse order, and a series of twenty-six lumas respectively. Two of the six ceilings in the south portico are domical consisting of four or six ornamental courses and a circular pendant. One ceiling is flat and depicts on its flat surface twelve-foil larger, twelve-foil smaller and six-foil pointed kolas in three concentric circles. This is one of the best ceilings of this temple. Another flat ceiling shows in five concentric squares sixteen lumas in bold relief on the outer square and birth-rites of Lord Krsna on the inner ones. This is one of the finest ceilings in so far as the lumas are concerned. In one ceiling nine lumas are shown in three lines of three each, each consisting of a quatrefoil kola. The remaining ceiling is also flat and displays in four concentric squares varied forms of kola. The devakulikas, forty-eight in number, are screened by two rows of pillars forming thus two bays in front of each cell, but those near the gudhamandapa being recessed back are confronted with one row of pillars only. All the pillars are of simple octagonal order with moulded base, three-sectioned shaft and roll-bracket capital. The five-faceted pilasters are like the pillars, The architraves carried by the columns are similar to those of the rangamandapa. Their doors consist of one or two jambs, both decorated with lotus scrolls, but in one instance (devakulika No. 12) the outer jamb is treated like an ornate column. The sill and lintel of doors are similar to those of the sanctum. All the bays contain ornate ceilings representing varieties of lumas, figural, floral, and geometrical patterns, auspicious events of the life of Neminatha, and large-sized images of Jaina goddesses. The cells are dedicated to Jinas whose images were generally installed during subsequent repairs of the temple. The devekulikas are shaded towards the courtyard by a corrugated eave-cornice. Above the cornice are inserted many foliated gargoyles. The hastisala is a rectangular hall occupying the entire space of the back side. Its flat roof is borne by two rows of eleven pillars each. All the pillars are of the octagonal order, resembling those of the devakulikas. Between the front row of pillars are fitted perforated grilles cut up with geometrical and floral designs. The hastisala has three entrance doors, one in the centre and one on each end. In the centre of the hall is a magnificent image of Adinatha seated on a navaratha pedestal. In front of him is a triratha Meru tower completed in three storeys, each accommodating a Jina image on each of its four faces. On two sides of the tower are ten gigantic elephants with driver and its lord, each being carved in the round with metallic finish. The back wall of the hastisala carries ten sculptural panels containing portrait sculptures of Jaina teachers, Tejapala and other members of his family. The temple is known to have been constructed by Minister Tejapala in A.D. 1231 for the spiritual merits of his wife Anupamadevi and son Lavanyasimha, spending twelve crore fifty lakhs. The architect of the temple was Sobhanadeva who was a great artist of his time. JHALRAPATAN Jhalrapatan is an old town situated in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan. In the town is a Jaina temple dedicated to Santinatha. It is built of sandstone and faces east. The temple consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa and an entrance porch. Of these the sanctum and antarala are original, but the other two Jain Education Intemational ation Intemational

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140 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies have been rebuilt during subsequent period. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the bhadra and karna carry three facets each, while the pratiratha is unfaceted and smaller to karna. Between the angas are recesses which end at the lowermost course of the vedibandha. The pitha of the sanctum as well as antarala consists above the bhitta of jadyakumbha decorated with minor caitya-gavaksas, karnika and grasapatti. The vedibandha of the wall shows ornate khura, tall kumbha decorated with niches containing images of Jaina divinities or large carved diamonds with median band of diamonds, kalasa, and kapota adorned with caitya- gavaksas and gagarakas. The jangha-wall shows two rows of standing figures separated by a median band of grasamukhas. The lower row, which is larger than the upper one, carries in niches the figures of kayotsarga Jinas with flanking apsarases on the bhadras, Dikpalas on the karmas, and Jaina Yaksas, Yaksis and Vidyadevis on the pratirathas, while the recesses shelter figures of vyalas. The upper row shows seated Jinas in niches flanked by apsarases on the bhadras and Jaina divinities and apsarases on the other offsets, while the recesses display human couples. Above the jangha is a square bharani with foliage clasps. The varandika consists of a deep fillet decorated with triangular leaves, kapota, deep fillet adorned with chequer pattern, kapota and deep fillet carved with stepped diamonds. The sikhara of the sanctum shows a pancaratha central tower marked by eleven bhumi-amalakas, and urah-srga surmounting a sculptured rathika at its base on each side, a big srga over each karna and a small siriga over each pratiratha. The rathas terminate at the skandha but the bhadra goes beyond this course. The sikhara is crowned by a large amalaka, candrika, small amalaka and a series of later kalasas. All the srgas are surmounted by amalaka, candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka. The entire sikhara is enmeshed with caitya- gavaksas. The sikhara is excellent in proportion and fine in finish. The roof of the antarala shows three srgas in a row over two rows of sculptured niches. The temple was built by Pipa saha in A.D. 1046 and its consecration was performed by Bhavadevasuri. JHADOLI Jhadoli, ancient Jhadavali, is a village in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan. In the village is a temple of Jina santinatha consisting of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa of six bays, rangamandapa, entrance porch with a mandapa above and a row of forty-six niches (now empty), instead of devakulikas, surrounding the temple. The walls of the sanctum and gudhamandapa are made of black stone. The sanctum is surmounted by a sikhara. Inside the sanctum is an image of Adinatha which was installed in A.D. 1576. This is known from an inscription engraved upon the pedestal of the enshrined image, but originally the temple was built in honour of Jina santinatha whose dedication is well affirmed by the Tirthamala of poet Meha written in A.D. 1443. The doorframe of the gudhamandapa is ornate. In the mukhamandapa are two ornamental niches, each containing a standing image of Jina. The rangamandapa shows twelve massive pillars in the nave with fine torana-arches in between them, which remind us of those seen in the Jaina temples at Dilwara (Mt. Abu). From an inscription carved in the left niche of the mukhamandapa it is known that in A.D. 1196 the mandapa of the temple was repaired and the mukhamandapa added. The temple, however, would have been constructed about a century earlier than this date. SADRI Sadri is a small town enroute to Ranakpur in Pali district of Rajasthan. In the town is a small temple of Parsvanatha built of white sandstone and facing the north. The temple (Pl. 51) consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, rangamandapa and surrounding devakulikas. The mukhamandapa reveals nothing special, the rangamandapa is of the 15th century style, and the devakulikas have been recently replaced by the new ones. This temple is almost a smaller replica Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 141 of the Padmaprabha temple at Nadol and was built in Padmaprabha temple at Nadol, its jangha-wall, at all the late 11th century A.D. the karnas, carries sunk niches containing figures of The sanctum is tri-ariga on plan with usual bhadra, Yaksis and Vidyadevis. The Vidyadevis also appear on pratiratha and karna, the bhadra broken into seven the pratirathas, while the apsarases and Dikpalas occupy planes and the other two into five planes each. Between the secondary positions. The bhadra niches are empty the angas are recesses which are not carried down to now. the pitha but end in the lowermost course of the wall PHALODHI itself. The pitha consists of two bhittas with an Parsvanatha Temple - Phalodhi, ancient intervening kumuda, jadyakumbha with udgama Phalavardhika, is a holy Jaina site in Marwar (Rajasthan). containing diamond on each bhadra, karnika, narrow There is a Jaina temple dedicated to Parsvanatha and deep fillet adorned with stepped diamonds, cippika, built in c. A.D. 1147. The temple was destroyed by minor projected fillet and a grasapatti. In the last course the Muslim invaders and later repaired by the Jainas. a makara-pranala has been inserted on the east to However, one may still notice old remains in its sanctum, discharge oblation water of the enshrined image. The antarala and gudhamandapa. Of these the sanctum is vedibandha of the wall consists of khura, kumbha, of particular interest. It is tri-anga on plan and elevation. kalasa, antarapatta embellished with diamonds, and it has a moulded pitha and vedibandha, plain jangha kapota decorated with udgama pattern. The kumbha with median band and bhadra-niches, ribbed eavecarries sculptured niches on the central planes and half cornice, and anekandaka sikhara with a lattice of caityadiamonds, carved with flamboyant device, on the other gavaksas. The central tower of the sikhara is divided ones. The jangha-wall shows framed figures of Dikpalas into seven stages of bhumi-amalakas and has two on the karnas and apsarases on the others. Above this amalakas, kalasa and bijapuraka as crowning members. the wall shows a round bharani clasped by drooping At the base of the sikhara, in each cardinal direction, foliage, kapota, antarapatta, and ribbed eave-cornice. is a framed niche. A rangamandapa with domed roof The Sikhara of the sanctum, which starts with a bharani is also built. course, is of the anekandaka class. Its composition MUNGTHALA shows a pancaratha central tower marked by seven Mungthala, ancient Mundasthala, is a small village stages of bhumi-amalakas, three successive urah-srigas in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan. There is a large and a rathika with an image of Vidyadevi along each ruined Jaina temple consisting of a sanctum, bhadra, a smga and a miniature shrine-model over each gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa of six bays, pratiratha, two smigas over each karna, and a quarter rangamandapa, entrance porch, and twenty-four striga leaning upon either side of the uppermost urah- devakulikas with a colonnaded corridor. The sanctum smiga. The sikhara is crowned above the neck member has a sikhara and ornate doorway. The mukhamandapa by a large amalaka, candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and rangamandapa are made of white marble and have and bijapuraka, and is covered with a lattice of caitya- ornamental pillars, torana-arches and ceilings. The gavaksas. The sikhara is an excellent piece of work mukhamandapa also contains two ornate niches. The revealing perfect proportion and fine decoration. temple was built in A.D. 1160. The gudhamandapa, which exactly follows the GUJARAT vertical and horizontal lineaments of the sanctum, is The antiquity of Jainism in Gujarat is traceable also perfectly wrought, but unfortunately its to the time of the first Tirthankara Rsabhanatha since superstructure has disappeared. Like that of the he is known to have delivered a sermon at Satrunjaya. Jain Education Intemational

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142 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Three of the five Kalyanakas of the 22nd Tirthankara Neminatha, viz. renunciation, omniscience and liberation, had taken place at Girnar. During the historical period the first wave of Jainism probably passed over Gujarat in the 4th century B.C. when Bhadrabahu visited Girnar during his migration from Magadha to the south. The Mauryan king Samprati was a great patron of Jainism. He tried to spread Jainism in Gujarat by every means at his disposal. Jainism was in flourishing state from about the 1" century B.C. to the beginning of the rule of the Imperial Guptas in A.D. 319. This is clearly demonstrated by the facts that Jainacarya Kalaka taught Jaina tenets to the people of Broach, a group of monastic caves were excavated at Junagadh, and the Third Jaina Council to compile Jaina canons was convened at Valabhi, Bhavnagar district, by Nagarjuna. During the Gupta period (A.D. 319 to A.D. 600) Valabhi became an important centre of Jainism since the Fourth Jaina Council under the chairmanship of Devardhigani Ksamasramana was held there in A.D. 453 and the Jaina canons (Acararga etc.) acceptable to the Svetambaras were reduced to writing. The existence of Jainism at this time is also proved by a group of Jaina bronzes discovered at Akota, Baroda district, which are all of Svetambara affiliation. Jainism continued to flourish under the Maitrakas of Valabhi in the 7th-8th century A.D. This is known not only by a group of Svetambara Jaina bronzes recovered from Valabhi but also by the fact that Mallavadin, a great Jaina dialectician, and the author of the Nayacakra, induced the Buddhists to leave the country after their defeat in a religious debate at Valabhi. The Gurjara Pratiharas had a liberal attitude towards Jainism. The Pratihara king Nagabhatta II, according to the Prabhavakacarita, even accepted the Jaina religion and as a token of his love for Jainism built Jaina temples at Modhera and Anahillapataka and went on pilgrimage to Satrunjaya and Girnar. But unfortunately these Jaina temples do not exist now. During the time of the Capas or Capotkatas, who ruled in Gujarat in the 9th-10th century A.D., Jainism received great encouragement and established its firm foothold in Gujarat. The Capa ruler Vanaraja accepted Devacandrasuri as his religious preceptor and built the temple of Pancasara Parsvanatha in his newly founded capital at Anahillapataka. His zeal for Jainism may also be seen in that he entitled the Caityavasins (monks residing in temples) to prevent the non-Caityavasins from residing in the capital. Jainism (Svetambara) sees its heyday in Gujarat during the Caulukya-Vaghela period (c. A.D. 950-1300). Though the rulers of these dynasties were saiva, they had great respect for the Jainas and extended their full cooperation and patronage for the upliftment of Jainism. This was due largely to the influence of Devacandrasuri and his disciple Hemacandrasuri. While Devacandrasuri got the Digambaras ousted from Gujarat after defeating them in a debate, Hemacandrasuri got certain basic principles of Jaina doctrines promulgated after converting king Kumarapala to Jainism. The popularity of Jainism is also indicated by the fact that a large section of the population was Jaina and Vimalasaha, Prthvipala, Sajjana, Vastupala, Tejapala etc. were ministers in the Caulukya court. Under these favourable conditions thus there were erected a large number of Jaina temples of which those built at Vadnagar, Than, Kumbharia, Girnar, Satrunjaya, Taranga, Bhadresvara, Miani and Kanthkot stand to this day and evince the grandeur of the Jainas and Jainism. VADNAGAR It is an old town beside the Vadnagar Railway Station in the Mehsana district of Gujarat. In the 7th century A.D. it had been visited by the Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang. During the Caulukya period it became an important centre of the Nagara Brahmanas. Kumarapala built a rampart for their protection, the remains of which may still be seen there. In the centre of the town are two Jaina temples going by the name of Adinatha and Mahavira. They are made of reddish sandstone and face the east. Adinatha Temple - It consists of a sanctum, Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 143 gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches and mukhamandapa, the whole standing on a terrace reached by a flight of steps from the front. At present, a gateway has been built at the entry point. The terrace beside the gateway supports two shrine-cells facing the temple which once probably had the images of Yaksa and Yaksi of Adinatha. Its pitha and vedibandha and the two shrine-cells are original, the rest including even the whole of mukhamandapa are either rebuilt or added later. The sanctum (Pl. 52) is tri-anga on plan, consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the first being the longest and the last the shortest. Between the karnas and pratirathas are recesses which have not been carried down to the pitha. In elevation it shows five traditional divisions. The pitha consists of three moulded courses of a short jadyakumbha, an antarapatta and a grasapatti, the first showing the ornament of caitya-gavaksas and the last, the kirttimukhas spewing pearl festoons tied in loops. The vedibandha consists of five usual courses of khura bearing a stripe of diamond-shaped rosettes on the lower section, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, and kapota carrying ornaments of lotus petals on the lower part and of caitya-gavaksas on the upper. Supported by a mancika the jangha-wall is marked at regular intervals by a fillet decorated with half diamonds, narrow projected band, a band of kurttimukhas, narrow projected band and a band of geese. The last in its turn is successively followed by a kapota, plain stepped pediment, square bharani clasped by foliage and a decorative band of stencilled leaves. The varandika, separated from the wall by a deep fillet, consists of a kapota and a ribbed eave-cornice. The jangha on each bhadra carries a sunken niche containing an image of four-armed standing male divinity. The spire, if counted from the rear side, shows a pancaratha central tower divided into nine stages of bhumi-amalakas, twenty-four smaller turrets and twelve shrine models clustering around it, and a framed figure of four-armed lalitsana goddess at the base of each cardinal offset, identifiable with Cakresvari (south), Vairotya (west) and Acchupta (north). The various offsets of the spire terminate at the skandha decorated with diamonds, but the cardinal offsets have been extended to the griva in the form of human head crowned by amalaka with fillet, fluted candrika, smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. The whole of the spire is plain and does not bear lattice of caitya-gavaksas. The doorframe of the sanctum is modern and the enshrined image of Adinatha seems to be a late one, but its original door is now preserved in the subterranean cella beneath the sanctum, containing an image of Parsvanatha. This door consists of four jambs of patra, rupa, rupastambha and rupa. The patrasakha is adorned with scrolls and has a female figure carrying water pot at the base. Each rupastambha displays a female standing with water vessel below and four two-armed lalitasana goddesses above, and is topped by two-coursed ribbed, round abacus of lotus and cyma recta. The rupasakhas carry figures of female dancers and musicians, two accompanying each goddess of the rupastambha. The door-lintel continues the decorative elements of the two inner jambs, but above them it shows a sculptural panel representing five images of padmasana Jinas in projecting niches and four of kayotsarga Jinas in alternate recesses. The door has been painted recently, vanishing thus its original form. Articulated at the frontal karna of the sanctum the gudhamandapa is intact with only two rear buttresses with their pitha, wall and two miniatures sikharas which are but the continuum of the sanctum, while the remaining portions including the domed roof and lateral entrance porches and the entire pillared portico of six bays have been so inadvertently repaired and painted that it is very hard to differentiate between the old and new structures. Inside the gudhamandapa are now preserved two standing images in white marble of Jinas unearthed from the nearby debris during recent years. Both are alike in form and dated in A.D. 1255. The two shrine-cells facing the temple are each Jain Education Intemational

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144 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies tri-anga on plan and have three horizontal divisions across the elevation. The pitha consists of a bhitta, a short jadyakumbha decorated with caitya-gavaksa pattern and a plain fillet. The vedibandha has five courses of khura, kumbha bearing caitya-gavaksa pattern on the central offsets, kalasa, antarapatta adorned with stepped diamonds, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksa device. The jangha-wall is plain but for sculptured niches on the central offsets and a grasapatti on the top. The two niches in the southern cell contain fourarmed images of Cakresvari (south) and Ambika (east), and those in the northern cell accommodate Brahmasanti (east) and a mutilated unidentified figure (north). As regards the date of the temple as it now stands, it is not a work of one period but has gone under repairs more than once. The pitha, vedibandha and catussakha doorframe of the sanctum and the two shrine-cells were probably built in the 10th century A.D. and the other parts in the 15th century or even later. Mahavira Temple It consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and rangamandapa, the whole surrounded by a series of fifty-one devakulikas. Like the Adinatha temple it also has heavily suffered from restoration work; and its floor having been raised during restoration, the pitha has almost embedded in the ground. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan, the karna being broken into five planes, and the bhadra and the pratiratha into three planes each with minor projected corners between. Of the pitha only jadyakumbha and fillet are exposed. The vedibandha of the wall shows khura, kumbha decorated with stylised half diamonds, kalasa, antarapatta adorned with diamonds and dentils, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksa pattern. The jangha wall, supported by a mancika, is divided into two halves by a band of garland loops and surmounted by a band of kirttimukhas alternating with stylised tassels. The jangha of each bhadra carries a sunk niche that is vacant now. The varandika consists of a kapota and a ribbed awning. The sanctum is crowned by an anekandaka sikhara. At present, the garbhagrha is enclosed by an inner ambulatory, but originally it would not have contained it because there is no provision for ventilation in the outer wall. Inside the sanctum is worshipped an image of Mahavira sitting in meditation. The gudhamandapa is a square pillared hall with front and lateral entrances. It continues the pitha and wall lineaments of the sanctum and is covered by nine ornate ceilings. Three of these ceilings are domical, while the other six are made by cutting off the corners, comprising three tiers of nine stones each, depicting kirttimukha on each triangular stone and a lotus flower on the central stone. The domical ceilings are composed of five or six courses, the first being octagonal and the rest circular. The octagonal course shows decorations of half lotuses on the inner face and a kirttimukha at each corner on the underside. The second is karnadardarika. The third is decorated with a band of geese or diamonds. The fourth consists of gajatalu. The fifth has an eight-foil kola. Where there are six courses, one more course of gajatalu has been added immediately after the fourth course. From the centre of each domical ceiling hangs down a pendant made up of quatrefoil or eight-foil kola. The mukhamandapa is divided into six bays and is approached from the rangamandapa by one step only. The rangamandapa is entered through an entrance porch from the front and is covered by a domed roof. Internally, both these chambers have been fully painted, concealing thus their original form. It is very difficult to assign a perfect date to this temple, because it is a conglomeration of different periods. Its walls appear to belong to 12th-13th century A.D., whereas the spire and some other parts belong to the 15th century A.D. THAN Than is situated about one and a half miles north of Than Railway Station in the Surendranagar district of Gujarat. It is a Hindu site sacred to Trinetresvara Mahadeva whose temple has been built and is still in

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India worship there. But except for two small Jaina temples located very close to each other on an independent hillock, nothing Jaina is available there. Of these two Jaina temples one has completely gone and the other is in a very ruinous condition. Its sanctum (Pl. 53) alone has survived. The temple is built of sandstone and faces north. From the remains of a few foundation layers it appears that originally it had a porch in the front. About seven feet high the sanctum is square on plan and is made up of hewn blocks of rectangular ashlars. Its cubical wall has no ratha-projections. In elevation it shows five divisions. The pitha consists of two bhitta courses. The vedibandha has four courses of khura, kumbha decorated with crude half diamonds, kalasa, and kapota adorned with caitya-gavaksa pattern. The jangha is plain; the small cornice is ribbed. The sikhara is pyramidal made up of three receding tiers of inverted cyma recta like mouldings bearing an ornament consisting of rosette-marked half diamond between two half caitya-gavaksas. At present, the upper tier and the crowning members have gone. The single-sakha door is sharply relieved with foliate scrolls. Its sill shows a square projection carved with an inverted crescent in the centre and a kirttimukha spewing creepers on its either side. At the base of the jamb stands a female carrying water pot. The door-lintel continues the decoration of the Sakha but is interrupted in the centre by the tutelary image of Jina sitting in meditative posture. The interior shows four pilasters at the four corners and a ceiling carried by them on a square frame of plain architraves. Each of the four pilasters has a square moulded base of khura, kumbha and kalasa; their shaft is plain; and the capital consists of cushion-shaped abacus and roll-brackets. The ceiling is made by cutting off the corners comprising three tiers of nine stones, the central stone being carved with a full-blown crude lotus flower with two rows of petals. In the south wall is a small emptied niche. The temple seems to have 145 been built in honour of Jaina goddess Ambika whose mutilated image may still be seen outside the sanctum there. The temple has been bewildering scholars for its date simply because it bears certain features such as pyramidal roof etc. which suggest it a date some where in the 7th-8th century A.D., but from the presence of such features as crude half diamond on the kumbha of the pitha, a heavy ribbed eave-cornice between the walls and sikhara, and the projecting kirttimukhas on the doorsill it appears that it was built around A.D. 1000. TARANGA Taranga is a sacred hill of the Jainas lying three miles away from Taranga Railway Station in Mehsana district of Gujarat. Its holy character is evident from the fact that a large number of Jaina monks are known to have performed penance there. During the historical period the site first came into possession of the Buddhists who under the patronage of Pratihara Vatsaraja built a shrine to goddess Tara there. Subsequently, the site was occupied by the Digambaras who still hold possession of the Sambhavanatha temple standing behind the famous Ajitanatha temple built by the Caulukya king Kumarapala (c. A.D. 1143-72). Sambhavanatha Temple This Digambara Jaina temple (Pl. 54) at Taranga is situated in another compound behind the famous Ajitanatha temple of the Svetambara sect and is older than the latter. It consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa and mukhamandapa and faces east. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the bhadra being the widest, the karna half the size of the bhadra and the pratiratha half that of the karna. The frontal pratiratha has been turned into a buffer wall to separate the sanctum from the gudhamandapa. In elevation it shows pitha, vedibandha, jangha, varandika and sikhara. The pitha, of which the bhitta is now imbedded in the floor, consists of a jadyakumbha decorated with lotus leaves, karnika, antarapatta adorned with kunjaraksas, chadyaki

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146 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies like kapota decorated with gagarakas, and a grasapatti. The vedibandha shows khura, kumbha having decorations of half diamonds on the karna and pratiratha and of udgama on the bhadra, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, the last two being similar but wider to those of the pitha. The jangha, divided into two halves by a grasapatti and also surmounted by a similar band, is plain, but each of the bhadra offsets carries a framed niche containing an image of seated Jina with attendant figures. Above the jangha is an usual kapota followed in its turn by an antarapatta and a ribbed eave-cornice. The panaratha sikhara rises above the eaves from a deep fillet carved with stepped diamonds and belongs to the ekandaka class. The curvature of the sikhara along the four karnas is divided into nine stages of bhumi-amalakas and is pleasant, while the lattice of caitya-gavaksas on the bhadras and pratirathas is very delicately worked out. The various offsets of the Sikhara terminate at the skandha which has been restored during recent years, but the bhadra offsets go beyond that and then it is crowned above the griva by an amalaka, candrika, smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka, the last three as well as the dhvajapataka are modern. On the front facade of the Sikhara is a two-tiered sukanasa lodged over the buffer wall. The lateral sides of the sukanasa have framed niches that contain figures of goddesses or Surasundaris. The gudhamandapa, slightly larger than the sanctum, is also tri-anga on plan and elevation but is roofed by a fine samvarana which is an ensemble of the apexial mulaghanta with kalasa and bijapuraka, a row of three descending urahghantas in each cardinal direction, and five rows of ghantas and ghantikas on the five tiers of its diagonally executed four quadrants. All the ghantas are fluted, and those of the cardinal directions and of the basal karnas are also crowned by kalasa and bijapuraka. The ghantas and ghantikas are wrought like kaksakutas, each made up of a wall of vedika and kaksasana and a rooflet of small bells with udgamas between and a big bell placed on its top. At the base of each bhadra is a framed rathika containing a divine figure with attendants. The interior of the gudhamandapa is featureless, but its domical ceiling is a carved one displaying two courses of gajatalus and three courses of eight-foil, quatrefoil and circular kolas. The edges between the courses are adorned with thin bands of lotus petals and diamonds. The mukhamandapa consists of six bays and is so thoroughly repaired that its originality is completely vanished. The same is the condition of the doorframes of the gudhamandapa and the sanctum. This is a small but beautiful Jaina temple erected probably in the first quarter of the 11th century A.D. Ajitanatha Temple - Made of whitish sandstone and facing east, this temple (Fig. 79) is the loftiest Jaina temple of Gujarat measuring 150 ft. long, 100 ft. wide and 117 ft. high. It consists of a sanctum with an inner ambulatory for perambulation, a gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches and a mukhamandapa, the whole standing in the centre of an oblong courtyard approachable from the front by a gateway with wide staircase. The temple (Pls. 55-56) is a double storeyed structure, the lower seen but from within and the upper pertaining to a secret storey landed up from the interior of the gudhamandapa by a wooden ladder. The temple has been thoroughly repaired and retouched during recent years. The sanctum is caturanga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratibhadra, pratiratha and karna, each broken into several planes. The bhadra is the widest offset; the karna and pratiratha are equilateral and have the same proportion; and the pratibhadra is half the size of the karna. Between the offsets are salilantaras and the salilantaras between the karmas and pratirathas contain minor projecting konikas. The frontal karna and pratiratha of the sanctum and the rear karna of the gudhamandapa are transmuted into a wide buffer wall between the two compartments. In elevation it shows pitha, vedibandha, jangha, varandika (Fig. 80) and Sikhara. The pitha is low and Jain Education Intemational cation Intermational

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148 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies TEQUILSITTITIETOLIITTINESTISSEMELOURS ET SI P oleg W O WWW Prunere POMSamAL:ARAROGhMNOR OW ANT P ES u r terk WIL INN DIE HAAKMANAWAZA IVECO 14 ASTER Ice AS AROMISE . www . Date ENFREK Terk Po SERIE: DI CASAAST -werEUDONATIND E R SALLE DE SOBIE DORT DIPERDAD 5315 31.6200 W POD NOUN ATT ETAWY W W DY **CECIOSAMENTES EA-B M USDWO ARRAN MCHA Kongo lles A he TA AW : IN Kahebat : VECT Fig. 80. Wall sculptures of Ajitanatha Temple, Taranga. Jain Education Interational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 149 consists of nine courses (some being minor) of two bhittas (the lower showing flamboyant pattern and the upper half lotuses), a kumuda, pattika, jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, chadyaki adorned with caitya-gavaksas, and a grasapatti. The vedibandha is comparatively high and consists of seven courses of khura decorated with lotus scrolls or caitya-gavaksa pattern, kumbha bearing decorations of half diamonds or figures of Jaina goddesses on the body and bead-and-diamond band on the shoulder, kalasa, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, kapota embellished with udgama pattern, mancika decorated with caitya-gavaksas, and a pattika adorned with floral diamonds. Pierced into the upper three mouldings of the pitha on the north is a large, beautiful makara- pranala. The jangha is divided into two registers, the lower being wider than the upper. Supported by a figural band of dancers and musicians, warriors and fighters, teacher and disciples, mithuna scenes etc., the lower wall carries standing images of four-armed Dikpalas on the corner offsets and eight-armed dancing Yaksis and Vidyadevis on the pratirathas and pratibhadras. Each deity is attended upon by two gayful apsarases and is surmounted by a fine udgama pediment. The apsarases also appear on the konikas. Above each apsara is represented an amorous couple. The upper wall, supported by a mancika with circular pendants underneath, carries four-armed standing images of Dikpalas and Yaksas on the corner offsets and Yaksis and Vidyadevis on the pratirathas. Each image is flanked on either side by a large elongated half diamond incised with flamboyant pattern. Similar diamonds also appear on the konikas and pratibhadras, but here they are full and hollowed out. Above the upper jangha comes a square bharani clasped by drooping foliage. The varandika is divided into two sections, each consisting of a kapota, a fillet decorated with lotus scrolls and a ribbed awning carrying on the corners of the offsets the figures of Vidyadharas carved in the round and holding knife. Each bhadra above the pitha is differently treated in the sanctum. Here it shows two balconied windows one above the other, the lower being wider than the upper. The lower balcony is triratha on plan and shows recesses between the offsets. In elevation it displays a broad pattika decorated with floral diamonds, rajasenaka adorned with diamond-and-double volute pattern, vedika carrying figures of gods and goddesses on the offsets and various decorative patterns in the counter sunk recesses, an asanapatta with projecting bell-rooflets and udgama-pediments over the offsets and kirttimukhas over the recesses, and a kaksasana with three decorative bands of flamboyant pattern, figures of varied nature in roundels, and foliate scrolls. The asanapatta supports eight octagonal ornate pillars with carved architraves put across them in the interior. Between the pillars are set up perforated stone grilles of geometrical pattern through which diffused light enters the inner ambulatory. The balcony window is shaded by an overhanging corrugated eave-cornice followed above by a kapota. The eave-cornice at corners supports elephants carved in the round and emerging from the kapota. The balcony in the interior has a rectangular flat ceiling divided up into three panels, the side ones depicting lotus medallions and the central panel, a stylised lotus. The upper balcony is very similar to the lower one but is covered by a bell-roof. It is through this balcony window that the interior of the upper storey is lighted. The huge anekandaka sikhara over the sanctum rises from a base made up of recessed fillet, arris and mancika, and is composed of a saptaratha central sikhara marked by eleven bhumi-amalakas and carrying 148 big and small srngas of various form and design, if it is to be counted from the rear side. The offsets of the central tower terminate at the skandha indicated by a diamond-band, but the cardinal offsets extend to the griva which is crowned by a large amalaka, candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. A figure carrying banner may also be seen on the west facade. On the skandha are stationed sculptures of Jaina monks Jain Education Intemational

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150 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies carved in the round and seated in ease. At the base of the Sikhara, in each cardinal point, is a framed figure of eight-armed dancing goddess (one identifiable with Sarasvati). The whole of the Sikhara shows a lattice of fine but minute and complicated caitya-gavaksa pattern. The front facade of the sikhara shows only one central srriga, the others being replaced by a sukanasa lodged over the buffer wall. The sukanasa is made up of three graded balconied windows, each having a bell- roof with rampant lion. Two of these are blind, while the lower is open admitting diffused light to the interior of the upper storey. These windows carry dancing images of eight-armed Jaina goddesses on their side and front walls. The interior of the sanctum shows a dvi-anga garbhagrha with an ambulatory around it. The ambulatory passage has been narrowed by reinforcing piers and arches during restorations. The exterior solid walls of the garbhagrha have a recessed bench on each face, while the front wall provides the entrance door concealed from view by piers and arches. Inside the garbhagsha is a colossal seated figure of Ajitanatha of late date of A.D. 1422. Besides, there are two small images of Ajitanatha of A.D. 1247-48, two standing images of Jinas of A.D. 1297 and several others of late date. The gudhamandapa attached diagonally to the sanctum is also caturanga on plan and follows the vertical lineaments of the latter including even the bottom row of smigas, but above that it is covered by a bell roof of nineteen tiers studed with alternate small and big bells and topped at the apex by a large bell which consists of a cogged bell, amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. The bells in the cardinal directions gradually become larger at their ascent and are crowned by rampant lions. This type of gradation of bells is singular in the temples of Gujarat. Two lateral entrance porches of the gudhamandapa are alike. Each porch is approached from the courtyard by a flight of eleven steps cut across the pitha and consists of two tall, massive, octagonal pillars with architraves put across them and a flat ceiling relieved with sixteen full-flown lotus flowers disposed in four lines of four each. The base of the pillars consists of six ornate courses of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta, kapota and grasapatti. Their shaft is octagonal at the base, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular on the top, the last one clasped by three decorative bands of garland loops and foliage, diamonds and beads, and kirttimukhas alternated by tassels. The capital consists of a double-coursed round abacus of arris and cyma recta, and a four-armed double-roll bracket. The architraves are divided into three fasciae, the lower carrying ornament of foliate scrolls, the middle intersecting garlands and the upper floral diamonds. In the centre of their underside is a lotus medallion. The saptasakha door consists of patra, ratna, again ratna, stambha, ratna, again ratna, and padma decorated with lotus petals respectively. The lower part of the stambhasakha is occupied by a figure of door-keeper, while the upper part shows some decorative bands and moulded courses. The doorsill, the central part of which has been concealed by marble encasing, shows a sculptured niche on either end. The door-lintel continues the decorations of three inner jambs but is interrupted in the centre by the tutelary image of Jina and surmounted by a projecting eave-cornice the intrados of which is incised with lotus petals. The overdoor shows nine projecting niches containing images of standing goddesses. The front door of the closed hall is very similar to the one just described but is partly concealed by two later built piers and an arch of Muslim style. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal arrangement of eight pillars in the nave and twelve attached pillars and two independent pillars in the surrounding diagonal aisle. Behind the last two pillars, which are standing towards the sanctum, are four others symmetrically arranged. Close behind the last four pillars stand other four connecting the screen that shuts off the sanctum. All these pillars are similar to those noticed in the porch, but here the side brackets of the capital are treated as crocodile heads. The nave Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 151 pillars are provided with attic pillars having bracket figures of apsarases thrown between the two capitals. The apsarases are making dance and music or are busy in some other pursuits. The nave is covered by a large domical ceiling (Pl. 57) supported on an octagonal frame of usual architraves. The dome is composed of one sixteen-sided and nine circular courses and has a circular pendant. The sixteen-sided first course is decorated with half lotuses. The second is karnadardarika. The third is adorned with chequer pattern. The next three are gajatalus. Three other successive courses consist each of sixteen-foil receding kolas. The last course carries sixteen small pendants of quatre-foil kola each. The pendant consists of two courses of sixteen-foil kola each and a modern chandelier. From the third course project out sixteen square brackets of Vidyadharas, each supporting a fine bracket figure of apsara tenoned into the lowermost kola. The wall spaces between the attached pillars are filled up with sculptured niches. Most of these niches are empty now; some contain images of Jinas and Acaryas. In one niche there is probably an equestrian image of king Kumarapala, the donor of the temple. The surrounding aisle is also covered with six ornate ceiling courses. The dome in the upper storey, now plastered up with white lime, is strengthened by wooden cross-bars. The mukhamandapa, which is approached from the front by three stairways, is divided into six bays by ten pillars and two stambhaskhas arranged in three lines of four each. The pillars and their architraves are similar to those found in the porch of the gudhamandapa. Of the six ceilings three in the front row are samatala depicting nine or twelve full-flown lotus flowers. Two ceilings in the two rear corners are domical, each consisting of an octagonal and four circular courses. The octagonal course depicts lotus scrolls, while the circular courses consist of karnadardarika, gajatalu, rupapatrika showing teacher and disciples, and sixteenfoil kola respectively. From the centre of the dome hangs down a pendant made up of an eight-foil larger, eight- foil smaller and quatre-foil kolas with a staminal tube clasped by two rows of petals. The ceiling near the gudhamandapa door is also domical, but it consists of only four courses, the first showing human figures carrying water pot and the others comprising karnadardarika decorated with lotus petals and buds, gajatalu and again gajatalu respectively. The central pendant is composed of sixteen-foil, eight-foil larger, eight-foil smaller and quatre-foil kolas and a staminal tube clasped by two rows of petals. On either side of the entrance door is an ornamental emptied niche of white marble added by Vastupala in A.D. 1227. The mukhamandapa is shaded by corrugated eave-cornice. Above the eaves is a roll moulding pierced with four water spouts. This magnificent temple is a royal erection built by the Caulukya king Kumarapala in c. A.D. 1168. KUMBHARIA It is situated about fourteen miles south-east of Abu Railway Station and one and a half miles from the famous Hindu site of Ambaji in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat. In old days it was known as Arasana, i.e. the place known for white marble, but it is not actually known when the present name of Kumbharia came in vogue. Probably, it was named after some Rajaputa king named Kumbha in the late medieval period. There is a group of five Jaina temples, all built of white marble and laid out on the gentle slope of a peak of the Arasura hills with their face on the north. They were constructed from the 11th to the 13th century A.D. when the region was under the aegis of the Caulukyas of Anahillapataka. The temple of Mahavira at Kumbharia is the earliest one followed by Santinatha, Parsvanatha, Neminatha and Sambhavanatha. Mahavira Temple - It (Fig. 81) consists of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, rangamandapa surrounded on three sides by a series of twenty-two devakulikas and a balanaka (entrance hall), the whole standing on a high plain jagati. The temple is entered through a small porch from the front (Pl. 58) and the Jain Education Intemational

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152 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies lateral sides. The front porch opens up in the balanaka, circular projection carved with lotus stem in the centre, while the lateral ones are aligned with their counterparts a kirttimukha on each side of it, and floral diamonds in the gudhamandapa. The exterior walls of the on either end. The door-lintel depicts a figure of Jina devakulikas up to their termination at the lateral entrances in the centre as well as on either end, while the spaces serve as an outer enclosing wall for the temple, while the in between them are filled up with hovering figures of remaining part of the jagati is surrounded by a simple Maladharas and six images of two-armed Sarasvati, wall ensuring thus an outer ambulatory to the temple. Cakresvari, Vajrankusi, Vairotya, Ambika and The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of Vajrastnkhala. In front of the door is a fine moonstone. bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the last one broken into Inside the sanctum is installed a framed figure of three planes. Between the angas are slilantaras, and the Mahavira sitting in meditative posture. The image is salilantaras between the karmas and pratirathas contain a late one dated in A.D. 1618 but the pedestal on which konikas. In elevation it shows five usual divisions. The it stands is original as it bears an inscription of A.D. pitha consists of four courses of bhitta, jadyakumbha, 1061 the date when the temple was actually built. karnika and pattika and is plain, but for the jadyakumbha Against the east and west walls of the garbhagsha are which carries on each bhadra a half diamond flanked by placed seated images of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika which half caitya-gavaksas. The vedibandha carries five courses appear contemporary to the temple. of khura, kumbha adorned with half diamonds, kalasa, The gudhamandapa closely follows the horizontal antarapatta, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksas. and vertical lineaments of the sanctum, but its offsets The jangha, divided into two registers by a grasapatti, isare broader and it is roofed by a pyramidal superstructure plain but for the projecting sculptured niches (now studed with seven rows of fluted bells alternating with empty) on the bhadras. A grasapatti also surmounts the smaller ones (Figs. 82-83). At the top is a large bell upper register of the jangha. The varandika is composed with a partly preserved kalasa, and in the cardinal of a narrow plain band, an arris, urdhva-padma, kapota directions are somewhat smaller bells with rampant of the type of the pitha and ribbed eave-cornice. Pierced lions. At the base of the roof, in each cardinal point, into the khura on the west is a makara-pranala. The is a sculptured niche with fine pediment decorated with sikhara (Pl. 60) is of the anekandaka variety clustered caitya-gavaksa pattern. with twenty-one smigas. The central tower is marked by The gudhamandapa is entered through a small five bhumi-amalakas and crowned above the narrow porch from each of the lateral sides by a flight of three griva by a large amalaka, candrika, a smaller amalaka, or four steps. The porch, connected with the outer candrika, kalasa and bijapuraka. Between the smigas are entrance by a colonnaded corridor, consists of two shown elephant trunks and square shrine models of the octagonal pillars and two five-faceted pilasters, has an hall variety. The whole of the spire is covered with a uncarved flat ceiling and is shaded by a corrugated lattice of fine caitya-gavaksas. At the base of the sikhara cave-cornice. The single-sakha door is provided with in each cardinal point is a framed figure of seated Jina moonstone and is plain. The front door of the flanked by a pair of standing ones. The figures on east. gudhamandapa on the other hand is very ornate. It is however, are missing. The sikhara is squat and heavy. of the pancasakha variety consisting of patra (scroll), The trisakha doorframe of the sanctum consists rupa (figure sculptures), rupastambha (pillar with figure of patra, stambha and padma, and has on its basal part sculptures), again rupa and bahyasakha (outer jamb) a standing Jina with two female attendants, the one on decorated with two narrow bands of creepers and inner side carrying a water pot. The doorsill has a semi- diamond-and-beads. The lower part of jambs is occupied Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 155 by a framed figure of four-armed standing goddess Acchupta on proper right and Vairotya on proper left, attended upon by two female figures carrying water pot or fly-whisk. Similarly, the portion above this is occupied by three lalitasana goddesses, each with two female attendants. The doorsill is divided into two horizontal belts, the lower having moulded courses and the upper conforming to that seen in the sanctum, but the diamond on either end is replaced by a sculptured niche sheltering Sarvanubhuti on proper right and Ambika on proper left. The door-lintel is also divided into two belts, the lower showing scroll-band of the patra-sakha and a row of hovering figures of Maladharas, both being interrupted in the centre by the tutelary image of an unidentified male divinity, and the upper depicting child Vardhamana in the lap of her mother Trisala in the centre, Naigamesa and two seated goddesses on her right and a Yaksa and two seated goddesses on her left. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal arrangement of eight simple and plain pilasters supporting a domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of plain architraves. The dome is composed of seven circular courses pertaining to karnadardarika, grasapatti, padma, gajatalu, again gajatalu, eight-foil kola and quatrefoil kola scooped out with a circular kola. From the lower course of the dome project out eight square blocks of stone carved with figures of hovering Vidyadharas which originally supported eight bracket figures tenoned into the sixth course. The south wall shelters two images of kayotsarga Jinas dated in A.D. 1061. The mukhamandapa consists of four bays; three bays are formed across the axial line by six octagonal pillars and two five-faceted pilasters (flanking the gudhamandapa doorway) arranged in two lines of four each and one, projecting into the rangamandapa, is formed by two very ornate square pillars. It is landed up from the rangamandapa by a flight of four steps cut into the pitha of the projecting bay. The pitha of the mukhamandapa consists of seven ornamental mouldings of two bhittas, jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta, chadyaki decorated with caitya-gavaksa pattern and grasapatti, all polished. But the same of the projecting bay is treated like an ornate balustrade consisting of a bhitta, rujasenaka decorated with diamondand double volute pattern, vedika inset with richly carved upright posts alternating with recessed slabs, and an asanapatta adorned with alternate rooflets and kirttimukhas. The vedika on each side also carries two sculptured niches sheltering Cakesvari and Nirvani on the east and Ambika and Sarasvati on the west. All the columns and ceilings supported by them on carved frame of architraves are highly ornamental. The ceiling in the projecting bay displays five projecting square Tumas (pendants) in diagonal framework. Similarly, the ceiling near the gudhamandapa door shows five depressed square lumas. These two are counted among the finest ceilings of India. The other two ceilings depict each a depressed circular luma of eight-foil, quatrefoil and circular kolas. Two rangamandapa ceilings located on two lateral sides of the projecting bay are just the reverse of the preceding ones consisting each of eightfoil and quatrefoil kolas and a staminal tube with two rows of petals. There are two ornate but empty niches (khattakas) on two sides of the gudhamandapa door. Between the pillars in each lateral bay is a handsome cusped torana-arch. The rangamandapa is laid out on the floor of the jagati and shows ten tall ornate pillars which, together with two pillars of the projecting bay of the mukhamandapa, are so arranged as to form a square central nave and two side aisles. Two of these pillars belong to the square order and are very ornate, while the remaining ones are octagonal and less ornate. Eight pillars, two central pillars on each side which originally carried an undulant torana-arch, form an octagon with architraves spanned across them and support a shallow but beautiful domical ceiling with a fine central pendant. The architraves are divided into two fasciae, the lower depicting lotus creepers and the upper lozenges; in the Jain Education Intemational ducation International

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156 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies centre of their soffit is a fine lotus. The dome (Pl. 59) On the lower part of the jamb stands a female carrying consists of eight circular courses representing water pot. The doorsill shows an inverted crescent with kirttimukhas, karnadardarika, seated goddesses (two on foliage in the centre and a small lotus medallion on the north and south sides being Gajalaksmi), gajatalu, either side. The door-lintel continues the decoration of thirty-two, twenty-eight, twenty-four and twenty-foil the jamb and depicts Jina as crest image. The devakulikas kolas respectively, the first being single-lobed and the are dedicated to various Tirthankaras the images of other three seven-lobed (3+3+1). The padmasila-pendant whom have mostly gone. is composed of twenty-, twelve-, eight- and quatre-foil The balanaka is a square pillared hall jutting out oversailing kolas and a staminal tube clasped by two from the outer enclosing wall of the devakulikas. It is laid rows of petals. From the third course of the dome out on the same floor level as do the devakulikas and is project out sixteen bracket figures of four-armed hovering enclosed on the outer side by a screen wall of perforated Vidyadharas and Naigamesa (at two places only) stone grilles fitted between the pillars. The screens are supporting a square block of stone carved with diamonds. cut up with various geometrical patterns and auspicious The four basal corners of the nave left out by the symbols. It is roofed by a plain and simple dome consisting formation of the dome are each filled with a large of ten circular courses carried by twelve octagonal plain kirttimukha, while the narrow soffits on north and south pillars. The balanaka contains a stone plaque representing are filled with nicely executed creepers. As we enter the story of Asvavabodhasamalika-viharatirtha which the rangamandapa from the front, there is a symbolical originally was kept in the Neminatha temple. representation, possibly of Padmasarovara, on its floor. Immediately to the south of the outer eastern Each of the side-aisles is divided into seven rectangular entrance is a four-faced devakulika housing a bays, each having a fine samatala ceiling. Fourteen in Samavasarana plaque made of yellow marble. number these ceilings show Pancakalyanaka scenes santinatha Temple - It lies at a little distance (descent from heaven, birth, initiation, enlightenment in the north-west of the Mahavira temple. On plan it and death) of Santinatha, Mahavira and Rsabhanatha, closely follows the Mahavira temple but the balanaka parents of twenty-four past, present and future is absent here, and the niches on the front of the Tirthankaras, Caturvidhasangha (laymen, laywomen, rangamandapa are eight in number and are screened by monks and nuns), figures in boxes, etc. double arcade of pillars (Fig. 84). From the presence The devakulikas, of which eight each flank on east of eight niches and sixteen shrine-cells this temple has and west and six align on the front in the form of become a Caturvimsatijinalaya, i.e. a Jaina temple with niches, are laid out on a floor higher than the twenty-four subsidiary shrines. rangamandapa and are approachable from the latter by The tri-anga sanctum displays constricted offsets a flight of three steps made along the entire length of and stands on a low yet plain pitha consisting of two their platform. They are confronted by a cloistered bhittas, jadyakumbha, karnika and pattika. The corridor of one row of octagonal pillars carrying plain vedibandha is also plain consisting of five usual courses, lantern ceilings. The corridor is shaded towards the The jangha, divided into two registers by a plain median rangamandapa by an overhanging corrugated eave- band, is plain but for projecting sculptured niches on cornice. Provided with moonstone the doorframe of the cardinal offsets. The niches are not empty here but each devakulika consists of one jamb decorated with contain images of Jinas sitting in meditative posture. alternate beads and diamonds, but two devakulikas have The varandika consists of two kapotas and a ribbed double jambs, the additional being decorated with scrolls. eave-cornice. The anekandaka pancaratha sikhara (Pl. 62) Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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158 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies is tall, shows twenty one srngas in all, and is marked on the central tower by seven bhumi-amalakas. The entire sikhara is covered with a fretwork of complicated caitya-gavaksas. The different offsets of the sikhara terminate at the skandha, but the central offsets extend to the griva crowned by a large amalaka clasped by plain band, a candrika, smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. Between the srngas here also are placed forepart of elephants (gajamunda). The three niches at the base of the sikhara contain images of four-armed seated Jaina goddesses of which two are identifiable with Cakresvari (E) and Ambika (W). The dvisakha door of the sanctum consists of fine patra and thin ratna. The doorsill shows a square projection bearing stemmed lotus in an inverted crescent in the centre, a female with water pot and a kirttimukha on each side of it, and two females with one of their hands raised in adoration on either extremity. At the base of the inner doorjamb stand graceful figures of river goddesses, Ganga on proper right and Yamuna on proper left, both carrying water pot. This is a rare representation of river goddesses in the Jaina temples of Gujarat. The doorlintel continues the decorative bands of the jambs and has a Jina as crest figure. Inside the sanctum is installed an image of Santinatha sitting in meditative posture. The image does not appear to be contemporaneous with the temple. Articulated at the frontal karna of the sanctum the gudhamandapa shows only bhadra and karna. It shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum and has a pyramidal roof studed with unfluted bells of very poor workmanship. On the top of the roof is a large bell with kalasa and bijapuraka. The two lateral porches consist each of two octagonal pillars and two fivefaceted pilasters and have a ceiling made by cutting off the corners. Their single-sakha door is decorated with foliate scrolls. The front or northern door of the gudhamandapa is of the trisakha variety consisting of patra, padma and broader patra. At the base of the jambs stands a female carrying water pot. The door-lintel continues the decorations of the jambs and shows a Jina as crest image. The overdoor depicts eight auspicious Jaina symbols which are rarely found at this place in the Jaina temples of Gujarat. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal arrangement of eight pilasters supporting a domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of plain architraves. The dome is composed of six circular courses, the first four being padma (cyma recta) and the last two consisting of an eight-foil and a quatrefoil kolas. The dome is closed up by a circular kola. The mukhamandapa (Pl. 61) is rectangular on plan and consists of six bays formed by ten pillars and two pilasters arranged in three lines of four each. It is approached from the rangamandapa by a flight of five steps cut into the central bay. Its pitha on two lateral sides here also is polished; it consists of eight courses of two bhittas, karnika, pattika, jadyakumbha, broad karnika, antarapatta decorated with diamonds, projecting band and grasapatti, while the whole of the same on the front side is treated like an ornamental balustrade which is similar to that seen in the Mahavira temple, but the two vedika-niches on proper right shelter Sarvanubhuti and Acchupta and the same on proper left Nirvani and Yaksa Brahmasanti. All the four pillars in the front row are of square order and very rich in decoration. Similarly, the two five-faceted pilasters flanking the gudhamandapa door are highly ornamental. The remaining six pillars belong to octagonal variety and are less ornate. The architraves running across them bear two decorative bands of lotus scrolls and diamonds. Each bay contains an ornate ceiling. Two of these ceilings (south-east and south-west) are square on plan and consists each of four circular courses and a short circular pendant of eight-foil pointed kola with staminal tube clasped by three rows of petals. The first course shows a kirttimukha-band on the inner face and a Kinnara couple at each corner on the underside, while the other three are made up of karnadardarika, eightfoil larger and eight-foil smaller kolas respectively. Two

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India ceilings in the north-west and north-east corners are slightly rectangular on plan, but their space is reduced to a square by a framework of stone slabs decorated with human couple, dancers and musicians, Kinnara, goose, elephant, crocodile etc. Each ceiling consists of three circular courses and a circular pendant made up of eight-foil kola and a staminal tube clasped by two rows of petals. The first course depicts garland loops on the inner face and a pair of confronting elephants on each corner, the second is karnadardarika and the third is gajatalu. Square on plan the ceiling just above the staircase consists of three circular courses and a large pendant of padmasila. The inner face of the first course shows a band of jasmin flowers, while its underside on four corners bears images of Rohini, Sarasvati, Cakresvari and Vairotya, all four-armed and seated in lalitasana. The second is karnadardarika and the third is decorated with geese. The pendant is composed of twelve-, eight-, six- and quatre-foil pointed kolas with a flower bud on the tip. The ceiling near the gudhamandapa door is similar to the preceding one, but it is shorter in size and shows images of Dikpalas (Agni, Kubera, Yama and Nirrti) on the four corners. The two ornamental niches flanking the gudhamandapa front door here also are empty. The rangamandapa shows eight ornate pillars which, together with four pillars of the mukhamandapa, form a slightly rectangular central nave and two side aisles. Six of these pillars are of the octagonal order and two central pillars on the front belong to square variety. To give an additional height to the roof they are provided with attic pillars. Eight of these pillars, i.e. two central pillars on each side, form an octagon and support a big domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves decorated with two ornamental bands of lotus scrolls and creepers, and a lotus medallion in the centre of their underside. In order to strengthen the dome a beautiful cusped arch has been inserted between the central pair of pillars on each side. The dome (Pl. 63) consists of eight circular courses and a circular 159 pendant. The first course is decorated with figures of Jaina goddesses alternating with rosettes. The second is karnadardarika. The third is adorned with lozengeshaped flowers. The fourth is gajatalu. The remaining four courses consist of twenty-eight-foil, twenty-fourfoil, twenty four-lobed-foil and sixteen four-lobed-foil of kolas respectively. The pendant consists of twelve-, eight- and quatre-foil kolas with a long staminal tube clasped by a band of dancers and musicians. From the third course project out sixteen bracket figures of Vidyadharas. At each of the basal corners is shown a large kirttimukha in high relief. The broader soffits left out at the north and south ends depict very fine and large creepers. Each of the side aisles of the rangamandapa is divided into seven bays, six of which on each side have fine samatala ceilings. The carvings of these ceilings include Pancakalyanaka scenes of Adinatha, Santinatha, Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, Samavasarana scene, a complete set of sixteen four-armed lalitasana Vidyadevis with Parsvanatha as central figure, figures of dancers, musicians, animals, horse-riders, elephants with drivers etc. One of the ceilings on the west also depicts Gomukha and Cakresvari, the Yaksa and Yaksi of Rsabhanatha to whom this temple originally was dedicated. Here the rangamandapa floor on the north end bears a rotating svastika symbol. The devakulikas with single or double arcade of pillars have each a single-sakha door adorned with scrolls or diamonds and beads. The doorsill shows an inverted crescent with foliage in the centre and a lotus medallion on each side of it. At the base of the jamb is a female carrying water vessel. The door-lintel depicts a Jina as crest image. All the pillars are of simple octagonal order and the pilasters flanking the doors are five-faceted. Each bay carries a ceiling formed by cutting off the corners. The central stone in each ceiling depicts a full-blown lotus flower. The devakulikas towards the rangamandapa are shaded by an overhanging eave-cornice. They are dedicated to Tirthankaras whose

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160 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies images have mostly been taken away. The three entrance porches, the eastern one of which has gone, consist each of two octagonal plain pillars and two pilasters and carry a flat or domical plain ceiling. The single-sakha door is adorned with foliate scrolls. At the base of the jamb stands a female carrying water pot, but the same in the northern porch has images of Ganga and Yamuna as we notice in the sanctum door of this temple. There is a four-faced chapel in the south-east corner of the court which shelters Mt. Astapada dated in A.D. 1209. The temple of Santinatha has a close kinship to the Mahavira temple both in form and decoration, but it also shows some change and advancement and hence posterior in date to the latter. Since the Mahavira temple was built in about A.D. 1061, this temple may have been built about two decades later in about A.D. 1081. Colour to this is also lent by some inscriptions of this date found in the temple. Parsvanatha Temple - It closely lies to the east of the Mahavira temple. It is larger than the temples of Mahavira and Santinatha and is laid out on a taller jagati. On plan (Fig. 85) it closely corresponds to the Mahavira temple, but in place of entrance hall it has a nalamandapa built over the entrance porch (PL. 64) and a stairway leading up from the latter to the rangamandapa. Besides, it has nine devakulikas on either side, six niches on the front have been worked out as devakulikas, and the lateral entrance is to be found only on the west. The pitha of the tri-anga sanctum consists of four plain courses. The vedibandha of the wall has the usual five courses. The wall divided into two belts by a plain band is plain except for the projecting sculptured niches (now empty) on the central offsets. The varandika over the wall is made up of a kapota and a ribbed awning. The featureless sikhara with 93 turrets and crowning members is a later erection. The door of the sanctum consists of two jambs, one bearing scroll pattern and the other, diamonds and beads. On the door-lintel is a Jina as lalatabimba. Inside the sanctum is installed an image of Parsvanatha sitting in meditative posture on a moulded pedestal. The image is a late one belonging to the 16th century A.D. The gudhamandapa, which is wider than the sanctum, shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum and is covered by a roof now plastered up. It has entrances on the north and west only. The western entrance is led through a small porch with single-sakha door adorned with foliate scrolls. The northern door is, however, very ornate and consists of five jambs showing scrolls, female attendants, four-armed Jaina goddesses, female attendants and diamonds-and-beads respectively. The lower part of door carries Vidyadevis with female attendants. The door-lintel depicts on its lalata an image of Padmavati, the Yaksi of Parsvanatha, flanked on each side by Maladharas, above this are shown Vidyadevis in panels and apsarases and Gandharvas in counter sunk panels; and then occur fourteen objects of dream seen by the Jina mother during her conception. The doorsill shows delicately carved semi-circular mandaraka flanked by a pair of kirttimukhas. There is a fine moonstone in front of the doorsill. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows the usual arrangement of eight pilasters carrying a dome of seven circular courses of karnadardarika, ratna, three successive gajatalus, eight-foil kola and quatrefoil kola. A circular kola closed up the dome. Its seven intact Vidyadhara brackets once probably supported Nayika figures. There are two big images of Ajitanatha and Santinatha dated in A.D. 1119. The mukhamandapa is similar to that seen in the Mahavira temple, displaying ornamental pitha, same set of pillars and pilasters, and two fine sculptured niches, but, surprisingly enough, the ceilings are flat and uncarved, probably the original ceilings, having been damaged, were replaced during renovations. The disposition of rangamandapa is also similar to that of the Mahavira temple, but it is spacious and well proportioned, and its pillars are stout and tall and

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162 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies are provided with attic system. The architraves across the pillars depict only a kirttimukha in the centre of the lower fascia and flat diamonds in the upper. Similarly, the domical ceiling (Pl. 65) is not shallow as it consists of ten circular courses, the first six displaying kirttimukhas, karnadardarika, ratnapatta, gajatalu, rupapatta showing a figure of Jina mother with laymen and laywomen and gajatalu, each of the next three being four-lobed kola and the last, a mono-kola. The pendant hanging down in the centre of the dome consists of three kola courses and has a longer staminal tube with two rows of petals. The dome has been reinforced by sixteen brackets figures (now gone) emerging from the square blocks of Vidyadhara brackets inserted in the third course and once tenoned into the seventh course. Each of the basal corners of the dome shows usual kirttimukha carved in bold relief. On the floor of the rangamandapa on the northern end here also is represented a rotating svastika symbol. Each of the side aisles is divided into seven bays, six having uncarved flat ceilings and one carrying a domical ceiling of seven circular courses. The space between the dome and nalamandapa is covered by three plain samatala ceilings. The devakulikas, twenty four in number, are all symmetrical but for the central cell on each of the lateral sides. Their cloistered corridor displays one row of octagonal pillars. The pillars are tall and ornate and are overshadowed by a ribbed eave-cornice, unlike the corrugated one employed in the earlier temples. The pilasters flanking the doors of the cells, the architraves spanned across the columns and the ceilings supported by them are all ornate. The ceiling in front of each cell is domical consisting of four courses, the first being octagonal and the rest, circular. All the twelve ceilings in the east wing show incision of lotus petals on the four courses and a full-blown lotus flower on the key- stone. The same in the west wing displays figural and floral patterns and a small pendant hanging down from their centre. Each devakulika has a single-sakha door decorated with foliate scrolls. At the base of the jamb stands a door-guardian with female attendants. On the door-lintel appears a four-armed goddess rather than the usual Jina figure. The central devakulika in either wing, i.e. the fifth from the southern end, is larger than the others and displays very ornate exterior and interior. Their tri-anga exterior walls depict images of the Dikpalas in their correct positions on the corner offsets and those of Jaina goddesses on the remaining ones. They are also roofed by a sikhara enmeshed with fine caitya-gavaksas. In the interior the two central devakulikas show very ornate square pillars and fivefaceted pilasters and have a fine ceiling of the domical order. Their doors are also richly carved. All the devakulikas are dedicated to Tirthankaras the enshrined images of whom are mostly gone. As is found in the earlier temples, the passage between the lateral doors of the gudhamandapa and the outer entrances is covered by a pillared corridor with flat or domical ceilings. The northern entrance porch shows an arrangement of six pillars and four pilasters to form four bays, three running east-west across the axial line and one jutting out from the central bay. It rests on a low terrace which is approached from the ground by a flight of seven steps. The pillars are of the octagonal order and the ceilings carried by them are flat and plain. The entrance door whence a stairway leads to the floor of the rangamandapa is of the single-sakha variety adorned with foliate scrolls. To ward off rainwater the porch is overshadowed by an overhanging corrugated eavecornice. The western entrance porch is square on plan and is landed up by a double flight of steps. It shows two pillars and two pilasters and is roofed by a plain flat ceiling. The nalamandapa, built right above the northern porch and the stairway of seven steps, is a square pillared hall with an additional square bay towards the north end. It is laid out on a floor higher than the corridor and is approachable from the latter by two small steps. On the exterior as well as on the southern Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 163 end in the interior it is enclosed by a low parapet wall with sloping seat-back. On the outer face of the seat- back are represented figures of amorous couples, Maladharas, geese, monkey, elephant etc. in roundels. This low opening wall not only provides sufficient light and air to the interior but also seats for resting the visitors. In the interior the nalamandapa shows eight dwarf pillars on the seat of the sloping seat-back, four octagonal massive pillars along the southern side and two pilasters flanking the devakulikas. Eight of these columns are so arranged as to form an octagon and support a domical ceiling with a short pendant. The dome consists of nine circular courses, all incised with lotus petals. As against a bold kirttimukha on each of the four basal corners, it shows two elephants lustrating a lotus plant. Stylistically, this temple shows some change and advancement on the Mahavira and Santinatha temples and has close resemblance with a little later built temple of Neminatha at this site. Since the Neminatha temple is known to have been completed about A.D. 1136, this temple may have been built somewhat earlier, probably about A.D. 1100. This date also fits in well with the dates of the inscriptions found in the temple. The earliest of these inscriptions is dated in A.D. 1104, but the temple may have been built a little earlier than this date. Neminatha Temple - It lies at a little distance to the south-west of the Mahavira temple. The general arrangement of its plan (Fig. 86) is similar to the Parsvanatha temple consisting thus of a sanctum, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, rangamandapa enclosed by ten devakulikas on the front and eight on each lateral side, and a nalamandapa, but it is larger in size and by virtue of its central situation it is most sacred temple of Kumbharia. The temple is entered only from the north through a partly rebuilt square porch approached from the ground by double flight of steps. From the porch a stairway of eleven steps leads up to the floor of the rangamandapa. The temple complex stands on a fairly lofty but unadorned jagati. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, each indented into five or seven planes. Between the offsets are salilantaras, each of which accommodates a minor projecting konika. The frontal karna and pratiratha form a buffer wall between the gudhamandapa and the sanctum. In elevation the sanctum (Pl. 66) shows all the five divisions, viz. pitha, vedibandha, jangha, varandika and sikhara. The pitha (Fig. 47) is high and very elaborate and consists of bhitta (now imbedded), jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta, chadyaki decorated with caityagavaksa device, grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The narathara displays figures of dancers and musicians, warriors and fighters, amorous couples, teacher and disciples, etc. The vedibandha shows five usual members of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota, but ornamentally they are very rich carrying figures of Jaina goddesses on kumbha and diamonds on antarapatta. There is a fine makara-pranala on the east. The wall, supported by a mancika (kapota like moulding with circular pendants underneath), carries four-armed images of Dikpalas in their correct position on the karmas and of Vidyadevis and Yaksis on the pratirathas. Framed between two circular pillarettes and topped by a two-coursed stepped pediment of caitya-gavaksa motif, each figure stands in an elegant posture on a console decorated with lotus leaves. On two faces of the konkas appear charming figures of apsarases making dance or music, securing her lower garment which is being carried down by a dwarf rode on her thigh, or striping her lower garment to show nudity. Above each apsara is also seen an amorous couple. The wall on each bhadra shows a projecting sculptured niche crowned by a ribbed eave-cornice and an ornamental pediment, but the harbouring image in each is missing. Above the statutory band comes a round bharani of arris-cum-cyma recta clasped by drooping foliage. The cornice above the wall consists of a kapota and a ribbed awning. The whole of the multi-turreted sikhara, built of bricks and coated with plaster, seems to be a very late erection. The sanctum door is modern. Jain Education Intemational

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164 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Inside the sanctum is a colossus of Neminatha of A.D. 1618 seated in meditation on a high pedestal. Behind the sanctum and supported by the southern compound wall is a large torana-frame which once may have been with the original cult image in the sanctuary. The gudhamandapa with its plain wall, roof and interior pilasters carrying painted domical ceiling is a restored and later one but for a few basal mouldings of the pitha. It has an entrance only on the north; its doorframe is very large and was redone recently. Inside are some interesting images. Two of these are colossuses of standing Parsvanatha and Suparsvanatha dated in A.D. 1157. Another pair of standing Jinas dated in A.D. 1257 flank the sanctum doorframe. There is also a stone panel representing 170 images of seated Jinas and dated in A.D. 1253. The mukhamandapa, landed up from the rangamandapa by three staircases, each provided with a moonstone, has plain and unmoulded pitha and is divided into ten bays by eight pillars and four pilasters of its own and six pillars (three on each side) of the rangamandapa arranged in three lines of six each. All the pillars and pilasters are of the square order and are heavily enriched with figure sculptures. The architraves running across them are decorated with two bands of lotus scrolls and diamonds respectively. Four of the ten ceilings on two sides are made by cutting off the corners and are plain but for the central stone which is adorned with lotus flower. The remaining six ceilings are ornate and circular, but they cannot compete those seen in the mukhamndapa of the Mahavira and Santinatha temples. Each of these consists of an octagonal and three circular courses and a short pendant. The octagonal course is decorated with kirttimukhas, diamonds, geese, lotus scrolls or half lotuses, and the rest are treated as stencilled ardhvapadimas or karpadardarika, gajatalu and four-lobed kola. The two khattakas flanking the door of the gudhamandapa are empty now. There are two additional khattakas. The one in the south-east corner shelters a stone plaque of Nandisvaradvipa dated in A.D. 1266 and the corresponding one on the southwest an image of Ambika, the Yaksi of Neminatha, datable to late 13th century A.D. The lateral sides on the east and west are walled up by blind screens carved with geometrical, floral and faunal patterns. The rangamandapa is a two-storeyed structure of twenty pillars. Eight of these, together with four pillars of the mukhamandapa, form a square central nave, and six are colonnaded in a row on its each lateral side. The upper storey is demarcated by a kaksasana wall supported on the nave and mukhamandapa pillars and extended as far as the door of gudhamandapa on the one end and nalamandapa on the other. The spaces between the roof and the kaksasana being open, the interior of the rangamandapa has become highly ventilated. The nave pillars are of square order with corners chamfered into five angles and correspond to the ornate mukhamandapa pillars with this difference that they are taller and massive and have a moulded pedestal below the base. Six lateral pillars also belong to square order, but they carry very little ornamentation. The remaining six pillars standing on two sides of the mukhamandapa are octagonal and less ornamental. The architraves over the pillars are similar to those found in the mukhamandapa, but the diamond-band on those surrounding the nave is replaced by a frieze of figure sculptures. The kaksasana wall consists of an asanapatta and a kaksasana, the former decorated with flamboyant pattern and the latter with three decorative bands of kirttimukhas, figures in roundels and foliate scrolls respectively. The nave is covered by a large but impressive domical ceiling raised up by attic pillars with ornate architraves put across them. The domical ceiling (Pl. 67) consists of nine circular courses and a circular padmasila. The courses show ardhapadma, karnadardarika, rupakantha, gajatalu, rupapattika depicting Pancakalyanakas, gajatalu and three successive kolas of four-lobed each respectively. From the third course project out sixteen square brackets of Vidyadharas and Naigamesa (at two places only). The padmasila,

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E Jaina Temple Architecture: North India pratiranhas Shudru khattaka Lapili kama Nandisvara palla Kalyana-traya extension Abure khattaka mitaprasada. UNA ardhacdra T EL Supana tray+ extension Ambika blind screens FC Fig. 86. Plan of Neminatha Temple, Kumbharia. 165

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166 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies built on the principle of co-radial regression, consists right and of Ambika on extreme left. The door-lintel of six courses of sixteen-foil kola each and one course depicts a Jina as crest image. The devakulikas have no of eight-foil kola. Each of the basal corners depicts a partition walls and the enshrined images have all gone, kirttimukha in alto-relievo. The entire ceiling was painted but the moulded pedestal, which is saptaratha in each during restoration in the 17th century A.D. Except for devakulika and runs without break from one end to the four, all other ceilings of the rangamandapa are flat and other, is well preserved. The exterior wall of each uncarved. One flat ceiling in the west wing, however, devakulika is also tri-anga and shows three horizontal is carved with an oval-shaped lotus flower. Two ceilings divisions on the wall, but the portion above that is in in front of the central devakulika (15th from south) are the form of parapet provided with battlements, all modern domical, each now plastered up with lime. The one over and plastered up. The southern-most cell in the west the opening on north is also domical, but it is rectangular wing also carries an anekandaka sikhara with its central on plan and its space is reduced to a square by a frame tower divided into five stages of bhumi-amalakas and of four rectangular slabs bearing decorations of crowned by two amalakas, a kalasa and bijapuraka. The intersecting garlands on the inner face and four lotus sikhara is wholly covered with a lattice of delicately medallions on each of the two shorter undersides. The carved caitya-gavaksa pattern. The two central dome consists of four courses and a circular padmasila devakulikas are relatively more ornate as they have a of eight-foil kola. The first course of the dome is door of four ornate jambs, their ceilings are domical octagonal showing a band of geese on the inner face with incisions of lotus petals, and they carry an uncarved and two elephants lustrating a lotus plant on the soffit sikhara. The exterior wall of the central devakulika on on its each corner. The other three show karnadardarika, the west also shows images of Dikpalas on the corner gajatalu and four-lobed kola. offsets and Jaina goddesses on the other. Inside the The devakulikas are laid out on a platform built central devakulika on the east is a colossal seated image all around the temple and provided with three or four of Adinatha dated in A.D. 1618 and that in the west steps for landing. Each devakulika is approached from is of Parsvanatha, also perhaps of late date. the platform by two small steps. The central devakulika The entrance porch consists of two pillars and two on each side (the fifth from south) is larger in size and pilasters and carries a lantern ceiling made by cutting is approached from the rangamandapa by two steps off the corners. It is enclosed on two sides by a short only. The devakulikas are screened by one arcade of balustraded wall and approached from the ground by pillars on the front and by a double colonnade on the a double flight of steps. lateral sides. Except for two terminal pillars near The nalamandapa built over the entrance porch nalamandapa which are square and ornate, all the pillars and a stair of five steps leading up from the porch to are of the octagonal order and less ornate. The five- the floor of the rangamandapa is a square pillared hall, faceted pilasters flanking their doors, however, are more if the bay right above the porch is excluded. It is laid ornate. Each bay contains an uncarved flat ceiling out on a floor higher than that of the devakulikas and Barring those of the two central devakulikas, the door is approachable from the latter by a lone step. On the of each cell consists of two jambs decorated with foliate exterior it is enclosed by a short balustraded wall scrolls and broad creepers respectively. At the basal part consisting of a rajasenaka decorated with diamonds, a of jambs on either side stands a female divinity with vedika inset with alternate upright posts and recessed female attendants, one carrying a pitcher. The usually slabs, all richly carved, an asanapatta and a kaksasana, wrought sill carries an image of Sarvanubhuti on extreme the last two carrying similar decorations as are found Jain Education Intemational ma

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 167 on those of the rangamandapa. The kaksasana is also built along the southern side of its interior. The nalamandapa is divided into seven bays by eight pillars and four pilasters and is shaded by an overhanging eave-cornice. The pillars, pilasters and architraves closely conform to those seen in the mukhamandapa and devakulikas. Of the seven ceilings four are flat and uncarved and the other three are domical with very little carving. Between the dwarf pillars at extreme north bay of the nalamandapa is a fine wavy torana-arch The main temple, according to the Prabandhas, was constructed about A.D. 1134 and its consecration was performed by Devasuri in S. 1193 (A.D. 1136), while most of the devakulikas, as known from the inscriptions, were added somewhat later. Sambhavanatha Temple - It lies farthest west of the Mahavira temple. It consists of a sanctum, a gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches and a rangamandapa, the whole perched on a jagati supporting a boundary wall having projections against the lateral porches of the gudhamandapa (Fig. 87; Pl. 68). The temple is entered only from the north through a porch approachable from the ground by a flight of ten steps. The sanctum is tri-ariga on plan, the central offset broken into five and the others into three planes each. Between the offsets are set up salilantaras. The frontal karma and pratiratha are transmuted into a buffer wall which separates the sanctum from the gudhamandapa. In elevation the sanctum shows pitha, vedibandha, jangha, varandika and sikhara. The pitha consists of four courses of bhitta, jadyakumbha, karnika and pattika and is plain. The vedibandha comprising five usual mouldings of khura, kumbha, kalasa, antarapatta and kapota is also plain but for the kumbha which carries images of Jaina goddesses or decoration of half diamonds. The jangha, supported by a mancika, is divided into two registers by a plain medial band and is plain too, but each cardinal offset shows a projecting sculptured niche (now empty) surmounted by a two- coursed pediment of caitya-gavaksa pattern. The varandika consists of a deep fillet, mancika, kapota and a ribbed awning. There is a makara-pranala pierced into khura on the east. The pancaratha anekandaka sikhara of forty-one slgas is marked on its central tower by seven bhumiamalakas. The different offsets of the sikhara terminate at the skandha but the central offsets extend to the griva crowned above by a large amalaka clasped by diamondand-bead band, a candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. The spaces between the turrets are occupied by elephant trunks. At the base of the Sikhara in the cardinal points are framed figures of Vajrankusi (E), Cakresvari (S) and Sarasvati (W). The whole of the sikhara is adorned with minute caitya-gavaksas. The front facade of the Sikhara carries a blind balconied window lodged over the buffer wall. The window has a pyramidal roof with lion springing from the sikhara. The doorframe of the sanctum consists of two jambs, the inner decorated with scrolls and the outer treated as pilaster. The sill shows a semi-circular projection carved with lotus stem in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it, and a sculptured niche sheltering Sarvanubhuti on extreme right and Ambika on extreme left. The door-lintel continues the decorative bands of the jambs but is interrupted in the centre by the tutelary image of Jina. In front of the door is a moonstone also. Inside the sanctum is installed an image of Sambhavanatha seated in meditative posture on a moulded pedestal showing a figure of Laksmi in the middle on the front. The enshrined image appears to be a late one but the pedestal is old. The buffer wall in the interior contains two sunk niches on two sides. The one on east is empty but that on the west shelters a human couple standing with folded hands against a fine parikara. Probably they were the donors of the temple. The gudhamandapa is dvi-anga on plan consisting thus of bhadra and karna offsets, each broken into three planes. It shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum but the portion above that is now plastered up with lime. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 169 Each of the lateral porches, landed up from the courtyard ceiling slab shows a lotus flower with bud. by a flight of three steps, consists of two simple octagonal The temple has close kinship with the Lunavasahi pillars and two five-faceted pilasters and is roofed by at Abu in having projections in the enclosing wall, a a domical ceiling supported on a square frame of carved row of miniature shrine models on the overdoor, portrait architraves. The ceiling is composed of one octagonal sculptures of the donors, diapered doorjambs and and four circular courses, the first depicting a goose- pilasters, and slender form and angular modelling of band and the other three, lotus petals. The ceiling slab the sculptures. Since the Lunavasahi is securely dated shows a lotus medallion. The door is similar to that in A.D. 1231, the present temple may also have been seen in the sanctum. But the dvi-Sakha door on the north built about the same time and a date somewhere in the consists of patra and stambha, the latter carrying mid 13th century A.D. is quite justifiable. vertical flutings and divided at intervals into many GIRNAR horizontal ornate bands. The lower part of jambs is Girnar is a hill lying four miles east of the district occupied by a figure of door-keeper with female headquarters of Junagadh in Gujarat. It has been regarded attendants holding fly-whisk, and the overdoor is as a sacred place by both the Hindus and the Jainas represented with nine miniature shrines sheltering Jaina from very ancient times. To the Jainas, however, it had goddesses, but the central shrine has a Jina figure. The greater significance as three of the five Kalyanakas (five interior of the gudhamandapa shows an arrangement of auspicious events in the life of a Tirthankara), i.e. eight pilasters supporting a domical ceiling on an initiation (diksa), enlightenment (kevalajnana) and octagonal frame of architraves. The pilasters and liberation (moksa), of Neminatha occurred here. During architraves are similar to those found in the porches. the historical period it came into importance when the The dome is composed of seven circular courses, the Mauryan king Candragupta built a dam there and Asoka first showing the decoration of diamonds and the others, made canals to it. This water reservoir had so much the incision of lotus petals. The wall between the importance that many subsequent rulers paid due pilasters contains twelve sunk niches, each surmounted attention for its maintenance. From the Caulukya period by a pediment, but the images installed therein have it started developing into a temple city. All credit for mostly gone. In two niches a seven-hooded cobra canopy this goes to the Jainas who constructed some beautiful is preserved, indicating that originally they possessed Jaina temples (Pl. 69) on one of its hill-tops, which is images of Parsvanatha. In another niche is an image reached after an ascent of nearly 2000 steps and covering of Jina Vasupujya of late 13th century A.D. a distance of about a mile. At present, there are about The rarigamandapa is a square, opened, pillared sixteen Jaina temples of which only the Neminatha hall laid out on a pitha which is but a continuum of shrine and the Vastupalavihara come under the purview the sanctum. It shows an arrangement of ten pillars of this Volume. along the three sides and two pilasters flanking the door Neminatha Temple - Built of black basalt and of the gudhamandapa. The pillars are octagonal and facing west, this temple (Fig. 88) consists of a sandhara simple and the architraves supported by them are plain. sanctum, a gudhamandapa with lateral entrance porches The five-faceted pilasters are, however, very ornate. and a rectangular hall terminating at the west end in They have a moulded base, ornate shaft bearing figures a balcony window which almost overhangs the nearly of goddesses, and ghatapallava capital. The dome is perpendicular scarp of the hill. The temple stands in composed of eleven circular courses; the first is decorated an oblong courtyard (190 ft. by 130 ft.) surrounded by with half diamonds and the others are left plain. The seventy one devakulikas confronted with a colonnaded Jain Education Intemational

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170 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies corridor. The temple is entered from all except the west sides; the side entrances are co-axially arranged with the lateral doors of the gudhamandapa. The temple has been extensively renovated subsequently. The sanctumn (Pl. 70) is tri-anga on plan with bhadra, pratiratha and karna, each broken into three planes. Between the angas are salilantaras and the salilantaras between the karnas and pratirathas contain minor projected corners which are not carried down to the pitha. In elevation it shows five usual divisions. The pitha consists of six courses of two plain bhittas, jadyakumbha, karnika, cippika adorned with caityagavaksa ornament, and a plain pattika. The vedibandha displays khura, kumbha bearing half diamonds incised with flamboyant pattern, kalasa, antarapatta, and kapota decorated with udgama pattern. The jangha, supported by a mancika, is divided into two halves by a plain median band and is short and featureless. It is crowned by two-coursed stepped pediments carrying squatted monkeys at corners of the offsets. The jangha is followed above by a pattika decorated with floral diamonds. The varandika is made up of kapota and ribbed eave-cornice. Each bhadra above the pitha is treated like a balcony window. Its short wall shows a rajasenaka, vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana, all being plain but for the asanapatta which projects with rooflets over the offsets and recedes with kirttimukhas over the alternate recesses of the vedika. The asanapatta in the interior carries two plain squat pillars supporting a corrugated eave-cornice overhanging the plain architraves placed across the pillars. The space between the pillars is filled with perforated stone grilles through which diffused light enters the inner ambulatory. Pierced into the rajasenaka of the balcony on the north is a crude makara-pranala. The pancaratha squat sikhara of the sanctum shows a central tower marked by nine bhumi-amalakas and forty-eight smigas with elephant trunks and vanished Srigas in between them. The various offsets of the central tower terminate at the skandha, but the cardinal ones extend to the griva crowned by a large amalaka, female cauri-bearers and two male attendants. Each of The gudhamandapa, articulated diagonally at the frontal pratiratha of the sanctum, is similar on plan and elevation to the sanctum, but it is larger in size and is covered by a bell-roof studed with twelve rows of bells alternating with twelve rows of kutas (square shrine-models). On the top is a large bell made up of an inverted flat bowl, amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. At the base of the roof, in each cardinal point, is a niche containing an image of seated goddess with four candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. On the east facade of the sikhara is a male figure holding the flag-staff. There are three sculptured niches at the base of the Sikhara, each crowned by three-tiered, stepped, plain pediment. The niches contain four-armed sitting images of Vairotya (S), Cakresvari (E) and Manasi (N) accompanied by female cauri-bearers. On the front facade of the sikhara is a blind window with triple stepped pediment crowned by figures of elephants and lions. The pncasakha doorframe of the sanctum consists of patra, rupa, rupastambha, rupa and padma decorated by lotus scrolls, female attendants, Jaina goddesses, female attendants and lotus petals respectively. On the lower part of jambs stands a door-keeper with female cauri-bearers. The sill shows a semi-circular projection in the centre and a sculptured niche sheltering Sarvanubhuti on proper right and Ambika on proper left. The door-lintel shows a ghatapallava capital over the jambs on either end, while the intervening space is filled with the scroll-band brought from the inner jamb and a row of hovering Maladharas facing the Jina figure of the lalata. The overdoor depicts five images of goddesses with female attendants. A similar door may be seen at the outer northern entrance. The ambulatory around the sanctum is roofed by three gajatalu courses. The inner wall of the sanctum carries an emptied niche crowned by a ribbed awning and an elegant udgama-pediment. Inside the sanctum is a large seated image of Neminatha carved out of black stone.

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172 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies the lateral entrance porches consists of two square sixteen-, twelve-, eight- and quatre-foil kolas. The dome pillars and two pilasters and has a flat roof with is closed up by a circular kola. From the second course corrugated awning. Between the pillars is a seven- project out sixteen square brackets of Vidyadharas cusped fine torana-arch. The single-sakha door is supporting struts of apsarases tenoned into the lowermost decorated with lotus scrolls. At the base of the jamb kola course. The surrounding aisle is roofed by two stands a female carrying water pot. The gudhamandapa gajatalu courses. is also entered from the front (west side) through the The rectangular hall (38 ft. by 21 ft.) houses two rectangular hall. Here also a similar torana - arch is raised platforms depicting feet in pair, probably of stretched between the rear pair of pillars of the hall. Ganadharas. The hall seems to be a later creation, The interior of the gudhamandapa, measuring 41.7 probably removing the mukhamandapa. ft. by 44.7 ft. from door to door, is cruciform in plan The devakulikas stand on a wide platform which having sixteen pillars in four groups of four each in the is approached from the courtyard by a flight of three four cardinal directions, one pillar at each of the four steps made all around. They are screened in the front corners, and two pillars towards a screen wall that shuts by a single or double row of square pillars and have off the sanctum. Besides, there are sixteen pilasters pilasters flanking the doors. The floor of the colonnaded attached at the corners of the wall. Eight central pillars on corridor is paved now with tesselated marble and the four sides are arranged in an octagon dividing thus the ceilings are made by cutting off the corners. The cells entire area into a central nave and surrounding aisle. The are overshadowed by a corrugated eave-cornice. Each nave pillars have attic pillars to support a domical ceiling cell contains a marble image of Jina seated in meditation. on an octagonal frame of architraves. The pillars have a The literary texts like the Raivatagirikalpa etc. square base; their shaft is square at the base, sixteen- reveal that the main temple was built by Sajjana, the sided in the middle and circular on the top; and their Caulukya governor of Saurashtra, in A.D. 1128, while capital consists of a double-coursed round abacus of arris the devakulikas were added by Thakura Savadeva and and cyma recta and a four- or five-armed roll- andJasahada in A.D. 1159. makara-brackets. The architraves bear three ornamental Vastupalavihara - It lies to the east of the bands of creepers, lotus petals with circular pendants, and Neminatha temple on a little higher scarp of the hill. diamonds in volutes. In the centre of their underside is a It is a triple temple (Fig. 89) with its three shrines lotus medallion. The attic pillars have a square base, opening into a closed hall entered from the front, i.e. circular shaft and an usual capital with this difference that west. The shrine on the east has an additional hall on the makara-brackets are replaced here by roll-brackets. its front. The temple is built of yellowish sandstone From the side makara-brackets of the lower pillar capitals which is not locally available but had been brought emerge cusped torana-arch meeting in the centre of the from some distance place. It has been so inadvertently underside of the architraves, while the other brackets repaired that all its original character has vanished. support struts of charming figures of apsarases and When I visited the shrine in 1970, its exterior had sardulas. The domical ceiling (Pl. 72), which commences been coated with white lime or broken China wares, from a carved square block of stone placed over each while its interior parts had been covered with limecolumn of the octagon, is composed of nine circular coating, marble-encasing or paintings. courses of karnadarkarika, a rupapatta decorated with The eastern shrine (Pl. 71), which appears to be figures of dancers, horse-riders and elephants with drivers, the main shrine, consists of a sanctum and a pillared three successive gajatalus, and four successive courses of hall. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan with bhadra, Jain Education Intemational national

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174 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies pratiratha and karna, each broken into five planes up to the pitha and into three planes above that. Between the angas are salilantaras and the salilantaras between the karnas and pratirathas are reinforced with minor projecting corners. In elevation it shows five traditional divisions. The pitha consists of two bhittas, jadyakumbha, cippika, grasapatti and a pattika decorated with diamonds. The vedibandha consists of khura, kumbha carrying figure sculptures on the body and foliage on the shoulder, kalasa adorned with beaded garlands and rosettes, antarapatta, and kapota bearing ornament of caitya- gavaksas. The jangha, supported by a mancika with circular pendants underneath, carries standing figure sculptures. The jangha sculptures are surmounted by udgama-pediments which oversect a kirttimukha-band. Above the jangha is a round bharani clasped by drooping foliage. The varandika consists of two kapotas and a ribbed eave-cornice. The bhadra above the pitha is differently treated. Here it shows a sunken niche enclosed by balustrade. Each niche, now empty, is triratha on plan and is surmounted by corrugated awning and sculptured pediment. Horizontally, the balustraded wall shows a fillet decorated with half lotuses, rajasenaka adorned with diamond-and-double volute pattern, vedika inset with alternate posts and recesses carrying decorations of figure sculptures and scrolls or creepers respectively, asanapatta having rooflets projected over each figure and kirttimukhas receded over each recess, and kaksasana carrying three ornamental bands of flamboyant pattern, medallions framed by segmented pilasters, and foliate scrolls. The anekandaka sikhara of the east shrine shows a pancaratha central tower marked by nine bhumi- amalakas, forty-four subsidiary srngas clustering around it and a sculptured niche at its base on each cardinal offset. The various offsets of the sikhara terminate at the skandha, but the central offsets go to the griva crowned by a large amalaka, candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. The niches contain images of lalitasana goddesses with attendant figures. The catussakha doorframe of the sanctum consists of patra (scrolls), harsa, stambha bearing figures of geese in pair at regular intervals and hansa, separated from one another by strings of bakula (mimusops elengi) flowers. On the lower part of the stambhasakha stands a four-armed goddess. The sill is divided into two registers. The lower has four moulded courses and the upper shows a semi-circular projection carved with lotus in the centre, a kirttimukha on each side of it, and a niche containing a figure of Yaksa on extreme right and of Yaksi on extreme left. The door-lintel is also divided into two registers. The lower shows a ghatapallava capital atop the jambs and two decorative bands of scrolls and geese in between them, while the Talata is occupied by a Jina figure. The upper register depicts images of five goddesses in projecting niches and diamonds in alternate recesses. Originally, the shrine was dedicated to Adinatha, but at present an image in black stone of Parsvanatha is worshipped in the sanctum. Articulated at the frontal karna of the east shrine is a square pillared hall having projections on two sides. It shares its pitha with the sanctum but is enclosed above by a short balustraded wall made up of ornate rajasenaka, vedika and asanapatta. On the asanapata stand pillars that support two eave-cornices with intervening decorative bands. The lower eave is of the corrugated variety, while the upper one is wrought in double curves. The hall is covered by a bell-roof which, in the interior, is supported by ten pillars, eight arranged in an octagon. All the ten pillars are of the octagonal order, but those resting on the asanapatta have a square base, octagonal and circular shaft, and round abacus with four-armed, double-roll bracket-capital The central hall in front of the above hall is also square with its roof supported by two square and ten octagonal pillars. The pillars are so arranged as to form a square nave in the centre and an aisle on each side. There is no partition wall between the two halls. On the front or west side it is enclosed by a balutraded wall Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 175 which is similar to that seen in the east shrine. The nave is covered by a domed roof, while the four corners are covered by bell-roof having a fine ceiling in the interior (Pl. 73). The hall is entered from the west through a porch which is landed up by a flight of four steps cut across its moulded pitha. The porch consists of two pillars and two pilasters and is covered by a bell-roof of the hall with gable end. The gable represents an image of goddess Cakresvari in a five-cusped arch issuing from the mouth of a crocodile shown on either end. Each of the two lateral shrines is in the form of a pillared hall the central area of which is almost filled with a monument of solid masonry. The monument in the north shrine has a square base and is called Astapada, the fabled Mt. Meru or Sumeru, while that in the south shrine is circular on plan and is named Sammeta Sikhara, Mt. Parsvanatha in Bihar. Measuring 386 ft. from door to door each shrine is dvi-anga on plan consisting of bhadra and karna, each broken into seven planes. Its pitha and wall are similar to those seen in the east shrine but is entered from all except the inner side through a porch of two pillars and two pilasters supporting a bell-roof. Rectangular on plan each porch is enclosed by a short balustraded wall and has an ornate ceiling completed in four courses. The first course is square inside depicting diamonds on the inner face and full-blown lotus flowers on the underside of its two shorter rectangular sides. The second is octagonal representing a row of geese on the inner face and a kirttimukha at each corner on the underside. The third is circular consisting of karnadardarika. The fourth is a large circular slab with its flat surface relieved with a full-blown lotus flower having three rows of petals and a central pistil. The doorframe of the porch is very similar to that of the east shrine, but here the stambhasakha carries a figure of door-keeper on its lower part. On the overdoor of the porches are six inscriptions, all bearing a common date of A.D. 1231. Internally, the domed roof of the north shrine is supported on sixteen octagonal pillars, while that of the south shrine rests on twelve pillars, all arranged in a circle. The mountain in each shrine rises in four tiers of diminishing width, almost to the roof, and crowned by a quadruple of Jina with a canopy over the head. There is a stairway to reach the upper tiers for worshipping the Jina. The mountain and pillars in the north shrine are wholly covered with white lime, but the same in the south is exposed and well preserved. Here, each tier shows some moulded courses on the lower section and decorative bands on the upper. Its pillars have a moulded base; their shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in the middle and circular above, the last being crowned by a band of kirttimukhas spewing chains that are held in position by a band of diamonds and beads; and the capital consists of doublecoursed, round abacus of arris and cyma recta and two successive courses of four-armed square or double-roll brackets. The temple is securely dated in A.D. 1231 by inscriptions engraved on its doors. The inscriptions also inform us that the temple was built by Vastupala for the increase of merits of his own and his wives Lalitadevi and Sokhu. SEJAKPUR This is an old village situated about fourteen miles south-west of Sayla Railway Station in Surendranagar district of Gujarat. There are three temples, one Jaina and two Hindu. One of the Hindu temples is called Navalakha (nine lakhs), the name justly given to this beautiful temple, and it is because of this very temple that the village is widely known. The Jaina temple, though small yet equally beautiful, is a neglected one so much so that during recent years the temple was wholly destroyed and its stones carried away by the villagers. At present, only its photographic record is available. Jaina Temple - This Jaina temple (Fig. 90) consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa and rangamandapa. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan, the bhadra being broken into seven planes and the karma Jain Education Intemational an Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 177 and pratiratha into five planes each. Between the angas are salilantaras and the salilantaras between the offsets contain minor projected corners. The karma and pratiratha are equilateral and of the same proportion, while the bhadras are comparatively wider. Two offsets on each side on the front are transmuted in a buffer wall to form antarala that separates the gudhamandapa from the sanctum. In elevation the sanctum shows pitha, vedibandha, jarigha, varandika and Sikhara. The pitha consists of five courses of two bhittas (the lower being plain and the upper decorated with half-diamonds), jadyakumbha incised with lotus leaves, karnika and grasapatti. The vedibandha is made up of five usual courses of khura, kumbha bearing figure sculptures on the body and foliage on the shoulder, kalasa embellished with beaded garland and rosette design, antarapatta, and kapota decorated with caitya-gavaksa pattern. The jangha, supported by a mancika, carries standing figure sculptures, each topped by a pediment of caitya-gavaksa. Above the wall comes a recessed fillet and a round bharani clasped by drooping foliage. The varandika consists of two kapotas and a ribbed awning. The sikhara is of the anekandaka class and shows a lattice of caitya-gavaksas. At the base of the sikhara, in cardinal directions, are framed figure sculptures. The enshrined image inside the sanctum was not found when the temple was first surveyed. The gudhamandapa is caturanga on plan with their corners indented into several planes. It shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum but the portion above that has collapsed. The interior shows an octagonal arrangement of eight octagonal pillars attached at eight angles of the wall. These form a square nave with projecting angle at each of the four corners; to this a long aisle is added on each side. By this device the intercolumniation between the corner pillars is less than that on the sides. The pillars and architraves are elaborately carved. The mukhamandapa is rectangular on plan, probably divided into six bays by ten square pillars and two pilasters arranged in three lines of four each. The columns and architraves here also are richly carved. On each side of the entrance to the gudhamandapa is a large niche facing front. On plan and elevation its sanctum has close resemblance with the Neminatha temple at Kumbharia, but in architectural and ornamental details it shows some advancement on the latter and seems to be a contemporary of the Rudramahalaya at Siddhapur built by Caulukya king Siddharaja in c. A.D. 1140. The general form and design of this temple also establish its contemporaneity with the Navalakha at the same site which was also built about the same time. Therefore, this Jaina temple may have been erected some time in the second quarter of the 12th century A.D. SATRUNJAYA Satrunjaya, near Palitana in Gujarat, is one of the holiest hills of the Jainas. From the foot of the hill a pathway set up with steps leads to the top of the hill which consists of two ridges with a shallow valley between. The ridges (nearly 1140 ft. east-west in length) and the valley are adorned with numerous Jaina temples (Pl. 74) of the Svetambara sect. They are built at different periods of time and surrounded by battlemented walls fitted for defence. The temples again are divided into separate enclosures called turkas, each containing one principal shrine with varying number of smaller ones. Each of these turkas is protected by strong gates and walls. There are in all seven turkas (Narasi Kesavaji, Caumukha or Kharataravasahi, Chipavasahi, Sakaravasahi, Ujamabaivasahi, Hemabhaivasahi and Premabhaivasahi) on the northern summit, two (Motisaha and Balabhaivasahi) in the valley, and two (Vimalavasahi and Adisvara) on the southern summit. Of all the shrines standing in the various turkas at Satrunjaya, only the Adinatha shrine in the Adinatha tunka comes under our reference. Adinatha Temple - The enclosure of Adinatha is the most sacred spot on this hill. The principal shrine Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India in this tunka is of Adinatha facing the Pundarika gateway on the east. It is said to have been built and rebuilt sixteen times. According to Jaina tradition, it was founded by Bharata, the son of Adinatha, and repaired for the 16th time by Karma Saha of Chitor in A.D. 1530. The present temple, however, was built in A.D. 1154 by Vagbhata, the minister of Caulukya Kumarapala of Gujarat, and retains good remains of the time of Karma Saha. During recent years the whole temple has been repaired once again giving it an entirely new look. The central shrine, the largest in this tunka, consists of a sanctum and a gudhamandapa (Pl. 75). The sanctum is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, with projecting corners between them. The pitha, vedibandha, jangha and varandika are all ornate and belong to the time of Kumarapala, but the lofty anekandaka sikhara is of the time of Karma Saha. Inside the sanctum is a colossus of Adinatha sitting in dhyanamudra and installed by Karma Saha at the time of restoration. The gudhamandapa follows the sanctum in general plan and decoration, but it has three entrance porches, each having a saptasakha doorframe, and is covered by an ornate bell-roof, also of the 16th century A.D. BHADRESHWAR It is a small village on the sea-coast lying thirty two miles south-west of Gandhidham and twenty one miles from Anjar Railway Station in the Kutch district of Gujarat. It is Bhadravati of the Mahabharata where the Asvamedha horse of the Pandavas is said to have been caught. During the historical period it came into prominence when the Caulukyas made it a military base and developed it into a seaport. This drew much attention of the people and ultimately grew in a prosperous city. This is clearly demonstrated by a fine Jaina temple of stone built there. Jaina Temple - It consists of a sanctum, a constricted antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa, rangamandapa and malamandapa, the whole standing in an oblong courtyard (85 ft. by 48 ft.) surrounded by a 179 series of 44 (originally 48) devakulikas with a colonnaded corridor (Fig. 92). The temple complex is reared upon a jagati which is reached from the north to which direction the temple also faces. The temple has been restored and altered so often that all its original character has vanished. During recent years the entire temple has been painted with variegated colours making it very hard to differentiate between the old and new structures. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan showing five planes on bhadra and three each on karna and pratiratha. Between the offsets are salilantaras and the salilantaras between the karnas and pratirathas contain konikas which are not carried down to the pitha. The frontal karna and pratiratha of the sanctum are transmuted to make an antarala between the gudhamandapa and the sanctum. In elevation the sanctum displays the usual five components. The pitha consists of nine courses of three bhittas - the lower is now encased with marble stones, while the other two are decorated with indented leaves and diamonds respectively, jadyakumbha, karnika, a projected band underlined with leaves, grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The vedibandha is made up of khura adorned with udgama pattern, kumbha carrying sculptures of Jaina goddesses on the body and stencilled foliage on the shoulder, kalasa embellished with beaded garlands and rosettes, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, and a kapota adorned with caitya-gavaksa pattern. Supported by a mancika having circular pendants underneath the jangha carries standing figures of gods and goddesses, all now plastered up. Above the wall comes a square bharani clasped by drooping foliage. The varandika consists of an usual kapota and a ribbed eave-cornice. The sikhara of the sanctum is of the anekandaka class. It rises from a moulded base of usual kapota, antarapatta and square bharani and shows a pancaratha central tower of seven bhumi-amalakas and forty-four big and small srigas clustering around it at different heights if it is viewed from the back side. At the base of the sikhara, in each cardinal point, is a niche

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180 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies containing an image of goddess accompanied by female an image of Jina seated in meditation. cauri-bearers. The various offsets of the central tower The rangamandapa is connected on each of its four end at the skandha which is marked by diamonds and sides by a domed roof supported on an octagonal then it is crowned above the griva by a large amalaka, framework of eight pillars. All the pillars are of the candrika, a smaller amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka. The octagonal order. They have a moulded pedestal and entire tower is covered with a lattice of minute caitya- base. Their shaft is octagonal below, sixteen-sided in gavaksas. Inside the sanctum are three Jina images, all the middle and circular above. The circular section is made of white marble and seated in meditative posture. divided into two halves by a band of diamonds. The The central image is of Mahavira dated in A.D. 1565. lower section is clasped by a thin stripe of kirttimukhas The images on his right and left are of Parsvanatha spewing chains which are secured below by a diamondand Santinatha, both dated in A.D. 1173. and-bead band, while the upper is fastened by a band The gudhamandapa is also tri-anga on plan and of kirttimukhas alternating with tassels. The capital has follows the vertical lineaments of the sanctum up to a double-coursed, round abacus topped by convoluted the varandika, but above that it is covered by a bell- brackets. The domes are now plastered up. roof studed with seven rows of bells. The bell atop the The devakulikas are landed up from the courtyard roof is larger in size, consisting of an inverted flat bowl, by a flight of four steps cut across the platform on candrika, amalaka, kalasa and bijapuraka, while the which they are perched, but those on the rear side are others consist each of flat bowl and amalaka. The reached by three independent stairways, a feature hardly interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal met with elsewhere. They are screened by double arcade arrangement of eight pilasters with a carved domical of pillars on the back side and by one arcade of pillars ceiling, now covered with iron grilles. on the other three sides. Their doors are simple. One The mukhamandpa is landed up from the of these, which may be regarded as a fair type, consists rangamandapa by three staircases of four steps each. of two jambs of patra (scrolls) and ratna respectively. It is divided into three bays by eight pillars and four On the lower part of the inner jamb stands a female pilasters arranged in two lines of six each. The four carrying water pot. The door-sill shows a square pillars and four pilasters in the central bay are arranged projection carved with foliage in the centre, a diamond in pairs. All the columns are ornate and belong to on each side of it, and foliage and diamond on either octagonal order. Each bay is covered by a domical end. The door-lintel continues the ornament of the inner ceiling. One of the three domical ceilings, which is jamb and depicts a diamond instead of Jina on the crest. somewhat exposed, is composed of an octagonal and Inside the devakulikas are installed images of Jinas four circular courses. The inner face of the octagonal mostly dated in the 14th-15th century A.D. Their exterior course is decorated with two bands of leaves and walls show usual offsets and plain mouldings and are diamonds respectively, while its underside at each corner surmounted by anekandaka sikharas. depicts a bold kirttimukha. The second is embellished The nalamandapa, which is partly projected out, with lotus petals. The third is karnadardarika. The is built over a stairway which is landed up from the fourth is gajatalu. The fifth is like the second. The ground through a porch and opens up in the circular central stone depicts in four concentric circles rangamandapa. It is a square pillared hall laid out on the carvings of flamboyant, lotus buds, lotus petals and the same floor level as that of the devakulikas. It is lotus flower respectively. On either side of the entrance roofed by a dome now plastered up. to the gudhamandapa is an ornamental niche sheltering On stylistic grounds the temple is assigned a date Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 181 in the third quarter of the 12th century A.D. This also an udgama-pediment. The jangha on each bhadra shows fits in well with dates of numerous inscriptions found a sunk niche. Above the jargha comes a round bharani in the temple which range from A.D. 1166 to 1178. with dropping foliage. The varandika consists of a SAROTRA kapota and a ribbed eave-cornice. The sikhara, built of It is a small village lying one and a half miles bricks and plastered up with lime, is of the anekandaka west of Sarotra Railway Station in the Banaskantha mode and seems to have been rebuilt. The interior of district of Gujarat. It is just six miles from Candravati, the sanctum is square with a projecting angle at each the capital of the Paramaras of Abu. Candravati was corner. The enshrined image has gone but an inscription a prosperous city as it lay on an ancient trade-route. of A.D. 1632 definitely makes its dedication to Mahavira. Its material prosperity is also attested to by numerous The gudhamandapa is also tri-anga and follows temples found in and around the city. One of these is the vertical lineaments of the sanctum, but its roof has a magnificent Jaina temple at Sarotra built of white collapsed beyond recognition. There is a moonstone in marble and going by the name of Bavanadhvaja Jinalaya, front of its entrance door. The interior shows an octagonal but it is very unfortunate that nothing of the temple arrangement of eight pillars attached at eight angles of remains at the site, only its photographic record is its wall. The pillars (Fig. 95) are of the square order. available to us. They have a moulded base; their shaft is square below, Bavanadhvaja Jinalaya - It consists of a sanctum, octagonal in the middle and circular above, all very antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and richly carved. The capital consists of a double-coursed rangamandapa, the whole standing in an oblong courtyard round bharani topped by roll-brackets. surrounded by fifty-two devakulikas with a colonnaded The mukhamandapa is reached from the corridor (Fig. 91). The temple-complex stands on a high rangamandapa by three stairways of four steps each and platform which is reached from north through a porch is divided into nine bays by fourteen pillars and two landed up from the ground by a flight of nine steps. pilasters arranged in four lines of four each. The midThe temple was already in ruinous condition when it staircase is wider and has a moonstone below. All the was first reported, and subsequently it was ruthlessly pillars (Fig. 94) are ornate and octagonal but not as rich plundered for building material. It has derived its present as those of the gudhamandapa. The architraves put name from the number of flag-staves (dhvaja) installed across the pillars show two ornamental bands of lotus on the spires of fifty-two (bavana) devakulikas. Scrolls and diamonds respectively There is a niche on The sanctum is tri-anga on plan displaying five either side of the entrance door of the gudhamandapa. planes on bhadra and three each on karna and pratiratha. The rangamandpa is laid out on a square platform Its frontal karna and pratiratha form the antarala to which is slightly raised from the level of the courtyard. demarcate the gudhamandapa. It shows an arrangement of eight pillars on three sides, In elevation it shows five usual parts. The pitha while the fourth side is shared by the front row of four is embedded in debris. The vedibandha consists of mukhamandapa pillars. On the front it is connected with khura, kumbha carrying figure sculptures on the body the corridor of the devakulikas by three bays. The and foliage on the shoulder, kalasa decorated with rangamandapa is roofed by a dome supported on an beaded garlands and rosettes, antarapatta adorned with octagonal frame of architraves placed over the pillars. diamond-and-double volute pattern, and a kapota. The All the pillars (Fig. 93) of the rangamandapa are of the jangha, supported by a mancika, carries framed figures octagonal order and are provided with attic pillars. They of standing gods and goddesses, each surmounted by have a moulded base; their shaft is octagonal below, Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: North India sixteen-sided in the middle and circular above, the last section being topped by a band of kirttimukhas; and their capital shows a double-coursed round bharani surmounted by atlantes brackets. The devakulikas are landed up from the courtyard by a flight of three steps cut across the platform running all around and screened in the front by one row of octagonal pillars. Their walls towards the corridor are built of plain baked bricks, while on the outside moulded bricks have been used for the lines of horizontal mouldings. The pillars, roofs, doorframes and pedestal of images are all made of white marble. Except for two devakulikas near the main entrance which have been shut off from the others by walls, all the devakulikas have no partition walls as we notice in those of the Neminatha temple at Kumbharia. On the doors of many devakulikas were short inscriptions which range in date from A.D. 1599 to 1633. This clearly indicates that the temple was extensively repaired during this period. The entrance porch is square on plan and is enclosed on the lateral sides by a balustraded wall of rajasenaka, vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana, all having been profusely carved. On the asanapatta stand two pillars and two pilasters that support the roof with an overhanging corrugated eave-cornice. The pillars (Fig. 96) consist of shaft and capital only. Below, the shaft is square bearing decorations of creepers and potand-foliage member, while above, it displays seven decorative bands of lotus petals, leaves, scrolls, sawteeth, diamonds and beads, kirttimukhas alternating with tassels, and stylised pot-and-foliage. The capital consists of round abacus and roll-brackets. In front of the entrance is a moonstone. Probably, this temple was erected in the latter half of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century A.D. MIANI An old village on the sea-coast it lies about twenty five miles north-west of Porbander in the Junagadh district of Gujarat. Before the advent of the Muslims in this part of the country Miani appears to have been an active sea-port, and the export and import of goods 183 from this port must have been a great source of income to the people there. This is well demonstrated by many small and big temples standing there. One of these is a Jaina temple, now deserted and weather-worn. Jaina Temple - It consists of a sanctum, antarala, gudhamandapa, mukhamandapa and rangamandapa, the last one is gone but for a few pillars and architraves (Pl. 76). The temple is made of sandstone and faces north. On plan the sanctum is caturanga consisting of bhadra, pratibhadra, pratiratha and karna, with projecting corners in between the last two. The frontal karna and pratiratha of the sanctum and the rear karna of the gudhamandapa have been transmuted into a wide buffer wall to form the antarala for separating the sanctum from the gudhamandapa. In elevation the sanctum shows five usual divisions. The pitha consists of nine moulded courses of two bhittas (the lower carrying flamboyant ornament and the upper, half lotuses), a minor kumuda, plain pattika, jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, a projecting pattika embellished with caityagavaksa pattern, and grasapatti. The vedibandha consists of seven mouldings of khura adorned with lotus scrolls or udgama pattern, kumbha bearing figures of fourarmed goddess or ornament of half diamonds, kalasa, antarapatta decorated with stepped diamonds, kapota adorned with udgama pattern, and a pattika ornamented with floral diamonds. The jangha, supported by a mancika, is divided into two belts by a plain median band and is tantalisingly plain except for emptied bhadra niches. Above, the jangha is followed by a square bharani with drooping foliage, and a varandika of kapota and ribbed cave-cornice. The sikhara, rising abruptly above the eaves, shows a tri-ratha central tower marked by six bhumi-amalakas and twenty four smaller srngas leaning upon it. At the base of the sikhara in each cardinal point is a shallow niche containing diamond instead of figure of some divinity. The narrow spaces between the smaller srnigas are occupied by elephant trunks. The entire sikhara is enmeshed with minute

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184 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies caitya-gavaksa pattern. The trisakha door of the sanctum pillars but the brackets of bharaputrakas are replaced shows foliate scrolls, pillar jamb and lotus petals by roll-brackets. The architraves are similar to those respectively, and has a female figure carrying water pot found in the gudhamandapa but the upper decorative at the base. The door-sill shows a circular projection band of saw-tooth pattern is absent here, instead it is carved with stemmed lotus in the centre, a projecting plain. Each bay contains a ceiling made by cutting off kirttimukha on its each side and a sculptured niche the corners. Each ceiling consists of three tiers of nine sheltering a figure of four-armed goddess on either stones, the central stone being carved with an open extremity. The door-lintel continues the scroll-band of lotus. the jamb but depicts a figure of Jina on the lalata. The The rangamandapa is nothing but a rubble of overdoor is treated like a cornice. The enshrined image stones. However, from what now remains it appears that has gone now. originally it consisted of eight pillars disposed along The gudhamandapa is tri-anga on plan and shares the three sides of a square nave, while its fourth side its pitha and wall with the sanctum, but its pyramidal was shared by the front row of mukhamandapa pillars. roof has disappeared. It is entered from the Its six central pillars alongwith two mukhamandapa mukhamandapa by a door which is similar to that of pillars formed an octagon and supported the dome on the sanctum, but the sill has Ambika and Sarvanubhutian octagonal frame of architraves. The pillars and on two ends, the pillar-jamb carries a figure of door- architraves are similar to those seen in the keeper on the lower part and figures of musicians and mukhamandapa, but the kurttimukha-band on the circular dancers above, and the lintel depicts a row of hovering section of the shaft is absent here and the pillar-brackets Maladharas facing the lalatabimba. The interior of the carry kirttimukha figures as well. gudhamandapa is square having its wall reinforced by On architectural and sculptural grounds this temple eight somewhat ornate pilasters supporting a domical is assigned a date somewhere in the third quarter of ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves decorated the 13th century A.D. with a band of foliate scrolls emerging from the mouth KANTHKOT of a kirttimukha carved in the centre and a band of It lies about thirty one miles from Bhachau Railway saw-tooth pattern. The dome (Pl. 77) is composed of Station in the Kutch district of Gujarat. Kanthkot is six circular courses of karnadardarika, a course decorated neither a religious place nor a business centre but a with alternate goddesses and Kinnaras, three successive protected stronghold where the kings like Mularaja I gajatalus and an eight-foil kola. The apical stone of the and Bhima I, both of the Caulukya dynasty, took shelter dome has disappeared. at the time of their distress. Indeed, there is an old fort The mukhamandapa, landed up from the on the top of a rocky hill with walls built of massive rangamandapa by a flight of three steps, stands on a stone blocks. On the hill stand two temples, one of Sun pitha which is but the continuum of the gudhamandapa. God and another of Mahavira, the latter being a Jaina It is divided into three bays by six pilasters and two shrine going by the name of Solathamba, a name derived square pillars arranged in two rows of four each. The from the number of pillars in the rangamandapa pillars have a moulded base; their shaft is square below comprising sixteen in all. and then it gradually turns into an octagonal, sixteen- Mahavira Temple - It consists of a sanctum, sided and circular sections, the last one being clasped gudhamandapa and rangamandapa. Originally, the by a kirttimukha-band; and the capital consists of two rangamandapa had three porches two of which on the circular courses of arris and cyma recta and four-armed lateral sides have collapsed. The temple is weatherbrackets of bharaputrakas. The pilasters are like the worn and its eastern wall fallen down. The temple faces Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : North India 185 north. The sanctum is tri-anga on plan, the bhadra broken into seven planes and the karma and pratiratha into five planes each. Between the offsets are recesses and the recesses between the karmas and pratirathas contain konikas. In elevation the sanctum has five usual divisions. The pitha consists of two bhittas - the lower being plain and the upper decorated with diamonds -, jadyakumbha, karnika, antarapatta adorned with stepped diamonds, grasapatti, gajathara and narathara. The vedibandha consists of khura, kumbha carrying sculptures of Jaina goddesses on the body and ornamental foliage on the shoulder, kalasa decorated with beaded garlands and rosettes, antarapatta adorned with diamond-and-double volute pattern, and kapota ornamented with udgama pattern. Supported by an ornate mancika the jangha carries framed figures of gods and goddesses, now sadly damaged. The jangha on each bhadra, however, bears a projecting sculptured niche containing an image of Jina seated in meditation. The jangha images are crowned by udgama-pediments followed above by a deep fillet carved with kirttimukhas and a round bharani with foliage clasps. The varandika consists of a kapota and a ribbed cave-cornice. The sikhara of the sanctum has gone, but from the fragments strewn there it appears that it was of the anekandaka class enmeshed with caitya-gavaksas. The niche at the base of the Sikhara shelters a Jaina goddess with two female cauri-bearers. The doorframe of the sanctum, which is similar to that of the gudhamandapa to be described below, is sadly damaged and its carvings are very much abraded. Though the enshrined image of Mahavira is missing, the inscriptions available in the temple definitely attribute its dedication to him. The gudhamandapa is also tri-anga on plan and shares its pitha and wall with the sanctum, but here the bharani is substituted for narathara, the bhadra- niches contain the images of Jaina goddesses and the roof, now gone, is made up of horizontal tiers studed with bells. Its saptasakha doorframe consists of patra (scroll), rupa (figures of female attendants), again rupa, rupastambha (pillar jamb with images of goddesses). rupa, again rupa and padma (cyma moulding carved with louts petals), and carries a figure of pratihara with female attendants on the basal part. The door-sill shows moulded courses on the lower section, while its upper section shows semi-circular projection with stemmed lotus in the centre, two kirttimukhas on its flanks and two sculptured niches sheltering Sarvanubhuti and Ambika on its two extremities. The door-lintel depicts scroll-band brought from the jamb and a row a hovering figures of Maladharas facing the Jina carved as crest image. The overdoor shows five sculptured niches with seated figures of goddesses. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows an octagonal arrangement of eight pilasters supporting a domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves. The pilasters with chamfered corners have a square moulded base; their shaft is square below, octagonal in the middle and circular on the top. On the lower section of two pilasters stands a male figure with folded hands; possibly they were the donors of the temple. The capital of the pilasters consists of a double-coursed abacus of arris and cyma recta and a roll-bracket. The architraves depict two ornamental bands of foliated scrolls and saw-tooth pattern on the side faces and a lotus medallion in the centre of their underside. The domical ceiling is composed of seven circular courses of karnadardarika, a course with figural band, three successive gajatalus, eight-foil kola and quatre-foil kola. From the second course project out eight square brackets adorned with figures of Vidyadharas, each originally supported a bracket figure tenoned into the lower kola course. The ceiling slab has disappeared. The rangamandapa also shares its pitha with the sanctum but is laid out on a lower floor level by discontinuing the gajathara. When entire, it had nine bays with three additional porches, but now only four bays and one porch on north side are intact. The pillars are similar in form and ornamentation to the pilasters of the gudhamandapa. The architraves also correspond Jain Education Intemational

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186 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies to those of the latter. The four bays and the north porch Periods), Bombay, 1976; U.P. Shah, Studies in Jaina have each a carved domical ceiling. Two of these Art, Banaras, 1955; Klaus Bruhn, The Jina-Images of ceilings are alike, each consisting of six courses, the Deogarh, Leiden, 1969; Bhagchandra Jaina, Devagadha first being octagonal and the others, circular. The first Ki Jainakala (in Hindi), New Delhi, 1974; M.A. Dhaky, course depicts flamboyant device in semi-circles on the 'Some Early Jaina Temples in Western India', Shri inner face and a kirttimukha at each corner on the Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya Golden Jubilee Volume, underside. The second is karnadardarika. The third and Bombay, 1968; M.A. Dhaky, 'The Chronology of the fourth are gajatalus. The fifth and sixth consist of eight- Solanki Temples of Gujarat', Journal of the Madhya foil and quatre-foil kolas respectively. The ceiling slab Pradesh Itihasa Parishad, No. 3, Bhopal, 1961; James has disappeared. Two other ceilings are similar to the Fergusson, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, preceding one but here is found only one course of kola. 2 vols., reprint, Delhi, 1967; M.W. Meister and M.A. The remainder consists of an octagonal and three circular Dhaky (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple courses. The octagonal course is similar to that seen Architecture, Vol. II, Pt. 2, New Delhi, 1991; M.A. in the ceiling described above. The other three are made Dhaky (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple of cyma recta, each adorned with lotus petals. The Architecture, Vol. II, Pt. 3, New Delhi, 1998; H.B. Pal, ceiling slab depicts a full-blown lotus flower set up in The Temples of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 1969; A.P. Shah, a border of scrolls. Jaina Tirtha Sarvasangraha (in Gujarati), 3 pts., Stylistically, this temple shows a marked decline Ahmedabad, 1953; H. Cousens, Somanath and Other on the Caulukyan temples and appears to have been Medieval Temples in Kathiawad, Calcutta, 1931; Krishna constructed during the closing years of the 13th century Deva, Temples of Khajuraho, New Delhi, 1990; Harihar A.D. This is also corroborated by the inscriptions found Singh, Jaina Temples of Western India, Varanasi, 1982; in this temple and containing dates in and around Krishna Deva, Temples of North India, New Delhi, A.D. 1280. 1969; J. Burgess, 'Satrunjaya', reprinted in Jain Journal, REFERENCES Vol. XI, No. 2, Calcutta, 1977; R.C. Majumdar (Ed.), Muni Shri Jayantavijayaji, Holy Abu, Bhavnagar, The History and Culture of Indian People, Vols. III1954; M.A. Dhaky, 'Renaissance and the Late Mru- V, Bombay; Hiralala Jain, Bharatiya Sanskrti mem Gurjara Temple Architecture', Journal of the Indian Jainadharma ka Yogadana (in Hindi), Bhopal, 1962; H. Society of Oriental Art, Special Number, Calcutta, 1966; Cousens, The Architectural Antiquities of Western India, U.P. Shah and M.A. Dhaky (Eds.), Aspects of Jaina London, 1926; M. Dhaky, 'Taramga Arhat Ajitanathana Art and Architecture, Ahmedabad, 1975; Amar Singh, Mahaprasadano Karapaka Kauna?', Nirgrantha, Vol. 2, Sarvatobhadrika images and Sarvatobhadra Temples', Ahmedabad, 1996, pp 88-97; M. Dhaky, "Taranga ka Pragdhara, No. 9, Lucknow, 1998-99; James Burgess, Pracinatara Jinalaya', Nirgrantha, Vol. 2, pp. 49-50; Antiquities of Kathiawad and Kachh, reprint, Varanasi, M.A. Dhaky and U.S. Moorti, The temples in 1971; James Burgess, The Architectural Antiquities of Kumbhariya, New Delhi, 2001; Devendra Handa, Osian Northern Gujarat, London, 1903; A. Ghosh (Ed.), Jaina : History, Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Delhi, 1984; Art and Architecture, 3 vols., New Delhi, 1974-75; D.R. Das, 'Jaina Temples of West Bengal,' Nirgrantha, Percy Brown, Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Vol. 3, Ahmedabad, 1997-2002, pp. 107-124. Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER VI JAINA TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE: SOUTH INDIA All the Jaina temples of South India are located to the south of the Vindhya mountain. The entire transVindhya area is a peninsular land. It consists of a triangular plateau and extends from the Ajanta ranges in the north to the Nilgiris in the south and the Western Ghats in the west to the Eastern Ghats in the east. The long coastal line of the peninsula abuts Arabian sea on the west, Indian ocean on the south and Bay of Bengal on the east. Geologically, the northern parts of Western Ghats are made of Deccan trap, a rock in which the Jaina caves of Ellora etc. have been excavated. The south-west part of the Deccan plateau from Badami to Bijapur consists of fine-grained red sandstone hills which provide cliff-faces for the Early Calukya caves and quarries for the structural temples. The western part of Mysore plateau provides large quarries of fine-grained tale or soapstone to the Western Calukya and Hoysala temples. The building material in lower Krishna valley is marble like Palnad limestone which has been used by the early dynasties of Andhradesa. The south-eastern portions of the Deccan plateau and the extreme southern part of the peninsula are made of such hard rocks as granite and gneiss which have been exploited by the Pallavas in their caves and structural temples, and by the Colas and the Vijayanagara rulers in their structural buildings. Historical Background From about A.D. 550 to the end of A.D. 1300 the peninsular India, which roughly includes the five modern states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, was divided into a number of big and small principalities that always fought for the supremacy of their power in the region. Their administrative boundaries no doubt changed from time to time but at no point of time any of the ruling dynasties could bring the entire region into one political unit. The political rivalries, however, did not much hamper the building activity and it went on unabated throughout the span of time. But owing to the religious insurgency of the Saivas and Vaisnavas and coming up of the Muslims in South India many Jaina temples were destroyed or converted, but not as much as we find in North India. Enough, however, remains to show the glory of Jaina edifices. In order to have a better understanding of Jaina buildings it is worthwhile to give a brief outline of the political and cultural condition of the period under review. The Calukyas of Vatapi (c. A.D. 550-750) - The Calukyas, Early Calukyas as they are called, ruled from their capital at Vatapi (modern Badami in Bijapur district of Karnataka) which was founded by Pulakesin I (A.D. 543-566). He was succeeded by his son Kirttivarman I (A.D. 566-598) who led successful expeditions against the Kadambas, Mauryas and Nalas. From his reign Jainism seems to hold grounds in the Calukya realm as is evident from a Jaina cave at Badami. After Kirttivarman his younger brother Mangalesa (A.D. 598-609) ascended to the throne as his own son Pulakesin II was a minor. He conquered Revatidvipa and defeated Kalacuri Budharaja. During his time Jainism continued to flourish as is demonstrated by the excavation of a Jaina cave at Aihole. Pulakesin II (A.D. 609-642) was the most powerful king of the dynasty and defeated many kings, the noteworthy amongst whom was Harsa of Kannauj. But at the close of his reign he had to sustain a defeat at the hands of the Pallava king Narasimhavarman and as a result disorder prevailed in the Calukya kingdom. Normalcy, however, returned when his son Vikramaditya I (A.D. 654-681) ascended to the throne. Pulakesin seems to have patronised Jainism as the Meguti Jaina temple at Aihole was built during his reign

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188 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies and his famous inscription preserved in this temple was kings (c. A.D. 929-973) during whose reigns the composed by a Jaina poet named Ravikirtti. Rastrakuta power gradually declined and at last it passed After Vikramaditya I the Calukya kingdom was into the hands of the Western Calukya king Taila II. ruled by four kings of whom Kirttivarman II (A.D. 745. During the long reigns of these rulers Jainism flourished 757) was the last one. With him the Calukya rule came well in the state. This is apparent from a number of to an end and the territory passed into the hands of Jaina temples founded during the period. Two of these the Rastrakutas. The reigns of these rulers were no still exist at Hallur and Pattadakal. doubt eventful and some Jaina temples were also erected, The Calukyas of Kalyana (c. A.D. 973-1189) - but they do not exist now. After overthrowing Rastrakuta Karkka II in A.D. 973 The Rastrakutas of Malkhed (c. A.D. 750-973) - Taila II (A.D. 973-997) of the Calukya dynasty of They were the greatest power of the Deccan and Kalyana ruled at Malkhed. As a result of this the vassals Karnataka and ruled from their capital at Manyakheta of the Rastrakutas transferred their allegiance to him (Malkhed). Dantidurga laid the foundation of the and those who refused were forced to do so. He Rastrakuta power in the Deccan in the mid-8th century subjugated Lata and defeated Uttama Cola. He also by vanquishing Calukya Kirttivarman II. He was came into clash with Paramara Munja of Malwa and succeeded by his uncle Krsna I (c. A.D. 756-773) who killed him. In the time of Taila the Calukyas were busy completely wiped out the Calukyas from Karnataka, in consolidating their empire and had little time for annexed the Ganga territory and defeated Visnuvardhana cultural activities. However, Jainism flourished well in IV of Vengi. He is credited for the excavation of the the state as Taila himself patronised Jaina poet Ranna, famous Kailasa Temple at Ellora which inspired the and Vimalacandradeva was appointed preceptor of prince Jainas to produce a smaller copy of the same there. Satyasraya. The Jaina temple at Annigere and three After Krsna I the rein of power passed into the others at Aihole (Jaina shrine near Caranti-matha, the hands of Govinda II (c. A.D. 773-780), Dhruva (c. A.D. triple shrine near Virupaksa and Candraprabha temple) 780-793), Govinda III (c. A.D. 793 - 814) and were also built at this time. Amoghavarsa I (c. A.D. 814-880) respectively. Dhruva Taila II was succeeded by his son Satyasraya and Govinda II were very powerful kings and led (A.D. 998-1008). During his reign the Cola prince successful campaigns not only in the south but also Rajendra, son of Rajaraja, attacked Malkhed when he against the Pratiharas (Vatsaraja and Nagabhata II) of had gone on an expedition to Vengi, and captured the Kannauj and Dharmapala of Bengal. Amoghavarsa I southern portion of the Calukya territory. Jainism seems was a peace-loving king and inclined towards Jainism to have been in a flourishing state at this time as the in the latter part of his life. During the reigns of these famous Jaina temple at Lakkundi was built during his rulers Jainism was well received in the kingdom. This reign. is explicitly known from the excavation of Jaina caves Satyasraya was followed by his nephew at Ellora. Vikramaditya V (A.D. 1008-1014) and the latter by his 'Amoghavarsa was succeeded by his son Krsna II younger brother Ayyana II. After the eventless reigns (c. A.D. 880-914) and the latter by his son Indra III of these rulers Jayasimha II (A.D. 1015-1042), the (c. A.D. 914-929). Indra was a powerful ruler as he younger brother of Ayyana II, ascended the throne. He repulsed an attack of Paramara Upendra and captured ruled from the newly founded capital of Kalyana (modern Kannauj for some time by defeating Pratihara Mahipala. Kalyani in Bidar). He had to face a confederate army After Indra the Rastrakuta kingdom was ruled by six of Paramara Bhoja and Kalacuri Karna from the north Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India and a formidable army of Cola Rajendra I from the south. Although he succeeded in defeating the confederate army, he could not check the Colas from sacking Malkhed. During the reigns of these rulers Jainism flourished well in Karnataka. This is clearly evident from the royal patronage rendered to Jainacarya Vadiraja by Jayasimha and by the foundation of the Parsvanatha temple at Sravanabelagola and the Jaina temple No. 1 at Mulgund. After Jayasimha II his son Somesvara I (A.D. 1042-1067) ascended the throne. He fought three battles with Cola Rajadhiraja and each time sustained a defeat. In A.D. 1054-55 Somesvara alongwith Cedi Karna and Caulukya Bhima I attacked the Malava capital of Dhara and in the battle that ensued the Malava king Bhoja lost his life. Jainism continued to flourish during this period. This is demonstrated not only by a number of grants made to Jaina temples but also by the extant Jaina temples located at Ron, Nagai and Lakkundi. Somesvara I was succeeded by his son Somesvara II (A.D. 1068-1076) and the latter by his brother Vikramaditya VI (c. A.D. 1076-1127). Soon after his accession Somesvara had to deal with his brother who had turned hostile to him. He was successful to hold the rein of power for some time but at last lost it to him. Vikramaditya VI was a powerful king. He suppressed the hostility of his younger brother Jayasimha III and put down the revolts of his vassal chiefHoysala Visnuvardhana of Dorasamudra, Kadamba Vijayaditya of Goa, Yadava Iramadeva of Seunadesa and Silahara Bhoja of Karahataka. During the long reigns of these rulers Jainism received full support from the generals and traders and had many flourishing centres in Karnataka with Jaina temples - Virabhadra temple at Lakkundi, the ruined Jaina temple at Annigere, Trikuta-basadi at Harasur, the Pancalingesvara at Huli, the Caranti-matha at Aihole, and Sankha-basadi and Anantanatha-basadi at Laksmesvara. Vikramaditya VI was succeeded by his son Somesvara III (A.D. 1127-1139) from whose reign the 189 Calukya power began to crack. During the reigns of the next two rulers, viz. Jagadekamalla (A.D. 11391149) and Taila III (A.D. 1149-1162), the Calukya power further declined. In A.D. 1189 the whole of Calukya kingdom was occupied by Bhillama, the vassal chief under Somesvara IV, son of Taila III, and Somesvara had to take refuge in the Kadamba capital of Goa. During this period Jainism considerably suffered from the upsurgency of the Saiva fundamentalists who persecuted the Jainas, destroyed their temples, mutilated the Jina images and converted Jaina temples into Saiva. Under these circumstances one cannot expect a Jaina foundation, a fact substantiated by the non-availability of a Jaina shrine. The Gangas of Talkad (c. A.D. 900-1000) - The Gangas ruled from their capital at Talkad in southern Karnataka. They came into prominence when Racamalla II (A.D. 870-907) fought a battle with the Calukyas of Vengi. Racamalla was succeeded by Nitimarga II (A.D. 907-935), son of his brother Butuga I, who consolidated his empire. Nitimarga was followed by his three sons Narasimha, Racamalla III and Butuga II respectively. The first of these ruled for a short period and the second was ousted by Butuga (A.D. 937-960). Butuga II was an important ruler of the dynasty as he married a Rastrakuta princess, daughter of Amoghavarsa III, and assisted Rastrakuta Krsna III against the Colas. Butuga II was succeeded by his son Murula (A.D. 961963) and the latter by his younger brother Marasimha II (A.D. 963-974). Marasimha II defeated the Nolambas and captured their Ucchangi fort. He was succeeded by his son Racamalla IV (A.D. 974 1000) during whose reign the Colas of Tanjaur overran Talkad and annexed the Ganga territory in the Cola empire. On account of the active support of the Gangas Jainism flourished well in their kingdom. Butuga II was proficient in Jaina doctrine. Marasimha II turned a Jaina and founded Jaina temples at Purigere and Annigere which do not exist now. Camundaraya, the minister of Marasimha II, made the colossus of Bahubali at

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190 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Sravanabelagola and a Jaina temple also at the same site. The extant Jaina temples at Kambadahalli and Vijayamangalam also bespeak of the flourishing condition of Jainism in the kingdom. The santaras of Humca (c. A.D. 775-1150) - The Santaras ruled from their capital at Humca in western Karnataka. They were peace-loving people. Consequently, they did not play any major role in the contemporary politics. Their early history is shrouded in the darkness. It was probably Jinadatta who laid the foundation of the family in the early 9th century A.D. Not much is known about the next three rulers (Jayakesi, Ranakesi and an unnamed king) but the fourth ruler, Vikrama whose definite date of A.D. 897 is known from the inscriptions, was powerful as he consolidated his position at Humca. He was succeeded by his son Cagi, who is known to have built a water reservoir. After Cagi the Santaras continued their rule at Humca but nothing is known about their political career. Like the Gangas of Talkad the Santaras were devout Jainas and built many Jaina temples of which six (Sule-basti, Bogara-basti, Guddada-basti, Parsvanatha- basti, Padmavati temple and Pancakuta-basti) stand to this day at Humca in various stages of preservation. The Kadambas of Banavasi and Hangal (c. A.D. 973-1250) - The Kadambas of Banavasi (Sorab district, Karnataka) and Hangal started their political career as vassal chiefs of the Calukyas of Kalyana from the 10th century A.D. The first dynast of the Kadambas was Cattiga (c. A.D. 972-1015) who assisted his overlord Jayasimha II against the Colas. He also helped Jayasimha in repulsing the confederate army of Malwa. After the lapse of some time the province was governed by Kirttivarman, grandson of Cattiga. Owing to distrustfulness of his overlord Vikramaditya VI, Kirttivarman was removed from governorship and his uncle Santivarman was appointed the new governor of the province. Santivarman administered the province till A.D. 1089 followed by a long rule of his son Taila II ending in A.D. 1125. Taila II thwarted an attack of Hoysala Visnuvardhana who had revolted against the imperial Calukyas. After Taila the province was ruled by a number of Kadamba chiefs and at last the Kadamba rule came to an end in mid-12th century A.D. The Kadambas were devout Saiva, but Jainism flourished in the state. This is evident from three extant Jaina temples located at Konnur, Hangal and Kupattur. The Rattas of Kuhandimandala (c. A.D. 9751229) - The Ratta kingdom of Kuhandimandala was located in the north-west quarter of Karnataka. The Rattas were probably subordinate to the Imperial Rastrakutas at the beginning of their career, but later they transferred their allegiance to Taila II of Kalyana and were loyal to them till the end of the Imperial dynasty. Not much is known about the political achievements of the Rattas, but in the field of art and architecture they have remarkable contributions. Like the Gangas and Santaras, the Rattas patronised Jainism by building temples to Jinas and by issuing land-grants for their maintenance. At present, however, only the Ratta Jinalaya at Belgaum has survived. The Hoysalas of Dorasamudra (c. A.D. 10471346) - The Hoysalas ruled as early as 10th century A.D. at Sosevur (modern Angadi) in Kudur district of Karnataka, but later they transferred their capital at Dorasamudra (modern Halebid). The first four kings of the dynasty, viz. Nrpakama (c. A.D. 1006-1047), Vinayaditya (A.D. 1047-1098), Ereyanga (A.D. 10981102) and Ballala I (A.D. 1102-1108) were father and son in order of succession and ruled as vassals of the Calukyas of Kalyana. During the reigns of these rulers Jainism was patronised in the kingdom. This is apparent from the fact that the preceptor of Nrpakama and Vinayaditya was a Jaina and Ereyanga granted two villages for the upkeep of Jaina temples. Two extant Jaina temples (Vasantika and Sosevur-basti) also speak of the same story. Ballala I was succeeded by his brother Visnuvardhana (A.D. 1108-1142). He tried to build an Jain Education Intemational Jain Education Interational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India independent kingdom but was suppressed to the vassalage position by his overlord Calukya Vikramadiya VI. During this period Jainism flourished well in Karnataka. Though Visnuvardhana himself was a Vaisnava, his chief queen Santaladevi, as also his prime minister Gangaraja and some other generals, embraced Jainism. The Parsvanatha and the Adinatha temples at Halebid and the Jaina temple at Angadi are also indicative of the bright position of Jainism in his kingdom. Visnuvardhana was succeeded by his son Narasimha I (A.D. 1142-1173). He was a weak ruler and was at last dethroned by Ballala II (A.D. 11731220). The age of Ballala sees the climax of Hoysala power. At the beginning of his career he forced the Cangalavas, Kongalavas and Pandyas (of Ucchangi) to acknowledge his suzerainty. He next defeated Yadava Bhillama V of Devagiri and assumed imperial titles. He also subjugated the Sindas of Belagutti. He, however, could not stand the might of Singhana II, successor of Bhillama V, and lost the territories of Banavasi and Belvola to him. He had matrimonial alliance with the Colas. When his son-in-law Cola Kullotunga III was overthrown by Sundara Pandya, he helped him to recapture the throne. During the reigns of these rulers Jainism received active support from the royalty as well as nobility. This is clearly evident from a large number of land-grants issued to maintain Jaina temples. This period also produced a large number of Jaina temples of which seven, viz. the Parsvanatha temples at Nittur and Heggere, Akkana-basadi at Sravanabelagola, Santinatha temples at Halebid and Jinanathapuram, Mallikarjuna temple at Puspagiri, and the Jaina temple at Udri, are still existent. Ballala II was succeeded by his son Narasimha II (A.D. 1220-1235) and the latter by his son Somesvara (A.D. 1235-1265). Somesvara divided the Hoysala kingdom into two parts; the northern or main Hoysala land of Dorasamudra he allotted to his crown prince Narasimha III (A.D. 1254-1291) and the southern one to his another son Ramanatha (A.D. 1254-1295). The 191 partition, however, only led to the fights between the two brothers. Taking advantage of the situation the Yadavas attacked the northern kingdom and Sundara Pandya the southern one. In A.D. 1291 Ballala III ascended the throne of Dorasamudra during whose 'time Malik Kafur, the general of Allauddin Khalji, invaded Dorasamudra and looted it. At last in A.D. 1346 it was included in the Vijayanagara empire. In the long reign of these rulers the atmosphere was not congenial for the building activity. There also was an utter decline in the supporters of Jainism. As a result, no Jaina temple was produced at this time. The Pallavas of Kanci (c. A.D. 650-900) - The Pallava dynasty of Kanci in Tondainadu (Tamil Nadu) was founded by Simhavarman and his son Simhavisnu. The mother of Simhavisnu consecrated a Jaina temple. A temple of Mahavira also existed in the time of Simhavarman. Simhavisnu was succeeded by his son Mahendravarman I (c. A.D. 580-630) who fought with the Calukyas of Vatapi. His reign was also eventful in the religious and literary activities. In the beginning he was a Jaina but later turned a staunch Saiva as he is alleged to have persecuted the Jainas and destroyed their monasteries. But the excavation of a Jaina cave at Vilappakkam during his reign disapproves of his bigotry position. Mahendravarman I was succeeded by his son Narasimhavarman I Mamalla (c. A.D. 630-668) who waged successful wars with the Calukyas and captured the capital of Vatapi. He also sent a naval contingent to Ceylone. He continued the cut-in method of excavating the caves. He also devised the cut-out method whereby the monolithic Rathas of Mahabalipuram could come to light. But none of these is Jaina, in spite of the fact that the famous Jaina scholar, Samantabhadra, lived at this time. Mamalla was followed by his son Mahendravarman II (A.D. 668-672) and the latter by his son Paramesvaravarman I (A.D. 672-700). These

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192 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies rulers also were at war with the Calukyas. Paramesvara- varman suffered even a defeat at the hands of the Ganga king Bhuvikrama. These two rulers were staunch Saiva and hence no scope for Jaina activity. Paramesvaravarman I was succeeded by his son Narasimhavarman II Rajasimha (A.D. 700-728) whose reign being comparatively peaceful sees brisk building activity in the field of structural temples. This is also attested to by a Jaina temple to Candraprabha at Tirupparuttikunram, Jinakanci, built during his reign. After Rajasimha the Pallavas continued their rule in Tondainadu up to the end of the 9th century A.D. but, owing to the prominent position of Saivism and Vaisnavism, no Jaina temple was built. Similar is the position of Jainism in the time of the Colas and the Pandyas who ruled from Tanjaur and Madura after the Pallavas. Architectural Features The Jaina temples south of the Vindhya mountain are characterised by a storeyed sanctum with cupola top, a mode of temple-style called Dravida in architectural treatise. In the simplest form of their ground plan they show a square vimana-sanctum with or without a covered ambulatory (pradaksinapatha) around it, and an ardhamandapa approached from the ground by a stairway having elephant banister. In the larger conception the vimana is confronted by an antarala-vestibule followed in its turn by a gudhamandapa or mahamandapa (closed hall), larger than the vimana, and a rangamandapa or mukhamandapa (open pillared hall). The presence of gudhamandapa and rangamandapa solely depends upon the need of the temple or the choice of the architect as some temples have both the halls and some others possess either of the two. Where there is a rangamandapa it is landed up from the ground by an usual staircase, and where there is a predilection for gudhamandapa it is entered through an entrance porch, preferably from the front side, but there are temples which have entrances on the front as well as lateral sides. The Jaina temple at Hangal, which has only the rangamandapa, not the gudhamandapa, in front of vimana's antarala, has entrances on all the three sides of the rangamandapa. In some Jaina temples the antarala is conspicuous by its absence. Apart from having single vimana in their layout the Jaina temples of South India possess double, triple and five-sancta vimana with a common gudhamandapa. in the juxtaposed double shrine of the Caranti-matha at Aihole each vimana has its own gudhamandapa, though the mukhamandapa in these shrines is commonly disposed. In the triple shrine the three vimanas stand juxtaposed at the back (Candragupta-basadi at Sravanabelagola) or on the three sides of the gudhamandapa (the triple shrine near Virupaksa at Aihole and Harasur), the fourth side providing access to it. In the five-sancta temple three vimanas are placed juxtaposed behind the rear side of the gudhamandpa and two vimanas are placed on its lateral sides (Pancalingesvara temple at Huli and Sankha-basadi at Laksmesvara). In another temple the lateral shrines are detached from the gudhamandapa (Pancakuta temple at Kambadahalli); in the third one the five vimanas are put up juxtaposed on the rear side of an oblong gudhamandapa (Pancakuta-bastiat Humca); in the fourth one the three vimanas are disposed along the three sides of the gudhamandapa and two on the lateral sides of a large pillared mandapa built in the front (Anantanathabasadi at Laksmesvara). Some Jaina temples have individual features of the plan. The Jaina temple at Ron is rectangular on plan as the vimana and gudhamandapa are laid out in a common enclosing wall. The Parsvanatha temple at Halebid has a detached asthanamandapa (sitting hall) in front of the gudhamandapa. The Santinatha temple at Jinanathapuram stands on a jagati-platform. The Mallikarjuna temple at Puspagiri and the monolithic Chota Kailasa at Ellora are entered through a pratoligateway. The Jaina temple near Caranti-matha at Aihole, the Jaina temple (No. 1) at Mulgund, the great Jaina temple at Lakkundi, the Candraprabha temple at Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 193 Vijayamangalam and the Pancakuta-basadi at Kambadahalli are surrounded by a prakara-wall entered through a simple gateway, dvaramandapa (hall-formed gateway), gopura (gatehouse) and pratoli respectively. In the Sankha-basadi at Laksmesvara the rangamandapa, instead of being open, is enclosed by a screen wall. On plan the square vimana has either straight sides or is indented into alternate projected and recessed bays (Meguti temple at Aihole). In the developed temples it has two (bhadra and karna) or three (bhadra, pratiratha and karna) offsets with or without salilantaras between. The offsets are usually further broken into a number of planes and are carried up to the shoulder part of the griva-sikhara (neck and cupola). In elevation (see Fig. 110) the vimana shows one or more talas (storeys), the aditala (ground storey) consisting of adhisthana (plinth), pada or bhitti (wall), prastara-hara, griva, sikhara and stupi, while the upper talas follow on smaller scale the morphology of the ground storey, excluding the adhisthana. The plinth (see Fig. 102) consists of a series of plain or ornamental mouldings showing generally an upana, jagati, round or three-faceted kumuda, kantha, kapota, pratikantha and pattika, with some minor mouldings. The jagati in the Jaina temple at Hallur, however, is replaced by khura-kumbha which, though rare in Karnataka Jaina temples, is an essential element of the plinth of the north Indian temples. The kumuda in a number of later temples takes the shape of karnaka. The plinth of the Sankha-basadi at Laksmesvara and the Jaina temple at Annigeri stands on a sub-plinth (upapitha) made up of some moulded courses. Generally, the kantha is decorated with sculptural panels, the kapota with nasi-bosses containing figure sculptures, and the pratikantha with figures of makara, vyala etc. The plinth may carry kapota, pratikantha and pattika in this very sequence as upper mouldings; or it may display two or one of these as terminal mouldings. The wall of the vimana is flat or is relieved with a series of slender pilasters cantoning the projecting offsets or bays accommodating sculptured niches surmounted by varieties of shrine models and decorative motifs, particularly in the Western Calukyan and Hoysala temples, while the recesses in some temples contain perforated stone grilles. The wall-pilasters are always plain below and show ornate mouldings and capitals above. The wall is surmounted by prastara and hara. The prastara consists of uttara (beam), vajana (projecting band), valabhi (rafter ends), kapota and pratikantha, while the hara shows a string of ornate shrine models of kuta, sala and panjara with ornate nasis and harantaras. The sequence of wall-prastara-hara is also found in diminutive form in the succeeding talas (storeys) of the storeyed vimana, but the talas in the superstructure of the developed temples of the Western Calukya and Hoysala periods are so much compressed that they resemble the tower of the north Indian temples. The superstructure terminates in a flat vedi followed by griva (neck), sikhara of square, octagonal or circular shape, and stupi (finial) made up of pitcher and citron, the last one having disappeared in the majority of Jaina temples. The vimana-garbhagsha is generally entered from the antarala through a plain or carved doorway. The garbhagrha doorframe, as also of the other compartments, generally shows three to five sakhas jambs) with Jina as lalatabimba (tutelary image). The first jamb from inner side is carved with ratna (diamond); the second shows Gandharvas, bhutas, scrolls or Vidyadharis; the third is stambha (pillar); the fourth is adorned with garlands, vyalas or scrolls; and the fifth is bahyasakha (outermost jamb) decorated with lotus petals. In the trisakha doorway the stambha occurs in the central position and in that of catussakha doorframe it comes in the third position. The garbhagrha is enclosed by a plain wall reinforced by pilasters. Inside is a seated or standing image of Jina with attendant figures. the antarala, which is just an extension of the vimana, is a rectangular or square compartment in case of the latter it is almost the size of the vimana) enclosed on two lateral sides by the plain or indented walls Jain Education Intemational

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194 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies having sculptured niches or kutastambhas or left plain. At times it is lodged over by sukanasa (antefix) leaning upon the superstructure of the vimana. The sukanasa, wherever present, contains an image of Jina in its facade niche. In the interior of some temples it is confronted by a pair of pillars and has a sculptured niche on its side walls. In the Chota Kailasa at Ellora the columns also support a fine torana-arch. The gudhamandapa is a closed pillared hall following the scheme of plan and elevation of the vimana and having a flat roof with hara parapet of the vimana's first tala. It is entered from one or all the three sides through a porch of two pillars and two pilasters with a flat roof. Its interior usually shows four pillars in the slightly raised central nave and twelve pilasters in the periphery forming thus one central bay and eight surrounding bays. Such an arrangement of columns and bays in the south Indian temples is called navaranga (nine bays). The bays carry flat or lantern ceilings bearing sculptural and floral enrichment or left plain. In the larger conception the godhamandapa has a greater number of pillars arranged in crisscross pattern. The pillars of the gudhamandapa are both plain and ornate and show several varieties of square, octagonal, circular, fluted, faceted, stellate and latheturned pillars. The pillar, most commonly used, has a square moulded base; the shaft is square below and circular above, the latter carrying a series of faceted belts or rings, large or small bell, belt and lasuna; the capital consists of tadi, ghata, pali and phalaka; and the corbel has four-armed roll, wavy or bevelled bracket. These constituents of the shaft also appear in the fluted and faceted pillars. The pilasters are like the pillars. In some temples the interior wall of the gudhamandapa also contains sculptured niches. The rangamandapa is a semi-open hall laid out on a square, rectangular or dvi-anga plan in front of the gudhamandapa or antarala (sometimes detached in the form of asthanamandapa). Where the rangamandapa is attached to the antarala, the rear portion of the rangamandapa is treated like the gudhamandapa wall as found in the Jaina temple at Hangal. Its adhisthana has usually been kept low, and above the kapota here is found kantha, instead of kumuda, often carved with diamonds in panels. Above this comes a parapet wall comprising rajasenaka, vedika, asanapatta and kaksasana, one or two members among these being absent in some temples. On the parapet wall stand dwarf pillars and in the inner part full pillars. These pillars also are of varied forms and correspond largely to those of the gudhamandapa. The bays formed by these pillars contain plain or carved flat ceilings, but the Jaina temple at Belguam possesses an ornate domical ceiling with a fine pendant. The rangamandapa is usually approached from the front by a stairway; the same in the Belgaum Jaina temple, however, is entered from the front as well as lateral sides through a porch containing an ornate ceiling. The open hall is shaded by a large double-curved or sloped out eave-cornice. The pratoli is a gate-house with central passage and walled sides. Its flat roof in the interior is supported by the pillars put up on both sides of the passage. The dvaramandapa is a hall-formed gate attached to the surrounding walls of the temple. It also has a flat roof supported on pillars. The gopura, which is a characteristic of the south Indian temples, is a storeyed structure over the entrance through the enclosing walls to the temple. Rectangular on plan it is composed of several storeys diminishing as they ascend and is covered on top by a semi-circular roof with a series of stupis. We now proceed to describe the temples of South India, but before that it is worthwhile to note that no Jaina Tirthankara was born in the peninsular India, nor had any of the 24 Tirthankaras ever visited it during his preaching tour, yet Jainism flourished well in this part of the country. Probably, the people of the region were greatly influenced by the Jaina principles of Anekanta and Ahimsa and therefore they extended their ample support for its spread and development in the

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 195 region. The pivotal role in this regard was played by the Digambara sect of Jainism as all the structural Jaina temples of the period under reference belong to this sect. But it is a pity that at present the Jaina temples of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu alone have survived. KARNATAKA Karnataka first came into contact with Jainism when a severe drought broke out in Magadha and Bhadrabahu, the head of the Jainasangha, alongwith the Mauryan emperor Candragupta migrated to the south and settled at Sravanabelagola about B.C. 298. In the beginning of the Christian era Sravanabelagola was developed into an important centre of Jainism by Kundakunda and his lineage. Subsequently, Arhadbali, according to an inscription found in the Siddara-basti at Sravanabelagola, earned great fame through his two disciples, Puspadanta and Bhutabali, and divided the Mulasangha into four sub-sects, viz. Sena, Nandi, Deva and Simha, each being further divided into Ganas and Gacchas. In A.D. 470 Vajranandi founded the Dravidasangha in Tamil Nadu which was affiliated to the Mulasangha of Sravanabelagola. Jainism was well received in Karnataka during the times of the Calukyas of Badami. This is evident not only by two Jaina caves excavated at Aihole and Badami but also by the Meguti Jaina temple founded at Aihole in A.D. 634 by the Jaina poet Ravikirtti who wrote the famous eulogy of the Calukya king Pulakesin II engraved in this very temple. During the age of the Rastrakutas of Manyakheta (c. A.D. 750-973) Jainism became very popular in Karnataka. This was due to the fact that many Rastrakuta kings had leanings towards Jainism. The Rastrakuta king Amoghavarsa even turned a Jaina and accepted Jinasena, the author of the Adipurana, as his religious preceptor. Many inscriptions found at Sravanabelagola also speak of the flourishing condition of Jainism in the State. The capital city of Manyakheta became an important centre of Jainism at this time since Puspadanta, the author of many Jaina works in Apabhramsa, made his abode there. The prevalence of Jainism is also known from a group of five rock-cut Jaina caves hewn at Ellora and from two structural Jaina temples raised at Hallur and Pattadakal. After the Rastrakutas the main land of Karnataka was ruled by two major dynasties of the Calukyas of Kalyana (c. A.D. 973-1189) and the Hoysalas of Dorasamudra (c. A.D. 1047-1346), while the peripheral parts in the north-west, west and south were governed by some minor dynasties of the Gangas of Talkad, the santaras of Humca, the Kadambas of Banavasi and Hangal, and the Rattas of Kuhandimandala. During this long period of Karnataka history Jainism received great patronage from both the royalty and the general public and spread without any hindrance in the State. There were many factors responsible for its spread and development. Firstly, it were the Jaina preceptors who helped in laying the foundation of the Ganga and Hoysala dynasties. Secondly, many kings and queens were so much influenced by Jaina tenets preached by Jaina teachers that they embraced Jaina religion. Thirdly, a good number of people were Jaina, some holding even important posts in the royal court. Under these favourable conditions thus there were raised numerous temples throughout the State. Many land-grants were also issued for their upkeep. The richness of Jainism is also evident from a large number of Jaina temples standing now in various stages of preservation at Aihole, Hurica, Kambadahalli, Annigeri, Angadi, Sravanabelagola, Konnur. Lakkundi, Mulgund, Nagai, Ron, Kuppatur, Laksmesvara, Halebid, Huli, Hangal, Heragu, Nittur, Heggeri, Harasur, Udri, Puspagiri, Jinanathapuram and Belgaum. AIHOLE Meguti Temple - This is a Jaina temple (Figs. 97-99; Pl. 78) standing on the top of a hillock in the Bijapur district of Karnataka. It is built of sandstone and faces north. The temple is well-known to the historians for the simple reason that it possesses on the east wall of its ardhamandapa the famous inscription Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India of the Calukya king Pulakesin II, which has been composed by the Jaina monk Ravikirtti and records the foundation of the temple in A.D. 634-635 by him. Originally, the temple had a square vimana with an ambulatory and a short ardhamandapa. Subsequently, the ardhamandapa was extended and a mukhamandapa (entrance hall) added, probably at the end of the 7th century A.D. Contrary to the plane and uncarved interior, the exterior wall of the sanctum is projected and recessed alternately in straight line, forming thus four projecting bays and three recesses on each side, but the two central bays on the front side are replaced by a plain solid wall and the intervening recess provides access to the sanctum from the ardhamandapa. The central recess on cach lateral side has a small stone grille. The two front recesses flanking the ardhamandapa also have similar grilles. The adhisthana (Fig. 102) of the sanctum rests on a basal course of kharasila and consists above that of a jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kantha and kapota, the last two being carved. The kantha shows figures of Yaksas and elephants in panels formed by plain pilasters, and of crocodiles, geese and creepers in the recesses. The kapota is decorated with caitya-gavaksas (nasi) with jewelled bands in between them and creepers at corners. The nasi slits contain figures of Kinnari-heads (celestial female minstrel); they are bordered by a band of rosettes and topped by lotus. Each bay of the sanctum wall is framed between two square plain pilasters surmounted by roll brackets. The two corner bays contain uncarved plane slabs, while the two other bays on each face have emptied sunk niches. The wall is shaded by a kapota cornice marked by uncarved nasi bosses. Above the kapota is a plank-type moulding (prati) followed above by kantha decorated with female figures and Yaksis, now weatherworn. The parapet moulding has disappeared. The upper storey built right above the garbhagrrha is plain and damaged. The sanctum is entered through a pancasakha 197 plain doorway from the ardhamandapa. The ambulatory has now been converted into nine cells for storage etc. The garbhagrha doorframe is also plain and the Jina image on its crest is damaged. The enshrined image of the Jina is missing. The ardhamandapa, which shares its adhisthana and wall with the sanctum, is a four-pillared rectangular chamber entered from the mukhamandapa by a stairway provided with elephant banister. Its pancasakha doorframe is uncarved but shows a string of karnakutas and sala above the door-lintel. The pillars are of square order; they are topped by roll brackets and are plain. The beams and ceilings borne by them are also plain. The mukhamandapa is a square pillared hall resting on an adhisthana which is almost an exact imitation and continuum of the sanctum. It is landed up from the front by a laterally built stairway. It has four pillars in the centre and twelve pillars on the periphery, all plain and square. Between the periphery pillars is a short balustraded wall relieved with figure sculptures at intervals. The dedication of the temple is not definitely known as the enshrined image has disappeared; the inscription also does not give any clue in this regard. However, from the presence of an image of Kusmandi (now in the Bijapur Museum) in the ardhamandapa it may be surmised that the temple was dedicated to Neminatha. Since the temple is a dated one, it gives a definite landmark for the study of early temples of the Dravida style. Jaina Temple near Caranti-matha - This northfacing temple (Fig. 100; Pl. 80) consists of a twostoreyed vimana, an antarala and a gudhamandapa, larger than the vimana, the whole originally surrounded by a low prakara with entrance on the north. The gudhamandapa is entered from all sides except the south which is attached with the antarala. Facing the west as well as east door of the gudhamandapa is a plain square shrine with vestibule. A separate porch is placed between the east door of the gudhamandapa and the

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 199 eastern shrine. The main vimana has now bay projections. The portion above the kapota of the second storey is lost. The main shrine alone is of some interest. It is laid out on a plain and simple adhisthana comprising jagati, padma (inverted cyma recta), antarita, three faceted kumuda, antarita, urdhvapadma (cyma recta) and kapota with uncarved nasi-bosses. The wall shows karna and bhadra with two and four pilasters respectively. Between the karna pilasters and the central pair of bhadra pilasters is a kuta-topped false niche. All the pilasters are of the square order. Their lower half is plain and the upper half carries large bell, belt, tadi, ghata, pali, phalaka and citra- potika, all left plain. The aditala (lower storey), prastara with uttara, kapota and pratikantha, and the hara with karpakutas and bhadrasalas are of little interest, but the salas have seated Jinas in their nasis and standing ones on ends. The second storey is short. The walls of the antarala are also relieved by kuta-topped false niche and the hara has a figure of seated Jina in a large nasi. The exterior of the gudhamandapa is plain. The interior shows four lathe-turned pillars in the slightly raised central nave and twelve plain square pilasters on the periphery. The well-wrought four nave pillars have plain square base; their circular upper portion shows three successive rings with recesses in between them, large bell, narrow belt, short lasuna, tadi, carinated ghata, pali, square phalaka and roll corbel. The ceilings are flat and uncarved. The vimana-garbhagrha is entered through a pancasakha doorway from the antarala and enshrines an image of Jina seated on lion throne. The doorframe consists of ratna, bhuta inhabiting vine creepers, segmented stambha with flutings and ghatapallava, mala with buckles topped by floral sprouts, and a wide outer jamb. On the lalala of the door-lintel is a seated Jina with two cauri-bearers. The temple was probably built in the late 10th century A.D. Triple Jaina Shrine near Virupaksa Temple - It has a group of three shrines laid out on three sides of a common square gudhamandapa and opening into it by the connecting antaralas, the fourth or east side being provided with the main entrance (Fig. 101). The structural style of these shrines indicates that originally it was a double shrine consisting of the main shrine on the west and the subsidiary one on the north; the third or southern shrine was added a little later. The central and the southern shrines are square on plan and the northern shrine is slightly rectangular. Each shrine shows bhadra and karna with salilantara between both in plan and elevation, but the salilantara is absent in the northern shrine. The adhisthana of the two older shrines, Wn (Pl. 79) and Nn, are alike consisting of upana, jagati, padma (inverted cyma recta), kampa, kantha, kampa, urdhvapadma (cyma recta), three-faceted kumuda, padma, kampa, kantha, kampa, urdhvapadma, kapota with uncarved triangular blocks and kampa, while that of the Southern shrine, though similar in composition, has a pratikantha above the kapota. The bhadra and karna bays of the walls of the two older shrines are provided with cantoning pilasters and niche-ornaments, the same (with upabhadra) in the southern shrine are conspicuous by their absence, although the pilasters make their appearance on the walls of the second storey. The square pilasters are plain below and carry bell decorated at places with leaf, belt, lasuna, tadi, ghata, pali, phalaka and bevelled corbel above. The lasuna is remarkable in that it is decorated at some places with trifoliate leaf in the western shrine and with bold tongue-like water-leaf in the northern. The superstructure of the southern shrine is tall and three-storeyed, that of the other two being short and two-storeyed. The prastara of each storey consisting of uttara, kapota and pratikantha is plain, while the hara is studed with bhadrasalas and karnakutas with intervening harantaras. The nasis of the sala, like those in the Jaina temple near Caranti-matha, contain seated Jina figures flanked on either end by a standing one. The sikhara with stupi in each shrine is lost. dain Education Intermational Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India The gudhamandapa is but the continuum of the ground storey of the vimana, depicting even trilobed water-leaf on the bell. The interior shows four massive, unattractive, square pillars in the slightly raised central nave and two slightly attached pillars at each of the three antaralas' entrant points, one quarter pilaster at each corner and two pilasters flanking the main entrance. The southern shrine also carries four half and four quarter plain pilasters in the garbhagrha. The nave pillars have a square roughly moulded base; the shaft shows from below a plain cubical section, a narrow belt decorated with caitya-gavaksa device, bell adorned with trilobed pattern, a plain narrow belt, and lasuna adorned with caitya-gavaksa device; and the capital consists of pali, three-faceted square phalaka and bevelled corbel with central projection. The garbhagrha doorframe of the western shrine is of the pancasakha variety representing ratna, patra (scrolls) with bhuta figures, stambha with superposed pots, thin mala (garland), and bahyasakha decorated with lotus leaves. On the lalata appears Gajalaksmi instead of the customary Jina figure. The basal part of the doorjambs is left plain. Inside the garbhagrha is an image of Parsvanatha seated on lion-throne. The northern shrine has similar doorframe. The enshrined images in the lateral shrines are missing. As regards the date of the temple, the two older shrines are placed in the last quarter of the 10th century A.D., and the southern shrine one or two decade later. Candraprabha Temple - It lies in front of and now attached to the eastern wall of the gudhamandapa of the Triple Shrine at Aihole. It consists of a twostoreyed square vimana, a slightly rectangular antarala and a mukhamandapa, and faces the western shrine of the Triple Shrine. Like the latter its vimana also has bhadra (with upabhadra) and karna with salilantara. The adhisthana is interesting as it is composed of broad upana, jagati, padma, kantha with kampas, urdhavapadma, tripatta kumuda, padma, kantha with kampas, urdhvapadma, kapota decorated with nasis and 201 creepers at intervals, and pratikantha adorned with figures of vyalas and makaras with standing Jinas at intervals on karnas and bhadras of the vimana and seated Jina or Yaksa on the antarala. The wall has the usual array of pilasters, but the sham-niches on the karnas and bhadras of the vimana as well as of the antarala contain standing Jina figures, now mostly damaged. The prastara and hara follow the arrangement and decor of those of the Jaina temple near Caranti-matha, but the wall of the second storey is comparatively taller. The portion above the prastara of the upper storey is lost. The pancasakha doorframe of the garbhagrha consists of ratna, bhutas inhabiting vine creepers, fluted and segmented stambhasakha, mala, and padma decorated with lotus leaves. The lower portion of the sakhas, like that in the Triple Shrine, is uncarved. The lalata of the door-lintel is occupied by a Jina figure. The enshrined image of Jina is missing, but the stele with fine figures of male cauri-bearers is intact. The figures of Syama Yaksa (now preserved in a local museum) and Jvalamalini Yaksi (now in the antarala of the Virupaksa temple) seem to have originally belonged to this temple and if it is so, the temple was dedicated to Candraprabha upon whom they attended. The semi-open mukhamandapa shows four plain square pillars in the nave and three or four pillars on each side; two pilasters flank the entrance door. It seems to have been added some time in the 11th century A.D. The temple is datable to late 10th or early 11th century A.D. Caranti-matha This is a double Jaina shrine consisting of two sancta, two gudhamandapas with juxtaposed four-pillared naves and doorways, and a common mukhamandapa reached from the ground by two stairways with plain banister (Fig. 103; Pl. 81). The adhisthana consists of upana, jagati, padma, kantha decorated with lozenges, plain pattika, antarita and kapota. The plain wall is surmounted by kapota and pratikantha mouldings. The open mukhamandapa is shaded on the front by an eave the intrados of which

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 203 is carved with fine figures of Vidyadharas, goose etc. in boxes. The mukhamandapa's flat roof is supported by five ornate square pillars arranged in a row on the front and ten pilasters on the surround. The two doorframes of the gudhamandapa are of the pancasakha variety. Each doorframe consists of ratna, patra, segmented stambha, vyala and padma. The lower portion of the sakhas is left unadorned. The door- lintel shows Jina figure on the lalata and a vyala figure on either side in the lower register and three Dravida vimanas with two intervening Nagara prasadas in the upper. The overdoor depicts twelve standing Jinas in a row with seated Sarvanubhuti on proper right and Ambika on proper left. The temple is datable to the first quarter of the 12th century A.D. HALLUR Melgudi Temple - This is a structural Jaina temple of the Rastrakata period. It is situated to the north of Hallur village in the Bijapur district of Karnataka. The temple (Pl. 82) stands on a gently rising ground and faces south, an orientation to be hardly met with. The temple is incomplete but well-preserved, except for the upper shrine which is almost gone. The work on temple had to be abandoned for some unknown reasons before it was finished. Had it been complete it would have been one of the fine temples of the period. The temple, measuring 69 ft. by 41 ft., consists of a vimana enclosed by ambulatory, an antarala and a gudhamandapa entered only from the south without a frontal porch. The square vimana as well as gudhamandapa consists of bhadra, pratibhadra and karna with salilantara-recesses between. Each wall thus has five offsets and four recesses. The adhisthana of the vimana is composed of upana, khura, kumbha, antarita, three-faceted kumuda, kantha, kapota and prati-kantha. Of these the kapota carries nasi bosses, four on the broader bhadras and two each on the karma and pratibhadra. The nasis on the west side and at the north-west corner are ornamented with Gandharva- and Kinnara-heads, while all the other nasis are marked by plain blocks. The prati-kantha on the west is also ornate as it carries vyala-busts and makara-heads. The walls of the vimana are made of plain ashlars and show thin pilasters carved on the ashlars themselves. Hence the pilasters here are not structural in the functional sense; rather, they just emphasize the projections and recesses of the basement and entablature on the one hand and demarcate the bays on the other. Their main purpose is to connect the plinth with the entablature. All the pilasters are tall, tetragonal and slender and are surmounted by a narrow and a broad square cyma and bevelled corbel with rosette on front. The entire wall is relieved with pilasters and has some perforated stone grilles in bays. Each bay is framed by two pilasters and has no image. The wall is surmounted by kapota-cornice carrying a row of geese on the soffit. Below the cornice on the wall of the recesses are figures of Jinas enthroned or being bathed, Vidyadharas and Gandharvas, and above the cornice is a pattika decorated with vyala-busts, crocodiles and vigorous human figures. The pattika is pierced at intervals by water spouts, plain or carved in the form of crocodiles, to drain off rain water. The hara-parapet above the pattika is adorned with karnakutas, bhadrasalas and panjara-kosthas. Two of the panjara-kosthas contain figures of seated Jinas, and a few of the salas are crowned by large kirttimukhas. The spaces between the aedicules are filled with empty nasi-kosthas. A narrow staircase built in a confined chamber in the east corner of the gudhamandapa leads to the upper sanctuary (16.6 ft. by 16.6 ft.) the walls of which are but the continuum of the ground floor of the inner garbhagsha. Its walls and doorframe are plain and simple. The hara and roof are lost. The enshrined image is missing. The interior of the ground garbhagsha is quite plain but for the four corner pilasters. Its pancasakha doorframe too is uncarved, but the two pilasters flanking it carry figures of door-guardians. The ambulatory round the Jain Education Intemational For Private & Personal use only

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204 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies garbhagrha is narrow and has a polished black-stone sculpture of Nandi facing the enshrined Linga placed at the time of the conversion of the temple to Saiva sect. The gudhamandapa, which is larger than the vimana, is very similar in form and design to the latter but the bhadra on both the east and west walls is framed by four pilasters crowned by makara-arches, the bays at the karna and bhadra offsets have standing robeless figures of Parsvanatha and Bahubali, and the recesses between the karmas and pratibhadras contain large latticed windows adorned with geometrical patterns. In one variety the lattice shows four-spoked interlocked squares, while in the other it consists of vertical and horizontal bars with rosetted bosses at the joints. The gudhamandapa is approached from the ground by a flight of six steps cut across the adhisthana mouldings; the upper three steps are flanked by elephant banisters. Its pancasakha doorframe is uncarved. The roof is flat with gentle slope to drain off rain water. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows four rows of five pillars each, dividing the entire area into a wide central nave and two constricted side aisles and making thus twelve bays in all of unequal sizes. The central part of the nave is slightly raised from its environ, but it is not symmetrical in disposition. All the pillars are square and massive and bear no ornamentation, though above the base and about the midway height they have cubical blocks surmounted by plain roundels. The pillars have no abacus and their corbels carry double-volute mouldings and a tenon. The cross-beams and the ceilings are uncarved, but the underside of each beam is relieved with three lotuses. The wall is also plain but is reinforced by pilasters placed in alignment with the pillars. The temple has no inscription for dating. On the basis of its architectural features, decorative motifs and sculptural forms the temple may be placed in the latter half of the gth century A.D. HUMCA Humca, the capital city of the Santaras, is situated in the Shimoga district of Karnataka. In ancient period it was known as Patti (Patti-Pombulccapura), i.e. the city of gold. This hilly country (Malanad) of Hurica was ruled by the santaras from about the end of the 7h century A.D. to as late as early part of the 16th century A.D. Though the santaras did not play a major role in the political scenario of Karnataka, they were a great patron of art and architecture. The Santaras were Jaina by faith and patronised the Jaina goddess Padmavati who was also the presiding deity of Pombulcca. At present, there are six extant Jaina temples, all built of sandstone. They form a group by themselves and are mostly royal creations. Sule-basti - This is the oldest, albeit the largest, Jaina temple at Humca (Pl. 85). It consists of a square vimana and a gudhamandapa, the latter being larger than the vimana. The plan of the vimana does not bear projections. In elevation the temple shows only the adhisthana and wall, the superstructure does not seem to have been built. The adhisthana is composed on an upana, jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kampa, kantha marked at intervals by vertical pilasters, kampa, urdhvapadma, kapota and kampa. The flat wall shows panjara-kosthas with shallow slit-niches on the two faces of the karmas and only long slit-niches on the bhadras. The nasi-bosses of the panjarakosthas are left unfinished. The pilasters framing the slit-niches and also those appearing at the corners of the wall are all of the square order. They are plain below and have vase-shaped two lasunas (the lower one being inverted) with an intervening broad belt. The capital consists of padma, ghata, pali and rectangular phalaka and is topped by bevelled corbel. The wall is surmounted by a kapota with uncarved triangular bosses. The gudhamandapa has disappeared. Probably, the temple was built in the last quarter of the 9th century A.D. Bogara-basti - This is the finest structure at Hurca. This is also one of the most beautiful temples of this period in the whole of Karnataka. On plan it Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 205 consists of a two-storeyed vimana, antarala and gudhamandapa, and like the Sule-basti it has no projections. The adhisthana of the vimana is of the very unusual type consisting of a three-faceted kumuda, antarita-alinga (recess and projecting band), again antarita-alinga, kantha between kampas and three receding kampas. The wall (Pl. 83) is flat but relieved by pilasters which correspond to those seen in the Sule- basti. The prastara above the wall consists of eight courses. The first is a two-tiered plain uttara (beam). The second is a figural band representing hamsa, bhuta and vyalamalas. The third is kapota decorated with nasi-bosses which are coaxial with the wall pilasters and shelter seated Jinas. The face of the nasis is adorned with elegant vine creepers which issue from the mouth of a grasa carved at the top. The fourth is alinga carved with dentil pattern. The fifth is antarita adorned at intervals with makara heads placed sideways. The sixth is a plain alinga. The seventh is kantha carved at regular intervals by pilasters. The eighth course is made up of a broad kantha between kampas and bears sculptured niches at some places. The hara above the prastara shows fine kutas at the corners, sala in the middle part and kapota in the harantaras. The faces of the kutas, salas and kapota are each enriched with fine creepers that emerge from the mouth of a grasa carved on the top. This is a rare representation in the south Indian temples. The nasis of the sala, kuta and harantara shelter Jina-head, Kinnari-head and vyala figure respectively. The cubical wall of the upper storey is formed by karnas and projected bhadras. The bhadra bears a sala-kostha (niche with sala-top) and the karna a storeyed kapota-panjara (apsidal panjara pattern on kapota). The kapota-panjara is a rare feature during this period, but it is found in the subsequent period of the Calukyas of Kalyana. The griva and sikhara (Pl. 84) are of the square type and resemble the kutas of the lower storey with this difference that the nasi on each face is an elongated one and contains a figure of seated Jina. Inside the vimana-garbhagrha the lion-throne is intact but the enshrined image of Jina seems to be modern. The antarala connecting the vimana to the gudhamandapa is short and of little interest. The gudhamandapa, which is larger than the vimana, is a simple structure. Its adhisthana consists of jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kantha between kampas, and a pattika. The wall is relieved by usual pilasters and is surmounted by an eave. The roof is flat. The entrance door the height of which is disproportionate to its width consists of two jambs, the inner being plain and the outer decorated with deeply cut scrolls. The lintel of the door carries figures of Sankhanidhi and Padmanidhi on its two ends, although they are usually represented below the jambs. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows four square pillars in the central nave and eight pilasters on the periphery. The wall, cross-beams and flat ceilings are uncarved, but the pillars, square in section, are very richly carved. The base of the pillars is short and uncarved. The shaft is divided into four almost equal sections. The first from below is plain. The second shows a vertical scroll-band on each of the four faces. The third is divided into two broad belts, the lower showing kirttimukhas spewing jewelled ropes and foliate scrolls, and the upper the meandering creepers. The fourth is a vase-shaped lasuna bearing fine floral pattern or nasi with seated Jina-figure. The capital consists of cyma and bulbous ghata and is topped by plain corbel. The pilasters conform to the pillars, but the kirttimukhas and the meandering creepers are here replaced by standing robeless Jinas (in one case Parsvanatha and Bahubali) and a band of exquisitely carved diamonds. Stylistically, the temple is datable to the late 9ch century A.D. Guddada-basti - This Jaina temple atop the hill of Humca is known to have been built in A.D. 898 Jain Education Intemational on Intermational

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206 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies by Vikrama santara for Jaina pontiff Mauni-Siddhanta alinga-antaritas with a torus below the upper stratum. Bhattaraka of the Southern Digambara Church and was The hara is adorned with ornate kutas, salas and sacred to Bahubali. The temple has recently been harantaras, which contain in their cavities full-blown demolished to give place to a cement structure. From lotus flowers rather than the figure sculptures of the what now remains it appears that originally it contained Bogara-basti. The cubical wall of the upper storey and a vimana, antarala, mandapa and a frontal entrance the sikhara also resemble those of the Bogara-basti. porch. Its adhisthana consists of a jagati, three-faceted The exterior of the gudhamandapa is of no interest, kumuda, kampa, kantha divided at regular intervals by but the interior shows four unadorned square pillars in plain pilasters, broad kampa, vajana, round kapota and the central nave and a ceiling depicting Astadikpalas a pattika. The exterior wall of the mandapa is devoid with a Yaksa figure in the central quadrant, a type of of pilasters and is plain, while the pillars in the interior ceiling which became very popular a little later in are richly carved. The pillars have a square plain base. Karnataka. Their shaft, circular in section, shows from below According to an inscription found on its wall, the elongated lotus petals with frilled edges, two necking temple seems to have been founded by lady Paliyakkan courses of jewelled band and cable moulding, bell- in the mid-10th century A.D. shaped member with bold kirttimukhas emitting beaded In the precincts of the Parsvanatha temple are garlands and alternating with chain-and-bell pattern, some beautiful pieces of makara-toranas which were carved diamond-and-bead band or scroll band, adhah- originally put up in the temples described above. and urdhva-padma clasped by jewelled band, and lasuna Padmavati Temple - This is a small temple embellished with a series of creeper like petals. This situated in the north-west corner of the Pancakuta-basti. is a rare type of decorated pillars in Karnataka. The It houses a very small image of Yaksi Padmavati which capital is round, plain and of the usual type. The does not seem to be very old. The temple was rebuilt doorframe of the mandapa is of the pancasakha variety by Vira Santara before A.D. 1062 and a torana was comprising patra, ratna, plain, again plain and outer added by his consort Cagaladevi in A.D. 1062, which jamb. has now disappeared. On stylistic grounds this temple is datable to the This east-facing temple is an oblong structure early 11th century A.D. comprising a vimana, two gudhamandapas and a Parsvanatha-basti - This south-facing small mukhamandapa. Its adhisthana is short and plain but temple is located in the north-east corner of the later the kantha moulding is broad. The wall is also plain. built Pancakuta-basti complex at Hurca. On plan it The vimana has no superstructure. The roof of the corresponds to the Bogara-basti in having a two-storeyed mandapas is flat. Inside the vimana are the images of vimana and a gudhamandapa, the vimana being 8 ft. Tirthankara Parsvanatha, Yaksa Sarvanubhuti and Yaksi wide and the mandapa 15 ft. wide. Its adhisthana is Padmavati. The gudhamandapa in front of the vimana composed of jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kampa, kantha houses a pair of standing figures of Parsvanatha. The relieved by plain pilasters, kampa, vajana and a broad gudhamandapa preceding the last contains lathe-turned pattika, all left plain. The flat wall is relieved by pillars of the Calukyan style. The pillars have a plain tetragonal pilasters which are quite plain below and cubical base with a narrow octagonal belt above. Their show bell with pipala leaf, ghata, pali, phalaka, and shaft is circular and shows from below a series of four roll corbel above. The prastara above the wall shows circular belts (plain fillet, scroll-band, arris and torus) uttara, kapota with nasi blocks, and three strata of with deep recesses in between them, a broad bell dain Education Intermational Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 207 decorated at intervals with circular bands, pearl-festoon, beads and ridged band, a pitcher having a series of narrow projecting bands with a jewelled band on the lower part, and pearl-festoon in the neck as well as on the projected rim. The square abacus of the capital and the roll corbel are plain. Judging from the style of the pillars this second gudhamandapa seems to have been added in early 12th century A.D. The mukhamandapa is in the Vijayanagara style and was probably added in the 15th century A.D. Pancakuta-basti - This is also an oblong structure with its orientation on the north (Pl. 86). It has five cells in juxtaposition on the rear side and a rectangular hall (gudhamandapa ) in the front. Outside this, on the east front side, is a mukhamandapa which is approached from the ground by a stairway with elephant banister Each of the five cells is entered through an ornate pancasakha doorway and enshrines a large image of Jina, the one in the central cell being that of Parsvanatha. The pillars of the rectangular hall are plain and simple; the nave ceiling depicts Astadikpalas with a figure of some dancing Yaksa in the central quadrant. The hall has some images of Sasanadevatas on its east wall, dating from the 12 century A.D. It is entered from the mukhamandapa by an ornate doorway flanked by a pair of dvarapalas. The mukhamandapa has slender and elegant pillars (Pl. 87), both faceted and lathe-turned, and is entered from three sides by an ornate doorway. It is covered by a tiled roof of the modern period. The front door is also provided with a torana-arch which emerges from the mouth of a makara placed on either side, proceeds upward forming two-folds, and meets at the top with a bold kirttimukha spewing jewelled festoon. The makara is driven by an Udadhikumara and is flanked on the outer side by a vyala. In the centre of the torana-arch is a figure of Gajalaksmi. Here Laksmi is seated cross- legged and is lustrated by two elephants. In front of the mukhamandapa stands a Manastambha (Pl. 88) which is carved with bhutas, vyalas, and human and divine figures. The temple is said to have been built by Cattaladevi in A.D. 1077. PATTADAKAL Pattadakal is situated in the Bijapur district of Karnataka. It has some beautiful Hindu temples of the Calukya period, the Virupaksa among which is most notable. On the outskirts of the town is a ruined structural Jaina temple of the Rastrakuta period. Jaina Temple - This Jaina temple (Fig. 104; Pl. 89) at Pattadakal is built of sandstone and faces east. It consists of a sanctum enclosed by an ambulatory, antarala, gudhamandapa and mukhamandapa. The sanctum is square on plan from its base to the top of the sikhara and consists of three storeys, the two lower storeys being functional. Like the Jaina temple at Hallur it also has bhadra, pratibhadra and karna divisions with salilantaras between, but the first two offsets are slightly projected from the straight line of the square sanctum. Each offset has a bay framed by two pilasters connecting the basement to the entablature. There are thus five bays on each wall. The basement of the sanctum consists of jagati, three-faceted kumuda, narrow kantha, kapota with plain triangular bosses, and prati-kantha with uncarved rectangular blocks. The wall of the ground storey, like that at Hallur, is made of hewn blocks of plain ashlars and shows a range of tall slender pilasters having no base and capital. The wall is surmounted only by a kapota with uncarved triangular blocks. The second storey has a sanctum enclosed by an upward extension of the inner wall of the ground storey. Although it reflects the arrangement of the lower storey on a diminished scale, it is complete in having a basal flat moulding, wall pilasters with capital and corbel, and entablature with prastara and hara. The prastara consists of a kapota decorated with nasi-kosthas, valabhi (rafter ends), antarita, vajana and kantha, while the hara is adorned with karna-kutas, bhadra-salas and panjarakosthas. Education Intermational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 209 The third storey is like the second, but it is lesser in width and without hara. The bays of the third storey contain udgama pattern as in north Indian temples. The storey terminates on top in a flat vedi and is followed above by a subdued griva and a square sikhara with bhadra and karna offsets simulating thus a twelve- faceted member. The corners of the sikhara are adorned with creepers, while the bhadras show nasi-kosthas containing shrine-models and bordered by creepers. The stupi has disappeared. The walls of both the ambulatory and garbhagrha follow the offsetting scheme of the exterior wall, but the garbhagtha wall is also studed with pilasters. The pancasakha doorframe (Pl. 90) of the garbhagrha consists of a plain inner jamb chamfered by three angles, stambha-sakha in the shape of handsome compound pilasters, depressed plain sakha, uncarved square stambhasakha, and an outer sakha decorated with lotus petals. The lower part of the jambs and the entire lintel are uncarved. Each of the two compound pilasters supports a fine relief sculpture of makara with a lot of floriated tail. The door is surmounted by a plain kapota and a hara of kutas, sala and panjaras with nasi- kosthas in between them. The enshrined image in the garbhagrha is missing. The antarala shares its basement and wall with the sanctum and is masked by sukanasa replacing the bhadrasala of the front side. Inside, it shows two square plain pillars at the rear side and two square ornate pillars on the front. Its walls have each a niche which originally probably sheltered a Jina image. The gudhamandapa is larger than the sanctum and has seven bays, unlike the five in the sanctum, on the north and south walls, the additional bays accompanying the bhadra. The recesses between the bays contain panjara-kosthas with figures of seated Jinas, Yaksas etc. The walls and the prastara-hara are similar to those of the second storey of the sanctum. Water-spouts to drain off rain water from the flat roof have been set up in the salilantaras. The gudhamandapa is entered through a doorway of six jambs comprising plain sakha, three-feceted minor stambha, padmasakha decorated with lotus petals, three-faceted larger stambhasakha bearing half carved diamonds at some places, a sakha decorated with creepers, and an outer sakha embellished with lotus petals and flanked on the inner side by a circular garland. The lower part of the jambs is occupied by Nidhi figures and purnaghata. The door is surmounted by a kapota and a hara of kutas, salas and panjaras. Inside, the gudhamandapa shows four dwarfish, massive, compound pillars in the central nave and ten pilasters on the periphery. The pillars show short cube, faceted section, long cube and circular lasuna, all uncarved. The capital shows double cyma and bulbous ghata and in topped by taranga potika. There are two thinner square pillars to give support to the rear pillars. The cross-beams and flat ceilings are all plain. The mukhamandapa shares its basement with the rest of the temple and shows four massive pillars in the central bay and ten pillars on the peripheral asanapatta, all, except the two innermost pillars of the peripheral series abutting on the gudhamandapa, corresponding to the two ornate pillars of the antarala, but they are thinner to them. They are square at the base turning into an octagonal and sixteen-sided sections, each decorated with lotus petals. Above the sixteensided belt occurs the circular section of the pillar adorned successively with bell carved with pearl festoons, an ornate or plain belt, and lasuna carved with a band of lotus petals. The capital shows ridged cyma recta, bulbous ghata and plain cyma recta. The corbel consists of fourarmed plain brackets with a tenon on each arm. The dwarfish asanapata pillars have a shorter square base, and the cyma recta above the ghata is conspicuous by its absence. The eight peripheral pillars as well as the four central pillars are partially lathe-turned and herald the well-accomplished lathe-turned pillars of the Later Calukyas and Hoysalas. The kaksasana of the asanapatta is carved with figures of Nidhi, vyalas, dancing bhutas Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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210 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies etc. The cross-beams and ceilings are flat and uncarved. In the mukhamandapa are two large elephant figures with riders flanking the gudhamandapa doorway. Each elephant projects out from the gudhamandapa wall and is represented with its fore part only. This is one of the finest temples of the late Rastrakuta period and was probably built in the late 9th or early 10th century A.D. KAMBADAHALLI It is situated in the Mandya district of Karnataka. From about the beginning of the 100 century A.D. the area around Kambadahalli was in possession of the Gangas of Talkad, or the Western Ganges as they are alternatively called. Like the santaras of Humca the Gangas also patronised Jainism. As a result, Gangavadi, the territory of the Gangas, became an important centre of Jainism. This is demonstrated not only by a large number of land-grants issued in favour of the Jaina Church but also by many Jaina temples located at Kambadahalli, Sravanabelagola etc. At Kambadahalli two Jaina temples stand to this day; one is called Pancakuta-basti and the other the Santinatha-basti. Both these temples are made of granite. Pancakuta-basti - It consists of five Jaina temples (pancakuta) laid out axially in two separate groups within a compound enclosed by a wall having pratoli- gateway on the north (Pl. 92). One of these is a Triple Shrine (trikutacala) and the other is Double Shrine. The Triple Shrine consists of three equal sized vimanas with their own antaralas opening into a common gudhamandapa from east, west and south sides, the fourth or northern side being extended further to form a pillared porch. In front of the pillared porch, but detached from it, is a balipitha (sacrificial altar). Thus the principal shrine of the trikutacala is the southern one facing north, while the other two are subsidiary shrines on the transverse axis of the square gudhamandapa. The two vimanas of the Double Shrine have each their own antarala and gudhamandapa with a common pillared porch. They face each other, east and west, and are transversely laid out immediately before the Triple Shrine complex. The three vimanas of the Triple Shrine are two-storeyed and show uniformity in the adhisthana and wall, but their grivaSikhara differs from one another and represents Nagara, Dravida and Vesara forms of sikhara. The two vimanas of the Double Shrine are almost of the same dimensions and mode and are crowned by Nagara sikhara only. The adhisthana of the Triple Shrine is plain and simple and consists of jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kantha, and pattika with prati. Their plain and flat wall on each face of the lower storey shows six square pilasters. Below, the pilasters are plain; above, they show a belt of pearl and foliage festoon, lasuna, tadi of cyma and cyma reverse carved with lotus petals and bud, bulbous ghata, pali and phalaka. The corbels with wavy configuration are adorned with median scroll band. The ghata in the western vimana is also incised with lotus petals. The central pair of pilasters on each face of the vimana and antarala contains a sunk niche flanked by two dwarf pilasters and surmounted by a graceful arch of makara-torana, patra-torana (festoon of foliage and flower), citra-torana (a frieze of bird and animal figures), or Vidyadhara-torana (a frieze of flying Vidyadharas). The niches are mostly empty now; some contain robeless figures of kayotsarga Jinas. The prastara above the wall consists of uttara, hamsamala, and kapota decorated on each face with three pairs of small nasi-gavaksas and a vyalamala below. Above the prastara comes a prati-kantha with a string of vyala busts. The hara above the prastara is adorned with four square karna-kutas and four oblong bhadra-salas, all interconnected by harantaras of lesser height. The kutas and salas have small nasis with trefoil finials and carries superb decorations of creepers on the body and a band of rosettes below and of rosettes and lotus petals above, while the harantaras have a single nasika in the central shrine and double nasika in the lateral shrines. The second storey is like the first, but the cubical

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 211 wall carries paired niches at the centre and panjara- kosthas at each end. The hara is not represented here. The vedi above the vyalamala of the prastara supports four couchant lions on the four corners which have remained at some places only. The square griva-sikhara (Nagara) of the north- facing main vimana has bigger projected nasikas on the four faces; the octagonal griva-sikhara (Dravida) of the western vimana carries eight similar nasikas on the eight faces; and circular griva-sikhara (Vesara) of the eastern vimana has usual nasikas only in the four cardinal points. They all are elegantly carved and bear fine decorations of creepers. The stupi in each case is lost, but when intact it follows the morphology of the sikhara. The three sancta of the trikutacala enshrine Tirthankara images seated on lion-throne with male cauri-bearers. Except for the Tirthankara images which are made of soft stone like steatite, they are wrought in granite, indicating thereby that they are later replacement of the original ones. The three antaralas contain handsome images of Jina Parsva and Suparsva, Yaksi Cakresvari, Ambika and Kali, and two images of Yaksa Sarvanubhuti. The gudhamandapa is square on plan and shares its adhisthana and wall with the vimana, but it has pilasters (similar to those on the vimana) one at each corner, the kutas and sala are absent and the roof is flat. Two similar pilasters also flank the main entrance on the north. In the interior it shows four pillars in the central nave and two square pilasters in the eastern and western antaralas and two octagonal pilasters in the southern. The pilasters are massive and stunted and correspond to those on the outer wall. The four nave pillars have a square base resting on lotus pedestal; their shaft is octagonal; and the capital consists of lasuna, tadi and ghata and is topped by wavy corbels. The nave has a finely carved flat ceiling depicting eight Dikpalas in their respective directions and a figure of Dharanendra Yaksa in the centre. Eight other bays in the gudhamandapa have flat and uncarved ceilings. The mukhamandapa on the north side of the gudhamandapa has a large platform landed up from the side by a flight of four steps. Each stairway is guarded by a balustrade represented with crocodile and lion. The mukhamandapa's flat roof is supported on four undecorated pillars of the octagonal mixed variety. The balipitha in front of the mukhamandapa rises over a basal upana in three diminishing tiers of square, octagonal (decorated with figures of eight Dikpalas) and circular blocks recalling the Nagara, Dravida and Vesara griva-sikharas of the respective vimanas. The Double Shrine, laid out immediately behind the pratoli, consists each of a two-storeyed square vimana, a rectangular antarala and a four-pillared square gudhamandapa, and is entered from the centrally placed porch landed up from the front and rear side by a flight of three steps. Almost equal in dimensions and dedicated to Mahavira they closely resemble to the Triple Shrine, but in matter of details they show a number of variations. For instance, the adhisthana and the ground storey (aditala) of the western vimana are relieved into bhadra and karna offsets with recessed salilantaras between, although the same in the mandapas are rendered in straight line. Here the adhisthana consists of upana, jagati, semi-circular kumuda, kantha, and a vyalapattika with bold and much spaced out rampant vyalas. The bhadra with four pilasters and central niche is wider and topped on the hara by ornate sala, while the karna with kuta aedicule has only two pilasters. These pilasters are similar to those found in the Triple Shrine, but the corbels have a straight bevel with median band. The second storey has two nasikas in the middle part of the kapota and four usual lions around the base of the square griva-sikhara. The eastern vimana of the Double Shrine shows another type of adhisthana made up of upana, jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kantha and kapota having caityagavaksas in alignment with wall pilasters. The adhisthana and wall are rendered straight and have no bhadra and Jain Education Intemational

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212 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies karma offsets. The pilasters, six on each face, are widely spaced in the centre than on the sides and are placed in accordance with the basal plans of the four karna- kutas and four bhadrasalas above the prastara. The second storey has plain walls and carries four usual lions at the four basal corners of the square grivasikhara. Some interesting variations are also noticed in the pillars inside the gudhamandapa. The four nave pillars in the western shrine have each a plinth adorned with lotus petals, an octagonal shaft decorated on the upper section with pearl-and-foliage festoon, a band of finely carved diamonds and beads and squat petalled lasuna with incised creepers, a capital made up of ghata, pali, and square phalaka with necking, and a plain bevelled corbel without median band. The nave ceiling here also depicts Astadikpalas with Dharanendra. Contrary to this the four nave pillars in the eastern shrine are made of soft steatite and are lathe-turned. They have a square pedestal with kapota moulding on the top, circular shaft and capital, and square phalaka. The pratoli has a plain, simple, moulded adhisthana and a flat wall with devakosthas flanking the central passage. The devakosthas contain robeless images of standing Jinas that are mostly lost, and are surmounted by a pediment arch of floriated creepers issuing from the gape of the centrally placed vyala. Inside the arch is a seated figure of Jina. The pratoli has a flat roof with hamsamala under the kapota cornice. The doorways are plain and simple and lack the elaborate outer frame of multiple jambs and lintel of the Calukyan temples. The whole complex of the pancakuta-basti was probably built in the latter half of the 10th century A.D. In front of the pratoli and at a little distance away stands a tall and well wrought Manastambha of granite carrying a figure of Yaksa on top. The pillar is coeval with the temple. Perhaps the present name of the village Kambadahalli has derived from this very prominent kamba or column. santinatha-basti - The Santinatha temple (Pl. 93) at Kambadahalli is situated a little north-east of the Pancakuta-basti. It consists of two Jaina temples; one faces east and is of some interest, in spite of the fact that the superstructure of its vimana is lost, while the other is completely ruined. The east-facing shrine consists of a vimana and two mandapas, each linked with the other forming a common long rectangular hall. The vimana has bhadra projection on each face and stands with its two mandapas over an upapitha which is made up of upana, broad recess relieved at intervals by plain pilasters, kampa, padma, kapota and padma. The adhisthana above the upapitha consists of a jagati, kantha with kampas below and above, round kumuda, kantha with padmas and kampas, kapota with uncarved blocks, pratikantha decorated with very spirited figures of horse-riders, elephant-riders, makara heads at corners, etc., and a plain pattika. The wall, resting on a khura-kumbha course and topped by a kapota cornice, is plain but for the pilasters at corners of the bhadras and karnas. Inside the vimana is installed a tall and impressive image of Tirthankara Santinatha. The mandapa in front of the vimana has four pillars in the nave. The pillars stand on a square moulded base; their shaft is quare below and circular above, the latter showing from below a narrow band of lotus petals, broad recess, bell, plain belt and lasuna. The capital, also circular, consists of tadi, bulbous ghata, pali decorated with lotus petals, and square phalaka; and the corbel has bevelled arms with median band. The mandapa contains two beautiful images, one of a seated Jina with male cauri-bearers and the other of Yaksa Sarvanubhuti, also seated. Besides, there is a large image of Jina sitting with attendant figures. The second mandapa also has four pillars in the nave, resembling those noticed in the aforesaid mandapa. The nave here has a notable flat ceiling representing eight Dikpalas with an image of Jina Parsva seated in the centre. The temple seems to be built in the end of the 10h century A.D. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 213 SRAVANABELAGOLA It is situated in the Hassan district of Karnataka. Its antiquity as a Jaina site goes to the 3rd century B.C. when a severe drought broke out in northern India and the Jainasangha under the leadership of Bhadrabahu migrated to the south and settled at Sravanabelagola. The Mauryan emperor Candragupta, who according to the Jaina tradition had become a Jaina monk, also accompanied him and breathed his last at the Candragiri hill of Sravanabelagola, which is named after him. There is a group of four Jaina temples, viz. Candragupta- basadi, Camundaraya-basadi, Parsvanatha-basadi and Akkana-basadi. The first two of these are made of hard stone and belong to the Ganga (Wn) period and the last two, built of soft stone, to the Calukya-Hoysala period. Candragupta-basadi - It is a small temple facing south towards the famous Bahubali image on the Vindhyagiri hill of Sravanabelagola. It consists of three juxtaposed oblong shrines, a common rectangular antarala and a large pillared hall (Figs.105 and 108). The larger central shrine has no Sikhara, while the adjacent side ones are roofed by low towers. On the east side of the pillared hall a new wall and a plain pillared corridor were added in the Vijayanagara period; on its west side a large temple was added by Gangaraja, minister of the Hoysala king Visnuvardhana, in c. A.D. 1118; and the south side was blocked by the north wall of the temple of Parsvanatha built in the 11th century A.D. The three shrines are laid out in a straight line and have no projections on their wall. Their adhisthana consists of an upana, jagati, three-faceted kumuda, kantha with kampas below and above, and a pattika with prati, all unadorned. The flat and plain wall is punctuated at intervals with a series of square pilasters which are plain below and carry double-pot with intervening plain belt, tadi, bulbous ghata, pali, square phalaka and bevelled corbel above. The prastara carries beam, hamsamala, kapota with small nasis, and pratikantha decorated with vyala figures, now sadly damaged. Above the prastara is a moulding covered with thick coat of plaster; it is followed in its turn by a kapota with hamsamala underneath. The square superstructure of the lateral shrines consists of a short griva and a sikhara decorated with large emptied nasis. The sikhara in each shrine is capped by a padmacchatra, but the stupi is lost. The antarala follows the lineaments of the shrine and has a flat roof. In the interior the sanctum of the central shrine enshrines a standing image of Parsvanatha, and the side ones those of Padmavati and Kusumandi. The antarala contains images of Yaksa Sarvanubhuti and Dharanendra. The pillared hall, in spite of some alterations, is a part of the original temple. Its twenty-five pillars out of possibly thirty-six stand to this day in five lines of five each. The four central pillars are very handsome and belong to the square order. They have a moulded base. Their shaft is divided into four almost equal sections, the lowermost being plain and the upper three alongwith the whole of capital are chamfered into three angles and bear various decorations. The second section of the shaft shows small nasis on each face; the third section is decorated with pearl festoons issuing from the mouth of kirttimukha, and a band of half diamonds between double-petalled lotuses; and the fourth is occupied by a lasuna with simple or flamboyant nasis below and double-petalled lotuses above. The bulbous ghata of the abacus and the bevelled corbels are plain. In another variety the pillars are made circular with unadorned double-pot below the ghata and above the plain lower section. In the third variety the pillars are like the last type, but the lower section of the shaft is octagonal and the double-pot is sixteen-sided. The bay formed by four central pillars has a flat ceiling relieved boldly by a large lotus flower. Stylistically, this temple may be placed in the last quarter of the 10th century A.D. Camundaraya-basadi - This east-facing shrine is one of the largest and finest temples of Gangavadi. Jain Education Intemational

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214 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Fig. 105. Plan of Candragupta-basadi, Sravanabelagola. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 215 malo los ZA F. 5 Fig. 108. Elevation of Candragupta-basadi, Sravanabelagola. PATOGXOUYO Ello Fig. 107. Adhisthana of Jaina Temple, Hangal. Fig. 106. Adhisthana of Camundaraya-basadi, Sravanabelagola. Jain Education Intemational Only www.ainelibrary.org

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 217 It is a large rectangle divided into a three-storeyed (tritala) square vimana, an antarala, a gudhamandapa of almost the size of vimana and a later built entrance porch (Figs. 109-111; Pl. 94). The vimana shows bhadra, pratibhadra and karna both in plan and elevation, while the gudhamandapa is laid out in a straight line. The unadorned adhisthana (Fig. 106), common in both the structures, consists above the straight-sided upana of jagati, antarita, three-faceted kumuda, kantha with kampas below and above, and a pattika with prati. The walls of the ground storey (aditala) of the vimana on north, south and west are punctuated by ten pilasters, two flanking each offset, with two additional ones intended for a sculptured niche in the bhadra. The north and south faces of the gudhamandapa also have the same set of pilasters and bhadra niches, but since the walls have no offsets and recesses, they are just relieved on the flat walls. All the bhadra niches, which must have once contained standing figures of Jinas, are empty now. The pilasters are all of the square order. The three-fourth lower section of their shaft is plain; the one-fourth upper section shows an inverted pot, a belt marked by four straight lines, and a lasuna-shaped kalasa (pitcher). The capital consists of tadi, ghata, pali, phalaka and kantha; the corbel atop the last has bevelled arms. The prastara consists of uttara, vajana, valabhi with close-set hassas, overhanging flexed kapota with ornate paired nasis at intervals, vyalamala with fine figures of gajavyalas, simhavyalas and other leonine figures, and antarita with square blocks carved with creepers; the prastara is exceptionally good. In the vyalamala many water-chutes have been inserted to drain out rain water. The hara is composed of all the three units of kuta, sala and panjara with intervening recessed harantaras. The aedicules are rendered full in shape (anarpita) since there is an open passage behind them, and have ornate nasi-kosthas on their exposed faces. The nasi-kosthas are generally vacant, but those on the panjaras contain minutely carved temple- models. Below nasi-kosthas are found finely wrought figure sculptures-seated Jinas with two rampant vyalas on each sala, seated Jina on the kuta, Yaksa on the panjara, and Yaksa, Yaksi and male and female devotees on the harantaras. In the north-east as well as southeast karnakuta of the ground storey of the vimana is a figure of Kubera. The royal emblem of the Gangas, elephant, is also shown in its recumbent form below the harantara nasi of the south antarala. The interior doorway of the sanctum is very simple. Inside the sanctum is a steatite image of Neminatha, a later replacement of the original one. The second tala with passage around its walls acts as an upper sanctuary entered from the east. It has one bhadra and two karnas on north, south and west faces, with an additional bay towards the antarala extension. Thus, there are four pairs of pilasters on the lateral sides and three pairs of pilasters on the rear or west side, all corresponding to those of the ground storey. The wider bhadras have each a shallow niche with a stucco image of standing Jina. The prastara consists as usual of uttara, harsamala (the hamsas are interrupted at the corners by lion-figures), kapota with ornate nasis and vyalamala, while the hara shows four ornamental karnakutas and four bhadrasalas interconnected by harantaras decorated with small nasikas in pairs. The frieze below the nasikas of the kutas and salas depict seated Jinas, while that below the harantara-nasikas shows male and female devotees. The prastara over the antarala walls on south and north has a panjara-kostha enshrining a seated Jina. The hara on the east face of the antarala carries a gopura like sala. The doorframe, like the one in the sanctum of the aditala, is simple. The sanctum of this tala contains a later image of Parsvanatha. The walls of the third tala, closed on all sides, carry four pilasters on each face, forming thus one central bay and two side ones. The wider central bay contains an image of seated Jina and the side ones have panjara-kosthas with figures of devotees. The prastara here also carries the hamsamala. Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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218 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies The crowning members atop the third tala consist of octagonal, short vedi and griva, octagonal sikhara, and circular padmacchatra and stupi. The mahanasis of the griva-sikhara contain figures of seated Jinas in the cardinal points and adoring devotees in the corner ones. Though the sikhara is handsome, it is not that elegant in proportion as we find in the Pancakuta-basadi at Kambadahalli. The gudhamandapa continues the wall decorations of the aditala of the vimana, but the sala over the entrance is longer than those over the side bhadras and shelters a temple-model. It is entered from the porch through a catussakha doorway of which the two inner jambs depict scrolls and rosettes and the other two are left plain. In the interior it shows sixteen pillars, four in the slightly raised central nave and twelve in the surrounding aisle. Besides, there are two pillars in the antarala and eighteen pilasters in the periphery. The four nave pillars and two antarala pillars are plain and belong to the circular order. They have a moulded base, plain shaft with double pot, cyma recta type tadi, bulbous ghata and bevelled corbel (the antarala pillars also having square phalaka and neck over ghata). The remaining pillars have a square moulded base; their shaft is square below and above and octagonal in the middle; and the corbel is of the bevelled type. The ceilings, so also the roof, are flat and uncarved. Compared to the ornate exterior, the interior is plain and uninteresting. The entrance porch is landed up from the front by a staircase with elephant banister. It consists of four pillars supported by a short balustraded wall on the sides. The pillars have a square base; their shaft is square at the base and octagonal above with circular necking; the capital consists of ghata and square phalaka; and the corbel has bevelled type of arms. The ceiling carried by these columns is flat and uncarved. The temple seems to have been founded by Camundaraya between c. A.D. 982-985 and its upper portion may have been completed by Camundaraya's son Jinadevana between c. A.D. 995-999. Parsvanatha-basadi - This east-facing Western Calukyan temple (Pl. 95) consists of a vimana, an antarala and a gudhamandapa. The exterior wall of the gudhamandapa is plain, but that of the vimana shows bhadra, pratibhadra and karna both in plan and elevation. The adhisthana consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka decorated with lozenges appearing at intervals on bhadra and pratibhadra, antarita, kapota with uncarved triangular bosses, and pratikantha with plain square blocks. Supported by a pattika (made up of karnaka, kampa, kantha and kampa) with lozenge in niche on bhadra and karna, the wall has alternate projected offsets and recessed salilantaras and is punctuated by slender pilasters, two appearing on each karna and pratibhadra and four on the bhadra. Each pratibhadra contains moderate kuta-kostha (a niche with kuta tower), while the central pair of pilasters on each bhadra carries a tall kuta-kostha. Two-third lower portion of the pilasters is plain and one-third upper section shows decorations of inverted kalasa marked by pipala leaves, a belt with a series of straight lines and a flower, tadi, ghata, pali and phalaka; the corbel is bevelled. Inside the antarala are some tall, plain, latheturned pillars. The garbhagrha has a slit-opening rather than a doorframe and enshrines a tall, impressive, dark image of Parsvanatha standing with seven-hooded cobra canopy. The temple is datable to the second quarter of the 11th century A.D. Akkana-basadi - This east-facing Hoysala temple (Pl. 96) consists of a three-storeyed vimana, antarla, gudhamandapa and mukhamandapa. The vimana is dvianga on plan and elevation consisting thus of bhadra and karna with salilantara between. The karna is equilateral with cantoning wall pilasters, while the bhadra is broken into five planes, each flanked on the outer side by a wall pilaster. The adhisthana is composed of upana, padma, kumuda decorated with lozenges at intervals, antarita, Jain Education Intemational cation International

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 219 stupi sikhara + griva I vedi tritala peata dvitala LU > 12.02 hara 12. 9 URT Wer pada aditala adhisthana F.O 5 10 15 20 25 FEE Fig. 110. Front elevation of Camundaraya-basadi, Sravanabelagola. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 221 kapota adorned with uncarved bosses, pratikantha with circular showing from below a diamond band between plain blocks, and a plain pattika. But for the square two knife-edged mouldings, large bell (inverted kalasa) pilasters topped by kutas the wall is plain. The wall with ring below and broad tasselled jewel-band above, is shaded by an overhanging plain eave-cornice topped and kalasa decorated with rings and decorative bands by a kapota. Each storey of the superstructure consists of scrolls, minute diamonds and jewelled festoons; the of a prati-kantha with uncarved rectangular blocks and capital shows a short and a large flat disc (instead of a hara with kuta at karna and sala with nasi-kostha bulbous ghata) decorated with tasselled jewel-band, at bhadra. The nasi-kosthas have each an image of short plain pali below larger disc and square plain seated Jina with cauri-bearers surrounded by jewel-and- phalaka; and the corbel has faceted arms. The nine bays scroll band emerging from the mouth of a kirttimukha contain ornate ceilings, some having Jina figures. depicted on the top. The square griva-sikhara on each The temple is known to have been founded in face carries a seated Jina figure at the central face and A.D. 1181 by Acaladevi, wife of the Brahmanist general scroll pattern on the sides. The stupi over the Sikhara Candramauli. is lost. Candraprabha Temple - This brick temple at The exterior wall of the antarala has the usual Sravanabelagola is located behind the Camundarayasquare pilasters with kuta tops. Above, the antarala is basadi. It was founded in c. A.D. 800. Its stone adhisthana lodged over by a sukanasa with an elaborate and is original, but the brick structure is a later replacement exquisitely carved nasi-front. The nasi contains an image of the original one. of seated Jina with two cauri-bearers in the projected Manastambhas - There are two Manastambhas central facet and two standing Jinas with attendant (pillar of respect) at Sravanabelagola. One of these was figures on the two lower side facets, the whole edged set up by Camundaraya on the Vindhyagiri (Gommata by jewel-and-scroll band issuing from a gorgeous hill). This pillar stands on a well-formed lion pedestal. kirttimukha on top. Inside the antarala are two ornate Below, the shaft shows Nemicandra (author of images of Yaksa Dharanendra and Yaksi Padmavati Gommatasara) and Camundaraya among other figures with ornamental frame. From the antarala the vimana- and above, a rare example of fine vine-creepers covering garbhagsha is entered through a pancasakha doorframe most of the surface of the shaft (Fig. 112). minutely carved with diamonds, lotus scrolls, pillar, The other column is located inside the south lotus scroll and creepers. The tutelary block of the entrance of the enclosure round the Candragiri complex. door-lintel shows a seated Jina with cauri-bearers, and It stands on a pedestal carried by eight elephants. the overdoor carries five miniature kutas with lotus bud Below, the shaft is square having figure sculptures, and hanging down from the two intermediary kutas. Inside above it is octagonal with six ornamental bands clasping the sanctum is a tall, dark image of Parsvanatha. at regular intervals. The capital is circular carrying a The exterior wall of the gudhamandapa corresponds figure of Brahmadeva. An inscription on the pillar says to that of the vimana with additional pilasters at the that it was installed to commemorate the death of the pratibhadra. The roof is flat. It is entered through a Ganga king Marasimha II, who died in A.D. 974. This porch having two dwarf stellate pillars with thirty-two indicates that the column was set up not long after that points. The interior is divided into nine bays by four date. lathe-turned, polished, well-finished and exquisitely The Hypaethral Temple and the Colossus of carved nave pillars and twelve peripheral pilasters. The Gommatesvara - The colossal sculpture of nave pillars have plain cubical base; their shaft is Gommatesvara or Bahubali has been carved out in the dain Education Intermational Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India round from a fine-grained granite rock on the top of the Indragiri hill at Sravanabelagola. This north-facing, robeless, polished image is 58 ft. high. It stands on the rounded top of the hill measuring 470 ft. high from the surrounding plains and is visible all around for miles. It is represented in a contemplative standing posture (kayotsargamudra) with ant-hills, snakes and ascending creepers, and bearing all traits of the Great Man (mahapurusa-laksana). Indeed, it is a marvellous production of any age and "nothing grander or more imposing exists anywhere out of Egypt, and even there no known statue surpasses it in height." The image was got made by Camundaraya, the minister and general under the Ganga king Racamalla (A.D. 972-984), though the traditional date of its consecration is the fifth day of the bright fortnight of the Caitra month in A.D. 1028. The huge image of Gommatesvara is surrounded by a structural pillared corridor with shrines for twentyfour Tirthankaras. The corridor pillars are of the faceted class and have plain corbels. On the roof are scores of miniature shrines containing divine figures. These shrines are built on a square or rectangular base covered by pyramidal or barrel-vaulted roof. The corridor was erected by Gangaraja, the general of Hoysala king Visnuvardhana (A.D. 1110-1152). ANNIGERI It is located in the Dharwad district of Karnataka. There are two Jaina temples at Annigeri, one is called Jaina Basadi and the other may be referred to as ruined Jaina temple. Jaina Basadi - This old Jaina temple had originally been founded by Ganga Perumandi in the middle of the 10th century A.D., but it was burnt down by the imperial Colas in A.D. 1071. Not much is known about this temple; some fragments of the upapitha and adhisthana, however, may still be seen in the totally renovated east facade. Another piece of this temple is a pair of elephant banisters preserved at the eastern stairway of the gudhamandapa. This excellent banister shows in profile a powerful lion attacking and subduing an elephant. From the mouth of the lion issues the modular coping stone with fine heavenly figures in stemmed loops (Pl. 91). 223 Ruined Jaina Temple - This temple is situated near the aforesaid Jaina Basadi. Originally, it had a vimana with two halls, all now ruined. The outer hall has stellate type of pillars in the nave and square ones towards the periphery. This temple was probably built in the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century A.D. ANGADI Angadi (ancient Sosevur, i.e. Sasakapura) is located about fifty miles south-west of Belur in the Hassan district of Karnataka. It was the capital of the Hoysalas prior to Dorasamudra or Darasuram. Angadi seems to have been an important Jaina centre during the Hoysala rule as it has three Jaina temples of this period. Two of these are called Vasantika or Padmavati-devi temple and Sosevur-basti and the third is anonymous. Vasantika or Padmavati-devi Temple - This temple at the capital town seems to have been erected as a mark of devotion to the Jaina Yaksi Padmavati who was the patron goddess of the Hoysalas. The temple has been renovated recently, but the images of Jaina Yaksa and Yaksi inside the sanctum are old datable to the latter half of the 10th century A.D. Sosevur-basti This north-facing temple, which still preserves the sanctuary up to the cornice, consists of a vimana and a gudhamandapa and is entered without a porch from the north. The straight-sided square vimana (Pl. 97), about 17 ft. side, stands on an unadorned adhisthana which consists of an upana, jagati, broad tripatta kumuda, kampa, kantha, urdhvapadma and kapota, and resembles to that of the Sule-basti at Humca. The wall is punctuated with tetragonal pilasters displayed almost at regular intervals. Below, the pilasters are plain and above they carry mouldings of an inverted lasuna, belt, lasuna, tadi, bulbous ghata, pali, square phalaka and bevelled corbel. The corner pilasters are thicker than those on the sides. -

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 225 The central bay of the wall-pilasters contains a sham- niche topped by a low square superstructure. The cornice is short and semi-circular; it hardly protects the wall from rain-water. The gudhamandapa has considerably suffered from renovation as the portion above the base has been rebuilt. It is entered from the north by a stairway of elephant banister bearing elephant figures in relief. Stylistically, the temple may be placed in the second half of the 10th century A.D. Jaina Temple (Anonymous) - This Jaina temple has also been renovated during recent years, but the enshrined image of Santinatha and the two male cauri- bearers attending upon him are intact. The attendant figures are well-polished, wear profuse jewellery, and have graceful appearance. They are reckoned among the best examples of the Hoysala sculptures assignable to the early 12h century A.D. HARASUR Harasur, lying cast of the district headquarters of Dharwad, has a group of three Jaina temples. The main complex is a Triple Shrine (trikutacala) with easterly orientation and the other two, standing very close to it on the front, are independent structures facing each other, one oriented to the north and the other to the south (Fig. 113). In the centre of the court formed by these three structures is a Manastambha of which only the base has survived. The three vimanas of the Triple Shrine have an antarala-mandapa in their front and are laid out on three sides of a common gudhamandapa with entrance doorway on the east. The central vimana on the west shows bhadra with two pairs of upabhadras, pratiratha and karna, separated from one another by salilantaras, while the lateral vimanas carry karna and bhadra with paired upabhadras. Their adhisthana consists of an upana, two jagatis, padma, kantha, urdhvapadma and kapota. Their plain walls are heavily rebuilt at some later date and hence of little interest. Inside the garbhagrhas are installed the images of Jinas. The image in the central shrine is of Parsvanatha. This indicates that the temple was dedicated to him. The exterior walls of the gudhamandapa also show karna and bhadra with two pairs of upabhadras. The gudhamandapa is entered from the east through a wellproportioned doorframe of five jambs of ratna, Vidyadhari, stambha, vyala and bahyasakha (outermost) carved with lotus leaves, but there is no uniformity in ornamental details of carving. While the ratnasakha and bahyasakha show flat and shallow relief, the Vidyadhari -sakha and vyalasakha are carved in high relief. Similarly, the stambhasakha is moulded but has no ornamental enrichment. The lower portion of the doorframe on each side shows a graceful, three-flextured figure of Nagendra standing as door-guard in a wellformed shallow niche crowned by makara-torana. Nagendra is flanked on each side by a handsome figure of female attendant. The door-sill is plain but carries seated figures of Sankhanidhi and Padmanidhi at the extremities and of grasamukha in the centre of the upper moulded part. The door-lintel shows a seated niched figure of Parsvanatha on the lalata; but the oversailing mouldings (vajana, kantha and cornice) above that are left plain. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows four square plain pillars in the nave and two slender, segmented pillars as distyle-in-antis towards each antarala. There are several images of Jinas, Yaksas and Yaksis inside the closed hall. These bear different dates indicating thereby that they were placed there from time to time. The independent northern and southern shrines are exactly similar to each other in plan and design. Each shrine consists of a vimana with gudhamandapa in one enclosing wall and a portico (Pl. 98) built almost along the entire width of the gudhamandapa. The exterior walls have only slight projections in the cardinal directions. Their adhisthana consists of three jagatis, kantha inset with floral diamonds between pilasters and a large plain vajana. The four pillars in each portico Jain Education Intemational

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226 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies resemble those noticed in the antarala of the Triple Shrine. They stand on a square moulded base. Their capital consists of a sharp-edged flat ghata, udhvapadma like pali, square phalaka and four-armed bevelled corbel. Their shaft is divided into four sections. The first is square and plain. The second is circular with ratnapattika in the middle or at the top. The third is treated like a plain cube or a circular section topped by a band of beaded garlands. The fourth consists of a kalasa clasped by triangular plain blocks. The pillars support a heavy projected eave-cornice. The portico is approached from the ground by a flight of three steps cut across the adhisthana mouldings. From the portico a trisakha doorway leads to the interior of the gudhamandapa. The doorway, which is better preserved in the southern shrine, is made up of ratnasakha, moulded stambhasakha, and bahyasakha adorned with lotus leaves. The lower section of the Sakhas here also carries Nagendra with two female attendants. On the outer flank of the bahyasakha is a band of full-blown quadrangular lotus flowers. Below the lotus bands are seated figures of Sankhanidhi and Padmanidhi. The interior of the gudhamandapa here also shows four square plain pillars. The garbhagrha in both the shrines is nothing but a rubble of stones. The base of the Manastambha consists of two diminishing circular courses, each decorated with lotus flowers. The shaft, now gone, is perhaps lying close to the portico of the southern shrine; it is polygonal in shape. The Triple Shrine has an inscription of A.D. 1096- 97 mentioning the names of a Jaina Lady Kalikabbe and her son Kalisetti. The inscription is a donative one; the temple however may date to about A.D. 1090. KONNUR Jaina Temple - Konnur, ancient Kondanura, lies to the north of Belgaum town in Karnataka. In the Konnur village is a ruined Jaina temple (Pl. 99) of the times of the later Kadambas of Banavasi and Hangal. The adhisthana and wall of the vimana are still intact there; the hall however has been thoroughly renovated. The vimana is tri-anga on plan comprising bhadra with two pairs of upabhadras, pratiratha and karna, the first being the longest and the second the shortest. Between the angas are also made salilantaras. The adhisthana, resembling that of the Candraprabha temple at Aihole, consists of jagati, padma (inverted cyma recta), antarita, tripatta kumuda, antarita, kapota having nasis adorned with creepers, and pratikantha decorated with figures of vyalas and makaras. The walls with slender pilasters have sham niches at the karmas and subhadras. The niches contain kuta-type Dravida-vimana at the top and small standing Jina figures and seated figures of Sarvanubhuti at the bottom. The wall at the pratiratha shows a kutastambha topped by a mono-spired sikhara of the Nagara style. The portions above the wall are all gone. Stylistically, this temple is datable to the last quarter of the 10th century A.D. LAKKUNDI Lakkundi, ancient Lokkigundi, is situated in the Dharwad district of Karnataka. It was an important town during the early period of the Calukyas of Kalyana. This is well demonstrated by the construction of seven Saiva shrines, four Jaina temples and a large stepped water reservoir. The temples of the age of the Calukyas of Kalyana, prior to Lakkundi temples, are ordinarily built of various shades of locally available sandstone, but the building material employed in the construction of temples at Lakkundi and later temples at other sites is fine-grained soapstone which is easily tractable for delicate carving and smooth polish. Being soft in nature it also reduced the size of the masonry courses and increased the volume of the carvings. of the four Jaina temples at Lakkundi the earliest one is termed "Brahma Jinalaya" in the inscription, an appellation given by the Brahmanas of Lokkigundi town. The temple at present, however, is differentiated by calling it the Great Jaina Temple as it is the largest Jain Education Intemational

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228 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies temple at the site. The Great Jaina Temple - This east-facing Jaina temple (Fig. 114; Pl. 100) on the western outskirts of the town is an imposing shrine at Lakkundi. It was founded in A.D. 1007 by Lady Attiyabbe alias Danacintamani, wife of Dandanayaka Nagadeva. In the same year the Calukya king Satyasraya presented golden kalasa-finial for the temple. On plan it consists of a four-storeyed nirandhara vimana, an antarala, a gudhamandapa and a large mukhamandapa, the whole complex being surrounded by a prakara-wall having dvaramandapa (hall-formed gate) at the centre on the east. The vimana is dvi-anga on plan showing karna and bhadra with salilantara between. The bhadra is wider and has a pair of upabhadras on each side. The adhisthana consists of upana, vapra (sub-plinth), jagati (plinth course), padma, antarita, three-faceted kumuda, antarita, urdhvapadma, kapota marked with plain triangular blocks, and pratikantha decorated with figures of vyala and makara as noticed in the Candraprabha temple at Aihole. The walls of the aditala with cantoning pilasters show kuta-topped decorative niches at the karnas as well as in the central offset of the bhadras. The salilantaras carry kutastambha (wall decoration showing kuta-topped pilaster) with fine cusped torana- arch emerging from grasamukha depicted on the top. The wall pilasters are slender and the capital thin and small. The prastara, made up of kapota and pratikantha, is decorated with makaras and vyalas and has panels containing figures of Yaksa, Yaksi, animals and birds in the central positions. The hara is adorned with kutas and salas, each showing foliage ornament in curved back-ends and a prominent central nasi. The nasis of the salas contain seated figures of the Jina, and those of the kutas, the figures of Sarvanubhuti. The aditala wall is made thick and massive to carry the functional tala of the second storey which possesses a high shrine with its own wall and superstructure followed above by two other talas. This type of set up of a high shrine is also noticed in the Jaina temples at Hallur and Pattadakal. The high walls of the second storey carry the same set of pilasters (six on bhadra and two on each face of the karna) as we encounter with the aditala, but the bays formed by them are neither differentiated by salilantaras nor displayed in the same axis. The prastara and hara of three upper talas are less in height and gradually diminish in width. The prastara in each of these talas is plain and the hara a little bit ornate. The griva-sikhara is short, square and indented and has a well splayed out brim. The kalasa above is original but tempered during recent years. The second tala also has an ardhamandapa with Sukanasa top. The vimana-garbhagrha is entered from the antarala by a pancasakha doorframe decorated with ratna, bhuta in loops, stambha, vyala and lotus garland (outermost jamb). On the lower part of the sakhas appear figures of dvarapalas with female attendants. The lalata of the door-lintel is occupied by a seated Jina. Above the lintel, which continues the decoration of the two inner sakhas, may be seen a stripe of beaded garlands, a kapota cornice decorated with figures of elephants and grasamukhas, a sculptural panel showing dancing ganas and a cornice of urdhvapadma. Inside the garbhagyha the simhasana (lion-throne) with throne back, triple umbrella, torana and the cauri-bearers are intact, but the mutilated original Jina image is lying outside the temple. The interior wall of the garbhagrha is reinforced by pilasters at the four-corners. The gudhamandapa is similar on plan to the vimana but with the addition of a pratibhadra between the bhadra and karna, also separated by a salilantara, it has become wider in dimension. Its elevation also is nothing but an extension of the aditala of the vimana. In the central offset of the south wall of the bhadra there once was a stone-grille, but at present a large aperture comes to view. The interior of the gudhamandapa shows four pillars in the central nave and ten pilasters and two attached pillars on the sides, all being square and plain.

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 229 The doorframe attached to the east wall is of the pancasakha variety representing carved ratnas, bhutas in loops, round stambha entwined with creepers and a purnaghata, vyalas in vine-loops, and lotus garland. The lower part of the sakhas carries among dvarapalas and female attendants the figures of Rati and Kamadeva. The door-lintel continues the decoration of the two inner sakhas but is interrupted in the centre by the lalatabimba which represents Gajalaksmi. Above this is a band of bell-and-chains issuing from the mouth of grasas and then follows a cornice underlined with a band of geese. Over and above this, in the centre, is a figure of seated Jina. The doorframe is fine and deeply cut. The mukhamandapa is an open hall resting on an adhisthana which is somewhat distinct from that of the vimana as it shows kantha instead kumuda. It is landed up from the front by a stairway having plain elephant banister. Its square plan shows recessed corners and projecting sides with eighteen pillars on the parapet wall and twelve free-standing pillars in the interior. Of the twelve interior pillars the four in the nave are lathe- turned. The pillars (Pl. 101) of the mukhamandapa are of several varieties. They have a plain moulded base, ornate and faceted shaft, and a short capital in the parapet pillars and a prominent one in the others. Though the pillars are charming, they have not yet reached their perfectness. The mukhamandapa is shaded by a large sloped out eave-cornice. The prastara and hara here also top the wall and are the same as the rest of the building, but instead of makara figures the panels here contain flowers. A mutilated image of Parsvanatha is lying outside the temple which may have once graced the upper shrine. Naganatha Temple - The temple is today called Naganatha because the enshrined image of Parsvanatha has been replaced by a Siva-linga beneath the cobra- canopy of Nagaraja Dharanendra, probably during the upsurgence of the Virasaivism. This is apparent from the cobra-canopy of Dharanendra (the Yaksa of Parsvanatha), the two cauri-bearers of the Jina and the triple umbrella overhead. This east-facing temple (Fig. 115) consists of a vimana, an antarala, a gudhamandapa and an entrance porch. The arrangement of the plan and elevation of the vimana and gudhamandapa closely corresponds to those of the Great Jaina Temple at Lakkundi, but the various offsets are prominently shown and the temple bears less ornament than its predecessor. The adhisthana of the temple consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, kumuda, antarita, urdhvapadma and kapota and is quite plain. The wall pilasters have their upper section faceted and well carved with bell, belt, kalasa, tadi, ghata, oversailing phalaka and bevelled corbel. The uttara-beam above is well wrought. The wall surface here also shows kuta-niches at the karnas and kutastambhas in the salilantaras. The prastara and hara are in good taste as they are not overburdened with figures of vyala, makara, birds etc. in the prastara and foliage and sculptural panels in the kutas and salas of the hara. The superstructure of the vimana has disappeared. The doorframe of the garbhagrha is of the pancasakha variety decorated with ratnas, bhutas in loops, stambha with entwined scrolls, vyalas and thin Lotuses respectively. The gudhamandapa is spacious and is entered through an unadorned doorframe of four jambs of ratna, rainceau with rounded corner, faceted stambha and khalva (depressed). The four lathe-turned nave pillars are perfectly worked out with metallic finish. The pillars support a flat ceiling carved with thousand petalled lotus of unsurpassed formation and lustre, the best among the known Karnatan examples of the period." The entrance porch consists of two pillars and two pilasters supporting a flat ceiling. The two pillars are of the square order with corners chamfered into three angles. Their moulded base and capital are of the usual Calukyan order but the shaft shows on their upper section two decorative belts, the lower showing lotus Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 231 and the broader upper one elegant bell-and-chains issuing from the mouth of grasas. This temple was probably built between c. A.D. 1060 and 1070. Jaina Temple No. 2 - To the north of the Great Jaina Temple at Lakkundi stands another temple of Parsvanatha. It consists of a vimana, an antarala and a gudhamandapa. The chief attraction of this temple is the stellate configuration of the adhisthana of the vimana as its bhadra, pratiratha and karna have each half diamond-shaped point both in plan and elevation. The adhisthana of the antarala is peculiar in that it has a circular offset between the angular ones. Stylistically, this temple is datable to c. A.D. 1060. Virabhadra Temple - To the south-east of the Great Jaina Temple at Lakkundi is another Jaina temple, now worshipped by the Brahmanas, but the doorframe carries Jina figure on the lalata. Of this east-facing temple only the adhisthana and wall of the vimana are preserved. The vimana is tri-anga on plan consisting of bhadra, pratiratha and karna, the bhadra with an upabhadra being the widest offset and the pratiratha the shortest. Between the angas are also set up salilantaras. The adhisthana is composed of an upana, jagati, antarita, three-faceted kumuda, antarita, kapota and pratikantha, the last being adorned with makara figures which are damaged at many places. Each anga of the wall is cantoned by two slender pilasters possessing usual members in the upper section. The karna, pratiratha and the central offset of the bhadra show each a kuta- topped niche containing kutastambha surmounted by Dravida, Bhumija or Vesara form of superstructure. The salilantaras contain kuta-topped stambhas. Of the cavecornice only the kapota is intact. Stylistically, this temple is placed in the latter half of the 11th century A.D. MULGUND Mulgund is situated in the Dharwad district of Karnataka. It was a religious as well as political centre in the time of the Kadambas. There are two Jaina temples of the Western Calukyan period on the low hillock of the southern outskirts of the village. They are described here as Temple Nos. 1 and 2. . Temple No. 1 - This north-facing temple consists of a vimana, gudhamandapa, rangamandapa and dvaramandapa (hall-formed gate) attached with the compound wall of the temple. Except for the doorframe the vimana is completely destroyed. The doorframe is of the pancasakha variety, and barring the outermost sakha which is decorated with lotus petals, it is quite plain. The gudhamandapa, larger than the vimana, shows lathe-turned pillars in the slightly raised nave and square pillars in the surround (Pl. 102). The lathe-turned pillars have a square plain moulded base; their shaft shows from below a plain square cube, broad recess, octagonal bell and belt, and circular kalasa; the capital consists of a circular minor tadi, ghata, pali and square phalaka; and the corbel is four-armed with a median band on each arm. The base and corbel of square pillars are similar to those of the lathe-turned pillars, but the shaft is differently treated as it shows from below a square plain cube, a broad belt with stylised pipala leaves, plain cube, narrow belt and a belt with usual pipala leaves. The doorframe of the gudhamandapa is also of the pancasakha type, but it is very ornate representing ratna, bhuta, stambha with central floral buckle and a panel with Jina figure below the kalasa, mala (garland), and padma (outermost sakha) adorned with lotus petals. On the lower section of the jambs stand figure sculptures. The lalata block of the door-lintel is large and depicts a seated Jina figure with two cauri-bearers in a niche. Two stone grilles cut up with floral designs flank the doorway. The rangamandapa shows four square pillars at the upraised nave, octagonal pillars on the surround and dwarf square pillars on the front. The nave pillars have a square moulded base, their shaft shows from below a plain cube, two narrow fluted belts with a median band Jain Education Intemational Education International

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232 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies of scrolls, a plain cube, and a short kalasa; the circular capital consists of a narrow tadi, big ghata with square body, pali and square phalaka; and the corbel is wavy in shape and has chamfered arms with a median band. The pillars surrounding the nave are similar to those of the nave, but the shaft between the lower cube and kalasa shows a faceted belt, a large plain bell and a belt. The dwarf pillars also resemble the nave pillars. The dvaramandapa, standing at some distance from the main building, is a somewhat ruined but graceful cross-shaped structure with varieties of pillars over the dado (Pl. 103). In all there are five bays formed by twelve pillars, four standing in the central nave and two standing on each side in alignment with the nave pillars. The four nave pillars are massive and of the square order and show on their shaft two plain cubes with an intervening belt marked with pipala leaves and a short kalasa. The outer bays' pillars are square but slender in form; sometimes their corners are chamfered into three angles. The two pillars in the front bay are lathe- turned. The temple is landed up by a partly buried stairway with a fine banister carved with a figure of vyala emitting trunk-shaped coping and mounted by a Vidyadhara. The space between the coping and vyala is filled with wishfulfilling creepers. The main temple is datable to early 11th century A.D., while the dvaramandapa is placed in the mid- 11th century A.D. Temple NO. 2 - The temple consists of a vimana, an antarala and an oblong gudhamandapa and faces east. The exterior is plain with simple wall pilasters. The gudhamandapa is entered through a stairway flanked by elephant banister of fine workmanship. The banister is very similar to that seen in the preceding temple, but here an elephant figure is carved between the coping stone and the vyala figure. The gudhamandapa shows four lathe-turned pillars in the central nave and square pilasters in the periphery. In addition, there are two square pillars in the antarala. The pancasakha doorframe of the vimana bears shallow carvings. The nave pillars of the gudhamandapa have a square base made of plinth, padma, kantha and kapota with triangular block on each face. Their shaft is plain and square below and circular above, the latter showing two successive faceted urdhapadmas, two recesses with a median band, bell with a stripe of pipala leaves, narrow plain belt and kalasa. The capital consists of a tali-based ghata, fillet type pali, square phalaka and bevelled corbel with median band. The pilasters of the gudhamandapa have similar base and capital, but the square shaft between the cube and kalasa shows four decorative belts of caitya-gavaksa pattern interspersed with plain belts. The antarala pillars have their corners chamfered into three angles and are analogous to the pilasters, but the caitya-gavaksa is minutely carved. T he temple was probably built in the 7th decade of the 11th century A.D. RON Ron is situtated in the Bijapur district of Karnataka. It has a Western Calukyan Jaina temple (Pl. 104) facing east. Rectangular on plan the temple consists of a vimana and gudhamandapa, both enclosed by a common wall punctuated with thin pilasters bearing looped stencilled decoration on the inverted lasuna of the shaft. The wall as well as adhisthana does not carry projecting bays and recesses. The much weathered adhisthana is very simple as it consists of upana, vapra (sub-plinth), jagati, padma (inverted cyma recta), three-faceted kumuda, kantha and kapota with plain triangular bosses. An ornate niche topped by an arched torana and a perforated stone grille appear on both the longer sides of the wall. The arch of the torana is supported on both sides by a peacock with an elaborate tail. The grille is beautifully carved with scrolls having gana figures. Both these decorative elements have been adopted from the Rastrakuta structures. The roof of the vimana is flat, perhaps it was never completed. The front portion of the gudhamandapa has been modified by modern additions. Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 233 The interior pillars of the gudhamandapa are lathe- turned and almost circular, while the peripheral pilasters are hand-made and square throughout. Both are plain but well wrought. The pillars have a cubical base; their shaft shows an octagonal and a faceted narrow section below, and then it turns into a circular recess followed by a large bell member adorned with a band of circular foliage, a circular belt and kalasa, and the capital consists of pali and bulbous circular abacus topped by bevelled brackets. The temple is datable to the middle of the 11th century A.D. NAGAI Nagai is situated in the Gulbarga district of Karnataka. There is a Jaina shrine of Parsvanatha. It is a plain structure with two chambers. In the vimana of the temple is enshrined an image of Jina Parsvanatha. It was probably built in the mid-11th century A.D. KUPPATUR Kuppatur is situated to the north of the Sorab town in Karnataka. It has a ruined shrine of Parsvanatha founded by Malaladevi, consort of the Kadamba king Kirtideva, in A.D. 1075 for Padmanandi of Konda- kundanvaya. In the foundation inscription it has been called "Brahma-jinalaya." Parsvanatha Temple - This north-facing temple is like a rectangular hall with plain exterior. In the interior it shows unpolished lathe-turned pillars which have a square moulded base, square and circular shaft, circular capital and four-armed plain brackets. The circular shaft shows from below an octagonal and a sixteen-sided narrow belt, broad circular section with a median band decorated with beaded garlands and quadrangular rosettes at intervals, bell, belt and kalasa. The capital consists of tadi, ring, faceted ghata, pali and square phalaka. The collapsed ceiling slab is relieved with a beautiful full-blown lotus flower comprising two rows of petals and a central pistil. The principal Jina image of the sanctuary, which has been recently recovered from the temple debris, is sitting cross-legged and shows serene expression. LAKSMESVARA Laksmesvara, ancient Purrigere, lies to the southeast of the district headquarters of Dharwad in Karnataka. It was a religious centre of considerable importance for both the Jainas and the Brahmanas from the times of the early Calukyas and the Rastrakutas. This is evident from references made to several temples in the available inscriptions, but owing to their destruction by the Colas in the time of the Western Calukya king Somesvara I (A.D. 1042-1067) and also due to later repairing and restructuring, their original form has very much obliterated. At present, there are four temples at Laksmesvara of which two are Jaina and belong to the Western Calukya period. One of these is called Sankhabasadi and the other Anantanatha-basadi. Sankha-basadi - This east-facing temple (Fig. 116; PL. 105) consists of five vimanas (pancakuta) with a common rectangular gudhamandapa and a square screened rangamandapa. The rectangular space of the east-west oriented gudhamandapa is divided into two square bays, each possessing four pillars in the nave. The front bay is attached to the rangamandapa, while the rear bay provides ingress to three vimanas at the back and two at the lateral sides. The back chamber has been made rectangular in order to accommodate three vimanas in the interior. This has also affected the configuration of the exterior walls as they carry seven offsets on the longer back side and five each on the two shorter sides. The central offset in each vimana is broader and faceted, while all the other offsets are plane with cut-off corners. The offsets are separated from one another by salilantaras. The adhisthana of the five vimanas, standing on a sub-socle of upana, jagati and plain padma, consists of two successive jagatis, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, urdhvapadma, kapota with plain bosses, and a pattika decorated at some places with incised foliage, at other places with bosses having lozenges or left plain. The portion above the adhisthana has been so extensively Jain Education Intemational

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236 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies repaired during the later period, probably due to damages caused by the Muslims, that it is very difficult to make out anything definite. However, it appears that at least the walls were not very ornate. The interior of the three rear vimanas shows two free-standing square pillars and ten peripheral attached pillars, while each bay of the gudhamandapa shows four pillars in the nave and twelve attached pillars in the periphery. The adhisthana of the rangamandapa is made up of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, urdhvapadma, makarapattika and urdhvapadma. The wall consists of an asanapatta, kaksasana and a perforated screen, all very neatly carved. The asanapatta is adorned with diamonds framed by pilasters. The kaksasana is divided into three decorative horizontal belts, the lower showing foliage, the middle the musicians, dancers, mithuna couples etc. between circular paired pillarettes, and the upper the scrolls. The screen wall is made up of upright square posts and horizontal cross-bars bearing decoration of four-petalled flowers at the joints and in the spaces formed by them. It is in these enclosed spaces that perforations are made to admit light to the interior. The rangamandapa is shaded by a double curved, large, projecting eave-cornice. The interior of the rangamandapa shows sixteen pillars in four lines of four each and twenty peripheral pilasters. Of the sixteen pillars two rows of central pillars form the nave. The pillars are of the square, fluted and plain lathe-turned types and bear little carving. In the central space of the rangamandapa is housed a Sahasrakuta sculpture which is a rare representation. On the stylistic grounds this temple is assigned a date in the end of the 11th century A.D. Anantanatha-basadi This is also a pancakuta temple with five vimanas. Three of the five vimanas, each preceded by an antarala of almost the same size as the vimana, are laid out on the three sides of a fourpillared closed mandapa, while the fourth side is attached to a large pillared mandapa having two shrines on its lateral sides and an entrance door on the front. The two lateral shrines as well as the large mandapa are square with straight sides, while each of the three conjoint shrines consists of a karna and a bhadra with two pairs of upabhadras and a subhadra. The sides of the closed mandapa also are indented. The adhisthana of the temple consists of jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, urdhvapadma, kapota, and a pattika with plain rectangular bosses. The plain walls of the triple shrine show usual slender pilasters at the corners of the subhadra, pratibhadra and karna. The subhadra also contains an emptied niche surmounted by a miniature sikhara. The wall terminates in an cavecornice of the double-curved variety. The superstructure of each of these shrines is composed of a series of horizontal tiers diminishing as they ascend and topped by a faceted square sikhara adorned with creepers. The kalasa over the sikhara is lost. In the cardinal points of the superstructure is a series of five small niches, each crowned by a kirttimukha spewing creepers that adorn the mukhapatta. The antarala is lodged over by a sukanasa. The large square fore-mandapa shows thirty-six pillars and pilasters in six lines of six each. The crisscross central space is wider than the side ones. The pillars are of several different orders. Some of these are of the crude lathe-turned variety, some belong to the square order and a few others are of the faceted type. Many of these pillars seem to be older than the actual temple, perhaps they were rebuilt. Stylistically, this temple was probably built in the beginning of the 12th century A.D. HULI Huli is a small town to the north of the district headquarters of Dharwad in Karnataka. It has as many as eight temples of which the Pancalingesvara is Jaina built by Prince Bijjala, son of a local Ganga chief Pitta, in early 12 century A.D. for the Yapaniya Jainasangha. Called "Manikaya-tirtha-basadi" in the foundation inscription the temple originally was a Pancakuta-basadi, and subsequently it was converted into a Saiva temple

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 239 are intact, but the superstructure is lost. The high and somewhat ornate adhisthana (Fig. 107) of the vimana consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, pattika decorated with scroll pattern, antarita, tripatta kumuda, antarita, pattika adorned with scrolls, antarita, urdhvapadma, and kapota embellished with ornamental nasis. The lower portion of the wall is quite plain, but the upper portion, capitals of the cantoning pilasters and the exterior wall of the antarala are richly carved. In the subhadra is a large, elaborately carved model of rangamandapa with pyramidal roof surrounded by a cusped torana-arch emerging from the mouth of a makara at either end and going up into a grasamukha. This is a rare feature on the wall surface. The antarala on its each lateral wall also carries similar rangamandapa model, but here it is supported on a faceted pilaster. The upper portion of the wall shows three ornamental bands of scrolls, full-blown lotus flowers, and torana-arches containing Nidhi figures. These three decorative bands not only run all over the wall of the vimana and antarala but also on the rear wall of the rangamandapa. The wall is shaded by a three-tiered eave-cornice bearing a gagaraka-band on the lower tier. The rangamandapa is also dvi-anga on plan but its rear portion shows three minor offsets between the bhadra and karna. The adhisthana and wall of the rear side of the rangamandapa are exactly similar to those of the vimana, but the same in the remaining part are differently treated. The adhisthana here shows a ratnapattika in place of kumuda and a parapet wall above it. The parapet consists of a rajasenaka made up of pratikantha, a vedika decorated with pilasters, an asanapatta with kuta rooflets crowning the pilasters, and a kaksasana bearing figure sculptures between paired pillarettes and an ornamental band below and above. The kaksasana has almost gone. The parapet supports twelve dwarf lathe-turned pillars with ornamental bands of beaded garlands, leaf-motif, creeper and louts petal on the circular ring, bell, belt, and kalasa members respectively. Two interior pillars attached at the rear corners are of the bhadraka class and carry similar decorative bands as noticed in case of the dwarf pillars, but the creeper band is replaced here by an ornate diamond-and-bead band. In the square rangamandapa, if we exclude the bay forming a short of porch at the front and lateral sides, stand four massive, well-polished, beautifully carved, lathe-turned pillars bearing decorations as we find on the bhadraka pillars. The garbhagrha doorway has Jina as tutelary image. Stylistically, the temple may be placed in the first half of the 12th century A.D. HALEBID Halebid, located in the Hassan district of Karnataka, being the capital city of the Hoysalas of Dorasamudra, is graced with several Brahamanical and Jaina temples built during the Hoysala period. Three of the Jaina temples with their northerly orientation stand juxtaposed even today. Of these the western shrine is called the Parsvanatha-basadi, the central the Adinatha-basadi, and the eastern the santinatha-basadi. They stand in a common prakara-wall with a pillared dvaramandapa (entrance hall) facing the Parsvanatha temple. The prakara and the dvaramandapa had been built in A.D. 1254 by Padmideva, brother-in-law of the Hoysala king Narasimha II (A.D. 1220-1235). Parsvanatha Temple - This is the largest and most important Jaina temple (Fig. 119; Pl. 108) at Halebid. It consists of a vimana, an antarala, a gudhamandapa and a detached asthanamandapa in front of the gudhamandapa. The square vimana with 36.5 ft. side is tri-anga on plan consisting of unilateral karna, pratiratha with a subsidiary facet on one side only, and bhadra with a pair of upabhadras and a subhadra. Between the angas are salilantaras. The clearly cut adhisthana of the vimana is made up of jagati, padma, antarita, vajana, antarita, karnaka, antarita, vajana embellished with diminutive ganas in scrolls, antarita, kapota, pratikantha bearing makara-heads in the frontal and profile form, antarita and urdhvapadma. The Jain Education Intemational Education International

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 241 pratikantha below the subhadra has a sculptural panel below rings and a medial belt adorned with carved as well. The wall is plain and its cantoning pilasters lozenges, a large bell with interlaced garlands of beads, are very thin. The wall is shaded by a double-flexured a belt with figures and scrolls, and kalasa bearing a eave-cornice. The prastara above the eave consists of band of lotus petals below and a band of beaded garlands an ornamental kapota and pratikantha, and the hara on the rim above. The capital shows a ratna-band shows finely carved kutas, panjaras and salas with half underlined with gagarakas on tadi, pearl-and-ratna angle-nasis. The aedicules generally contain figures of garlands on flat ghata, a band of lotus scrolls above seated Jinas, Yaksis and Vidyadevis. Possibly, the the plain pali and faceted square phalaka. The corbel vimana had not been intended to have a superstructure. has square or roll brackets. These magnificent pillars The doorframe of the vimana-garbhagrha is plain. Inside have no parallels in the whole of Karnataka in so far the garbhagrha are two free-standing pillars behind the as the lathe-turned pillars are concerned. The eight threshold and ten pilasters at the wall surround. At the central pillars in the nave support a beautifully carved back end, on a low lotus pedestal, stands some fifteen ceiling on an octagonal frame of plain architraves. The feet high nude but impressive image of Jina Parsvanatha ceiling (Pl. 110) consists of three octagonal courses with a seven-hooded cobra-canopy. made by cutting off the corners and a square ceilingThe antarala has a faceted pilaster on either side stone representing within floral and figural borders a of its exterior wall. Inside, it has on its front two lathe- figure of Nagaraja Dharanendra. While the inner face turned pillars with wooden screen on each flank. The of each octagonal course is adorned with figure sculptures, screen is made up of upright posts and cross-bars and the soffits at corners show scroll pattern or grasamukha is a later addition. spewing creepers. The gudhamandapa (about 52 ft. wide) shares its The asthanamandapa (36 ft. by 34 ft. 9 inches) adhisthana with the vimana and has a straight side with stands on an adhisthana which, though similar to that wall pilasters, but its rear wall carries the karna and of the vimana, has an ornate kantha below the kapota pratiratha of the vimana type. Its double-curved eave and an asanapatta above that. It has similar set of twelve is intact; the prastara and hara however are restored pillars in the square nave as we notice in the beyond recognition. The gudhamandapa is entered gudhamandapa and twenty thinner pillars at the periphery. through a pancasakha doorway having three unadorned All these pillars are also lathe-turned, but they have jambs interspersed with two finely cut stambhasakhas. no polish and are inferior to those of the gudhamandapa. On the lalata is a seated Jina with two attendants. On It has a carved lantern ceiling on an octagonal plan. proper right of the doorway is the carved slab of the In the ceiling slab is represented a figure of Yaksa. foundation inscription. The interior of the spacious The Parsvanatha temple at Halebid is regarded as gudhamandapa shows three well-embellished niches on the finest of the surviving Jaina basadis in all each lateral side and one on each flank of the entrance Karnataka." It was founded in A.D. 1133 by door. In the well-formulated square nave stand four thick Dandanayaka Boppadeva in the memory of his deceased pillars at the four corners and two thinner ones between father Gangaraja, the prime minister of the Hoysala them on each side. All the pillars (Pl. 109) are black, king Visnuvardhana (A.D. 1108-1142). beautifully wrought, polished and lathe-turned. Their Adinatha Temple - This small Jaina temple to square moulded base carries a sculptured niche on each the east of the Parsvanatha temple consists of a square face. The shaft is plain and square below and circular vimana, an antarala, a square but larger gudhamandapa above. The circular section of the shaft shows from and an entrance porch with she-elephants at the stair Jain Education Intemational

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242 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies platform on the north. The temple has straight sides without anga projections. The plain and low adhisthana consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita and kapota. The walls of both the compartments with their cantoning slender pilasters are also plain, but the pilasters occurring on the exterior walls of the antarala are massive and faceted. The eave-cornice and the parapet are unimpressive. Probably, the vimana had not been intended to carry superstructure. The entrance porch rests on a low adhisthana of jagati, antarita, pattika and kapota and then it has an asanapatta bearing decoration of lozenges in panels. The porch has two unadorned lathe-turned pillars and two fine pilasters with a ceiling. Inside the gudhamandapa are four plain citrakhanda pillars and a niche on either flank of the antarala. One of the two niches contains a figure of Sarasvati. Inside the garbhagsha the pedestal is intact, but the enshrined image is missing. From the inscription engraved on the doorway it is apparent that the temple originally was dedicated to Jina Mallinatha and not to Adinatha and its consecration was performed in A.D. 1138. The present appellation is a misnomer to Adinatha-basadi. The headless image of Mallinatha has now been kept in the adjoining temple of santinatha. Santinatha Temple - This temple is almost of the same size as the great Parsvanatha temple, but in disposition of the plan it follows the Adinatha temple in having a vimana, an antarala, a gudhamandapa and an entrance porch, the last belonging to the Vijayanagara period though. The exterior of the temple is also like that of the Adinatha temple, but the tall, highly polished, lathe-turned nave pillars (Pl. 111) of the gudhamandapa are similar to those of the Parsvanatha temple, although they lack the decorative carvings. The pillars here too support a lantern ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves but is left unadorned. The image of santinatha in the garbhagsha is almost as tall as the Parsvanatha image in the Parsvanatha-basadi. The temple was founded in or before A.D. 1196 by two tradesmen, Kavadamayya and Devi Setti. HERAGU Heragu, situated in the Hassan district of Karnataka, has a ruined Jaina temple of Parsvanatha founded in A.D. 1155 by Jakkabe, wife of Cavimayya, a Mahapradhana of the Hoysala king Narasimha I (A.D. 1142-73). The vimana of the temple is completely gone except for the doorframe bearing Jina figure on the lalata. The front walls of the hall are also gone but the pillars, lathe-turned or square with recessed corners, are intact and carry nine carved ceilings of the lantern class. The doorframe of the hall now adorns the hall of the local Kamathesvara temple. PUSPAGIRI Mallikarjuna Temple - Puspagiri is located near Halebid in the Hassan district of Karnataka. Originally a Jaina temple but converted at some later date into a Saiva temple, it consists of a vimana, a featureless gudhamandapa and a pillared rangamandapa and is entered through an elaborate pratoli-gateway. Of these only the pratoli is of some reference. The pratoli stands on a moulded adhisthana made up of an upana, two jagatis, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, kapota with uncarved bosses, and pratikantha decorated with figures of makara-heads. Its flat north and south walls with serried pilasters carry sham-turreted niches at the middle and extremities. Inside are two pillar-bearing platforms with a central passage. The platform pillars are fluted and 32-pointed star-shaped on the east front, lathe-turned in the middle and square with recessed corners at the west end. Stylistically, the temple is datable to the latter half of the 12th century A.D. NITTUR santinatha Temple - This east-facing Jaina temple at Nittur lying east of Tiptura town in Karnataka consists of a small vimana (Pl. 112), a long antarala and a large gudhamandapa. The flat-roofed dvi-anga vimana has a well-articulated bhadra and karna with deep salilantara between. The bhadra is also marked by subhadras, while Jain Education Intemational

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Jaina Temple Architecture: South India the karna has its corners broken off into three recessed angles. The indentations are clearly delineated in the elevation by wall pilasters. The adhisthana of the vimana is plain and simple and consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, kapota with plain bosses, pratikantha with plain blocks and urdhvapadma. The wall has very fine enrichment of vesara-topped niches at the karnas and subhadras save for the subhadra on the south side which carries a kuta-topped niche. The niches contain standing images of Jinas, now sadly damaged. The perfectly rendered wall pilasters have indentations from bottom to top. The salilantaras contain fine kuta-topped stambhas with ornate toranas. The wall is surmounted by a twotiered eave-cornice and a kapota with plain bosses. The exterior wall of the antarala has a five-faceted wider pilaster befitting well with the wall scheme. The antarala has been further extended to accommodate a bhadralike buttress which is quite an unknown feature. The gudhamandapa is tri-anga on plan having a wider yet shallow bhadra with two pairs of upabhadras, a narrow pratiratha marked only by a pilaster (similar to that of the antarala) on the wall, and a karna with intervening salilantaras. The adhisthana carries the same set of mouldings as does the vimana but lacks in the rhythmic details of the auxiliary mouldings. The wall with serried pilasters is plain but for a small carved lozenge in the centre of each facet of the karnas, salilantaras and the outer upabhadras. The inner pair of upabhadras has each a fine figure of female cauribearer flanking a large emptied niche in the subhadra. The niche is made up of three pairs of elaborately cut up pillarettes and a broad but stunted Bhumija sikhara. Inside the gudhamandapa, at the nave, stand, instead of the customary lathe-turned pillars, four pillars with 32-flutings, while at the periphery are stationed shaftbundle type clumsy pillars. The nave pillars possess all the conventional members in the circular shaft above the cube, but with regard to ornamental details they bear a vertical lozenge in the lowermost section and a band of darpana motif on the bell. The gudhamandapa does not have an entrance porch. From the above description it appears that the gudhamandapa is not the work of the same guild which worked on the vimana. The temple is known to have been founded by one Parsva in or before A.D. 1158. HEGGERE 243 Parsvanatha Temple This north-facing Jaina temple (Fig. 120; Pl. 114) at Heggere, which lies north of Tiptur town in Karnataka, consists of a small vimana, an antarala, a large gudhamandapa and an entrance porch. The dvi-anga vimana shows bhadra and karna without salilantara between. The bhadra has a pair of upabhadras and a subhadra as well. Its adhisthana is made up of a jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka with square plain bosses in the middle and triangular ones at the ends, kapota with plain square bosses, pratikantha with plain rectangular bosses, and a pattika with unadorned gagarakas underneath. The flat surface of the wall has plain pilasters demarcating the different facets of the angas. In the spaces between the angas and upabhadras appear full-blown lotus flowers with two rows of petals and a central pistil, while the subhadra and karna facets carry neatly carved lozenges. The wall is surmounted by two-tiered eave and a kapota. The superstructure, if present, has disappeared. The exterior wall of the antarala has a wider faceted pilaster. - The gudhamandapa is similar on plan, elevation and decoration to the vimana but the bhadra has three pairs of upabhadras with usual lotuses, and a pilaster of the antarala type occurs between the bhadra and karna. On either side of the pilaster, in the centre of the wall surface, is a lotus having three rows of petals and kept in a square panel. Inside the gudhamandapa are four lathe-turned pillars at the nave and twelve faceted pilasters at the periphery. The nave pillars support a beautifully carved samatala ceiling (Pl. 113) on a rectangular plan. The ceiling shows, one within the other, four rectangular frames of panels having

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 245 enrichment of lotus petals and buds, floral diamonds alternating with lotuses, lotus petals-and-buds, and a full-blown large lotus with three rows of petals and a bulbous pistil in the centre; there is a border of floral diamonds and lotuses on the two shorter sides. This is a notable example of the samatala ceiling. The temple had been founded by Mahasamanta Govindaraja in the memory of his wife Mahadevi Nayakiti in or before A.D. 1160. UDRI Jaina Temple - Udri, referred to as Uddura, Uddhare and Uddharapura in the inscriptions, is an old town lying south of the Hassan district headquarters in Karnataka. It has several ruined temples of which one seems to be Jaina converted later into a Saiva temple. An inscription of A.D. 1197 recovered from the nearby place of the temple-site indeed makes mention of the construction of a Jaina shrine which is none but this temple. The temple consists of a vimana, an antarala and a gudhamandapa. The tri-anga vimana shows bhadra, pratiratha and karna without wall pilasters and salilantaras. The vimana has a pyramidal roof of receding tiers, a structure rarely found in the temples of Karnataka. The different angas are displayed from the base to the top of the roof. The gudhamandapa follows the scheme of plan and elevation of the vimana but has an additional anga, pratikarna, making it thus caturanga on plan. The monotony of the plain walls of both the chambers is broken by a median band of diamonds. Inside the gudhamandapa, at the nave, are four lathe-turned pillars supporting a flat ceiling relieved with a large and many- petalled lotus flower. At the rear side are two niches flanking the antarala doorway. On the lalata of the doorframe is a figure of Jina accompanied by two cauri- bearers. JINANATHAPURA Jinanathapura is an old village founded in A.D. 1117 by Gangaraja, the prime minister of the Hoysala monarch Visnuvardhana. It lies to the north of the Candragiri hill at Sravanabelagola (Hassan district, Karnataka). In the heart of the village is a temple of Jina santinatha founded by Recimayya, the dandanayaka of the Hoysala king Ballala II (A.D. 1173-1220). Santinatha Temple - This east-facing temple consists of a vimana (Pl. 115), antarala and gudhamandapa, the whole complex standing on a jagatiplatform. The temple does not possess an entrance porch, perhaps it was removed during the restructuring of the front facade of the gudhamandapa. The flatroofed vimana is dvi-anga on plan comprising bhadra and karma with deep salilantara between. The bhadra is further divided into a central subhadra and two pairs of accompanying upabhadras. Its adhisthana consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, kapota, pratikantha and urdhvapadma. Of these plinth mouldings the kapota and the pratikantha on the west face are richly carved. The kapota shows a fringe of beaded garlands below and creepers on the nasi-bosses above, while the pratikantha has fine enrichment of makara-heads. The walls carry neatly-cut plain pilasters at the flanks of the various offsets and fine niched figures in the spaces formed by them. The large niches at the subhadras bear standing images of Jina Parsva (S), Suparsva (N) and Neminatha (W), each accompanied by two attendant figures. The somewhat smaller niches at the karnas and salilantaras and the plain ones at the upabhadras as well as the antaralas' kuta-stambha carry divine and semi-divine figures of Yaksis like Ambika, Cakresvari and Padmavati, Vidyadevi Vajrasrokhala, Srutadevi Sarasvati, Yaksa Dharanendra and Sarvanubhuti, Rati-Manmatha, and Gandharvas and Vidyadharas. The niches at the subhadra, karna and salilantara have a variety of vesara-kuta tops, but the figures of the upabhadras stand under the shadow of minutely carved upsurging creepers. The enshrined image of Santinatha in the vimana-garbhagyha is missing. The gudhamandapa is similar on plan and elevation to the vimana, but the bhadra has one more pair of Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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246 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies upabhadras and the subhadra is like a devakulika (shrinecell) formed of storeyed pavilion with kuta top. The interior with four lathe-turned carved pillars (Pl. 116) at the nave resembles the Akkana-basadi at ravanabelagola. Stylistically, the temple is datable to c. A.D. 1200. BELGAUM Belgaum or Belagavi, a district town in the northeastern quarter of Karnataka, was the capital city of the Rattas of Kuhandimandala. The Rattas, like the Gangas and Santaras, were staunch Jaina and patronised Yapaniya sect of Jainism. In the town is an old fort with a Jaina temple, called "Ratta Jinalaya in the inscription," founded in A.D. 1204 by minister Bicana. Jaina Temple - This north-facing temple (Fig. 121; Pl. 117) consists of a square sanctum, an antarala, a gudhamandapa and a rangamandapa, each covered by a pyramidal roof. The sanctum as well as the gudhamandapa is dvi-anga on plan with the bhadra having only slight projection. The exterior of both the compartments shows a series of plain mouldings in the adhisthana and wall, and their pyramidal roof consists of receding tiers of kapota. The tiers of the rangamandapa are made taller by placing ratnapattika in the recesses between them; this is a rare feature in the buildings of Karnataka. The gudhamandapa is entered from the rangamandapa by a highly ornamental saptasakha doorframe representing ratna, valli, bifacial vyala, stambha, bifacial Kinnari, vyala and Vidyadhari. In the nave of the gudhamandapa are four richly carved square pillars of the citrakhanda class. The doorframe of the antarala consists of a sakha incised with ratna-and-bead and a simple stambhasakha and is flanked on the outer side by a screen wall adorned with rosettes and cut up with stepped diamonds; its lintel shows a fine makaratorana with a dancing figure of Indra in the centre. The sanctum doorframe consists of four jambs of ratna, valli, stambha and vyala, each having minute carvings. The well-wrought lion-throne of the Jina is intact but the enshrined image is missing. The gudhamandapa is slightly rectangular on plan, the additional space on each side of the entrance door being occupied by a small chamber opening into the hall. The rangamandapa is also rectangular on plan and has a pair of free-standing pillars towards the gudhamandapa doorway. The rangamandapa, according to Cousens, is a later addition and the two pillars at the rear were the constituent part of an entrance porch of the gudhamanndapa (The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts, Calcutta, 1897, p. 121). Dvi-anga on plan the rangamandapa is entered from the front and lateral sides through a porch accommodated in the bhadra bay. Its adhisthana is composed of two jagatis, a padma, and a kapota. The parapet wall above it, which has survived in the northwest corner only, is composed of a rajasenaka depicting diamonds in panels, an asanapatta, and a kaksasana bearing figure sculptures between paired pilasters. Besides two free-standing pillars at the rear, there are fourteen pillars on the periphery joined by the parapet wall. The peripheral pillars are all lathe-turned and highly polished. Six of these together with two rear pillars form an octagon and support a large, carved domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves spanned across them. The dome consists of seven diminishing circular courses and has a large, impressive, circular pendant hanging down in the centre. The first course is rupakantha showing figures of seated Jinas in projecting niches and of standing Jinas in alternate recesses. The second is karnadardarika. The third is a gajatalu. The fourth consists of twenty-four-foil kola. From this course also project out eight makara-brackets that once supported strut-figures inserted into the uppermost course. The fifth, sixth and seventh consist each of thirty-two-foil kola arranged in diminutive order. The pendant is made up of four oversailing courses of pointed kola and a short staminal tube. The corbel of each pillar supports a beautiful framed figure of sitting goddess. The domical type of ceiling is rarely found in Karnataka; probably the Karnataka artists derived

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Jaina Temple Architecture : South India 247 inspiration from Western India where it is most commonly represented. Each porch of the rangamandapa contains a beautiful ceiling of the cusped design. It shows sixteen, again sixteen- and eight-foils of kolas in three concentric circles. The last one of these is also made pointed. TAMIL NADU Jainism probably entered the land of Tamil Nadu through Karnataka shortly after Bhadrabahu, the head of the Jainasangha, migrated from north to the south when a terrible famine occurred in Magadha (Bihar) in the 3rd century B.C., and settled at Sravanabelagola (Karnataka). This may be surmised from some stone beds carved in the rock shelters bearing polish that resembles the one appearing on the Mauryan pillars. Even the major part of Sangam literature (c. B.C. 500 - A.D. 500 ) has been written by the Jainas. The author of the Silappadikaram, the famous epic in Tamil, was also a Jaina. Kundakundacarya has been revered immediately after Mahavira and Gautam and is the first among the southern Jaina genealogies to have been mentioned in the Tamil literature. During the times of the Pallavas of Kanci Jainism was in a very flourishing state. The Jaina Acarya Vajranandin even enjoyed the patronage of the Pallava king Simhavarman (c. A.D. 535-580). It was this Vajranandin who founded the Jaina Dravidasargha in Tamil Nadu. Mahendravarman I (C. A.D. 580-630) was a Jaina during the greater part of his life. The presence of Jainism at this time is also evident from a Jaina cave at Vilappakkam. Very little is known of Jainism after Mahendra, but as we come to the time of Rajasimha (A.D. 700-728), we find a concrete example of Jaina temple built in honour of Candraprabha at Tirupparuttikunram. It is hard to say what happened to Jainism in Tamil Nadu after the Pallavas as no example of Jaina temple is known from the Cola period. The main reason is that the Cola rulers, who succeeded the Pallavas, were staunch Saiva and hence there was little scope for Jainism in the Cola empire. From this one should not, however, conclude that Jainism was completely wiped out since a Jaina temple to Candraprabha was founded at Vijayamangalam at this time. TIRUPPARUTTIKUNRAM Candraprabha Temple - This is the earliest structural Jaina temple of the Pallava period. It is located at Tirupparuttikunram called Jina Kanci in the Chingleput district of Tamil Nadu. The temple is much weather-worn and is plastered and whitewashed, but enough remains to adduce it to the time of the Pallavas of Kanci. It consists of a two-storeyed (dvitala) square sanctum (vimana) and an ardhamandapa (porch), and is laid out in a straight-edged line. The whole of the lower storey is built of stone. The temple rests on a moulded adhisthana of which only the three-faceted kumuda and a projecting fillet are visible. The wall of the lower storey (aditala), on each side, is divided into five bays by plain pilasters carrying rampant vyalas at the base of the corner pilasters. The central bay has two pilasters and the end bays have three pilasters each, while the spaces in between them are filled with shallow niches. The lower storey has been completely filled up and concealed, probably when the temple crumbled down and its restoration had to be carried out. It is therefore not impossible if the temple originally had an ambulatory around the sanctum, making it a sandharavimana, because the functioning structure now is in the upper storey which was added during the Vijayanagara period. The upper storey with its square sikhara and circular stupi is built of bricks and lime mortar. Its walls on each side carry three plain recesses, each formed by a pair of pilasters, and are surmounted by a hara of karna-kutas and sala-Sikharas sheltering stucco figures of Jinas etc. The griva of the sikhara carries lion figures on the corners and sculptured niches in the cardinal points. On the front side of the upper storey is a pillared pavilion covered by a stone ceiling. Jain Education Intemational

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248 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies The wall of the ardhamandapa is like that of the vimana but shows on each side only one niche flanked by one pilaster in the rear and three pilasters in the front. On stylistic grounds the temple may be placed in the first half of the gth century A.D. VIJAYAMANGALAM Candraprabha Temple - Vijayamangalam is situated in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. It was an important centre of Jainism. It is also the birth- place of the famous Jaina Tamil grammarian Naladiyar. There is an interesting Jaina temple dedicated to Tirthankara Candraprabha. The oldest inscription at the site refers to a "nisidika" (memorial column) of Puliyappai, sister of Camundaraya, the minister under the Ganga king Racamalla (A.D. 974-984). It is not therefore impossible if this temple was founded by Camundaraya. In an inscription of A.D. 1163 belonging to the reign of the Cola king Kullotunga II the temple was called Virasanghata-perumpalli. Virasanghata is considered to be the military title of the chief who would have endowed some grant to this temple. A record dated A.D. 1412 in the time of Harihara II of the Vijayanagara dynasty is also found, referring to land-grants. On plan the temple consists of a square two- storeyed vimana, ardhamandapa, mahamandapa and mukhamandapa, the whole enclosed by a prakara with gopuradvara on the south to which direction the temple also faces. Outside the gopura is a lofty Manastambha of granite. The vimana and ardhamandapa are made of bricks and the rest are built of stone. The original features of the brick temple are much altered by lime and brick powder applied during the later repairs of the temple. The vimana is laid out in straight line, having no bhadra and karna projections in the elevation. The adhisthana consists of jagati, kumuda, pratikantha adorned with vyala figures, and a plain pattika. The wall of the lower storey is relieved with tetragonal pilasters but has no devakosthas; the prastara with nasibosses is simple; and the hara is represented by karnakutas and bhadrasalas. The second storey is plain and has no hara. The octagonal griva-sikhara has Jina figures in nasi-kosthas in the cardinal points and lion figures at the corners. The stupi is lost. The ardhamandapa sharing its adhisthana with the vimana is plain. Inside the vimana the image of Candraprabha is still in worship. The interior of the superstructure is made hollow by diminishing square courses from base-upward and ending in a false ceiling below the octagonal griva. The faces of the square courses bear old paintings now much spoilt, but one can still see outlines of lotuses, women in dancing poses, garland loops, scenes from Jaina mythology, etc. The mahamandapa is a large, closed, pillared hall with straight sides. It stands on a moulded adhisthana similar to that of the vimana and has niched walls and flat roof. It gives an exit towards the north and has a sub-shrine for Kusmandini on the south. The mukhamandapa is an open pillared hall larger than the mahamandapa and has a flat roof. The four-storeyed gopura with barrel-vaulted roof is very high. On the south face of the memorial column are two sculptured niches. The lower niche contains a portrait of lady Puliyappai and that of the upper a seated figure of Tirthankara. As regards the date of the temple, it is a conglomeration of different periods. The vimana and the ardhamandapa were originally built in the Ganga period but plastered up later, the mahamandapa belonged to the Cola period, and the open pillared hall alongwith gopura and Manastambha were added during the rules of the Vijayanagara kings. REFERENCES M.W. Meister (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, Vol. I, Pt. 1, New Delhi, 1983; M.W. Meister (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture, Vol. I, Pt. 2, New Delhi, 1986; M.A. Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER VII INTRODUCTION The religion and art in Indian context go hand in hand, and virtually the religious thought and concept find visual expressions in different forms of art like architecture, sculpture, icon, painting and also fine arts and performing arts. All These elements in Jaina context are the vehicles of the principal ideas of spirituality, non-violence, absolute renunciation and austerity. It may be pointed out at the outset that it was only with the Jainas that they did never compromise with their basic tenets which find best expressions in the images of the Jinas or Tirthankaras and Gommatesvara Bahubali. Before taking up the evolution of Jaina sculptures and their iconography in North and South India, it is essential to have a background of patronage and Jaina pantheon also. PATRONAGE The political and economic conditions always influence the development of religion and art. As regards Jainism, it received patronage and support from the rulers of North as well as South India. The main rulers of North India who either embraced or at least supported Jainism were Candragupta Maurya (c. 4th - 3rd century B.C. - at least towards the last years of his life he became Jaina), Samprati (3rd century B.C. - Mauryan ruler), Kharavela of Kalinga (Orissa - known through Hathigumpha inscription of about 1st century B.C. The Hathigumpha inscription says that Kharavela professed Jainism and got excavated Jaina caves and set up Jaina images and memorials to monks.), Nagabhata II of the Pratihara dynasty (9th century A.D.) and Kumarapala Caulukya (12th century A.D. - he patronized great Svetambara Jainacarya Hemacandra who composed the work like Trisastisalakapurusacaritra. Numerous Jaina temples were built by Kumarapala, the most exquisitely carved of all such temples are at Jalore and Taranga). As compared to North India, in South India more vigorous support was accorded to Jainism by the rulers of the Ganga, Kadamba, Calukya, Rastrakuta, Hoysala and Vijayanagar dynasties. Amoghavarsa of the Rastrakuta dynasty (9th century A.D.) and Camundaraya, the General of Ganga King Marasimha (10th century A.D.), made outstanding contributions to Jainism including Jaina art. The Jaina caves of Ellora and vestiges at Sravanabelagola bear testimony to their support. Further, Jinasena and Gunabhadra composed the great Epic Mahapurana (comprising Adipurana and Uttarapurana) at the time of Amoghavarsa. The Hoysala king Visnuvardhana, originally a disciple of Jainacarya Prabhacandra, only subsequently embraced Vaisnavism, though his queen Santala Devi continued to be a Jaina. The Vijayanagara rulers and their queens in several cases either accepted or supported Jainism. Jainism remained a popular religion throughout not only amongst the ruling dynasties but also the masses, specially the business class. There are inscriptional evidences from Mathura (Kankali Tila), Osian, Delvada, Khajuraho, Jalore and several other places which frequently refer to the sresthin, sarthavaha, gandhika, suvarnakara, vardhakin, lauhakarmak, navika, nartaka, vesyas and different gosthis of traders who were making significant contributions towards the development of Jainism and thereby Jaina art. PANTHEON Historically speaking, the evolution of the Jaina pantheon (devakula) was a gradual process. By the end of 4th-5th century A.D. the Jaina pantheon mainly consisted of the 24 Jinas, Yaksas and Yaksis (or Sasanadevatas), Vidyadevis, Laksmi, Balarama, Krsna, Rama, Naigamesa, Bahubali, Bharata and other Salakapurusas (or Mahapurusas). The Salakapurusas, 63 in number, are Great Souls and their lives are invariably referred to in the Svetambara Carita texts and the Jain Education Intemational

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254 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Digambara Puranas. Their list includes the 24 Jinas, 12 Parsvanatha and Mahavira in detail, whereas the lifeCakravartins, nine Baladevas, nine Vasudevas and nine events of the remaining 20 Jinas are given in brief. Prativasudevas. It may be noted here that only the According to the scholars, this portion (Jinacaritra - names and some of the general features of the deities Lives of Jinas) of the above text seems to have been were finalised by the 5th century A.D., while their added and edited in about 4th century A.D. detailed iconographic features were finalised between The gods in Jainism are classified into four main the 8th and 13th centuries A.D. The development of groups, bhavanavasis (gods who live in the houses), Jaina pantheon was more or less identical in both the vyantaras (intermediaries), jyotiskas (luminaries - sects and the differences are to be noticed mainly with Navagrahas etc.) and vaimanikas (gods who live in regard to their names and, at times, their forms and vimana). Each of these is subdivided into several groups iconographic features. The story of the transfer of embryo with Indras (chiefs) as the head and including also the of Mahavira, the image of Jivantasvamin Mahavira and Lokapalas (guardians of the cardinal points of the reference to Mallinatha as female Tirthankara do not universe). The vyantara gods, for example, are divided find mention in the Digambara works. into Yaksas (vegetation spirits), bhutas (ghosts), pisacas The terms Jina (invincible or liberator), Buddha (fiends), raksasas (demonical beings), Kinnaras (half(enlightened one), Arhat (deserving worship) and horse, half human), Gandharvas (celestial musicians), Nirgrantha (free from bondage) were commonly used and others. Such deities have played an important role by both the early Buddhists and Jainas to refer to those in ancient Indian folk worship. who had achieved spiritual liberation. The founders of Besides these, certain other gods and goddesses Jainism were Jinas, also known as Tirthankara (maker are mentioned in various Jaina texts, including four of a tirtha, or forder between the material and spiritual gatekeepers of the rampart of the Jambudvipa and four worlds). goddesses - Jaya, Vijaya, Jayanta and Aparajita. The The Jainas have divided unending time cycle into list of 64 Dikkumaris (maidens of the directions) who two aeons - avasarpini (descending order of all virtues) act as nurses when the Jina is born, includes several and utsarpini (ascending order of virtues) with 24 Jinas goddesses that suggest Brahmanical influence or in each of the two aeons. The present age is an avasarpini borrowing from some common ancient Indian heritage. age, of which Parsvanatha and Mahavira are the last These deities are, however, assigned a position two Jinas who are accepted as historical ones. Thus in subordinate to the Jinas and other liberated souls the Jaina conception of time, Jaina doctrine has no (Siddhas) who are called devadhidevas (Lords of Gods) beginning or end. by Hemacandra in 12th century A.D. Next in order to The Jainas believe in the 24 Jinas - Rsabhanatha the Jinas (Arhats) and Siddhas are the Jaina ascetics (or Adinatha), Ajitanatha, Sambhavanatha, Abhinandana, called Acaryas (leaders of groups of monks), Upadhyayas Sumatinatha, Padmaprabha, Suparsvanatha, (readers who teach sacred texts and hence shown with Candraprabha, Puspadanta (or Suvidhinatha), Sitalanatha, manuscript) and Sadhus (monks in general shown with Sreyamsanatha, Vasupujya, Vimalanatha, Anantanatha, ogho or rajoharana or mukha-pattika and tarpani - Dharmanatha, Santinatha, Kunthunatha, Aranatha, wooden water vessel). These five constitute the PancaMallinatha Munisuvrata, Naminatha, Neminatha (or paramesthins (five chief divinities). The 24 Jinas along Aristanemi), Parsvanatha and Mahavira (or Vardhamana). with certain other souls including 12 Cakravartins (world The Kalpasutra, a Jaina canonical text, describes the conquerors - Bharata, Sagara, Maghva, Sanatkumara, lives of Rsabhanatha (first Jina), Aristanemi (22nd Jina), Santi, Kunthu, Ara - last three being Jinas, Subhuma, Jain Education Intemational

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Introduction 255 Padma, Harisena, Jayasena, Brahmadatta), nine Vasudevas (Triprstha, Dviprstha, Svayambhu, Purusottama, Purusasimha, Purusa Pundarika, Datta, Narayana or Laksmana Krsna), and nine Baladevas (Acala, Vijaya, Bhadra, Suprabha, Sudarsana, Ananda, Nandan, Padma or Rama, Balarama) constitute the list of 54 Salakapurusas (Great Souls) to which nine Prati- Vasudevas (enemies of Vasudevas - Asvagriva, Taraka, Meraka, Nisumbha, Madhukaitabha, Bali, Prahalada, Ravana, Jarasandha) are added subsequently making the total of 63. The other figures such as nine Naradas, 11 Rudras and 24 Kamadevas (gods of love), Ganesa, Saptamatkas, 64 Yoginis show Brahmanical influence. Bahubali, the son of the first Jina Rsabhanatha, is said to be the first of the Kamadevas. We would now discuss briefly the development of Jaina iconography and sculpture in North and South India. NORTH INDIA The contribution of North India (north of the Vindhyan Mountain) in the development of Jaina art and iconography is of much more significance than what has been brought out. According to the Jaina tradition, all the 24 Jinas of present avasarpini aeon were born in this region and it was here that they spent their active lives. Perhaps this was the reason that most of the Jaina deities gained sculptural representations first in the region. The earliest Jina images with their characteristic iconographic features such as the flowing hair-locks of Rsabhanatha, seven-hooded snake canopy of Parsvanatha, the srivatsa, the astapratiharyas, the cognizances and the Yaksa-Yaksi pairs also make their first appearance in this region. However, the characteristic usnisa and the srivatsa are generally absent in the Jina images of South India. The figures of the Jaina Mahavidyas, the complete sets of 24 Yaksis, Jivantasvamin Mahavira and Jaina tutelary couples (or parents of Jinas) etc. are also conspicuous by their absence in South India. This absence requires proper investigation The Indus Valley civilization (c. B.C. 2300-1750) is the earliest civilization of India. The figures on some of the seals from Mohen-Jo-Daro and also a male torso from Harappa remind us of the Jina images on account of their nudity and posture, similar to kayotsarga-mudra, which is exhibited more emphatically in Lohanipura (Bihar) torso (Pl. 118). But nothing can be said with certainty until the Indus Valley script is deciphered finally. Apart from the above instance we do not have any literary and archaeological evidence regarding the Jina image prior to Mahavira. In early canonical texts Mahavira is never said to have visited any Jina temple or worshipped any Jina image. Instead Mahavira in the Agamic texts is said to have stayed in yaksayatanas (Yaksa temples). In this connection it would be relevant to make reference to the Jivantasvamin Mahavira image which is said to have been carved in the life-time of Mahavira (c. late 6th century B.C.), hence called Jivantasvamin or Jivitasvamin. According to the Jaina tradition, a sandalwood image of Mahavira, wearing mukuta and other ornaments befitting royalty, was carved in his life time during the period of his tapas in palace, about a year prior to his renunciation. Like the Bodhisattva before reaching Buddhahood, Jivantasvamin also represented a conception which may be called Jinasattva. The problem of antiquity of Jivantasvamin concept and image has been discussed separately. The earliest-known Jina image, preserved in the Patna Museum, comes from Lohanipura (Patna, Bihar) and is datable to c. 3rd century B.C. (Pl. 118). The nudity and the kayotsarga-mudra, suggesting rigorous austerity, of the image were confined only to the Jinas. Another Jina image from Lohanipura is assignable to the Sunga period or slightly later. A terracotta Jina figure of c. 3rd century B.C. is also reported from Ayodhya. The reference to the Kalinga Jina (image), once taken away by Nandaraja and brought back by Kharavela (c. 25 B.C.), in the Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela is of special interest in this connection. Thus the Jina Jain Education Intemational

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256 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies images from Lohanipura and Ayodhya and also the evidence of Hathigumpha inscription distinctly suggest that the antiquity of the Jina image may well be pushed back at least to c. 4th-3rd century B.C. The two early bronze images of Parsvanatha, differently dated by scholars from 2nd century B.C. to 1st century A.D. are in the collections of the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and Patna Museum, Patna. These figures, provided respectively with the five and seven-hooded snake canopy, are rendered as sky-clad and as standing in the kayotsarga-mudra. Mathura in U. P. was a stronghold of Jainism from c. B.C. 100 to A.D. 1177. The early (c. B.C. 100 to the Kusana Period) Jaina sculptures from Mathura are of special iconographic significance, because they exhibit certain formative stages in the development of Jaina iconography. The vast amount of veritable vestiges include the ayagapatas, independent Jina images, Pratima- sarvatobhadrika (Jina Caumukhi), Sarasvati, Naigamesi and also the narrative scenes from the lives of Rsabhanatha and Mahavira (Pls. 140, 168). Of all these the ayagapatas (tablets of homage) of 2nd - 1st century B.C. merit special attention, since they represent the transitional phase of Jaina iconography in which the worship of auspicious symbols together with the Jinas in human form was in vogue. One such example of c. 19 century B.C., bearing the figure of Parsvanatha seated in dhyana-mudra in the centre is in the collection of the State Museum, Lucknow (J. 253). The rendering of the Jinas in dhyana-mudra (padmasana-seated cross- legged) and the representation of srivatsa in the centre of their chest appear for the first time in the Sunga- Kusana sculptures of Mathura. The problem of exact sect affiliation of the Kusana Jina images from Mathura is a problem which to most of the scholars are the products of the Digambara sect in view of the nudity of the Jina images. On the basis of the acelaka (sky-clad) and sacelaka (draped) ways of living for Jaina friars and Jinas being conceived in the Agama texts it has been observed that the Kusana Jaina images from Mathura, showing full concurrence with the Agamic tradition, can suggest no sectarian affiliation with the Digambaras, these rather, and up to at least the mid-2nd century A.D., represent the undifferentiated proto-Svetambara and Digambara sect. The earliest examples showing the difference of the Svetambara and Digambara sects in visual representations are known only from late 5th century A.D. onwards after the Valabhi council. The Kusana figures with volume and stiffness underwent stylistic change in respect of plasticity, serenity, elegance and animation during the Gupta period. The Kusana Jina images are heavy and static in form and posture. The Gupta period (4th century to A.D. 600) was a milestone in the development of Jaina iconography, and some of the most significant iconographic features, as for example the distinguishing cognizances (lanchana) and the Yaksa-Yaksi figures, were introduced during the period. The Gupta Jaina sculptures are reported from several sites, like Mathura, Rajgir, Kahaum, Nachna, Durjanpur (Vidisha), Varanasi, Chausa and Akota (Pls. 122,132). The images of Rsabhanatha, Ajitanatha, Candraprabha, Puspadanta, Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira Jinas were carved during this period. The first Svetambara Jaina image, known from Akota (Gujarat), was also carved in the Gupta period. The muscular shape of Kusana image is melted in slenderness and the Gupta figures are always shown beautiful. The ornaments and garments are minimized and the body treatment is smooth. The outer strength and vigour are replaced by inner vision and spiritual force. The joy, earlier expressed through the body and lips, is now experienced within. The perfection, refinement, sophistication and brilliance were hallmarks of all the visual arts of the Gupta period. The Gupta sculptures show a wonderful synthesis between the external form and the inner meaning with the result that the figures touch the height of spirituality. Indianness became an important character and images are well proportionate, animated, serene and youthful in

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Introduction Mathura, Deogadh, Chandpur, Chanderi, Khajuraho, Bilhari, Gwalior, Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Navamuni caves- Puri, Orissa), Akota, Delvada (Vimalavasahi, Lunavasahi, Kharataravasahi), Kumbharia, Taranga, Jalore, Ranakpur, Girnar and Satrunjaya. SOUTH INDIA South India (south of Vindhyan mountain) has been an important seat of Digambara and also of the Yapaniya Jaina sects. The tradition says that the Mauryan ruler Candragupta journeyed to the south towards the end of his life in the company of his teacher Bhadrabahu, some time before B.C. 297. The Digambara monk Visakhacarya with a number of followers went to South India in the areas of the Cholas and the Pandyas. Kundakundacarya also spread Jainism in the area. It was mainly during the period of the Pallavas of Kancipuram, Rastrakutas of Manyakheta and the Pandyas of Madurai that Jainism had its heydays. The whole of the south, particularly Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and great dynasties of these regions were often dedicated to Jainism. We know of the rulers (5th to 12th-13th cent. A.D.) of the Pallava, Pandya, Western Calukya, Ganga, Rastrakuta, Kalacuri and Hoysala royal families who were devoted to Jainism and for its spread. Many Jaina poets of great repute flourished under the patronage of Rastrakuta rulers of Manyakheta (Malkhed). Under their patronage developed the Jaina caves of Ellora (Cave nos. 30-34) which yielded some of the masterpieces of Jaina sculptures of Bahubali, Parsvanatha and Ambika. Virasena wrote his monumental commentaries on Satkhandagama under Jagattunga and his successors. Jinasena and Gunabhadra Acaryas, composed the great epic Mahapurana (consisting of Adipurana and Uttarapurana, 9th century A.D.) at the time of King Amoghavarsa, a follower of Jainism. Mahaviracarya wrote a work on mathematics. King Amoghavarsa was himself the author of Ratnamalika, a work that became popular with all the sects. Puspadanta composed his famous Mahapurana in Apabhramsa under 259 the patronage of the minister of the Rastrakuta ruler Krsna III. The earliest vestiges of Jaina art in South India are of about 2nd cent. B.C. These are mostly natural caverns and caves in the extreme South. These caves are at Anamalat, Arachallevi, Aykudi Kalugumalai. Kurungalakkudi, Kidaripatti, Kilavalavu, Kongapulayankulam, Kunnakudi, Mamandur, Margalavalai, Mettupatti. Pugalur, Sittannavasal, Tiruchirapalli, Vavidhaiyur and Vikkiramangalam. There are several improvised rockcut beds carved for the monks with slightly raised pillows for supporting the head of slumbering monk. The short references to donations magnanimously made by lay followers are mentioned in early Brahmi inscriptions. The most prolific sites of sculptural and architectural embellishments in South India (including Maharashtra) from c. 600 A.D. to 16th cent. A.D. are Badami, Aihole, Arsikeri, Lakkundi, Halebid, Mudabidri, Humca, Sravanabelagola (Calukya 8th-9th century to Nayaka period), Karur (Shimoga) and Venur and Karkal in Karnataka, Ellora (five caves - Nos. 30-34, 9th cent. A.D.) in Maharashtra, Tiruparuttikunaram (c. 8th to 16th-17th cent. A.D. - both sculpture and painting), Sittannavasal, Tirakkol, Anamalai (all three Pallava), Melsittamur and Deviagram (South Arcot), Kalugumalai, Karaikoyil, Tirumalai (Vellore, 9th-10th century A.D.), Vallimalai and Danavulapadu (Cuddapah) in Tamil Nadu, Bapatala (Guntur - 8th century A.D.), Chandragiri (Chitoor 9th to 12th century A.D.) and Penukonda (Anantapur 11th century A.D.) in Andhra Pradesh and Kallil (c. 8th 9th century A.D.) in Kerala. The Western Gangas, who made Jainism almost the religion of their state, were great patrons of Jaina teachers. Camundaraya, the general of Marasimha, the Ganga king, was the architect of the great colossus of Sravanabelagola, the unique sculpture of Bahubali (A.D. 983) that is probably the one great example of Garga art if one were to choose a single example to represent that phase of art itself.

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260 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Among the Hoysala kings, Visnuvardhana, originally a disciple of Jaina Prabhacandra, subsequently embraced Vaisnavism though his queen Santala Devi, a remarkable scholar with a high aesthetic taste, continued to be a Jaina. Queen Santala like her husband Visnuvardhana had deep faith in temple-building and making endowments to Jaina monuments. Visnuvardhana continued a favourable attitude towards Jainism and freely endowed several Jaina temples. The Jaina temples and enormous sculptures thereon at Halebid, Arsikeri and Lakkundi bear testimony to this. The Vijayanagara rulers had the largest empire in the south and some rulers, specially Bukka I, created an amicable atmosphere by bringing together the friendship of the devotees of Jaina and Vaisnava faiths. The queen Bimadevi of Deva Raya I was the disciple of a Jaina Acarya Abhinava Carukirti. Panditacarya, the general of Bukka II, was a Jaina by faith and Krsna Deva Raya himself, the greatest emperor of the Vijayanagara royal family, endowed for Vardhamana temple at Tirupparuttikunram in A.D. 1517. ART AND AESTHETICS The extension of the Gupta style can distinctly be noticed in the early Calukyan sculptures from Badami and Aihole, datable to c. A.D. 600. The style and subjects are almost identical at both the places where- from the images of only Parsvanatha and Mahavira Jinas and Bahubali and Ambika are found. The Jaina caves at Badami (No. 4) and Aihole have seated figures of Mahavira in the sanctum, while the mukhamandapa contains the figures of Bahubali and Parsvanatha facing each other. The Parsvanatha images from Badami and Aihole are significant as these are the earliest examples showing the onslaught of the demon Sambara (or Kamatha) during the course of Parsvanatha's trance and meditation. Bahubali, also known as Gommatesvara, is represented as standing in deep trance. The austerities of Bahubali are aptly shown for the first time at Badami and Aihole. The rendering of entwining creepers around the hands and legs of Bahubali, and also the presence of snakes coming out of anthills, carved close to his legs, are peculiar features of both the Bahubali images, suggesting thereby the long passage of time of his penance. In concurrence with the Digambara Jaina tradition, there also appear the figures of two Vidyadharis, embellished in beautiful decorated mukutas and other ornaments. Aesthetically, the Bahubali and Ambika images at Aihole are among the finest works of the early Calukyan artist showing superb grace, plasticity and suppleness. Thus Jainism in South has contributed in no small measure. The great monuments speak eloquently of the aesthetic taste of the patrons and the architects who constructed the embellished abodes for their deities and also carved or painted their figures in the spirit and glory of divine forms. The most frequent representation of the Jinas found in South India are Rsabhanatha, Parsvanatha, Suparsvanatha, Mahavira, Santinatha and Neminatha. The attack by Kamatha with his dreadful hordes to dissuade Parsvanatha from his tapas as an ascetic, corresponding to the beguilement of Mara (Maradharsana) to wean away Buddha from his firm resolve to attain enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, has been a very popular theme. One of the finest representations from South India of this theme is at Tirakkol (North Arcot, Tamil Nadu). It is an impressive carving of Pallava period carved on a large boulder. It is usually believed that the Jaina art has been monotonous, repetitive and mainly spiritual in content. But after making detailed study of the Jaina literary works one finds that they are full of life and references to material world including aesthetic appreciation of physical beauty, ornaments and performing arts like dance and music. The Jaina temples of Khajuraho, Delvada, Kumbharia and all other places are profusely embellished with the figures of apsarases or Nayikas (damsels) which have bewitching beauty. The Parsvanatha temple of Khajuraho and Delvada temples are brilliant examples of exquisitely carved Jaina figures. Jain Education Intemational ation Intermational

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Introduction 261 The Jaina works endorse for householders (Sravaka - (dhyana-mudra and kayotsarga-mudra) of austerity. They Sravikas) a balanced life which includes virtuous and introduced several figures and elements to suggest spiritual life alongwith aspirations for worldly pleasures difference from one Jina image to the other by way and possessions. As a result, we find that the figures of cognizances, Yaksa-Yaksi figures, astapratiharyas, of the Yaksas and Yaksis were associated with each small Jina figures in the parikara and the figures of of 24 Vitaragi Jinas to fulfil the worldly aspirations Navagrahas, Laksmi and Sarasvati etc. Through the of the worshippers. The incorporation of 24 Yaksas and changes in the order of figural representations, their Yaksis (or Sasanadevatas) were intended to cater to the placements, compositions and decorative features the needs of common worshippers aspiring for worldly and monotony of Jina images was broken. The Jinas no material possessions. These deities bestow on their doubt were highest object of worship denoting spirituality worshippers desired material boons. The Harivamsa but at the same time their proportionate beautiful body, Purana (783 A.D., 66.43 - 45) speaks of the relevance benign face and youthful appearance radiant with of the adoration of the Sasanadevatas, who are capable spirituality had aesthetic appeal. The BIhatsamhita and of conferring boons and pacifying the malefic Manasara also conceive of Jina images as beautiful power of the grahas, rogas, bhutas, pisacas and (rupavana and surupa). raksasas. The present study is divided into following The examples of Jaina sculptures, architecture and chapters : (VIII) Jinas or Tirthankaras; (IX) Yaksa and paintings distinctly reveal enormous variety of forms Yaksi (sasanadevatas); (X) Mahavidyas; (XI) Other and innovations in reference to time and space and also Jaina Gods and Goddesses; (XII) Bahubali, Bharata aesthetic appeal which bear testimony to the fact that Muni and Jivantasvami images; (XIII) Some Important like Vedic-Puranic and Buddhist art, Jaina art had also Aspects of Jaina Art. all the plastic and aesthetic qualities which could invite REFERENCES and engross any art lover as well as the adherent of U.P. Shah, Jaina-Rupa-Mandana (Jaina Jainism. If we look carefully at the Jina images of any Iconography), New Delhi, 1987; C. Sivaramamurti, prolific site, namely Mathura, Deogadh, Khajuraho, Panorama of Jain Art - South India, New Delhi, 1983; Ellora, Delvada, Kumbharia etc., we find that artists Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari, Elements of Jaina were always concerned about getting rid of monotony, iconography, Varanasi, 1983; Pratapaditya Pal (Editor), irrespective of the fact that the Jinas were to be shown The Peaceful Liberators - Jain Art from India, Los only with two hands and in two customary postures Angeles, 1994. * Jain Education Intemational

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CHAPTER VIII JINAS OR TIRTHANKARAS The nucleus of Jaina pantheon, and so also the visual manifestation, centred around the 24 Jinas or the Tirthankaras who were venerated as the devadhideva, the Supreme Deity. As a consequence, the Jina images outnumber the images of all other Jaina deities. The Jina images denote bhava worship and not the dravya worship (physical or idol worship). Jina worship is regarded mainly a worship not of the God or a deity but of a human being who has attained perfection and freedom from all bondage. The passionless Jinas or arhats are vitaragas and therefore neither they favour nor frown upon anybody. Because of this only Jinas were represented always in the postures of meditation while Buddha, in due course of time, was represented with such gestures as the abhaya-mudra, the varadamudra etc. Moreover, none of the Jinas was ever credited with performance of miracles even at the time of their upasargas (hindrances caused by evil spirits during their penance) while the case was reverse with Buddha. Thus it is apparent that the Jainas by strictly adhering to the dhyana (seated cross-legged) and the kayotsarga (standing erect in attitude of dismissing body) mudras in respect of the Jinas have shown their unceasing respect for yogic postures of transcendental meditation and bodily abandonment. However, to cater to the needs and aspirations of the worshippers for material world the Yaksas and Yaksis were associated with each of the 24 Jinas as Sasanadevatas. Historically, the list of all the 24 Jinas as per available texts was finalized by the beginning of the Christian era. The earliest list occurs in the Samavayanga Sutra (Sutra 157), Bhagavati Sutra, Kalpasutra (2.184 203) and Paumacariyam (1.1-7). The representation of the Jinas in art started in c. 3rd century B.C. The Kalpasutra describes at length only the lives of Rsabhanatha, Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira who were the most popular of all the Jinas in literature and art. As a natural corollary, the Yaksas and Yaksis of these Jinas enjoyed a very favoured position. Ajitanatha, Sambhavanatha, Suparsvanatha. Candraprabha, Santinatha and Munisuvrata happened to be the next favoured Jinas. The figures of the remaining Jinas are comparatively fewer in number. Of all the Jinas, the iconographic features of Parsvanatha were finalised first. The seven-hooded snake canopy was associated with Parsvanatha in c. first century B.C. Thereafter in c. first century A.D., Rsabhanatha was endowed with flowing hair-locks, as is evident from the sculptures procured from Mathura and Chausa (Pl. 122). Balarama and Krsna joined Neminatha as his cousins in Kusana period as is borne out by the Neminatha sculptures from Kankali-Tila, Mathura. During the Kusana period (1st-2nd century A.D.) the images of Sambhavanatha, Munisuvrata and Mahavira were also carved but they are identified on the basis of the pedestal inscriptions, bearing their respective names (Pl. 120). The Kusana Jina figures signify the early stage of representation. They exhibit stiffness and muscular treatment of the body. The rendering of the distinguishing cognizances, YaksaYaksi pairs and the astapratiharyas (eight chief accompanying attributes- asoka tree, devadundubhi, scattering of flowers by gods, triple umbrella, fly-whisk, lion-throne, divine music and halo: Paimacariya, 2.3536 and Pratisthasaroddhara, 1.76-77) with the Jinas which marks a significant development in Jina iconography, started as early as in the Gupta period. Thus Gupta period (4th to 6th centuries A.D.) was a milestone in the development of Jina images. The Neminatha and Mahavira images respectively from Rajgir (Vaibhara hill, Bihar) and Varanasi (now in the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi, Acc. No. 161) are the earliest

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 263 instances of Gupta period which show the distinguishing of the Jinas occur mainly at the Svetambara Jaina sites cognizances of Jinas. The Rsabhanatha image from in western India, namely, Kumbharia, Delvada Akota is the earliest Jina image with Yaksa and Yaksi (Vimalavasahi and Lunavasahi) and Osian. These figures. The Brhatsamhita (58.45) of Varahamihira is instances, datable between 11th and 13th century A.D. the earliest text which envisages the iconographic features deal chiefly with the pancakalyanakas (five chief events of the sky-clad Jina images which have long-hanging in the life of a Jina - cyavana, janma, diksa, kevalajnana arms, the srivatsa mark, the serene and youthful and nirvana) and some other important events in the appearance and beautiful form. lives of Rsabhanatha, Santinatha, Munisuvrata, (Ajanulambabahuh srivatsankah prasantamurtisca Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira. Of all these, the digvasastaruno rupavasca karyorhatam devah//) scenes of fight between Bharata and Bahubali, the story The Manasara (c. 6ih century A.D., 55.46 and of the previous life of santinatha in which he generously 71.95) of southern tradition also visualizes Jinas as sky- offered the flesh of his entire body to save the life of clad and beautiful in forms (surupa) but without ornament a pigeon, the trial of strength between Krsna and and drapery Neminatha and also the marriage procession of Nirabharanasarvangam nirvastrangam manoharam Neminatha and his renunciation, the story of sarva vaksasthale hemavarnam srivatsalanchanam/ Asvavabodha and Sakunikavihara in the life of The Pratisthasarasamgraha (4.1-4) also gives Munisuvrata and the previous births of Parsvanatha and identical features. The Jinas are always to be shown Mahavira alongwith their tapas and different upasargas in human form with two hands and two eyes. (inflictions) created by the demons are of special The lists of the distinguishing cognizances of the iconographic importance. 24 Jinas were finalised in c. 8-9ch century A.D., as The images and iconography of each of the 24 referred to in the Kahavali and the Tiloyapannatti Jinas will now be discussed alongwith other forms of (4.604-05) (PI. 238). As far as the cognizances of the Jina images like Dvitirthi, Tritirthi, Caumukhi and Jina Jinas are concerned, the Svetambara and Digambara Cauvisi. traditions are in agreement with each other, with a few RSABHANATHA OR ADINATHA (I" Jina) exceptions as in cases of Suparsvanatha, Sitalanatha. The first Jina Rsabhanatha or Adinatha is also Anantanatha and Aranatha. The Jina images reached the worshipped as Adisvara and Jinanatha. His cognizance final stage of iconographic development in c. 9h-10h is bull and he is shown with hanging hair-locks for century A.D. which invariably contained distinguishing which we find story in the Svetambara texts that while emblems, Yaksa-Yaksi figures, astapratiharyas, all other 23 subsequent Jinas plucked out their hair in dharmacakra with worshippers, diminutive Jina figures five handfuls at the time of renunciation, Rsabhanatha, and, at times, figures of Navagrahas, Vidyadevis, at the request of Indra, plucked out his hair only in elephants lustrating the Jinas and some other figures. four handfuls and left the remaining hair (Kalpasutra, The rendering of Santidevi carrying lotuses and two 195 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra, 3.60-70). It is deer flanking the dharmacakra in the centre of the because of this tradition that Rsabhanatha right from throne (suggesting peace), bull-faced figures and some the Kusana period is shown with the hanging hair locks other figures playing on flute and vina in the parikara which was his distinguishing feature, besides bull of Jina images was confined mainly to the Svetambara cognizance. Surprisingly, the lateral strands are some Jaina sites of western India. times shown like big jata or even jata-mukuta in early The carvings of the narrative scenes from the lives medieval sculptures from M.P. and Orissa. The bull Jain Education Intemational

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264 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies cognizance, lateral strands and Gomukha Yaksa (bearing parasu) suggest the semblance between Siva and Rsabhanatha which is indicative of the commonality of Indian tradition. The Yaksa-Yaksi associated with Rsabhanatha are Gomukha and Cakresvari (or Apraticakra), apparently representing the two principal deities respectively of Saiva and Vaisnava cults to suggest perhaps the superiority of Rsabhanatha. The earliest known images of Rsabhanatha, procured from Mathura and Chausa are datable to 14 2nd century A.D. which are identified mainly on the basis of hanging hair-locks (Pl. 122). However, in three instances from Mathura (State Museum, Lucknow, J. 26, J. 69 and Government Museum, Mathura, B. 36), the name of Rsabhanatha is also inscribed. The images of Gupta period (4th to 6th centuries A.D.) are mainly found from Mathura, Chusa and Akota. The figures from Mathura show beautifully delineated long curly jatas and typical ornate halo. However, in one instance from Government Museum, Mathura (12.268), the name of Rsabhanatha is also inscribed (Pl. 131). During the Gupta period the rendering of small Jina figures somewhere on the simhasana or in the parikara was also introduced. The earliest Svetambara images coming from Akota also represent Rsabhanatha as standing and clad in dhoti (Pl. 132). The Svetambara metal image of Rsabhanatha (standing) from Akota also shows for the first time the figures of Yaksa and Yaksi with the Jina. Rsabhanatha is joined by two-armed Sarvanubhuti (or Kubera) Yaksa and Ambika Yaksi, the earliest Yaksa-Yaksi figures to be associated with the Jinas. It may be remembered that it was only from 7th-8th century A.D. that the traditional Yaksa-Yaksi Gomukha and Cakresvari were shown with Rsabhanatha. The Gupta. figures reveal all the plastic qualities of Gupta period in terms of expression and spirituality. During the early medieval period all the above features were crystalized and the parikara was more elaborate having small Jina figures, sometimes their number being 23 and thus making the images as Jina Cauvisi of Rsabhanatha. Of the numerous western Indian Svetambara sites special mention may be made of Vasantagarh, Osian (Mahavira temple and Devakulikasg19-11th centuries A.D.), Akota, Kumbharia, Delvada, Satrunjaya and Ranakpur. At Svetambara Jaina sites mostly the Yaksa-Yaksi shown with Rsabhanatha are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika with few exceptions where Gomukha and Cakresvari are carved. A beautiful metal image of Sarvat 1186 (A.D. 1129) is preserved in the Rayland House Gallery Private Collection, London. In concurrence with the Svetambara Jaina tradition of western Indian bronze images, the present Jina image along with lateral strands and the bull cognizance gives the name of the Jina as Adinatha. The Yaksa and Yaksi carved at the throne extremities are Kubera (with fruit and purse) and Ambika (with a bunch of mangoes and a child). The beautiful bronze sculpture with the small figures of 23 Jinas is exquisitely done. The symbolic renderings of the Navagrahas (shown as small human heads) and two deer flanking and facing the dharmacakra (a motif borrowed from the Buddhist art of Sarnath) are also remarkable. Another beautiful example in metal from Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) is now in the Berlin Museum (Pl. 137). This image (A.D. 1144) also contains the figures of 23 other Jinas in parikara. It is somewhat surprising that at the Digambara Jaina sites of north India, Rsabhanatha was accorded the most exalted position but in south India his popularity comes only next to Parsvanatha and Mahavira. Of the most prolific north Indian sites, mention may be made of Mathura, Deogadh (more than 60 images), Khajuraho (more than 50 figures), Dudahi, Chanderi, Rajgir, Pottasingidi, Manbhum, Khandagiri, Charampa, Surohar (Dinajpur, Bangla Desh) and Purulia (Pls. 134, 135, 136). What is specially important is the beautiful jatajuta or jata-mukuta shown with Rsabhanatha at Deogadh, Khajuraho, Surohara and at a number of places in Orissa (Pl. 134). An image of Rsabhanatha seated in dhyana-mudra with jata-mukuta and hanging hair-locks is preserved in a Jaina temple at Vaibhara hill (Rajgir, Jain Education Intemational Education Intemational

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 265 Nalanda, 8ih century A.D.). The figure of bull cognizance is carved here in a pair on two sides of the dharmacakra which is a unique feature (Pl. 133). The medieval figures are characterised by elaborate parikara and excessive ornamentation and flexions in respect of Yaksa- Yaksi and other figures. Thus Jina images became wonderful combination of spiritual (Jina) and worldly beauty (parikara figures). In north Indian examples the Yaksa-Yaksi are always Gomukha and Cakresvari, while the other features like lateral strands and bull cognizance are the same. However, the rendering of 23 Jinas in the parikara, sometimes with respective cognizances (Surohara, now in Varendra Research Museum, Bangla Desh, No. 1472) was very popular in north Indian examples. Sometimes, as found at Khajuraho, Deogadh and other places, the figures of Navagrahas are also carved on the pedestal (Pl. 134). At least in three examples of 10h-12h centuries A.D. from Deogadh (Temple No. 2), Khajuraho (Jardin Museum, Khajuraho, Acc. No. 1651) and Jalaun (State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. 16.0.178), the figures of Laksmi, Sarasvati, Ambika and few other goddesses are also carved to hint at the paramount importance of Jinanatha (as called in the inscription of the Parsvanatha - actually Adinatha Jaina temple of Khajuraho.) One bronze figure (c. 104 century A.D.) from Orissa, now in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Acc. No. BL 43), represents Rsabhanatha with beautiful tall jata- mukuta in Orissan style. The slender body with slightly exaggerated elongation gives an impact of weightlessness which reminds us of the other Orissan sculptures, one of which (representing two Jinas in Dvitirthi image) could be seen in the British Museum, London (Acc. No. 1872.7-1.99). In south India the Rsabhanatha images were carved from about 9h century A.D., the examples of which are found at Ellora. A Jina Cauvisi of Rsabhanatha seated with hair-locks and two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi is found from Pudukkottai (Tamil Nadu, 11th 12th century A.D., now in Department of Archaeology, Mysore) (PI. 139). However, the Yaksa-Yaksi apparently are not Gomukha and Cakresvari. A seated image with flywhisk bearing attendant is also found from Gulbarga. The Pudukkottai museum, Tamil Nadu, preserves a small bronze of Caturvimsati-Patta (c. 1000 A.D.) which contains in the centre a standing figure of Rsabhanatha with hair-locks and Gomukha Yaksa and Cakresvari Yaksi. The bronze was dug out from the site of the Maharaja's College at Pudukkottai. Another beautiful sculpture of Rsabhanatha (c. 10th 11th century A.D.) from Warangal (A.P.) is now preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi. The Nagpur Museum also preserves a hoard of beautiful Jaina bronzes from Rajnapur Khinkhini (Akola, Maharashtra) which has Caturvimsati-patta of Rsabhanatha (10th century A.D.). The Yaksa is Kubera while the Yaksi with discs is undoubtedly Cakresvari. A graceful stone image of Rsabhanatha with hanging hair-locks and standing as he is in the kayotsarga-mudra is preserved in the Neminatha temple (11th century A.D.) at Amminabhavi (Dharwar, Karnataka) (Pl. 138). Rsabhanatha is here joined by the figures of Yaksa (which is not Gomukha) and Yaksi (Cakresvari) along with the standing figures of Parsvanatha and Suparsvanatha shown respectively with seven and fivehooded snake canopy on right and left flanks. The image is beautiful in terms of framing ornate pilasters topped by makara and trichatra along- with 21 other diminutive figures of seated Jinas elegantly arranged in parikara composition. The present Cauvisi of Rsabhanatha is, indeed, vibrant with life and spirituality. The group of 24 Jinas from Venur (14th century A.D.), Sravanabelagola and other places also exhibits Rsabhanatha. At Venur Rsabhanatha with bull cognizance is joined by four-armed human-faced Yaksa (not Gomukha) bearing rosary, axe, goad and fruit, while twelve-armed Yaksi with disc, thunderbolt, lotus and varada-mudra is Cakresvari. Another very significant aspect was the rendering Jain Education Intemational

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266 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies of the narratives from the life of Rsabhanatha which are found as early as the Kusana period. The subsequent instances showing mainly the panca-kalyanakas and some other events are found from Osian (devakulika) and Kumbharia (ceilings of Santinatha and Mahavira temples). The earliest example from Mathura (now in State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. J. 354) represents the dance of Nilanjana being watched by Rsabhanatha (as a king) (Pl. 140). It was the death of Nilanjana during the time of dance which brought about aversion towards worldly things in the mind of Rsabhanatha which led to his renunciation. Likewise in the narathara panel of the eastern devakulika at Osian (near Mahavira temple), the dance of Nilanjana could be identified alongwith the janma-kalyanaka. In the ceilings of Kumbharia temples, the figures of Marudevi and Nabhi are followed by the 14 auspicious dreams seen by Marudevi and figure of Rsabhanatha (as a ruler) imparting the knowledge of different arts (war, writing, pottery making) to his people and his panca-kalyanakas (Pl. 141). The scenes of fight between Bharata and Bahubali and the latter's subsequent renunciation and deep trance with entwining creepers are also significant. The presence of two sisters - Brahmi and Sundari (inscribed) in concurrence with the Svetambara tradition in the Santinatha temple is also important. These minutely carved beautiful narratives fully concur with the details available in Trisastisalakapurusacaritra. The narratives have label inscriptions also. AJITANATHA (2nd Jina) The cognizance of Ajitanatha is an elephant while the Yaksa-Yaksi associated with him are Mahayaksa and Ajita (or Rohini). The independent figures of Ajitanatha are found from 6th-7th century A.D. wherein the elephant cognizance is carved. However, the Yaksa- Yaksi were carved from about gth century A.D. It appears that the traditional Yaksa and Yaksi were not shown with Ajitanatha and instead two-armed Yaksa- Yaksi with common features like abhaya or varada- mudra and fruit (or water vessel) were carved. It may be noted that with most of the Jinas, excepting for Rsabhanatha, Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, Yaksa-Yaksi figures were carved without distinguishing features as against the iconographic texts which invariably envisage distinguishing features for all the Yaksas and Yaksis. The earliest figure of c. 6th-7th century A.D., found from Varanasi is presently preserved in the State Museum, Lucknow (Acc.No. 49-199). The figure shows Ajitanatha standing as sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra with halo. The elephant cognizance in present instance is carved in pair on the pedestal, which was a recurring convention during the Gupta period particularly at Varanasi and Rajgir. The independent figures of Ajitanatha are meagre, barring the examples where 24 Jina images are installed in 24 Devakulikas (found mainly at Svetambara Jaina sites at Delvada and Kumbharia) or even the figures of 24 Jinas being carved on the Jina Cauvisi-Pattas. The independent figures of Ajitanatha are found mainly from Akota (8th century A.D. with Yaksa-Yaksi figures), Ajitanatha temple, Ahmedabad (A.D. 1053), Parsvanatha temple at Kumbharia, Deogadh (10th-12h centuries-five figures), Khajuraho (11-12th century A.D. - four figures), Rajgir (Son Bhandar cave), Aluara (Manbhum, Bengal, c. 10-11 century A.D., now in Patna Museum), Charampa (Orissa - 11th century A.D., now in Orissa State Museum, Bhubaneswar) and in the Navamuni, Barabhuji and Trisula caves of Orissa. The YaksaYaksi figures in most of the cases are two-armed and without the distinguishing attributes (Usually with most of the Jinas barring Rsabhanatha, Neminatha Parsvanatha and Mahavira, the two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi do not possess distinctive attributes or iconographic features). The metal figures, particularly from western India belonging to medieval period, also represent Ajitanatha. One of such figures of 14th century A.D. with elephant cognizance and belonging to Digambara tradition is now preserved in Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Jain Education Intemational ducation Intemational

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 267 However, in few examples from Deogadh, Khajuraho, Rajgir and some other places in North India, Ajitanatha (with cognizance) is shown in Dvitirthi, Tritirthi and even Caumukhi (Rajgir) Jina images. SAMBHAVANATHA (3rd Jina) Sambhavanatha is endowed with horse as cognizance and Trimukha and Duritari (or Prajnapti) as Sasanadevatas. The earliest-known image of Sambhavanatha, belonging to Kusana period, is found from Mathura (presently in State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. J. 19). The image with inscription, dated in Samvat 48 (A.D. 126), refers to Sambhavanatha. Sambhavanatha sits in dhyana-mudra on a pedestal containing dharmacakra placed on triratna flanked by worshippers. The present image is an evidence to show that Sambhavanatha finds representation from the Kusana period. After the Kusana period the next known image, datable to c. 7th-8th century A.D., is found from Son Bhandar cave at Rajgir (now in Nalanda Museum). It is a Jina Caumukhi image which represents Sambhavanatha with Rsabhanatha, Ajitanatha and Abhinandana Jinas. In another independent example known from Banpur Khas (Jhansi, U.P.), Sambhavanatha standing with small Jina figures in the parikara is shown with horse cognizance. Besides the Sambhavanatha figures found from Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and Navamuni and Barabhuji caves in collective renderings), a sufficient number of figures are procured also from Mathura, Khajuraho, Bijnaur (Parasanatha Kila, A.D. 1010), Narwar (Sivapuri, M.P.), Padhavali (M.P.), Rani Durgawati Museum, Jabalpur; Kumbharia, Delvada, Satrunjaya and Radhanpur (Gujarat). The figures of Sambhavanatha in south India are rarely encountered. In the set of 24 Jina figures found in Jaina temple at Venur (Karnataka), Sambhavanatha standing with trichatra is found with Trimukha Yaksa and Prajnapti Yaksi and horse lanchana. Two other examples, belonging to Hoysala period, are found at Sravanabelagola. A few temples dedicated to Sambhavanatha are also to be seen at Kumbharia and Radhanpur (sanctum image is of A.D. 1625). At Satrunjaya both the stone and metal images were carved. All the images usually show the horse cognizance and the astapratiharyas. The YaksaYaksi figures however, do not show distinguishing features. In one of the figures in the State Museum, Lucknow (Acc. No. J. 855, 10-11th century A.D.), the horse is carved in pair which indeed was a Gupta tradition. Deogadh has yielded 11 figures, belonging to 10h-12h centuries A.D. Jina in all the examples is shown as standing with horse cognizance. However, the twoarmed Yaksa-Yaksi figures are carved only in six examples. The images in Temple Nos. 15 and 30 exhibit either the Yaksa or both the Yaksa and Yaksi which are four-armed. The image in temple No. 30 also exhibits in the parikara the figure of acarya. Of the four images found from Khajuraho (11"-12th century A.D.), one in Temple No. 27 is dated to A.D. 1158. Most of the examples from Khajuraho represent Jina as seated with two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi figures. However, in one example (Archaeological Museum, Khajuraho - Acc. No.1715, 11th century A.D.), Sambhavanatha surprisingly is flanked by two standing figures of Suparsvanatha having five-hooded snake canopy. ABHINANDANA (4th Jina) The cognizance of Abhinandana is monkey while the Sasanadevatas are Yaksesvara (or Isvara) and Kalika (or Kali). Although independent figure of the Jina is found only from 10h century A.D. yet in a Jina Caumukhi image from Vaibharagiri (Rajgir-now in Archaeological Museum, Nalanda), datable to 8th century A.D., Abhinandana (with monkey cognizance) is represented as standing sky-clad alongwith the figures of first three Jinas - Rsabhanatha, Ajitanatha, and Sambhavanatha-on three other sides. The separate figures of Abhinandana are found mainly from Deogadh, Khajuraho, Navamuni and Barabhuji caves, Kumbharia (Mahavira - A.D. 1085 and Parsvanatha - A.D. 1202 temples), Radhanpur (Gujarat), National Museum, New Delhi (metal image Jain Education Intemational

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268 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies - A.D. 1448, Acc. No. 48.4/88), Venur, Moodbidri and Sravanabelagola. In cases of Barabhuji. Venur, Moodbidri and Sravanabelagola, Abhinandana is represented in sets of the figures of 24 Jinas, usually shown with Yaksa-Yaksi figures (in Barabhuji cave only Yaksi is shown). Usually, the Yaksa-Yaksi figures have common features as discussed with Sambhavanatha. The earliest image of 10th century A.D. is procured from Deogadh (Temple No. 9) showing monkey cognizance and two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi with abhayamudra and kalasa. Abhinandana stands in the kayotsargamudra. In both the instances from Khajuraho (Parsvanatha temple and Temple No. 29) the Jina sits in dhyana-mudra with two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi figures. The Santinatha temple of Radhanpur preserves a metal Panca-tirthi image (A.D. 1448) of Abhinandana (in worship). All the figures as usual have expression of spirituality. SUMATINATHA (5 Jina) The cognizance of Sumatinatha is red goose (kraunca) but T. N. Ramachandran on the basis of some south Indian tradition has referred to the wheel or circle. The Yaksa and Yaksi associated with him are Tumbaru and Mahakali (or Naradatta or Purusadatta, Digambara texts). The rendering of Sumatinatha was not popular and the earliest example is datable to the 10th century A.D. A defaced Cauvisi image of Sumatinatha is procured from Sahet-Mahet (Gonda, U.P.). Two examples of 12th century A.D. are found from Vimalavasahi (cell No. 27) and Kumbharia (Parsvanatha temple), but the figures of mulanayaka are lost in both the cases and only the pedestal inscriptions contain the name of Sumatinatha. The Yaksa-Yaksi figures, like other Svetambara Jina images, are of Sarvanubhuti (or Kubera) and Ambika. The Kumbharia image (without Yaksa-Yaksi figures) has ornate torana containing the figures of some Mahavidyas (Apraticakra, Vajrankusi, Vairotya, Rohini, Mahamanasi) and Sarasvati. Two examples are found from Khajuraho (10th 11th century A.D., one on the facade of the garbhagrha of Parsvanatha temple) while one figure (A.D. 1158) comes from Mahoba (U.P.). In all the examples the cognizance and two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi figures are carved. In the instances from Barabhuji cave, Gingee (south Arcot, Tamil Nadu) and Sravanabelagola, Venur and Moodbidri, Sumatinatha is represented in the set of 24 Jinas. A few Panca-tirthi images of 15th-17th centuries A.D. are found from Satrunjaya (A.D. 1497 and A.D. 1663). However, in one instance from Satrunjaya (A.D. 1473, cell No. 613/9/10, inscription No. 273) the image in inscription is called Jivat-svamiSri-Sumatinatha-bimbam. (Jivantasvami image of Sumatinatha). PADMAPRABHA (6th Jina) The cognizance of Padmaprabha is lotus while the Yaksa and Yaksi associated with him are Kusuma and Acyuta (or Syama or Manasi or Manovega as per Digambara texts). However, the independent figures of Padmaprabha are found from about 10th century A.D. The Yaksa-Yaksi figures with Padmaprabha do not show the traditional features. The Yaksa-Yaksi in case of north Indian Digambara images are shown without distinguishing features while in case of Svetambara images of western India, as usual, Sarvanubhuti and Ambika are shown. In north India the figures of Padmaprabha are found mainly from Khajuraho (in the mandapa of Parsvanatha temple), Deogadh, Chhatarpur (A.D. 1149 - now in the State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. 0.122), Narwar (Shivapuri, M.P.), Gwalior and Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves). The huge seated image in the Parsvanatha temple at Khajuraho (10th century A.D.) depicts the Jina as seated with lotus cognizance and four-armed figures of Yaksa and Yaksi. The presence of two small figures of Sarasvati playing on vina in the parikara is noteworthy. In cell No. 20 of Parsvanatha temple at Kumbharia is preserved the pedestal of a sculpture of Padmaprabha which shows that the image was installed by merchant

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 269 Sajjana in Sarivat 1259 (A.D. 1202). Similarly, in the devakulika No. 7 of the Santinatha temple at Kumbharia was installed a sculpture of Padmaprabha dated in Samvat 1146 (A.D. 1089). On one of the two big metal images in the gudhamandapa of the Vimalavasahi, the inscription shows that this image of Padmaprabha was installed in Samvat 1550 (A.D. 1493) by Mantris Alhana and Molhana of Pragvata caste. The figure is a big single Jina image without any parikara. In cell No. 24 of Vimalavasahi there is also a sculpture of Padmaprabha with full parikara. In the temple of Adisvara at Radhanpur (Gujarat) a metal Panca-tirthi image of Padmaprabha (A.D. 1513) is in worship. In the set of 24 Jinas from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur in Karnataka also we find sculptures of Padmaprabha with Yaksa-Yaksi figures and cognizance. A rock-cut sculpture is found at Kuppalanatham (Madurai, Tamil Nadu). SUPARSVANATHA (7th Jina) Suparsvanatha like Parsvanatha is also associated with snake (Varanasi is his birth place) and as per texts he is provided with one, five or nine-hooded snake canopy overhead. In addition, the Jina is provided with svastika cognizance to be shown on the throne. In sculptures Suparsvanatha is mostly shown with five- hooded snake canopy but rarely with svastika cognizance (at Deogadh, Kumbharia). The Yaksa and Yaksi of Supar vanatha are Matanga and Santa (or Kali or Kalika in Digambara tradition). It may be remembered that Matanga is also visualized as the Yaksa of Mahavira. The images of Suparsvanatha are found from 10th century A.D. In few examples of 11th century A.D., the Yaksa-Yaksi are also carved with the Jina but they do not show the traditional features. It is interesting to note that Jinaprabhasuri in his Vividhatirthakalpa (14th century A.D.) refers to a Stupa of Suparsvanatha at Mathura erected by the gods (devanirmita) but surprisingly not a single image of Suparsvanatha is found from the Kankali Tila, Mathura. The figures of Suparsvanatha from north India are found mainly from Osian (devakulika), Kumbharia (devakulikas of Mahavira and Parsvanatha temples and gudhamandapa of Neminatha temple), Vimalavasahi, Sahadol, Bajramath (Gyaraspur), Deogadh (5 figures of 11th century), Khajuraho (two figure of 12th century A.D., Temple Nos. 5 and 28), Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves) and from the museums like Government Museum, Mathura (B. 26). State Museum, Lucknow (J. 935), Baroda Museum, Rajputana Museum, Ajmer (56) and Nagpur Museum (B. 62 and B. 23). The image in the Mahavira temple at Kumbharia (devakulika No. 78 A.D. 1085) has figures of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika as Yaksa and Yaksi. The image in the gudhamandapa of Neminatha temple at Kumbharia (A.D. 1157) represents Suparsvanatha as standing in the kayotsarga with five-hooded snake canopy and svastika cognizance. The Yaksa and Yaksi here also are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika and the pedestal and parikara contain the figures of Mahavidyas like Rohini, Vairotya, Prajnapti, Vajrankusa, Sarvastramahajvala, Vajrassikhala and also Sarasvati. In case of the seated figure of devakulika 19 of Vimala- vasahi (12h century A.D.), the Yaksa is Sarvanubhuti while Yaksi is Padmavati. Two figures of 12th century A.D. are in the National Museum, Delhi, also. One standing figure (No. 59.153/176) with five-hooded snake canopy is a fine specimen of Chola art of 11th century A.D. In case of the 11th century seated figure of State Museum, Lucknow (J. 935), the Yaksa-Yaksi are provided with three-hooded snake canopy to associate them with Suparsvanatha. At Deogadh, five-hooded snake canopy is invariably carved but svastika on the pedestal is shown only in one example, fixed on the enclosure wall of Temple No. 12.. In one instance of Temple No. 4, the two-armed Yaksa-Yaksi with flower and kalasa in hands are provided with snake canopy. in case of Khajuraho, apart from five-hooded snake canopy and svastika cognizance, the figure of Santidevi with lotuses is also shown. A metal Panca-tirthi image of Suparsvanatha, in Jain Education Intemational

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270 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies worship in the Cintamani Parsvanatha temple at Radhanpur (Gujarat), was installed in Samvat 1528 (A.D. 1471). In Samvat 1245 (A.D. 1188), Srimaladevi, the wife of Thakkura Jagadeva, the son of Mahamatya Prthvipala, installed a sculpture of Suparsvanatha in cell No. 29 of Vimalavasahi. At Paladi (Sirohi, Rajasthan), in the Jaina temple, there is a standing Suparsvanatha figure (A.D. 1291). The inscription expressly says that this is an image of Suparsvanatha. The beautiful marble sculpture (without svastika) belongs to the Svetambara tradition and shows five snake hoods over the head of the Jina. There is a black stone sculpture of standing Suparsvanatha from Patancheru (Medak, A.P., 12th century A.D.). The sculpture with five-hooded snake canopy is now preserved in the Government Museum, Hyderabad. The rock-cut sculpture on the southern wall of the facade of the Sittannavasal cave (Tamil Nadu) shows a Jina sitting with a canopy of five snake hoods. A very late but well-preserved image of Suparsvanatha was obtained from Tonk along with several marble images of other Jinas, all carved in the same style and without any parikara. Suparsvanatha is here identified with the help of the svastika carved on his seat. The Jina here has seven snake hoods overhead in place of usual five hoods. CANDRAPRABHA (8th Jina) Candraprabha (known is south India as Candranatha) has candra (crescent moon) as his cognizance while the Yaksa-Yaksi associated with him are Vijaya (or Syama or Ajita-according to Tiloyapannatti) and Bhrkuti (or Jvala or Manovega - according to Tiloyapannatti). A temple dedicated to Candraprabha exists at Somanathapatana in Saurashtra. Jinaprabhasuri states that the image of Candraprabha was brought to Devapattana (same as Somanatha-patana or Prabhasa-patana) from Valabhi alongwith images of Amba and Ksetrapala. The earliest-known sculpture of Candraprabha of 4th century A.D. was installed by Maharajadhiraja Ramagupta (elder brother of Chandragupta II), according to an inscription carved on the simhasana with dharmacakra. The image procured from Durjanpur (Vidisha, M.P.) is on exhibit in the Vidisha Museum (Pl. 123). The cognizance of the Jina seated in dhyanamudra is, however, not shown but the inscription gives the name of the Jina as Candraprabha. On each side of the Jina there stands flywhisk-bearer. The head of the attendant on the right is mutilated alongwith the upper half of the halo and the head of the Jina. The image shows the transitional features of Kusana-Gupta period. The srivatsa mark on the chest of the Jina and the conical crowns of flywhisk-bearers are still of the early type met with in the Kusana art of Mathura. A stone sculpture of Candraprabha (8h century A.D.) sitting in padmasana on a big Visvapadma placed on a simhasana was found in the Jaina temple at Vaibhargiri (Rajgir). Above dharmacakra is the crescent moon cognizance. Besides camaradharas, there are, on each side of the Jina, three small figures of Jinas in dhyana-mudra. Thus this image is a Sapta-tirthi image of Candraprabha. Two Maladharas, two drums and a triple umbrella are carved at top of parikara. Patna Museum (Acc. No. 10695) has a standing bronze figure of Candraprabha (c. 11th-12" century A.D.), known from Aluara (Bihar), with the crescent moon shown on the pedestal. A more beautiful bronze of standing Candraprabha from Achyutarajapura (Orissa, c. 104-11th century A.D.) is preserved in the State Museum, Bhubaneswara. A metal image of standing Candraprabha from Kakatpur (Orissa) is preserved in the Ashutosh Museum, Kolkata. The same museum has a stone Caturmukha shrine from Dewalia (Burdwan, West Bengal), on one side of which could be seen a standing figure of Candraprabha with the crescent cognizance. The figures of other three Jinas are of Rsabhanatha, Mahavira and Parsvanatha. The figures of Candraprabha from about 9th century A.D. onwards show Yaksa-Yaksi figures but they are usually twoarmed and without any distinguishing attributes. Of the Jain Education Intemational ducation Intermational

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Jinas or Tirthankaras numerous examples, some beautiful figures are procured from Kausambi (U.P., Allahabad Museum, Acc. No. 295, 9th century A.D., Pl. 142), Siron-Khurd, (Lalitpur, U.P. 10th century A.D), Khajuraho (two examples, one on the facade of the garbhagrha of Parsvanatha temple), Deogadh (nine-figures, 10th 11th century A.D.), Kumbharia (Parsvanatha- A.D. 1202 and NeminathaA.D. 1281 temples) and Vimalavasahi. All these figures are provided with crescent as cognizance or the name of the Jina is inscribed in the pedestal inscriptions. In the temple of Dharmanatha at Radhanpur there is a metal image of Candraprabha installed in Samvat 1306 (A.D. 1249). In the Cintamani Parsvanatha temple of Radhanpur there is in worship a metal Panca-tirthi image of Candraprabha, installed in Samvat 1439 (A.D. 1382). A beautiful seated sculpture of Candraprabha (15th-16th century A.D.) of white marble and with full parikara and every detail minutely carved, is preserved in the sanctum of a Svetambara shrine of Candraprabha at Patan, North Gujarat. In the centre of the simhasana (with crescent) is the four-armed Santidevi, while at the right and left extremities are carved the figures of four-armed Vijaya Yaksa and Bhrkuti Yaksi. The south India has also yielded a few images of Candraprabha, some of which are found from Sravanabelagola (Bhandara Basti, A.D. 1159 with fourarmed Yaksa-Yaksi), Humca and Venur (with YaksaYaksi) in Karnataka. The Battersea Reserve Collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has a rare example (Acc. No. 451) (IS), which is dated in Vira (Mahavira) Samvat 1928 (A.D. 1401) (Pl. 239). The seated Jina (without any pratiharya) has a crescent carved on the pedestal and hence identification with Candraprabha is certain. Perhaps the name of the Jina is also given in the inscription. The enigmatic point is that the Jina with srivatsa is provided with seven faces which obviously is suggestive of some composite form of Jina image wherein Candraprabha is the principal Jina. However, the faces should have been eight 271 in number to correspond with the traditional order, according to which Candraprabha is the 8th Jina. May be that like the figures of Brahma, Karttikeya, Mahesa and even Vaikuntha Visnu where one or more faces on the back are usually not shown here in the present instance of the Candraprabha image also one face on back is not carved. The provenance of the figure should be Western India. SUVIDHINATHA OR PUSPADANTA (9th Jina) The cognizance of Suvidhinatha or Puspadanta is makara and the Yaksa-Yaksi associated with him are Ajita (or Jaya) and Sutara (or Mahakali in Digambara tradition). Very few images of Suvidhinatha have been found. They hail mainly from Vidisha, Vimalavasahi (cell Nos. 31 and 38 12th century A.D.), Kumbharia (Parsvanatha and Santinatha temples), Chhatarpur, Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves) and Radhanpur. In South India he is represented mainly in the group of 24 Jinas found from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. The Yakssa and Yaksi carved with the Jina are shown mostly without any distinguishing feature and in case of Western Indian examples they are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. The earliest example of 4th century A.D. referring to Maharajadhiraja Ramagupta is found from Vidisha (now in the Vidisha Museum). The image seated in dhyana-mudra is identified merely on the basis of the pedestal inscription giving the name of Jina as Puspadanta. In case of Barabhuji and Trisula caves the seated Jina is endowed with makara cognizance and in one case the Yaksi also. The image (A.D. 1202) in the devakulika of Parsvanatha temple at Kumbharia gives the name of the Jina Suvidhinatha in the inscription. In case of Santinatha temple at Kumbharia also the image (A.D. 1081) is identifiable on the basis of the pedestal inscription. In the Kalyana-Parsvanatha temple at Radhanpur (Gujarat) there is in worship a metal Panca-tirthi image of Suvidhinatha installed in Samvat 1464 (A.D. 1407).

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272 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Another Panca-tirthi image installed in Samvat 1485 (A.D. 1328) is also in worship in the Neminatha temple, Radhanpur. All these figures have the name of the Jina in pedestal inscription. SITALANATHA (10th Jina) The cognizance of Sitalanatha is erivatsa while the Yaksa-Yaksi associated with him are Brahma or Brahma and Asoka (or Manavi in Digambara tradition). The independent figures of Sitalanatha are very few and are found from 10h century A.D. only. The Yaksa and Yaksi are rarely carved with the Jina, which in case of western Indian Svetambara images are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. The images of Sitalanatha are found mainly from Aranga (M.P.), Tripuri (now in Indian Museum, Kolkata), Gwalior, National Museum, Delhi (Acc. No. 48.4/46) Kumbharia (santinatha and Parsvanatha temples), Vimalavasahi, Candravati, Satrunjaya, and Barabhuji cave. The image in Barabhuji cave (12h century A.D.) has both the srivatsa lanchana and the figure of Yaksi. In case of the figures from Kumbharia, the name of the Jina is given in the inscription. These figures are datable lu 12th century AD. A Panca-tirthi image of Sitalanatha (A.D. 1460) is preserved in cell No. 593/4 at Satrunjaya. The figure in the National Museum is a metal image (A.D. 1485) showing srivatsa cognizance on simhasana alongwith the figures of YaksaYaksi and Navagrahas. In south India Sitalanatha is mostly represented in the group of 24 Jinas known from Sravanabelagola (standing figure with Brahma Yaksa and Manavi Yaksi), Moodbidri and Venur. According to Jinaprabhasuri (14th century A.D.), Sitalanatha was worshipped in a shrine in the Prayagatirtha (Allahabad). The Jainas of Vidisha today regard Vidisha as the old Bhadilapur, the birth place of Sitalanatha where they have a shrine dedicated. to this Jina. SREYANSANATHA (11th Jina) The cognizance of Sreyamsanatha is rhinoceros (Khadgi) but T. N. Ramchandran has noted three different traditions about the cognizance of the Jina, according to which, besides rhinoceros, deer and garuda are also prescribed. The Yaksa-Yaksi of threyamsanatha are Isvara (or Yaksaraja) and Manavi (or Gauri - according to Digambara texts). Isvara Yaksa and Gauri Yaksi at once remind us of the transformation of two principal Brahmanical deities Siva and Gauri. Besides the image in Barabhuji cave where the Yaksi is carved underneath, the figures of Yaksa and Yaksi are usually conspicuous by their absence. The figures of Sreyamsanatha are carved from about 10th century A.D., the examples of which from north India are found mainly from Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves), Pakbira (Purulia, West Bengal), Indore Museum, Narwar (M.P.), Kumbharia (devakulika No. 11, of Parsvanatha temple, A.D. 1202 and santinatha temple - A.D. 1081) and Sahet-Mahet (Gonda, U.P., now in State Museum, Lucknow - J. 856) and Satrunjaya (Kharataravasahi - A.D. 1512). Excepting the figures from Svetambara sites of western India where the name of the Jina is inscribed, all other figures show the rhinoceros cognizance. It is surprising that at the prolific sites like Deogadh and Khajuraho, the image of Sreyamsanatha was not carved. Sreyamsanatha could be seen in the set of 24 Jina images at Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. VASUPUJYA (12th Jina) The cognizance of Vasupujya is buffalo and the Yaksa and Yaksi are Kumara (or Sanmukha, apparently Karttikeya of Brahmanical tradition, according to Tiloyapannatti) and Candra (or Canda or Gandhari, according to Digambara texts). The earliest figures of Vasupujya are found from 10h century A.D. which show both the cognizance as well as the Yaksa and Yaksi which are either Sarvanubhuti and Ambika (in case of western India) or without any distinguishing features. The independent images are procured mainly from Shahdol (M.P., with cognizance and Yaksa-Yaksi and 23 small Jina figures in the parikara), Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves), Patan (Parsvanatha temple, Gujarat, A.D. 1299, giving the name of the Jina in Jain Education Intemational Education Intermational

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Jinas or Tirthankaras inscription), Porbandara (Gujarat, A.D. 1247), Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 41, A.D. 1188) and Kumbharia (devakulika No. 14 of Parsvanatha temple, A.D. 1202). A big brass image of Vasupujya with cognizance is in worship in the Jaina temple of the Marfatia Mehta's pada at Patan (Gujarat). The image with fully evolved parikara has an inscription of A.D. 1525 on its back. There is a miniature figure of four-armed Santidevi in the centre of the simhasana. The figures of the Yaksa and Yaksi are also shown on two ends of the simhasana. Two metal images of Vasupujya (A.D. 1622 and A.D. 1560) are in worship in the Digambara Jaina Gujarati Mandir at Navapura (Surat, Gujarat). In cell No. 612/811 at Satrunjaya there is in worship a Panca-tirthi image of Vasupujya installed in A.D. 1460. In south India the sculptures of Vasupujya with Yaksa and Yaksi could be seen in the set of 24 Jinas found at Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. VIMALANATHA (13th Jina) The cognizance of Vimalanatha is boar while the Yaksa and Yaksi are Sanmukha and Vidita (or Vairotya, according to Digambara texts). The earliest visual representation of Vimalanatha, belonging to 9th century A.D., is found from Varanasi (now in Archaeological Museum, Sarnath, Acc. No. 236). The sky-clad figure of Jina stands on the simple pedestal with the cognizance. No pratiharya excepting flywhisk bearing attendants is carved. The other important figures are found from Bateswar (Agra, U.P. State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. J. 791, A.D. 1009, showing two-armed YaksaYaksi figures with abhaya-mudra and kalasa), Aluwara (Bihar, 11th century A.D., bronze image now in Patna Museum, Acc. No. 10674), Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves), Narwar (M.P. Raipur Museum, Acc. No. 20, 12th century A.D.), Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 15, A.D. 1188, showing the name of the Jina and the figure of Yaksi Ambika) and Kumbharia (Santinatha temple, A.D. 1081). 273 A brass Panca-tirthi of Vimalanatha is preserved in the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai. It was installed in A.D. 1629. A full parikara is shown here. A Pancatirthi metal image of Vimalanatha inscribed in A.D. 1429 is in worship in the Jaina temple at Chani near Vadodara (Gujarat). A few metal images of medieval period are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, also. These inscribed images of Svetambara tradition have Sarvanubhuti and Ambika as YaksaYaksi. The name of the Jina is also given in the pedestal inscriptions. As usual Vimalanatha has also been represented in the collective renderings of 24 Jinas of Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. ANANTANATHA (14 Jina) The cognizance of Anantanatha, according to Svetambara texts, is falcon (syena), while the Digambara texts prescribe bear. The Yaksa and Yaksi associated with the Jina are Patala and Ankusa (or Anantamati, according to Digambara texts). The images of Anantanatha are found from about 11th century A.D. and are meagre in number. Rarely the Yaksa and Yaksi were carved which in case of Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 33, A.D. 1188) are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. An image (A.D. 1088) of Anantanatha was also installed in the Mahavira temple at Kumbharia. A metal Pancatirthi image of Anantanatha (A.D. 1418) is in worship in the Ajitanatha temple at Radhanpur. A metal Caturvimsatipata of Anantanatha (A.D. 1420) is in worship in the Jaina shrine at Chani (Vadodara). A metal sculpture showing also the figures of Yaksa and Yaksi (A.D. 1450) is preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi (Acc. No. 48.4/52). As usual in three sets of 24 Jinas, known from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur, also the figures of Anantanatha could be seen. DHARMANATHA (15th Jina) The cognizance of Dharmanatha is vajra (thunderbolt) while the Yaksa and Yaksi associated with him are Kinnara and Kandarpa (or Manasi,

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274 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies according to Digambara works). The Yaksa-Yaksi figures motif to be represented on the pedestals of all the Jinas. are not usually shown with the Jina excepting the Such examples are found at Delvada, Kumbharia and examples from Barabhuji cave (only Yaksi) and elsewhere. This motif of two deer carried a message Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 1, A.D. 1145). In case that all the Jinas similarly stand for peace and tranquillity. of Vimalavasahi, as usual the Yaksa and Yaksi are Another 7th century seated image with deer Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. The images of Dharmanatha cognizance and trichatra could be seen in the Dhank are also found from 11th century A.D. Two seated cave, Gujarat. Barring a few examples from Kumbharia images with vajra lanchana, belonging to 12th century and Dhank, the cognizance of Santinatha in western A.D., are in the Barabhuji and Trisula caves at Indian examples is not shown and the Jina is identified Khandagiri. A metal image of A.D. 1124, originally only on the basis of the pedestal inscriptions. The installed in the santinatha temple at Anahillapuri (Patan, Yaksa-Yaksi (with very few exceptions) are always Gujarat), is now preserved in a Jaina shrine at Nadol Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. In an image from devakulika (Rajasthan). There is also a Caturmukha shrine of No. 1 of the Santinatha temple of Kumbharia, besides Dharmanatha at Radhanpur (Gujarat). The Shivapuri the name of Santinatha in the inscription and the figures museum also preserves a 12th century image of of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika, the figures of Dharmanatha (Acc. No. 10) found from Narwar. In Suparsvanatha and Parsvanatha standing in kayotsarga Karnataka the figures of Dharmanatha with cognizance with 24 small Jina figures in the parikara are also and Yaksa-Yaksi are obtained from Sravanabelagola, carved. However, another standing image (A.D. 1119Moodbidri and Venur. 20) in the gudhamandapa of Parsvanatha temple at SANTINATHA (16th Jina) Kumbharia has the deer cognizance in addition to name The deer cognizance of Santinatha appears to have of the Jina in pedestal inscription. The parikara also some connection with the name of the Jina because deer exhibits the figures of four-armed santidevi and always stands for peace. The Yaksa-Yaksi of the Jina Mahavidyas like Vajrankusi, Manavi, are Garuda (or Varaha) and Nirvani (or Mahamanasi, Sarvastramahajvala, Acchupta and Mahamanasi. Two according to Digambara texts). The rendering of the seated figures of Santinatha are in the Rajputana Jina with the lanchana and Yaksa-Yaksi is known from Museum, Ajmer (Acc. No. 468, A.D. 1138) and Victoria 7th century A.D. The earliest image of Santinatha (7th and Albert Museum, London (A.D. 1157). Three 12 century A.D.) seated in dhyana-mudra with the figures century images are in the devakulikas (Nos. 12, 24 and of two deers flanking the dharmacakra is found from 30) of Vimalavasahi, while one figure of A.D. 1236 Khedabrahma (Sabarkantha, Gujarat). The Yaksa-Yaksi is in devakulika No. 14 of Lunavasahi. A Cauvisi of are the common Yaksa-Yaksi pair found in Svetambara Santinatha (A.D. 1510) is also preserved in Bharat Kala images of western India, namely Sarvanubhuti and Bhavan, Varanasi (Acc. No. 21733). The expression of Ambika. It may be remarked here that at least upto spirituality on faces of all the images is apparent. 10th century A.D. the tradition of carving the cognizance In north India a good number of Santinatha images of the Jina in pair was in vogue in whole of the north are procured from Mathura, Kausambi, Gyaraspur India. On the basis of this fact all such figures showing (Maladevi temple, 10th century A.D., with cognizance two deer on two sides of the dharmacakra are identifiable and the figures of four armed Yaksa and Yaksi), Dudhai with Santinatha. This concept was perhaps taken from (Lalitpur, U.P., with a pair of deer on two sides of the Buddha images of Gupta period from Sarnath. This dharmacakra, 10h century A.D.), Deogadh (six figures, feature from 11h century A.D. onwards was to be seen 9th-12h century A.D.), Khajuraho (four figures, 11th 12th in the western Indian Svetambara images as a common century A.D.), Pabhosa (Allahabad Museum, Acc. No.

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Jinas or Tirtharikaras 275 533, 11th century A.D., with cognizance and the figures 1192 a fine Jinalaya of god Abhinava Santinathadeva, of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika), Padhavali, Ahar (A.D. called Nagarajinalaya, was erected by some business 1180), Dhubela Museum (A.D. 1146), Bajarangagarh magnates of Dvarasamudra, the capital of Hoysala kings (Guna, A.D. 1179) and Madanpur (two images of A.D. in Karnataka. We also come across the figures of 1053 and 1147). It may be noted here that in north India Santinatha at Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. at Deogadh, Khajuraho and Dudhai the colossal images The narratives from the life of santinatha were (12 feet high) of santinatha, mostly as standing sky-clad also carved in the ceilings of Santinatha and Mahavira in kayotsarga-mudra, were carved which indicate that temples at Kumbharia (11th century A.D.) and VimalaSantinatha enjoyed venerated position in the region (Pl. vasahi (cell No. 12) at Delvada (12th century A.D. 143). The installation of huge images of Santinatha in a (Pl. 144 and 169). These examples show, besides the particular region might have some other suggestions as Pancakalyanakas, some remarkable incidents from the well. It may be remembered that he was also a cakravartin previous existence of Santinatha in which as king and he quit everything before his renunciation. The deer Megharatha he saved the life of a dove by offering his cognizance and huge images may suggest the emphasis flesh to a falcon. Virtually he was put to test by god on peace required specially in the region for political Surupa who entered the body of dove. We also find reasons. The images from north India at least upto 10th parallel of this story in Brahmanical tradition (story of century A.D. show the deer cognizance in pair also. The King Sibi). In all the instances from Kumbharia and Yaksa-Yaksi with Santinatha are also either Sarvanubhuti Delvada we find Megharatha weighing his body in the and Ambika or they do not show distinguishing features. balance. Santinatha was a cakravartin before becoming In some of the examples where Santinatha temples a monk and hence in the narratives we also find different (Deogadh, Khajuraho) were erected, the figures of ratnas or insignias like sword, parasol, cakra and Navagrahas were also carved. A beautiful 9th century Navanidhis which were abandoned by Santinatha at the seated image from Kausambi (Allahabad Museum, Acc. time of his renunciation. The detailed narratives are No. 535) also exhibits the deer cognizance in pair. The vibrant and communicative and correspond with the faces and body contours are soothing. descriptions found in the Trisastisalakapurusacaritra. The images from Bihar, Orissa and Bengal, datable KUNTHUNATHA (17th Jina) from 9th to 12th-13th centuries A.D. and showing both Kunthunatha has been endowed with goat (chaga) the cognizance and Yaksa-Yaksi figures, are found cognizance and Gandharva and Bala (or Vijaya or Jaya mainly from Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves, or Mahamanasi, according to Digambara tradition) are with Yaksi in Barabhuji cave), Rajpara (Midnapur, W. his Yaksa and Yaksi. The images of Kunthunatha (with Bengal), Manbhum (Patna Museum), Mandoil (Rajshahi cognizance) are found from 11th century A.D. The Museum, Bangaladesh), Burdawan, Aluara, Yaksa and Yaksi figures in Kunthunatha images appear Ambikanagar, Charampa (State Museum, Bhubaneshwar) only from the 12 century A.D., which are Sarvanubhuti and Pakbira (Purulia, West Bengal, 11th century A.D.). and Ambika in place of the traditional ones. It is interesting to note that in the kayotsarga image Surprisingly six bronze images of 11h century from Pakbira, besides deer cognizance and the figure A.D. are found from Aluara (Bihar, now in Patna of Naigamesi and Navagrahas, the simhasana also Museum, Nos. 10675, 10689 to 10693) which depict exhibits the Siva-linga which is a rare example of the Jina as standing sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra composite character inherent in Indian art and culture. with goat cognizance, and in three examples with the As compared to north India, the images of figures of the Grahas also. The number of independent Santinatha are meagre in south India. Around A.D. images of Jina is suggestive of the popularity of Jain Education Intemational

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276 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Kunthunatha in the region. The subsequent examples are known from Khandagiri (Barabhuji and Trisula caves, 12th century A.D.), Bajrangagarh (Guna, 120h century A.D.), Rajputana Museum, Ajmer (A.D. 1144, standing as sky-clad with the name of the Jina in pedestal inscription and also with the figures of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika), Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 35, A.D. 1188, with the name of the Jina mentioned in pedestal inscription and the figures of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika), and Narwar (in Shivapuri Museum No. 12, 12th century A.D.). A few sculptures are found also from Tamil Nadu. The images of Kunthunatha are found at places like Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur where images of all the 24 Jinas are set up in shrines. Two metal images of Svetambara tradition datable to A.D. 1468 and A.D. 1495 are also preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. As usual the name of the Jina is inscribed in pedestal inscription and the Yaksa and Yaksi are also Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. ARANATHA (18th Jina) The cognizance of Aranatha is nandyavarta (a symbol) according to Svetambara texts, while the Digambara texts envisage fish emblem. The Yaksa and Yaksi are Yaksendra (or Yaksesa or Khendra in Digambara tradition) and Dharini or Kali (or Taravati or Jaya or Vijay, according to Digambara tradition) who do not find representation with the Jina in visual examples. Instead, the Yaksa-Yaksi carved with Aranatha from about 10 century A.D. show common features like abhaya or varada-mudra and water-vessel or fruit. The earliest image of Jina, obtained from Sahet Mahet (Gonda, U.P.), is now in the State Museum, Lucknow (Acc. No. 861). The image, datable to 10th century A.D., has both the fish cognizance and the figures of Yaksa or Yaksi. Two seated figures of 12h century A.D. with fish cognizance are carved in the Barabhuji and Trisula caves, the former has also the figure of Yaksi underneath. The huge standing image (A.D. 1145) from Navagarh (Tikamgarh, M.P.) exhibits both the fish and the figures of Yaksa and Yaksi. The colossal images of Aranatha standing as skyclad in the kayotsarga (with fish cognizance) are found from Madanpur (Temple No. 1, A.D. 1053 and Temple No. 2, A.D. 1147), Ahar (A.D. 1180) and Bajarangagarh (A.D. 1179), all in M.P. An epigraph from Gudar (Shivapuri, M.P., A.D. 1149) refers to the installation of the images of Santinatha, Kunthunatha and Aranatha who were all Cakravartins. The images of these three Jinas are also found in the sanctum of the Jaina temple at Arang (M.P.). At Deoli (Purulia, W.B.) there was a Pancayatana group of temples wherefrom a life size image of Aranatha was procured. As usual in the sets of 24 Jinas from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur also the images of Aranatha are carved. MALLINATHA (19th Jina) There are two different traditions about Mallinatha. According to the Svetambara tradition, Mallinatha was a female Jina known as Mallikumari. However, the Digambara texts like all other Jinas describe Mallinatha as a male because there is a belief in Digambara tradition that women cannot attain omniscience and emancipation. The concept of Mallinatha in Svetambara tradition thus has a social relevance which provides opportunity of omniscience and emancipation to women also. The earliest reference to Mallinatha is in the Nayadhammakahao (4th century A.D.), according to which Malli was one of the most beautiful princesses of her age. The cognizance of Mallinatha in both the traditions is pitcher while the Yaksa and Yaksi are Kubera and Vairotya (or Aparajita). The figures of Mallinatha are very few which are found mostly in the collective renderings of the 24 Jinas at Deogadh (Temple No. 12), Kumbharia, Vimalavasahi, Lunavasahi and Barabhuji cave. The figures of Mallinatha in both the traditions from about 10th century A.D. onwards are provided with pitcher as cognizance while at the Svetambara Jaina sites of western India the name Mallinatha is also found on the pedestal inscriptions. In Mallinatha images

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Jinas or Tirthankaras 277 the figures of only the Yaksi are being carved at 10h century A.D.) and Vaibhara hill (Rajgir), is the Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and at Barabhuji cave rendering of two-armed Bahurupini Yaksi below the and that too do not correspond with the textual seat of the Jina in reclining posture. In western Indian injunctions. Svetambara images and also in some of the examples A rare example of female form of Mallinatha is from central India, the Yaksa and Yaksi carved on preserved is State Museum, Lucknow (J. 885) (Pl. 145). throne ends are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. This image (with broken head) found from Unnao The earliest intact image of Munisuvrata, datable (U.P.) is datable to c. 10-11" century A.D. The pedestal to c. 9h-10h century A.D., is found from Vaibharagir contains the pitcher cognizance and Jina, seated in which represents the Jina as seated with tortoise dhyana-mudra, is shown with female breasts and long cognizance and Bahurupini Yaksi, reclining on a cot braid (veni), However, simhasana, flywhisk bearers or below the seat (Pl. 146). any other pratiharya are not shown. Still another stone One interesting and beautiful Svetambara image figure of Mallinatha with braid on the back is preserved of A.D. 1006 is procured from Agra (U.P., now in State in the Reserve collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Lucknow, J. 776). The image hewn out in Museum, London (IM 346, 1924). The figure, inscribed black sandstone reminds us as to the black colour of in Samvat 1682 (A.D. 1625) is in dhyana-mudra and Munisuvrata. The face is radiant with spirituality. The wears a dhoti. The inscription also gives the name simhasana has both the kurma lanchana and the name 'Malli'. It is surprising to note that all other figures of Munisuvrata inscribed in pedestal inscription. The of Mallinatha from Svetambara sites do not show any Jina seated in dhyana-mudra is joined by Sarvanubhuti female feature. The images of Digambara tradition are Yaksa and Ambika Yaksi carved on throne ends. What found mainly from Barabhuji and Trisula caves in is specially important is the rendering of Balarama and Orissa, Nagpur Museum (B. 18), Tulsi Museum, Ramvan Krsna and also the two figures of Jivantasvami (standing (Satna, M.P.), Narvar, Karitalai (M.P.), Karkal in kayotsarga with mukuta, hara and other ornaments) (Karnataka), North Arcot (Tamil Nadu) and Moodbidri in the image. It appears that the artist has intended to (Karnataka). carve the composite image of two Jinas - Munisuvrata MUNISUVRATA (20th Jina) and Neminatha, because we know that Balarama (with The cognizance of Munisuvrata is tortoise (kurma) three-hooded snake canopy overhead and plough and while the Yaksa and Yaksi associated with him are pestle in hands) and Krsna (with kiritamukuta and Varuna and Naradatta (or Bahurupini, according to vanamala; and mace and conch in hands) were associated Digambara texts). It may be recalled that in Jaina with Neminatha as his cousin brothers. Thus the image tradition Munisuvrata is said to have been contemporary becomes a unique one. It may also be remembered that of Rama (Padma) and Laksmana (Vasudeva). Although such attempts were made even earlier in 6h - 7th century an early example of A.D. 157 from Mathura (State A.D. at Son Bhandar cave (Rajgir) and subsequently Museum, Lucknow, J.20) showing only the pedestal at Mathura. Two figures of Jivantasvami suggest that with inscription (giving the name of the Jina) is found, besides Mahavira, Munisuvrata was also conceived in yet regular images of Munisuvrata are found from 9th Jivantasvami form. century A.D. onwards. However, the figures of Yaksa An image of 11" century A.D. with kurma lanchana and Yaksi in the images of Munisuvrata are carved only could also be seen in the Temple No. 20 at Khajuraho. from 10 - 11" century A.D. The remarkable feature of Another image (A.D. 1142) in dhyana-mudra and with Munisuvrata images, particularly from the Digambara the name of Munisuvrata mentioned in pedestal Jaina sites like Barabhuji cave, Bajramath (Gyaraspur, inscription is preserved in Dhubela Museum, M.P. (Acc. Jain Education Intemational te & Personal Use Only

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278 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies No. 42). Two seated images of Munisuvrata are also carved in Barabhuji and Trisula caves. A few other images are found from Mau and Nowgong( M.P.) and Jaisinghapura Jaina Archaeological Museum, Ujjain (two examples, Acc. Nos. 49 and 56), Government Central Museum, Jaipur (Svetambara, 11th century A.D., standing with kurma lanchana, Pl. 147) and National Museum, Delhi (No. 48. 427, Pancatirthi of Munisuvrata). The images of Munisuvrata are found also from Kumbharia (devakulika No. 20 of Parsvanatha temple, A.D. 1179, name of the Jina is mentioned in inscription) and Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 11, A.D. 1143 and devakulika No. 31) (Pl. 148). In both the examples of Vimalavasahi the name of Munisuvrata is given in inscription alongwith the figures of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. A very few images are found from south India. The Jina is carved also in the sets of 24 Jinas known from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. A particular type of stone slabs depicting two incidents from the life of Munisuvrata were carved from about 12th century A.D. These incidents are known as Asvavabodha and Samalika or Sakunika-vihara-tirtha. Munisuvrata gave sermon to a horse (Asvavabodha) in case of the former while the latter story pertains to the Sakuni, who as Sudarsana was reminded of her previous birth as Sakuni and the chanting of navakara mantra to her. Sudarsana offered her worship to Munisuvrata in Asvavabodha Tirtha and also caused the construction of 24 Jinalayas there. The Asvavabodha Tirtha for the above reason came to be known also as SakunikaVihara-Tirtha. In the Mahavira temple at Kumbharia, there is at present a stone slab representing the AsvavabodhaSamalika-Vihara-Tirtha. The panel originally belonged to the Neminatha temple of Kumbharia, where half of this slab (A.D. 1281) is still preserved. A similar pata is also preserved in cell No. 19 of the Lunavasahi. The Lunavasahi pata was installed in A.D. 1278 by Asapala of Pragvata caste, according to an inscription in cell No. 18. The pata in the Neminatha temple of Kumbharia also has an inscription on it showing that the Munisuvrata bimba with the Asvavabodha-Samalika-ViharaTirthoddhara was installed in A.D. 1281. Such stone slabs (pata) also exist in the Parsvanatha temple at Jalor and the temple in Cambay. NAMINATHA (21" Jina) The cognizance of Naminatha is blue lotus (nilotpala) while the Sasanadevatas attending upon the Jina are Bhrkuti and Gandhari (or Camunda or Camundi, according to Digambara works.). The images of Naminatha, found from 11th-12th century A.D., are very few. The Yaksa and Yaksi are rarely carved and in case of figure from Lunavasahi (cell No. 19, A.D. 1233) they are Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. The seated image in the Barabhuji cave has only the figure of Yaksi underneath. The other examples are known from Kumbharia (devakulika No. 21 of Parsvanatha temple, A.D. 1179), Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 45, A.D. 1188, name of Jina in the inscription), Mathurapur (Raidighi, W.B.), Gwalior (Urwahi group, 15th century A.D.), Patna Museum (11th century A.D. with the diminutive figures of 24 Jinas in the parikara), Achalagarh (Mt. Abu) and Satrunjaya. The image from Achalagarh is being worshipped in a cell in the sabhamandapa of Caumukha temple. The figures of Naminatha are also depicted in three sets of 24 Jinas from Sravanabelagola, Moodbidri and Venur. NEMINATHA OR ARISTANEMI (22nd Jina) Neminatha or Aristanemi, provided with conch as cognizance and Gomedha and Ambika (or Kusmandi) as Yaksa-Yaksi, is associated with Balarama and Vasudeva Krsna who were his cousin brothers. This relationship is suggestive of mutuality of Brahmanical and Jaina traditions. It may also be underlined here that in sculptures the Yaksi with Neminatha is always Ambika (shown with lion mount and two sons and a bunch of mangoes), while Yaksa is never Gomedha (three-faced, six-armed and with man-nara as mount). Instead in

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 279 sculptural renderings, the Yaksa is Kubera (or Sarvanubhuti) with elephant as his mount and mongooseskin purse in hand. The conch cognizance with Neminatha was introduced in early 5th century A.D. (Rajgir image) while the Yaksa-Yaksi figures were carved from about 7th-8th century A.D. The earliest figures of Neminatha (also called Aristanemi in one example from Mathura, now in State Museum, Lucknow J. 8) are found from Kankali Tila, Mathura and are datable to 1" - 2nd century A.D. These figures in the absence of cognizance are identifiable mainly on the basis of the pedestal inscriptions giving the name of the Jina and also the flanking figures of Balarama and Krsna (State Museum, Lucknow, J. 47, J. 60, J. 117). The Jaina works like Uttaradhyayana- sutra, Antagadadasao, Nayadhammakahao and Harivaria Purana (35.35, 41.36-37) frequently speak of this association. The prominence of the Bhagavata cult in Mathura was indeed an inspiring force for this association and also for the conch cognizance of Neminatha. In one instance of c. 1 century A.D. (State Museum, Lucknow, J. 37), the seated figure of Neminatha is joined by the figures of four-armed Balarama (with seven-hooded snake canopy) and Vasudeva Krsna respectively on right and left flanks. Balarama holds a pestle (?), plough and casaka (wine cup) in three of his surviving hands while Krsna, wearing vanamala, shows the abhaya-mudra, a mace and a water vessel. However, in another example of late Kusana period (Government Museum, Mathura, Acc. No. 2502) Krsna carries both the mace and disc. A standing Neminatha image assignable to the 4th century A.D. (State Museum, Lucknow, J. 121) (Pl. 124) is a blend of both the Kusana and Gupta features. With the Jina are carved the standing figures of his cousin-brothers Balarama and Krsna. A peculiar feature of the image is the rendering of diminutive Jina figures on either side of the dharmacakra which started in Mathura in the early 4th century A.D. and subsequently became popular at all the sites and with all the Jinas. It appears that the tradition of showing the figures of Balarama and Krsna on two sides of Neminatha was almost abandoned after Gupta period. Hence, we come across very few such subsequent examples which are known mainly from Deogadh (Temple No. 2, c. 10 century A.D.), Bateshwar (Agra U.P., now in State Museum, Lucknow, J. 793 - c. 10h century A.D.) and Mathura (Government Museum, Mathura, Acc. No. 37.2738 and State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. 66.53, c. 11" century A.D., Pl. 150) wherein Neminatha either seated or standing (in one case of standing figure from Mathura Jina is wearing dhoti - Svetambara) is joined by Balarama (with snake canopy and plough, pestle and wine-cup in hands) and Krsna (four-armed, wearing kirita-mukuta and vanamala and bearing dise, conch and mace). The Vaibhara hill at Rajgir has yielded most important image of Neminatha with inscription. It is a seated image of Neminatha with plastic qualities of Gupta period (Pl. 125). The mutilated inscription refers to Maharajadhiraja Sri Chandra, i.e. Chandragupta II (A.D. 380-414). The stylistic features also support the date. The head, originally damaged, had unfortunately been added subsequently. This is the earliest image of Neminatha with conch cognizance which is carved in pair on two sides of dharmacakra (carved here as personified dharmacakra-purusa, standing in abhayamudra). Another image (c. 7th century A.D.) from Rajaghat, now in the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi (Acc. No. 212), is unique in the sense that it shows all the pratiharyas including the triple parasol, drum-beater and celestial musicians alongwith the figures of Yaksa and Yaksi carved prominently (PL. 149). The Yaksa and Yaksi usually carved in miniature form are here portrayed equal in size to the Jina and occupy the entire lower register of the image. The Yaksa remains unidentified, while the Yaksi supporting a child is identifiable with Ambika, the earliest Yaksi to be represented with Jinas. The Yaksa and Yaksi stand on either side of a palm tree. The association of the palm tree with Balarama (the cousin of Neminatha) is also well-known Artistically Jain Education Intemational

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280 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies also the image is impressive. In western India the images of Neminatha are found mainly from Katra (Bharatpur, Rajasthan, c. 10th century A.D., now in Government Museum, Bharatpur, Acc. No. 293), Kumbharia (Parsvanatha and Neminatha temples), Lunavasahi (in sanctum) and Girnar. These figures, datable between 10th and 15th centuries A.D., have the conch cognizance and the figures of Sarvanubhuti Yaksa and Ambika Yaksi. In north India, besides Mathura (Pl. 171, composite figure of Neminatha with Rsabhanatha) sufficient number of Neminatha images are procured from Bateshwar, Maihar (M.P.), Deogadh (30 figures of 10th - 12th centuries A.D., Pl. 151), Gurgi (Rewa, now in Allahabad Museum, Acc. No. A.M. 498), Gyaraspur (Maladevi temple, Vidisha, M.P., 10th century A.D.), Khajuraho (2 figures of 11th-12th century A.D.), Aluara (Patna Museum, Acc. No. 10688), and Navamuni, Barabhuji and Trisula caves (11th 12th century A.D.). These figures as usual are endowed with conch cognizance and the figures of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. In a solitary instance from Deogadh (temple 16, 10th century A.D.) the YaksaYaksi are Gomukha and Cakresvari associated with Rsabhanatha. May be that this image with conch cognizance represents composite image of Rsabhanatha and Neminatha. A unique tritirthi Jina image from Deogadh (on enclosure wall of Temple No. 12, 11th century A.D.) represents the last three Jinas - Neminatha (with conch cognizance), Parsvanatha (with seven-hooded snake canopy) and Mahavira (with lion cognizance) -as standing sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra with usual pratiharyas. A unique bronze image of Neminatha from Karnataka (10th 11th century A.D.), standing as skyclad in the kayotsarga-mudra (without any pratiharya), is preserved in Stan Czuma Cleveland Museum (U.S.). This unusual image depicts Neminatha as standing at the top of big size conch shell. The textual and epigraphical evidences demonstrate that such images were housed in shrines known as Sankha Jinalaya as referred to by Jinaprabhasuri in the context of Sauryapura (Mathura), Dvaraka and Stambhatirtha (Cambay in Gujarat). Surprisingly, an identical figure of Neminatha (here with Yaksa-Yaksi figures and trichatra) in kayotsarga is found from a temple at Moodbidri also (Karnataka, c. 15th century A.D.). At Venur and Sravanabelagola in Karnataka and at Poyagaimalai at Kuppalanatham and Karupannasami rock at Uttampalaiyam in Tamil Nadu and at some other places the figures of Neminatha are found mainly in the midst of 24 Jinas or group of Jinas of less than 24. A large monolithic image of Neminatha is found from a temple complex dedicated to Nemisvara at Tirumalai (north Arcot, Tamil Nadu). Several important temples dedicated to Neminatha were erected mainly at Svetambara Jaina sites of western India (Kumbharia, Delvada, Lunavasahi and Girnar). The scenes from the life of Neminatha are found mainly in the ceilings at Kumbharia (Santinatha and Mahavira temples, Pls. 152, 169) and Delvada (Vimalavasahi and Lunavasahi), datable between 11th and 13th centuries A.D. These narratives, besides the usual 14 auspicious dreams and pancakalyanakas, also depict some exclusive scenes like the story of trial of strength between Neminatha and Krsna and former's victory over Krsna to suggest the superiority of Jainism. The episode of the marriage of Neminatha, which subsequently became the cause of renunciation of Neminatha according to Svetambara texts, is prominently carved. The texts mention that the marriage of Neminatha was arranged with princes Rajimati, the daughter of Ugrasena. While marriage procession was moving towards the bridal pavilion, Neminatha sitting in a chariot happened to notice a number of animals being kept in a cage which were to be slaughtered for his marriage feast. This point of violence pricked so much to Neminatha that he at once decided to renounce the world without going even to the place of marriage. He immediately returned back and consequently went to mount Raivataka (Girnar) to take diksa. The scene in the Santinatha temple (Kumbharia) shows animals like

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 281 deer, goat, boar in a cage but surprisingly it also shows the figures of Neminatha and Rajimati standing in the bridal pavilion. An identical example is found in the Lunavasahi. However, in the instance from Mahavira temple (Kumbharia) Neminatha returns from the way without going to the place of marriage pavilion. PARSVANATHA (23rd Jina) Parsvanatha, the 23rd and the historical Jina (c. 8th century B.C.), is provided with snake cognizance and three, seven or eleven-hooded snake canopy overhead. It may be noted that mostly the seven-hooded snake canopy is shown with Parsvanatha while upto c. 6th century A.D. he was shown both with five (bronze image in the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai and the figures at Badami and Aihole) and seven-hooded snake canopy (Mathura, since 1st century B.C., Jaina ayagapata in the State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. No. J. 253). The rendering of the snake cognizance on the pedestal was not popular in the sculptures mainly because of the seven-hooded snake canopy to be shown invariably over the head of the Jina. The Yaksa and Yaksi associated with Parsvanatha are Parsva or Dharana (or Dharanendra, Digambara tradition) and Padmavati, both related to naga cult. Thus the iconographic features of Parsvanatha are distinctly suggestive of his intimate relationship with naga cult. Perhaps due to this fact Parsvanatha was accorded the most exalted position both in north and south Indian literature and art. The earliest figure of Parsvanatha seated in dhyana- mudra with seven-hooded snake canopy is carved on the Jaina ayagapata from Mathura belonging to 19 century B.C., while the other early examples of about 1" century B.C. - 1" century A.D. are found from Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, Chausa and Mathura (both as independent figures and also in Jina Caumukhi images, always with seven-hooded snake canopy, Pl. 121). In most of these early examples, Parsvanatha stands as sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra. In some of the cases the snake canopy of Parsvanatha are decorated with auspicious symbols like srivatsa, trichatra, kalasa, pair of fish and lotus (State Museum, Lucknow, Acc. Nos. J. 39, J. 113 and Government Museum, Mathura, Acc. No. B. 62). Parsvanatha was accorded a specially favoured position in visual representations at Digambara (and possibly Yapaniya) Jaina sites, both in the south and north India. The Digambara Jaina sites of north India reveal that in popularity Jina Parsvanatha was next only to Rsabhanatha while in the images from south India both Parsvanatha and Mahavira enjoyed the venerated position to the same degree. The Parsvanatha images of Svetambara Jaina sites usually show the astamahapratiharyas in the parikara as well as the figures of the Sasanadevatas at the two extremities of the throne. Barring a few examples from Kumbharia, Osian and Delvada (Mt. Abu), the Parsvanatha images at Svetambara Jaina sites invariably contain the figures of Sarvanubhuti (or Kubera) and Ambika as Sasanadevatas in place of conventional Dharanendra Yaksa and Padmavati Yaksi. Sarvanubhuti and Ambika, the most popular Yaksa-Yaksi pair in Svetambara examples, were otherwise traditionally associated with 22nd Jina Neminatha. However, in a few instances the snake canopy has been provided over the heads of Sarvanubhuti and Ambika also for emphasizing their association with Parsvanatha. The Parsvanatha images from the Digambara Jaina sites of north India usually contain the figures of Dharanendra and Padmavati, either standing respectively at right and left flanks with snake canopy or seated near Jina's throne ends. Padmavati invariably holds a long parasol kept above the head of Jina, while Dharanendra is shown either with folded hands or as bearing a fly-whisk. The images from north India in some examples (Khajuraho, Deogadh) show the figures of Dharanendra and Padmavati both at the throne ends as well as on two sides of the mulanayaka. Thus two sets of DharanendraPadmavati figures are carved in some Parsvanatha images. The images belonging to Gupta and post-Gupta Jain Education Intemational

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282 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies period reveal serenity and elegance and are mainly found from Mathura, Nachna (Panna, M.P., now in Tulasi Museum Ramavana, Satna, Pl. 126), Udaigiri (cave 20), Akota, Badami and Aihole (Pl. 153). It appears that from 6th-7th century A.D. onwards Parsvanatha alongwith seven-hooded snake canopy was also provided with figures of Yaksa and Yaksi. North India The early medieval images in north India are found mainly from Osian, Vimalavasahi, Lunavasahi, Kumbharia, Satrunjaya, Girnar and Ranakpur of Svetambara affiliation and Mathura, Deogadh (about 30 figures, 9th 11th centuries A.D.), Khajuraho (11 figures, 10th-12th centuries A.D.), Khandagiri, Gwalior and many other places of Digambara affiliation (Pls. 155-156). In some of the examples from Osian and Vimalavasahi (devakulika No. 4, A.D. 1188) the Yaksa and Yaksi are traditional ones. In case of Vimalavasahi the four-armed Yaksa with the canopy of snake-hoods and tortoise mount is elephant-headed in concurrence with Svetambara text Nirvanakalika (18.23). The Yaksa bears snake, snake, purse and a pot filled with sweet balls (modaka patra), suggestive of the impact of Ganesa. The four-armed Yaksi Padmavati with three-hooded snake canopy rides on kukkuta-sarpa and carries lotus, noose, goad and fruit in her hands as envisaged by Trisastisalakapurusacaritra (9.3.364-65). A unique circular stone plaque facing the southern mandapa of Dharana Vihara (Sarvatobhadra Adinatha Jinalaya, A.D. 1439) at Ranakapur (Pali, Rajasthan) depicts Sahasraphana Parsvanatha in the kayotsargamudra with dhoti (Pl. 163). What is remarkable is the artistic rendering of thousand-hooded snake canopy forming a beautiful umbrella. The tail of the beautifully delineated flanking fly-whisk bearing nagis alongwith numerous nagi figures with garlands (for worshipping Jina) all around forms a marvellous interlocking circular pattern of rare artistic excellence and dexterity. The presence of two flanking female figures with ornaments by the side of Parsvanatha in kayotsarga is enigmatic and also inexplicable at the moment. At Digambara Jaina sites like Khajuraho and Deogadh, Parsvanatha with seven-hooded snake canopy is mostly standing with the figures of Dharanendra and Padmavati with snake canopy. Dharanendra is shown with folded hands while Padmavati is having a long parasol, the top of which is shown above the snake hoods of Parsvanatha. In such cases Dharanendra is present both as a snake with seven hoods shown over the head of Jina and also as a devotee Yaksa with folded hands. Surprisingly in few instances at Deogadh, Khajuraho and some other Digambara Jaina sites, in addition to above figures we also come across the figures of two-armed Dharanendra and Padmavati at throne ends. South India A standing figure of Parsvanatha with seven-headed snake canopy is carved on a boulder at Tirakkol (North Arcot, Tamil Nadu, Pallava, 8th 9th century A.D.) (Pl. 157). The animated rendering of bowing Dharanendra with folded hands and Padmavati with long parasol and also the figure of hovering Kamatha at right top with big rock to dissuade Parsvanatha from penance are highly impressive. The rock-cut carvings at Karaikoyil and Melsittamur (Tamil Nadu, c. 8th-9th century A.D.) include a group of two majestic panels side by side, one represents Parsvanatha (with seven-hooded snake canopy and the figures of Dharanendra - Padmavati and Kamatha) while the other shows Bahubali (with entwining creepers and Vidyadharis). Such juxtaposed composition of Parsvanatha and Bahubali was much favoured in south India, apparently because of the rigorous tapas of the two. Jaina caves at Badami, Aihole and Ellora have yielded such examples. Close to the Siva temple at Kalugumalai (Pandya period, Tamil Nadu, c. 8th 9th century A.D.) is a large rock carved with figure of Parsvanatha (in kayotsarga) engrossed in tapas. The sublimity of spirituality is expressed through the face, proportionate body and innovative composition. Parsvanatha is joined by Dharanendra and Padmavati, who stand in devotional mood. The flexions of these figures are indeed so charming that they add to the rhythmic arrangement of

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Jinas or Tirtharkaras 283 the whole composition. The panel of standing Parsvanatha with snake-hoods over his head is a gem of early Pandya art. The artist even in a constrained scope of figure like that of a sky-clad Jina has succeeded in presenting it in exquisite proportions and grace, even in the rigid posture of kayotsarga. Instead of merely arranging the snake coils behind Parsvanatha and the hoods over his head, it is shown in theri-anthropomorphic form as Nagaraja, a princely figure with his own hoods over the head canopying the Jina, a magnificent conception indeed. To the right above is Kamatha with a large boulder lifted over his head to disturb the Jina. Dharanendra bows and Padmavati gracefully holds up the parasol. Another image from Godapuram (Kerala, 10th century, in Trichur Museum) is a rare sculpture illustrating Parsvanatha standing in stately elegance. The figure is characterised by a rare simplicity and grace. A few places in Kerala like Chitaral and Kanyakumari have yielded prominent rock-cut carvings of 9th century A.D. which exhibit Parsvanatha with Dharanendra and Padmavati. Two graceful stone images of Parsvanatha (with seven-hooded snake canopy) standing as sky-clad in kayotsarga-mudra, belonging to 11th - 12" century A.D., are found from Penukonda and Pattankudi (both in Karnataka), the latter one is provided with the figures of four-armed Yaksa and Yaksi also (Pls. 160, 161). The astapratiharyas (including trichatra) are however not carved. A good number of Parsvanatha images (more than 25) both in stone and metal, are preserved in the Victoria and Albert and British Museums of London. A stone image of seated Parsvanatha in the British Museum from Karnataka (11 - 12th century A.D.) is a rare example showing the figures of Dharanendra Yaksa and Padmavati Yaksi riding respectively on an elephant and kukkuta-sarpa and holding lotus and fruit. In another example of 11th century, hailing again from Karnataka, Parsvanatha is provided with Yaksi riding a crocodile which is suggestive of the varying regional traditions. One of the most exquisitely carved Svetambara metal figures of Parsvanatha from Western India is in the British Museum (Acc. No. 1974.4-11.1). It is datable to A.D. 1050 (Pl. 162). Parsvanatha sitting under sevenhooded snake canopy is flanked by two standing Jina figures wearing dhoti. Besides the astapratiharyas, two deers flanking the dharmacakra and eight planets (in place of nine), the figures of Kubera and Ambika as Yaksa and Yaksi are also carved. Another beautiful example is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The metal figure in addition has the standing figures of Apraticakra and Vairotya Vidyadevis on two flanks. The representation of these two Vidyadevis with Parsvanatha is found also at Osian. It may be remembered that in later texts Parsvanatha is said to have the command over all the Tantric goddesses (Vidyas). Of the two important stone sculptures (12" century A.D.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum [Acc. Nos. 31 (IS), 937 (IS)], coming as they do from Gulbarga (Karnataka), one is particularly interesting because of the pedestal inscription as well as the figures of fourarmed Dharanendra and Padmavati bearing goad and noose in two hands. The pedestal inscription of this graceful figure of Parsvanatha in kayotsarga-mudra records the carving of this image for the Parsvanatha temple. Ellora : In Ellora (caves 30-34, c. 9th century A.D.), Parsvanatha is represented by over 31 figures, this being the highest figure of Parsvanatha at any single Jaina site (Pl. 154). Of the 31 rock-cut figures with beautiful composition and body, nine show Parsvanatha in dhyana-mudra, while the remaining ones are in the kayotsarga-mudra. They show almost identical features with certain peculiarities. The placement of the figures of Parsvanatha mostly facing Bahubali (in the corresponding position on the opposite wall) may have some underlying meaning. Such a placement may have been actuated by the commonality of the fact of rigorous austerities in both the cases. Parsvanatha at Ellora, when seated, is usually accompanied by a triple parasol, fly-whisk bearing Jain Education Intemational

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284 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies attendants, lion-throne, the hovering Maladhra angels and the drum-beater suggestive of some of the astamahapratiharyas, invariate features of the arhat images. On the contrary, the images in the kayotsarga- mudra show no pratiharya with Parsvanatba. This may be suggestive of the fact that Parsvanatha had yet not attained Jinahood. The seated figure of Parsvanatha in one case is surprisingly joined by the figures of Sarvahna Yaksa and Ambika Yaksi. The rendering of Sarvahna and Ambika in the present instance reminds us of their invariable renderings with Parsvanatha at the Svetambara Jaina sites of western India. Parsvanatha figures at Ellora, seated or standing, have invariably been provided with seven-hooded snake canopy. The largest number of figures (12 figures) are carved in cave 32. In caves 30, 31, 33 and 34 there are five, two, ten and two figures respectively. The Parsvanatha images from Ellora are specially significant for elaborate rendering in the parikara), of the upsargas or tirade of tormentations inflicted on Parsvanatha by the evil spirit Sambara (or Meghamali). The earliest example showing the upsargas of Parsvanatha are found at Badami and Aihole (c.A.D. 600) wherein the figures of Sambara is shown attacking Parsvanatha with a boulder or with some weapon. However, Padmavati, in both the instances, holds a long obliquely held parasol and is joined by the figure of Dharanendra, both standing on the right flank of Parsvanatha. Close to the figure of Parsvanatha with five-hooded snake canopy sits on the left a figure of Sambara bowing in humility with folded hands. The most elaborate representations of such scenes of onslaught of Sambara to dissuade Parsvanatha from his tapas are met with at Ellora. Barring a few examples known from Maladevi temple at Gyaraspur (Vidisha, M.P., 8th century A.D.), Indian Museum, Kolkata (provenance probably Bihar, c. 7th century A.D.) and Hurca (Parsvanatha Basti, Shimoga, Karnataka - two examples, 11th-12h century, Pl. 158), such elaborate representations are rarely encountered. In the rendering of the upsarga at Ellora we find three, four, five, six, seven or eight figures of Sambara, each one engaged in the act of causing different inflictions to Parsvanatha. In about twenty images, all standing in the kayotsargamudra, the upasarga scenes are carved; this is the highest number for such images at a site. Surprisingly, the Parsvanatha images belonging to the Svetambara tradition do not show any of the upasargas. Instead, in the ceilings of the Santinatha and Mahavira temples at Kumbharia (11h century A.D.), we come across the detailed renderings pertaining to the enmities of Kamatha (Meghamali or Sambara) and Marubhuti (Parsvanatha in previous existence). The ceilings of these temples also contain the detailed renderings of the five principal events from the life of Parsvanatha. The earliest literary reference to the upsargas of Parsvanatha is found in the Parsvabhyudayakavya (4.4548) of Jinasena (before A.D. 784) wherein only two upsargas posed by the devil Kamatha are described; they are the apsarases or the beautiful damsels and the hurling of huge boulders at Parsvanatha. Another work, the Uttarapurana (73.136.40) of Gunabhadra (c. mid 9th century A.D.) deals with the life of Paravanatha in detail; but that pertains mainly to the enmity of Marubhuti and Kamatha in their previous existences. As to the upsargas of Sambara during the course of tapas of Parsvanatha, it merely mentions that the devil Sambara had caused different upsargas continuously for seven days. The detailed account of the different upasargas of Sambara (or Meghamali) to Parsvanatha is found perhaps for the first time in the Pasanahacariu (A.D. 1077, 14.430) of Padmakirtti and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra which furnish how Sambara himself took different forms and used fatal weapons such as thunderbolt, arrow, spear, mudgara, axe, etc. to shake Parsvanatha from his tapas. He also made abortive attempts through ferocious animals, namely Sardala-tiger, lion, monkey, dog, bear, snake, boar, buffalo, elephant, ox etc. to dissuade Parsvanatha. He also caused upsargas by the horrendous Jain Education Intemational

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Jinas or Tirthankaras goblins such as vaitala-monster, pisaca-demon, dakini and by grahas (obscuring planets), snakes, eagles, Kumbhanda monster with their terrifying cries to frighten Parsvanatha. An upsarga by bewitching apsarases was also created to lure away Parsvanatha from his trance. After failing in his efforts to shake Parsvanatha, Sambara next caused non-stop rains. When the rain water crossed the shoulder of Parsvanatha, Dharanendra came to his rescue along with naga ladies. Dharanendra next raised his seven hoods over the head of Parsvanatha for providing full cover and rested Jina's feet in the lap. As usual, Padmavati raised a parasol over the snakehoods of Dharanendra. Sambara, annoyed to find his efforts going futile, consequently attacked even nagaraja Dharanendra with the weapon such as thunderbolt, vajradanda, and mountain boulders, in which too he failed. Filled, then, with remorse Sambara bowed to Parsvanatha asking for forgiveness. (This story at once reminds us of the identical story of the attack of Mara on Buddha). The details of upsargas in the figures of Parsvanatha from Ellora almost fully correspond with the details in the Pasanahacariu. The compositional scheme in Parsvanatha images from Ellora is superb. The slender and motionless figures of Parsvanatha at Ellora show tranquillity and weightlessness. The face of the mulanayaka is always calm and benign with a smile to suggest that unshaken by the upsargas, he remained in deep trance and meditation. The body of Padmavati, though slim and tenderly flexioned, is slightly fleshy with bewitching feminine beauty. The figures of Sambara in its different emanations show different modellings, sometimes fleshy and bulky and sometimes dwarfish and ugly looking. The physical and facial features of the figures of hostile Sambara are always terrifying. MAHAVIRA OR VARDHAMANA (24 Jina) Mahavira, also known as Vardhamana (c. 599-527 B.C.) was a senior contemporary of Gautam Buddha. The cognizance of Mahavira is lion while the Yaksa 285 and Yaksi associated with him are Matanga and Siddhayika or Siddhayini. Both the Svetambara and Digambara texts refer to various upsargas which were caused by the Sangam Deva and evil spirits like Sulapani Yaksa during the course of the tapas of Mahavira. The earliest-known figures of Mahavira, found from Kankali Tila, Mathura, are datable to Kusana period. About seven figures of Kusana period (1st to 2nd century A.D.), mostly seated, are preserved in State Museum, Lucknow (Acc. Nos. J.2, J.14, J.16, J.22, J.31, J.53, J.66) (PI. 120). These figures are identified only on the basis of the pedestal inscriptions which in six examples refer to 'Vardhamana' while in one case (J. 2) the name in the inscription is 'Arhat Mahavira'. The inscription dated in A.D. 242 indicates that the image of Arhat Mahavira was set up in the temple of Arhats. It was only during the Gupta period towards the close of sixth century A.D. that the lion cognizance was carved with Mahavira, the example of which is procured from Varanasi. The above image is now in Bharat Kala Bhavana, Varanasi (Acc. No. 161). The image in its plasticity exhibits serenity, elegance and animation of Gupta art. The body contours reveal vegetative rhythm. The image exemplifies an admirable synthesis between the external form and the inner strength with the result that the figure exudes spirituality. Mahavira absorbed in deep meditation is seated without trichatra on a throne decorated with Visvapadma. Mahavira absorbed in deep meditation has weightless slim body and plane but graceful halo. The two lions flanking the dharmacakra are suggestive of the cognizance of Mahavira. The extremities of the throne are occupied by diminutive figures of two seated Jinas in place of usual lions supporting the throne (simhasana). It may be noted that the image bears testimony to the prevalence of the convention of showing the cognizances of the Jinas in pairs on two sides of the wheel, the earliest instance of which is found at Rajgir. During the 5th-6th century A.D., another interesting form of Mahavira image as

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286 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Jivantas vami began to appear, the earliest examples of which are known from Akota (Gujarat). Two 7th century examples of Mahavira images standing as sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra are found from Dhank. The Yaksa-Yaksi with Mahavira were carved only in 9th 10th century A.D., the examples of which are found mainly from Deogadh, Gyaraspur, Khajuraho, Kumbharia and Ellora. Usually the Yaksa- Yaksi do not correspond with textual prescriptions. They are carved on the basis of some regional traditions. A relief sculpture of Mahavira, flanked by camaradharas, could be seen in the sanctum of Jaina cave of Aihole. The pedestal shows three lion figures, two at the throne ends which suggest simhasana while the central lion figure represents the cognizance. In western India several figures (c. 10-15th centuries A.D) are found from Katra, Akota, Osian, Bharatpur (Rajasthan), Kumbharia (Neminatha and Parsvanatha temples), Delvada, and Satrunjaya. These figures with lion cognizance and sometimes with the name inscribed in the inscription show Sarvanubhuti and Ambika as Yaksa and Yaksi. An interesting, rather rare, stone image of A.D. 1166 from Ashavakhera shows Mahavira seated on a simple pedestal with lion cognizance. In the centre of the pedestal a two-armed goddess showing abhayamudra and kalasa is carved. At right extremity is a nude standing figure of Ksetrapala holding a mace and a chain to which his dog mount is fastened. The presence of the two-armed Gomukha Yaksa, Padmavati Yaksi, having three-hooded snake canopy and Cakresvari Yaksi riding a garuda is indeed interesting. It is surprising to find with Mahavira the figures of the Yaksa and Yaksis associated with Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha Jinas. The image probably represents the composite image of Mahavira wherein the figures of Yaksa and Yaksis suggest the presence of Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha. Deogadh has yielded about nine images (10h-12h centuries A.D.) which all show lion cognizance and Yaksa-Yaksi figures. In one example of temple No. 11 (1048 A.D.), the four-armed Yaksa and two-armed Yaksi are carved. The Yaksi with a child is provided also with snake canopy which suggests the features of both Ambika and Padmavati. Khajuraho also has yielded nine images (10h-12th centuries A.D.) (Pl. 165). In eight examples Mahavira is seated in dhyana-mudra with lion cognizance. The Yaksa and Yaksi in all the cases are either two or four-armed and they at times are also Provided with lion mount. In one case the Yaksi holds manuscript which is in accordance with the textual prescription. The images from Deogadh and Khajuraho exhibit the medieval features with complicated parikara. Two examples of 8ch century A.D. are preserved in Son Bhandar cave (Rajgir) while the other examples are obtained from Aluara, Charampa and Khandagiri. In case of Barabhuji cave the Yaksi with Mahavira is twenty-armed. Mahavira on the basis of the sculptures appears to have been popular both in north and south India. In north his popularity comes next to Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha while in south India he was next to Parsvanatha only. A good number of temples of Mahavira were also erected. In south India several sculptures and rock-cut figures of Mahavira with lion cognizance (carved in the centre of simhasana) have been found. These figures datable from about 8th to 15th century A.D. are found mainly from Badami (Pl. 166). Vallimalai (Chittoor, A.P., 9th - 10th century A.D.), Kalugumalai (Tamil Nadu), Kilakuyilkudi (Madurai), Tirumalai (North Arcot, Tamil Nadu, 11th century A.D.), Ellora (caves 30 to 34 with Sarvanubhuti Yaksa and Ambika Yaksi) and Sravanabelagola (c. 12h century A.D., Pl. 167). The Kilakuyilkudi figure is a magnificent rockcut Mahavira image seated with a flaming halo, charming fly-whisk bearers and Vidyadharas fluttering in great devotion (almost touching the triple umbrella). The carving is aesthetically of a high order and it should Jain Education Intemational

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Jinas or Tirthankaras 287 be assigned to the 9th century A.D. manner. The figures even in groups retain their In a ceiling of the Pancakuta Basti at Kambadahalli individuality both in action and expression. Through (Mandya, Karnataka) there is an elaborately carved these panels the Jaina values of austerity, detachment sculpture of Mahavira sitting in dhyana-mudra with the and non-violence are reflected figures of two-armed Sarvanubhuti Yaksa and Ambika DVITIRTHI AND TRITIRTHI JINA Yaksi on the right and left sides of the simhasana. The IMAGES whole relief is in the centre of the ceiling and on all The images which represent two or three different the sides of this relief are carved figures of the eight Jinas together are known respectively as Dvitirthi and Dikpalas in separate compartments. The whole ceiling Tritirthi Jina image. However, reference to Dvitirthi or panel dates from c. 10th century A.D. likewise Tritirthi Jina images are not found in the Jaina An image of 12th century A.D. from Karnataka texts. Therefore it appears that these were innovations is preserved in the Manjusha Museum, Dharmasthala on the part of the artists and the Acaryas. It was perhaps which shows Mahavira as standing sky-clad in the intended to introduce the concept of composite images kayotsarga-mudra with the figures of four-armed Yaksa in Jainism since these figures represent two or three and Yaksi holding lotus, fruit, goad and noose different Jinas together and with usual astapratiharyas During the Kusana period (Kankali Tila, Mathura, and Yaksa-Yaksi figures to put them at par. It may be 1 century A.D.) an episode from the life of Mahavira mentioned here in passing that the Hariharapitamaha showing the transfer of embryo of Mahavira from the images (8th to 12h century A.D.) from Ellora, Khajuraho, womb of Devananda to the womb of Trisala Abaneri and Thanjavur (Brhadisvara temple) likewise (garbhapaharana) by Harinaigamesi Deva, commander depict the Brahmanical trinity (Brahma, Visnu and Siva) of the divine infantry, was also depicted on a relief together with traditional attributes and mounts on one panel (Pl. 168). This particular episode is found in single pedestal. The Dvitirthi and Tritirthi Jina images Svetambara texts only. The Digambara Jainas do not which were carved from about 9th century A.D. are accept its veracity. This narrative panel, now preserved found mostly in north India. However, another type of in the State Museum, Lucknow (Acc. No. J. 626), composite images in Jaina art were carved at Son represents an important development in respect of the Bhandar and Vaibhargir (Ragjir, Bihar, 6th-11h centuries rendering of life episode (Pl. 168). The Mahavira and A.D.) wherein Suparsvanatha or Parsvanatha Jinas Santinatha temples (11h century A.D.) of Kumbharia having respectively five or seven-hooded snake canopy show detailed representations from the life of Mahavira overhead are provided with elephant, conch and lion which mainly include his previous existences, the five cognizances on the pedestals to depict the composite auspicious events of his life and the episode of images of Parsvanatha-Ajitanatha, Suparsvanatha - Candanabala (PL. 170). There are detailed renderings Neminatha and Parsvanatha-Mahavira. One image of of the suffering inflicted on Mahavira by Sulapani Rsabhanatha (8th century A.D.) from Kankali Tila, Yaksa, Sangamadeva, and the snake Chanda-Kausika. Mathura (now in State Museum, Lucknow, J. 78), Labelled as Mahavira upasarga these panels depict the depicts the Jina with bull cognizance but with the physical pain and mental anguish caused to Mahavira figures of Kubera and Ambika as Yaksa-Yaksi and the during the course of his penance, and his steadfastness figures of Balarama and Krsna carved in the parikara in the face of extreme provocation (Pl. 170). The to suggest the presence of Neminatha also. Hence it deeply-cut and skillfully modelled figures capture the is the composite image of Rsabhanatha and Neminatha. movements of the figures in a realistic and animated The Dvitirthi Jina images are found mainly from Jain Education Intemational

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288 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Digambara Jaina sites at Deogadh, Khajuraho, Chandpur, Siron Khurd and Khandagiri. The maximum number of Dvitirthi Jina images are procured from Deogadh and Khajuraho which are mostly shown as standing in the kayotsarga-mudra. Surprisingly, sometimes two figures of the selfsame Jinas like Rsabhanatha, Suparsvanatha, Parsvanatha are also carved. The purpose of such images is however not known. In most of the cases two different Jinas are represented along with usual fly-whisk bearing attendants, hovering Maladharas, lion-throne, trichatra, nimbus, drumbeater and other pratiharyas. The dharmacakra on the pedestal with the worshippers and the respective cognizances are also shown from about 11 century A.D. The Yaksa- Yaksi figures are also carved. One of the most exquisitely carved Dvitirthi Jina image from Khandagiri is now preserved in the British Museum, London (Acc. No. 1872.7-1.99), which depicts the elegantly standing figures of Rsabhanatha and Mahavira Jinas with bull and lion cognizances carved on the pedestal (Pl. 215). The beautiful jatamukuta of Rsabhanatha (shown in the manner of Siva images) is artistic. The example from Aluara (Manbhum, now in Patna Museum, Acc. No. 10682, 11th century A.D.) also represents Rsabhanatha and Mahavira with usual cognizances. Khajuraho has yielded nine images (10th - 12h centuries A.D.) which usually do not show the cognizance. However, Deogadh surpasses all other sites where about fifty Dvitirthi images are found (9th to 12th century A.D.). The Deogadh Dvitirthi images represent Ajitanatha - Sambhavanatha (Temple No. 3), Abhinandana - Sumatinatha (Temple No. 4), satinatha- Suparsvanatha (Temple No. 12, enclosure wall), Rsabhanatha - Mahavira (Temple No. 12, enclosure wall) and Suparsvanatha - Parsvanatha (Temple No. 8) with the respective cognizances. Sometimes the Yaksa- Yaksi figures are also carved which in cases of Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha are traditional ones. The Tritirthi images were carved only at the Digambara Jaina sites at Deogadh and Khajuraho. These images, belonging to 10 and 12" century A.D., represent three Jinas standing as sky-clad in the kayotsarga-mudra along with usual astapratiharyas. Khajuraho has yielded only one Tritirthi image (temple 84-114 centuries A.D.) which represents last three Jinas Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira. Deogadh has produced about 20 images, of which three examples show the standing figures also of Sarasvati, Bahubali and Bharata Muni (Temple Nos. 1 and 2) along with three Jina figures which indeed was an innovation to present Sarasvati, Bahubali and Bharata Muni with the same honourable position as enjoyed by the Jinas. Of all other examples, one important example carved on the enclosure wall of Temple No. 12 (10h century A.D.) represents Neminatha, Parsvanatha (with seven-headed snake canopy) and Mahavira with conch, snake and lion cognizances respectively. However, the names of Neminatha and Mahavira are also given in the pedestal inscriptions. One other example depicts Ajitanatha, Sambhavanatha and Abhinandana (Temple No. 1) JINA-CAUMUKHI OR PRATIMA SARVATOBHADRIKA The four-fold Jina image, known as Jina Caumukha (or Caumukhi) or Pratima-Saravatobhadrika, is one of the earliest and most favourite manifestations of Jina images. The term Pratima-Sarvatobhadrika signifies that the image is auspicious on all the sides. The carving of Jina Caumukhi, showing four Jina figures either seated or standing, started as early as the first century A.D. and its earliest examples are procured from the Kankali Tila, Mathura (Pl. 121). These images remained popular in all the regions in subsequent centuries also. Scholars generally believe that the conception of Jina Caumukhi was based on the early conception of Jina Samavasarana and shows an advancement upon it. But this view is not acceptable for the following reasons. The Samavasarana is the congregation hall erected by the gods wherein every Jina delivers his first sermon after attaining kevalajnana (omniscience). It consists of Jain Education Intemational

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Jinas or Tirthankaras 289 three tiered circular walls topped by the figure of a seated Jina, facing east. The three images of the selfsame Jina on the remaining sides were installed by the Vyantara gods to facilitate the worshippers to see their Master from all the sides. However, none of the early Jaina works refers to the installation of Jina images on the remaining three sides. Its first mention occurs only in the 8th-9th century A.D. Moreover, in the Kusana Caumukha sculptures four different Jinas, always standing, are carved on four sides, as against the original conception of Samavasarana showing a seated Jina on the top (east) along with the three other images of selfsame Jina on the remaining sides. Under the circumstance, it would not be appropriate to conclude that the Jina Caumukhi of the Kusana period, showing four different Jinas on four sides, bears any influence of the conception of the Samavasarana. It is rather difficult to find any traditional basis of the conception of the Jina Caumukhi from the Jaina works. On the other hand, we come across a number of such sculptures in Kusana and even early Indian art which might have inspired the Jainas to carve Jina Caumukhi. It is not impossible that multi-faced Siva-lingas and Yaksa figures had some bearing upon the conception of Jina Caumukhi. The conception of Svastika and the Sarnath and Sanchi Asokan lion-capitals could be another possible source of inspiration in this regard. We may divide the Jina Caumukhi images into two groups. The first group consists of the images in which the figures of the same Jina are carved on the four sides. In the second group, the figures refer to four different Jinas. The earliest Jina Caumukhi figures are of the second group which hail from Mathura and belong to Kusana period, whereas the figures of the first group were carved in seventh-eighth century A.D. onwards. The figures of the first group are comparatively meagre in number and generally do not show the cognizances of the Jinas. The Caumukhi figures of the second group in most of the cases show the cognizances of only two, generally those of Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha, of the four Jinas (Pl. 216). It is indeed surprising that even at a later stage when the cognizances of all the Jinas were evolved, the rendering of the cognizances remained confined only to the figures of Rsabhanatha and Parsvanatha. This might be explained as the continuation of the earlier tradition of the Kusana Jina Caumukhi images from Mathura wherein only these two Jinas are identifiable on account of falling hair-locks and seven-hooded snake canopy. In some instances from the Digambara sites, spread over in Uttar Pradesh, M.P., Bihar and Bengal, the cognizances of some other Jinas are also represented; they are Ajitanatha, Sambhavanatha, Suparsvanatha, Neminatha, Santinatha and Mahavira. One of such examples, datable to c. eighth century A.D., shows the standing figures of Rsabhanatha, Ajitanatha, Sambhavanatha and Abhinandana, the first four Jinas of the present avasarpini, on the four sides. The Jinas are provided with their respective cognizances, namely bull, elephant, horse and monkey. The beautiful Jina Caumukhi now preserved in the Archaeological Museum, Nalanda, was originally procured from the Vaibharagiri (Rajgir, Bihar). In some of the examples (104 - 12th centuries A.D.) from Deogadh and Vimalavasahi, we also find the representation of the Yaksa-Yaksi figures. A few examples are found from south India also. An example from Laksmesvara temple, Dharwar (12th century A.D.), depicts four standing Jinas on four sides alongwith a number of seated and standing (sky-clad) Jinas on all the sides (Pl. 217). However, another example with Yaksa-Yaksi figures is found from Stavanidhi (Belgaum, Karnataka, 12th century A.D.). From about 9th century A.D., the concept of Pratima-Sarvatobhadrika or Caumukhi Jina image developed further into the concept of Sarvatobhadra or Caturmukha Jinalaya (Jina temple) showing four-seated or standing figures of the selfsame Jina or four different Jinas on four sides. The earliest example of Caturmukha Jinalaya is known from Paharpur (Bangladesh, 9th century A.D.). A number of examples of Jina Caumukhi in the form of Devakulika (small shrine) are found from Jain Education Intemational

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290 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Deogadh, Khajuraho, Pakbira (Purulia, Bangla Desh, 11th century A.D.) and Ahar (Tikamgarh, M.P. 11th century A.D., Dhubela Museum, Acc. No. 32, Pl. 216). The example from Pakbira depicts Rsabhanatha, Santinatha, Kunthunatha and Mahavira standing in kayotsarga with respective cognizances. Subsequent and more developed example of Caturmukha Jinalaya from Guna (Indore, M.P., 11th century A.D.) has highly ornate doorways on four sides (Pl. 218). It enshrines four seated figures of the selfsame Jina (unidentified) with usual pratiharyas and Yaksa-Yaksi figures. A number of small figures of Jinas, Acaryas and Parents of Jinas are also carved. Ashutosh Museum, Kolkata, also has a stone Caturmukha shrine procured from Dewalia (Burdwan, W.B.) which contains the standing figures of four different Jinas (Rsabhanatha, Candraprabha, Parsvanatha and Mahavira) with their cognizances on four sides. The huge Caturmukha Jina temples were also built at Delvada (Khartara-vasahi) and Ranakpur (Caturamukha Jinalaya of Adinatha) in Rajasthan during 14th-15th century A.D. JINA CATURVIMSATIKA OR CATURVIMSATI JINA-PATTA Jina Caturvimsatika or Jina Cauvisi represents an image with 24 Jinas carved together. Of the 24 Jinas, the principal Jina is the Mulanayaka who may be Rsabhanatha, Parsvanatha, Neminatha, Mahavira or any other Jina, carved at the centre either in dhyana or kayotsarga-posture, while the figures of all other 23 Jinas are depicted in the parikara in diminutive forms. The rendering of such Jina Cauvisi images is found from about 8th-9th century A.D. almost at all the important Jaina sites of north and south India, the most important of such sites being Deogadh, Khajuraho, Delvada and Kumbharia. One example showing Rsabhanatha as Mulanayaka is found from Rayadurg (Anantapur, A.P.) The second type is found as Jina-pattas whereon all the 24 Jinas in identical dimension are carved and hence such slabs are known as Caturvimsati-Jina-patta. Such pattas, not so common, were carved from about c. 10th century A.D. Two of such pattas are known from Kausambi (now in Allahabad Museum, Acc. No. 506) and Deogadh (in Sahu Jaina Museum, Deogadh). The example from Deogadh (11th century A.D.) depicts all the 24 Jinas either as seated or as standing with respective cognizances and the usual pratiharyas and the YaksaYaksi figures showing abhaya or varada-mudra and fruit (or lotus or kalasa) in two hands (Pl. 219). Although the Jina figures are not in traditional order, most of them are easily identifiable on account of cognizances. Another type is the collective rendering of 24 Jinas on the temple facade (Deogadh, Temple No. 12) or in the caves (Barabhuji cave). Such instances are found also from south India, the important places being Gingee (South Arcot, Tamil Nadu, 7th-8th century A.D. on boulder), Venur, Sravanabelagola and Moodbidri, all in Karnataka). REFERENCES U.P. Shah, Beginnings of Jaina Iconography,' Bulletin of Museums and Archaeology in U.P. (Lucknow), No. 9, June 1972, pp. 1-14; JainaRupamandana, New Delhi, 1987; B.C. Bhattacharya, The Jaina Iconography, Delhi, 1974; M.N.P. Tiwari, Jaina Pratimavijnana, Varanasi, 1981; Elements of Jaina Iconography, Varanasi, 1983; P.B. Desai, Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs, Sholapur, 1963; Klaus Bruhn, The Jina Images of Deogarh, Leiden 1969; C. Sivaramamurti, Panorama of Jaina Art (South India), New Delhi, 1983. *

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CHAPTER IX YAKSA-YAKSI OR SASANADEVATA The Yaksas and Yaksis constituting a class of semi-divine beings of Jaina pantheon are technically known as Sasanadevatas, guardian deities, of the order who always live close to the Jinas. Prasasanah sasanadevatasca ya Jinamscaturvitsatimasritah sada Hitah satampraticakrayanvitah prayacitah sannihita bhavantu tah -Harivamsa Purana, 66.43-44. They figure in Jaina pantheon as the subsidiary deities. According to the Jaina belief, Indra appoints a Yaksa and a Yaksi to serve as attendants upon every Jina. Thus they are mainly the attendant spirits regarded as devotees of the Jinas (upasaka-devas). In Jaina representations they possess varying attributes and mounts. While images of vitaragi Jinas exhibit spiritual grace and beauty, the figures of Yaksas and Yaksis (either with Jinas or in independent examples) exhibit physical and decorative charm and beauty, besides divine grace and powers. The early Jaina works like Bhagavati Sutra, Tattvartha Sutra, Antagadadasao and Paumacariyam make frequent references to the Yaksa worship. Of all the Yaksas, Manibhadra and Purnabhadra Yaksas and Bahuputrika Yaksi appear to have been the favourite ones. It may be noted that the earliest Yaksa-Yaksi pair (Sarvanubhuti or Kubera and Ambika) associated with the Jina was evolved from the ancient concept of Manibhadra-Purnabhadra Yaksas and Bahuputrika Yaksi. The Yaksa-Yaksi pair conceived as the Sasanadevata makes its first appearance in art in c. 6th century A.D. The earliest instances in which the yaksa-yaksi are sometimes represented with the Jinas and sometimes separately, are known from Akota in Gujarat. The Jaina works from c. 6th to the 9th century A.D. mention only some of the iconographic features of Yaksaraja (Sarvanubhuti) and Dharanendra Yaksas and Cakresvari, Ambika and Padmavati Yaksis. The list of the twenty-four Yaksas and Yaksis was finalized in about 8th-9th century A.D. as found in the Kahavali, Tiloyapannatti (4.934-39) and Pravacanasaroddhara (37578), while their independent iconographic forms were conceived in c. 10th-12th centuries A.D. as mentioned in the Nirvanakalika, Trisastisalakapurusacaritra, Pratisthasarasamgraha, Pratisthasaroddhara, and many more works (15th-16th century A.D.) like the Pratisthatilakam and Acaradinakara. However, we find much differences between the Svetambara and the Digambara traditions as to the names and other iconographic features of the Yaksas and Yaksis. The names of Matanga, Yaksesvara and Isvara Yaksas and Naradatta, Manavi, Acyuta and some other Yaksis occur with more than one Jina in both the traditions. Bhrkuti has been invoked both as Yaksa and Yaksi. The names and the iconographic features of the majority of the Yaksas and Yaksis bear the influence of the Brahmanical gods and goddesses. The Jainas seem to have adopted either the names or the distinct iconographic features, sometimes both, in such cases. The gods and goddesses borrowed from Brahmana pantheon may be put into three groups. The first group consists of the Yaksa-Yaksi pairs made up of minor divinities who are not known to have been related with each other before their adoption in Jainism. The second group comprises the pairs who are related with each other, such as Isvara and Gauri, respectively the Yaksa and Yaksi of Sreyamsanatha, who are none else but Siva and his Sakti. The third group includes Gomukha and Cakresvari, respectively the Yaksa and Yaksi of Rsabhanatha, who are Jaina transformation of Siva and Vaisnavi, the two principal deities of Saiva and Vaisnava sects.

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292 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies The earliest Yaksa-Yaksi carved in Jaina sculpture associated with all other Jinas generally show identical was Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. Next come the figures features with very few exceptions exhibiting iconographic of Dharanendra and Padmavati, the Yaksa-Yaksi of peculiarities. Sarvanubhuti and Ambika, the most Parsvanatha. The other Yaksas and Yaksis were carved favoured Yaksa-Yaksi pair at the Svetambara Jaina in c. 10th century A.D. onwards. In the sculptures from sites, were carved almost with all the Jinas. c. 6th to the 9th century A.D. Rsabhanatha, Santinatha, The rendering of the Yaksa-Yaksi figures with the Neminatha, Parsvanatha, Mahavira and some other Jinas Jinas became a regular feature after 9th century A.D. are accompanied by the single Yaksa-Yaksi pair. It may be noted here that in independent sculptures the Sarvanubhuti and Ambika. It was only in c. 10th century depiction of the Yaksis was more popular than their A.D. onwards that separate Yaksa-Yaksi pairs were male counterparts. We have come across three instances carved with the above Jinas. In such sculptures, of collective renderings of the 24 Yaksis but the Rsabhanatha, Neminatha and Parsvanatha are representation of the 24 Yaksas has not been reported accompanied respectively by the traditional Yaksa-Yaksi from anywhere so far. The fact is suggestive of pairs, Gomukha - Cakresvari, Sarvanubhuti-Ambika, and comparatively favoured position enjoyed by the Yaksis Dharanendra-Padmavati, while the Yaksas and Yaksis taken as embodiment of Sakti or power. The instances accompanying santinatha and Mahavira usually do not of collective renderings of 24 Yaksis are known from have traditional features. Deogadh (Temple 12), Patiandai temple (Ambika image) One of the earliest instances of the collective and Barabhuji cave (Khandagiri, Puri, Orissa, 11th-12h representations of 24 Yaksis is known from the temple century A.D.; Pl. 200, 201, 202). The Ambika image No. 12 at Deogadh (A.D. 862). At Deogadh the idea procured from Patiandai temple, about six miles from of associating a Yaksi with each of the 24 Jinas with Satna in M.P., is a nonpareil image of Ambika inasmuch different appellations could only be manifested, but as it contains the tiny figures of other 23 Yaksis in their independent iconography was not yet settled, except the parikara alongwith their appellations inscribed below for Ambika, the Yaksi of longer tradition. Several of (Pl. 185). It is quite interesting to find their iconographic the Yaksis in Deogadh series bear direct influence of details as well as the appellations mostly concurring the Svetambara Mahavidyas whose tradition was certainly with the dhyana-mantras available in the Digambara older than the Sasanadevatas. It is important to note texts. The image, fashioned in buff-coloured sandstone, that the Yaksis are carved in association with Jinas and is now on display in the Allahabad Museum (Acc. No. the names of both are inscribed to facilitate their AM 293). The beautiful image is datable to c. 11th identification. century A.D. both on account of style and iconography. It may be underlined here that despite the fact that Of the 23 Yaksis carved in the parikara, the all the iconographic texts from c. 11th century A.D. figures of 18 Yaksis, in vertical rows, are carved on onwards treat of the iconographic forms of the 24 two flanks of Ambika while the remaining five are Yaksas and Yaksis, the independent forms of only portrayed in a horizontal row at the top of the parikara. Gomukha-Cakresvari (of Rsabhanatha), Sarvanubhuti The Yaksis atop the parikara are labelled as Vahurupini, or Kubera-Ambika (of Neminatha) and Dharanendra- Camunda, Sarasati, Padumavati and Vijaya, while those Padmavati (of Parsvanatha) could be manifested in art. on the two flanks (from top to bottom) are Jaya, Sometimes Sasanadevatas of Suparsvanatha, Anantamati, Vairota, Gauri, Mahakali, Kali, Pusadadhi Candraprabha, santinatha and Mahavira also exhibit and Prajapati (on right), and Aparajita, Mahamanusi, independent iconographic forms. The Yaksa-Yaksi Anantamati, Gandhari, Manusi, Jalamalini, Manuja and Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata 293 Vajrasamkala (Vajraskhala) (on left). figures and also the iconographic details of the Yaksis All the 23 Yaksis in the parikara, possessing four carved in the parikara distinctly reveal that the image arms, are carved arbitrarily, instead of being in traditional belongs to the Digambara sect. order. They are all standing in tribhanga with their (1) Gomukha Yaksa and Cakresvari Yaksi respective vahanas. Except for Manuja and Sarasvati, of Rsabhanatha. (1st Jina) their names correspond with the list supplied by the (i) Gomukha Yaksa - Both the Svetambara and Digambara works, namely the Tiloyapannatti of Yati- Digambara traditions conceive Gomukha Yaksa as fourvrsabha, (c. 8th century A.D.), the Pratisthasarasargraha armed and with bull face. The Svetambara text and the Pratisthasaroddhara. However, the name of Nirvanakalika (18.1) prescribes elephant as mount and Anantamati has been carved twice because of the varada-mudra, rosary (in right hands), fruit and noose engraver's mistake. The inscription, however, does not in left hands) as attributes, while the Digambara texts, mention the names of Cakresvari, Rohini, Manovega, Pratisthasarasamgraha (5.13-14) and Pratisthasaroddhara Manavi, Ambika and Siddhayini Yaksis. But the figures (3.129) envisage dharmacakra mark on the forehead of of Cakresvari, Manovega (labelled as Manuja), Ambika the Yaksa who rides on a bull. The attributes are the and Siddhayini (labelled as Sarasvati) could distinctly same as prescribed in the Svetambara texts, excepting be identified on account of their iconographic features. parasu in place of noose. The south Indian tradition The beautiful figure of four-armed Ambika, gives almost identical details wherein the mount is bejewelled in graiveyaka, necklaces, girdle (with always a bull. suspended loops), anklets, bracelets, armlets, and The rendering of the figures of Gomukha Yaksa karanda-mukuta, stands as she is in tribhanga. The is found both with Rsabhanatha images as well as in jewelleries of Ambika are minutely done with fine independent examples from about 10th century A.D. workmanship, appearing more like a metallic work. The However, it is surprising to note that Bihar, Orissa, and plasticity in body and posture, and its linear movement Bengal have not yielded independent sculptures of and proportional body-limbs are magnificent which all Gomukha Yaksa, while Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, make this image a wonderful piece of Indian art. The Gujarat and Rajasthan have produced maximum number goddess is provided with stellate cut halo. The small of independent figures wherein bull-faced Gomukha face of the goddess shows benign appearance while the Yaksa is usually four-armed. In case of Svetambara contours and other bodily features give somewhat figures the vahana is an elephant, while at Digambara sensuous flavour. Although all the hands are damaged, sites (Khajuraho) the vahana, though rarely shown, is yet remnant of the foliage of a mango tree overhead a bull. The figures from Digambara sites like Khajuraho and the rendering of two sons (nude), Priyankara and and Deogadh, as against the available textual Subhankara, along with lion mount, make the prescriptions, show manuscript, mace, lotus and purse identification of the goddess with Ambika doubtless. which may be taken to be based on some local tradition of the two sons, Subhankara on right rides on lion, which is now lost to us. However, in case of parasu the vahana of Ambika, while the other son (Priyankara) these figures correspond to the Digambara tradition. stands to her left. The tiny figure of Jina Neminatha A marble relief of A.D. 1299 from Ladel (Gujaratwith conch lanchana is carved over the head of Ambika. now in Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai) shows fourBesides, the figures of 12 other Jinas, both seated in armed Gomukha Yaksa as sitting on an elephant and dhyana-mudra and standing in kayotsarga-mudra, are bearing varada-mudra, goad, noose and fruit. What is also shown in the parikara. The nudity of the Jina important is the rendering of the worshipper couple Jain Education Intermational

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294 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Ratna and his wife, the parents of the donor Manikya one hand. The Svetambara texts conceive Cakresvari as per pedestal inscription. as eight- and twelve-armed while the Digambara texts At Svetambara sites like Delvada, Kumbharia and provide her four and twelve arms. However, in twelveTaranga, the figures correspond with the texts in respectarmed form the attributes are identical in both the of elephant mount and noose. The other hands show traditions. The Nirvanakalika provides varada-mudra, goad and purse which were the principal attributes of arrow, disc, noose (in right hands) and bow, thunderbolt, Sarvanubhuti Yaksa. In south India very few figures disc and goad (in left hands) for eight-armed Apraticakra of Gomukha Yaksa are found, they are from the later (Nirvanakalika - 18.1 and TrisastisalakapurusacaritraJaina temple at Aihole and Kannada Research Institute 1.3. 682-83). The Pratisthasarasargraha (5.15-16) refers Museum, Dharwar (Karnataka), wherein the four-armed to four-armed Yaksi as carrying discs in two hands and Yaksa with Rsabhanatha is never shown as bull-faced a fruit and the varada-mudra in the remaining ones. In and the bull mount is also shown rarely. The parasu case of twelve arms the Yaksi holds discs in eight hands is the main attribute in all such examples. The other and thunderbolt in two hands, while the remaining two attributes in south Indian examples are lotus, noose and hands show fruit and varada-mudra. fruit. The terrific form of Yaksi is enunciated in tantrika It may be observed that the iconography of text Cakresvari Astakam which speaks of almost the Gomukha Yaksa reveals some distinct bearings of same set of attributes, but the Yaksi here is three-eyed Brahmanical deity Siva, specially in reference to bull- with dreadful appearance. She is worshipped for face, bull mount and parasu like attribute. In one of removing the obstacles caused by dakinis and other evil the examples in Rajputana Museum, Ajmer (Acc. No. spirits, and also for bestowing the prosperity. The south 270 - 10h century A.D.), found from Hathma (Badmer, Indian texts visualize Cakresvari with garuda-vahana Rajasthan), the four-armed Gomukha Yaksa, seated in and with twelve and sixteen arms. The attributes are lalitasana, has dharmacakra on the forehead (Pl. 172). more or less the same. In addition to abhaya-mudra, parasu and fruit the Yaksa The rendering of Cakresvari in art is known from carries a snake also. 9th century A.D., the earliest example of which is found (ii) Cakresvari or Apraticakra Yaksi-Cakresvari on the facade of temple No. 12 (A.D. 862) at Deogadh. was one of the four popular most Yaksis of Jaina All other examples, both independent and with pantheon and her worship was both ancient and Rsabhanatha, are datable from 10th century A.D. The widespread. Separate temples dedicated to Cakresvari maximum number of figures of Cakresvari both at were also built. According to Jinaprabhasuri Svetambara and Digambara Jaina sites were carved (Vividhatirthakalpa) a temple of Cakresvari was at during 10th and 12th century A.D. These figures show Ayodhya. The Yaksi was also invoked in various tantrika a number of varieties in the forms of Cakresvari. The rites and she has close affinity with the 5th Jaina fully-developed parikara of the images of Cakresvari Mahavidya Apraticakra (or Cakresvari), earlier in Jaina suggests that Cakresvari was elevated to the point of tradition. a cult goddess, specially in north India. The Digambara In both the traditions, the mount of Cakresvari is Jaina sites, particularly Deogadh and Khajuraho, are garuda (eagle-represented in art mostly in human form very rich whereat Cakresvari has been represented as with pointed nose and snake around the neck and having two to twenty arms with garuda mount shown sometimes also with wings) and her main attribute is in human form. Some of the sculptures from Deogadh disc (Cakra) which is prescribed even for more than two examples in Sahu Jaina Museum, Deogadh) not Jain Education Intemational vate & Personal Use Only

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata 295 only show the fly-whisk bearing attendants and hovering thunderbolt, bell (with chain), shield, staff, conch, bow, Maladharas with Cakresvari but the figures of Padmavati disc, snake, spear and disc. Iconographically, this is one Yaksi and Sarasvati are also carved in the parikara. of the most complicated images of Cakresvari. Aesthetically also the figures are bejewelled, well In south India the garuda-vahana is shown rarely proportionate and beautiful revealing grace and dignity. but the disc is the main attribute, besides conch and This is true of the figures of all other Yaksis. mace. The main figures are found from Pudukottai (10th In case of Svetamabara examples, sometimes it century A.D.), Jinanathapura (Karnataka), becomes difficult to make difference between the Yaksi Sravanabelagola and Ellora. In case of Ellora (cave 30 - and the Vidyadevi except for the context. Such figures 9th century A.D.), the twelve-armed Cakresvari rides are found mainly at Kumbharia, Delvada and Taranga. on garuda (in human form) and holds in her six surviving Interestingly in the ceiling of Mahavira temple at hands lotus, disc, conch, disc, mace and sword. Kumbharia, the Yaksi with varada-mudra, mace, lotus (2) Mahayaksa and Ajita (or Rohini) Yaksi and conch is labelled as Vaisnavi (the consort of of Ajitanatha (2nd Jina) Brahmanical god Visnu). (i) Mahayaksa- Both the traditions visualize the The earliest figure of Cakresvari from Deogadh four-faced and eight-armed Mahayaksa as riding on an carved with Rsabhanatha in the group of twenty-four elephant. The difference however is noticed only in Yaksis has the label inscription which gives the name respect of attributes. The Nirvanakalika (18.2) prescribes Cakresvari. The Yaksi with garuda mount (in human varada-mudra, mudgara (club), rosary, noose (in right form) bears discs in all her four hands which was the hands), and fruit, abhaya-mudra, goad and spear (in left feature of the Mahavidya Apraticakra. At Deogadh, hands), while the Digambara texts (Pratisthasaroddhara Khajuraho, Bajrangagarh, Mathura, Khandagiri - 3.130) envisage sword, staff, axe, varada-mudra (in (Navamuni, and Barabhuji caves) and Gyaraspur, some right hands), disc, trident, lotus and goad (in left hands). very peculiar figures were carved. In one of the figures The south Indian texts give almost the identical details from Mathura (now in Archaeological Museum, Mathura, as found in north Indian Digambara texts. However, Acc. No. D. 6, 10h century A.D.), the ten-armed Yaksi on the basis of goad, axe and trident the impact of Indra standing in samabhanga with garuda mount, carved on and Siva could be suggested while the four faces of the pedestal as a bird, shows discs in all her nine Yaksa remind us of Brahma. surviving hands (PL. 173). But mostly, besides the disc It may be noted that the independent figure of (in one or two hands), the Yaksi carries mace and conch Mahayaksa is not known to us and in the images of like attributes also to remind us of the impact of Ajitanatha from Deogadh and Khajuraho also the Vaisnavi on Jaina Yaksi Cakresvari. Deogadh has two-armed Yaksa showing abhaya-mudra and fruit (or produced three 114 century images of twenty-armed water-vessel) is not the traditional one. Cakresvari. The most important and complete figure, (ii) Ajita or Rohini Yaksi- The Nirvanakalika now preserved in Sahu Jaina Museum, Deogadh, depicts (18.2) and the Trisastisalakapurusacaritra (2.3.845-46) the goddess as riding on garuda shown in human form visualize the four-armed Ajita as sitting on lohasana with four arms (Pl. 174). The Yaksi holds a bigger disc (iron seat) and as showing varada-mudra and noose in in two upper most hands while the other hands bear right hands and goad and fruit in the left ones. The disc, sword, quiver, mudgara, disc, mace, rosary, axe, Pratisthasarasargraha (5.18) on the other hand prescribes

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296 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies varada-mudra, abhaya-mudra, conch and disc in the noose, bow, plough, shield and long stalked lotus, hands. The South Indian tradition, however, speaks of besides showing the varada-mudra. makara-vahana and discs in two upper hands. The lower (3) Trimukha Yaksa and Duritari (or hands are in abhaya-mudra and kataka-mudra. Prajnapti) Yaksi of Sambhavanatha (3rd Jina) The independent figures of Yaksi are found both (i) Trimukha Yaksa- According to both the at the Svetambara and Digambara Jaina sites. At Delvada, traditions Trimukha (three-faced) Yaksa has three eyes, Kumbharia, Taranga and Ghanerav we find the six arms and peacock mount. The Nirvanakalika (18.3) representation of four-armed Yaksi with goad and noose provides nakula (mongoose), mace, abhaya-mudra (in in upper hands and varada-mudra (or abhaya-mudra right hands), fruit, snake and rosary (in left hands) while and fruit (or water-vessel) in the lower ones. The Yaksi the Pratisthasaroddhara (3.131) gives staff, trident and riding either on an elephant or sometimes even on a small dagger in right and disc, sword and goad in left lion is identifiable with Ajita. hands. The south Indian tradition almost follows the On the other hand we come across five independent Pratisthasaroddhara. However, the independent figure images (10h - 12h centuries A.D.) of Rohini at Gyaraspur of Yaksa is not found and even in the images of (Maladevi temple), Deogadh (the manastambhas in front Sambhavanatha from Deogadh and Khajuraho the Yaksa of temple Nos. 11 and 12) and Khandagiri (Navamuni is not the Trimukha Yaksa. Instead, either two-or fourand Barabhuji caves). In the beautiful figure carved on armed and one-faced Yaksa shows mace, manuscript, the northern basement of Maladevi temple (10h century lotus, fruit (or water-vessel or purse), besides the varada A.D.), the twelve-armed Yaksi sits in lalitasana on (or abhaya)-mudra which reveal that his form was never lohasana with the head of some animal (probably standardized. elephant) underneath. Rohini here carries lotus, (ii) Duritari (or Prajnapti) Yaksi, Duritari of thunderbolt, disc, conch, flower and lotus in six of her Svetambara tradition (Nirvanakalika, 18.3) is four-armed surviving hands. The eight-armed figure carved on the and she rides a mesa (ram) or even a peacock (or a manastambha (A.D. 1059, in front of temple No. 11) buffalo). She shows in her hands varada-mudra, rosary, at Deogadh, shows Rohini as seated in lalitasana with fruit (or snake) and abhaya-mudra. Prajnapti in cow-mount (Acaradinakara, 34, p. 176, prescribes cow- Digambara texts is conceived as six-armed with mount) and with the attributes- varada-mudra, goad, unspecified bird mount and as showing ardhendu arrow, disc, noose, bow, spear and fruit (Pl. 175). The (crescent), axe, fruit, sword, idhi (or pindi) and varadaexquisitely carved figure is in high flexion. However, mudra (Pratisthasaroddhara -3.158 and Pratisthatilakam in case of four-armed figure from Navamuni cave the 7.3, p. 341). In south Indian tradition she rides a goose mount is an elephant and the distinguishing attributes and holds axe, sword, noose and disc. Her two hands in hands are thunderbolt, goad and three-pronged object are in abhaya-mudra and kataka-mudra. (small trisula like), besides abhaya-mudra. It is interesting In the images of Sambhavanatha (11th 12th century to find goddess as having third eye on the forehead A.D.) the Yaksi, in case of western Indian Svetambara which alongwith small trisula like object is suggestive examples, is Ambika, while in case of north Indian of the impact of Siva. In case of Barabhuji cave the examples, particularly from Khajuraho and Deogadh, twelve-armed Rohini is provided with bull mount and the Yaksi without any distinguishing feature is usually she carries the attributes, namely spear, arrow, sword, two-armed. However, two figures of Yaksi in association Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata 297 with Sambhavanatha is also found from Navamuni and none of the examples corresponds with the textual Barabhuji caves wherein the two-and four-armed Yaksi prescriptions. In case of Deogadh the inscription calls shows lotus, rosary and varada-or abhaya-mudra. Thus the Yaksi as Sarasvati while in case of Navamuni cave it appears that like the Yaksa, the traditional form of the four-armed Yaksi with monkey mount holds disc, Yaksi also was never represented. conch and also a baby which to some extent corresponds (4) Isvara (or Yaksesvara) Yaksa and Kalika with south Indian tradition. In case of Barabhuji cave (or Vajrasonkhala) Yaksi of Abhinandana the eight-armed Yaksi sits on lotus and holds in her (4th Jina) surviving hands a lute (harp), varada-mudra and (i) Isvara (or Yaksesvara) Yaksa- In both the thunderbolt. traditions the four-armed Yaksa is endowed with elephant (5) Tumbaru (or Tumbara) Yaksa and (3) vahana. The Svetambara texts (Nirvanakalika - 18.4 Manakali (or Purusadatta) Yaksi of and Mantradhirajakalpa - 3.29) prescribe fruit, rosary, Sumatinatha (5th Jina) mongoose (nakula) and goad, while the Digambara text (i) Tumbaru (or Tumbara) Yaksa-In both the Pratisthasaroddhara- 3.132) gives sanka-patra (arrow?) traditions the four-armed Tumbaru is provided with and sword in right and bow and shield in the left hands. garuda mount. The Svetambara texts (Nirvanakalika The Aparajitaprccha however, furnishes the name 18.5) prescribe varada-mudra, spear, snake (or mace) Caturanana along with hamsa mount and snake, noose, and noose while the Digambara texts speak of snakes thunderbolt and goad in hands (221.46). The south in two hands and varada-mudra and fruit for the Indian tradition concurs with the north Indian Digambara remaining two hands (Pratisthasarasamgraha-5.23-24). tradition. The Yaksa reveals the impact of both Indra The south Indian texts sometimes speak of lion mount (elephant mount and goad) and Brahma (appellation and sword, shield and thunderbolt as attributes. However, Caturanan and hamsa vahana). The independent image the independent image of the Yaksa is not found and of Yaksa is not found from anywhere and even in the in the images of Sumatinatha also the two-armed form images of Abhinandana the Yaksa with abhava-mudra (with abhaya-mudra and fruit and without mount) is not and water-vessel (or fruit) does not show any the traditional one. distinguishing feature. (ii) Mahakali (or Purusadatta) Yaksi- Mahakali (ii) Kalika (or Vajrasrnkhala) Yaksi- The four- of Svetambara tradition sits on lotus and shows varadaarmed Yaksi, according to Svetambara texts mudra and noose in right and fruit and goad in left (Nirvanakalika - 18.4 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra - hands (Nirvanakalika-18.5; Mantradhirajakalpa-3.54). 3.2.161-62) sits on lotus and shows varada-mudra, noose, Purusadatta in Digambara tradition is visualized as snake and goad in her hands. The Digambara text riding an elephant and as carrying disc, thunderbolt and (Pratisthasarasarngraha - 5.22-23) provides harsa as fruit in three hands while one hand is in varada-mudra vahana for Vajrasrokhala who carries varada-mudra, (Pratisthasarasamngraha-5.25). The south Indian texts nagapasa, rosary and fruit in her hands. The south almost give the identical details and one text also refers Indian texts more or less give the same details but with to dog as her conveyance. some variation in respect of mount which is sometimes We come across only two such figures from a monkey and possessing the attributes like disc and Gyaraspur (Maladevi temple - 10th century A.D.) and snake. We are encountered with only three independent Barabhuji cave which show some distinct features. figures of Vajrasnkhala at Deogadh (on wall of temple although not fully corresponding with the injunctions No. 12) and Navamuni and Barabhuji caves. Surprisingly of the available Digambara texts. The four-armed Yaksi Jain Education Intemational

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298 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies on Maladevi temple sits on lotus seat in lalita-pose with the figure of elephant mount underneath. The Yaksi holds sword, disc, shield and conch. The other figure, carved as the Yaksi of Sumatinatha from Barabhuji cave, shows ten-armed goddess with makara vahana and as showing varada-mudra, disc, spear and sword in right and noose, shield, plough, mudgara and lotus in left hands. In case of Sumatinatha image from Vimala- vasahi the Yaksi as usual is Ambika. (6) Kusuma Yaksa and Acyuta (or Manovega) Yaksi of Padmaprabha (6th Jina) (i) Kusuma Yaksa -- The four-armed Yaksa, according to both the traditions, rides a deer. The Svetambara texts (Nirvanakalika-18.6 and Acaradinakara-34, p. 174), sometimes also speaking of peacock and horse mount, prescribe fruit and abhaya- mudra in right and nakula and rosary in left hands. The Digambara texts conceive the Yaksa both as two-and four-armed with spear, shield, mace and rosary being his chief attributes (Pratisthasaroddhara-3.134 and Aparajitaprccha-221.47). In south Indian texts sometime vahana is bull also but the attributes are more or less the same. No figure of Yaksa is known to us. (ii) Acyuta (or Manovega) Yaksi- The four- armed Acyuta in Svetambara texts is naravahana who exhibits varada-mudra and vina (or noose or arrow) in right and bow and abhaya-mudra in left hands (Nirvanakalika 18.6 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra 3.4.182-83). The Digambara texts (Pratisthasarasamgraha- 5.28 and Pratisthasaroddhara 3.161) visualize Manovega as riding a horse and carrying shield, sword, fruit, besides one hand being in varada- mudra. The south Indian texts also give somewhat identical details, barring deer mount as envisaged by one text.. Four independent sculptures of Manovega, datable between 9th and 12th century A.D., are procured from Deogadh (Temple No. 12, A.D. 862), Khajuraho, Gyaraspur (Maladevi temple) and Barabhuji cave. The earliest instance from Deogadh carved with the figure of Padmaprabha overhead labels the Yaksi as Sulocana who has horse mount. The four-armed Yaksi standing in tribhanga holds bow, arrow and lotus in three hands while the fourth one rests on waist. The rendering of Yaksi has the bearing of the iconography of 14th Mahavidya Acyuta. In case of 10th century figure from Maladevi temple (south facade), the eight-armed Yaksi in lalitasana has horse mount. The attributes in her surviving hands are sword, lotus, pitcher, bell, shield, a bunch of mangoes (?) and fruit. The four-armed standing image from Khajuraho (11th century A.D.) is presently in the Archaeological Museum, Khajuraho (Acc. No. 940). The horse is carved on the pedestal and the Yaksi bears only lotus in her extant hand. It is interesting to find two small figures of Sarasvati with vina in the parikara to suggest the venerated position of Manovega. The Yaksi carved under the image of Padmaprabha in the Barabhuji cave surprisingly is provided with swan mount and thunderbolt and conch like attributes. Thus the above figures of the Yaksi suggest that besides horse mount and sword and shield in hands, the iconographic form of the Yaksi was never crystalized like Cakresvari and Ambika. (7) Matanga Yaksa and Santa (or Kali) Yaksi of Suparsvanatha (7th Jina) (i) Matanga Yaksa- The four-armed Yaksa with elephant mount in Svetambara texts is conceived as carrying bilvaphala (fruit) and noose in right and nakula (mongoose-skin purse or vajra) and goad in left hands (Nirvanakalika 18.7 and Mantradhirajakalpa 3.32). The Digambara text (Pratisthasaroddhara-3.135) prescribes lion mount for Matanga who is always twoarmed and carries thunderbolt (or spear) and staff in hands. The Aparajitaprocha (221.47), however, shows a departure by prescribing ram mount and mace and noose attributes for Matanga. The south Indian texts agree with the above details of Digambara tradition except for furnishing trident in place of spear (or thunderbolt). The independent figure of Matanga is not known. In the images of Suparsvanatha known from Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata different places (11th-12th century A.D.), the Yaksa is usually provided with snake canopy to suggest his association with the Jina. In case of Suparsvanatha image from Deogadh (Temple No. 4-11th century) the two-armed Yaksa with flower and pitcher has threehooded snake canopy. The Suparsvanatha images from Kumbharia (Neminatha temple, gudhamandapa, A.D. 1157) and Vimalavasahi (devakulika 19) depict the Yaksa as four-armed and riding an elephant. The attributes (varada-mudra, goad, noose, purse or fruit) and mount correspond with the injunctions of the Nirvanakalika. (ii) Santa (or Kali) Yaksi- The four-armed Santa in Svetambara texts is said to ride on an elephant and show the varada-mudra and rosary in right and spear (or trident) and abhaya-mudra in left hands (Nirvanakalika - 18.7 and Devatamurtiprakarana-7.31). The four-armed Kali in Digambara tradition rides a bull and bears bell, trident (or spear) and fruit, besides one hand being in varada-mudra (Pratisthasarasamgraha 5.30). The south Indian texts furnish almost identical details with one text providing also peacock mount. We come across only two independent figures of Digambara affiliation from Deogadh (Temple No. 12, A.D. 862) and Barabhuji cave, carved in the group of 24 Yaksis. Both these figures with peacock mount however, do not show agreement with the available texts. The peacock mount and the name Mayuravahi in case of Deogadh figure suggest the impact of south Indian tradition. The four-armed standing figure of Mayuravahi Yaksi at Deogadh shows vyakhyana-mudra, flywhisk-lotus, manuscript and conch in her hands to suggest the bearing of Sarasvati. The eight-armed Yaksi in Barabhuji cave shows the varada-mudra, pot filled with fruits, spear (?), and sword in right and shield, conch, mudgara and spear in left hands. The figures of Yaksi could be seen even on the throne of the Suparsvanatha images who in the examples from Kumbharia (Mahavira and Neminatha temples) and Vimalavasahi (devakulika 19) are either Ambika 299 or Padmavati. However, at Deogadh and some other places, the Yaksi with snake canopy is usually twoarmed and bears flower (or lotus) and pitcher. (8) Vijaya (or Syama) Yaksa and Bhrkuti (or Jvalamalini) Yaksi of Candraprabha (8th Jina) (i) Vijaya (or Syama) Yaksa- The two-armed Vijaya Yaksa in Svetambara tradition is conceived as three-eyed (trinetra) with hamsa vahana (Nirvanakalika18.8 and Mantradhirajakalpa - 3.33). The Yaksa holds disc in right and mudgara (club) in left hands. Threeeyed Syama Yaksa in Digambara tradition is fourarmed and his mount is pigeon (Pratisthasarasamgraha5.31 and Pratisthasaroddhara-3.136). The Yaksa is conceived as showing fruit, rosary, axe and varadamudra. The south Indian texts of both the traditions envisage almost the same details for four-armed Yaksa having both goose and pigeon mount. We do not find any independent sculpture of the Yaksa and even in the Candraprabha images, the Yaksa does not exhibit any distinguishing feature. However, in an example from Deogadh (Temple No. 21 11th century A.D.) the four-armed Yaksa with Candraprabha is endowed with abhaya-mudra, mace, lotus and fruit. (ii) Bhrkuti (or Jvalamalini) Yaksi- The fourarmed Bhrkuti in Svetambara texts is conceived as riding on varaha (or varala or even goose) and carrying sword and mudgara in right and shield and axe in left hands (Nirvanakalika 18.8 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra-3.6.109-10 and Acaradinakara - 34, p. 176). The Digambara texts on the other hand visualize eight-armed Jvalamalini as riding a buffalo and holding disc, bow, noose, carma (or shield), trident (or sula), arrow, fish and sword (Pratisthasarasamgraha - 5.32 and Pratisthasaroddhara 3.162). The south Indian. tradition speaks of bull mount for eight-armed Yaksi who bears almost the identical attributes as mentioned above. It may be remarked here that in south India after Padmavati and Ambika only Jvalamalini enjoyed the highest veneration.

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300 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies In north India only two examples from Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and Barabhuji cave are found which are carved in association with Candraprabha. In case of four-armed figure from Deogadh, the name of the Yaksi given in the inscription is Sumalini who is accompanied by lion mount (Pl. 176). The Yaksi in tribhanga exhibits sword, abhaya-mudra, shield and kati- hasta. The figure appears to have the bearing of the iconographic form of 16h Mahavidya Mahamanasi. The other example in the Barabhuji cave also shows simhavahana but here Yaksi has twelve arms. The Yaksi shows varada-mudra, krpana (small dagger), disc, arrow, mace and sword in right and varada-mudra, shield, bow, conch, noose and ghanta in left hands. The figure of Yaksi is carved also with Candraprabha images from Kausambi, Deogadh and Khajuraho but the Yaksi is usually represented without any distinguishing feature. Only in some examples from Deogadh (Temple Nos. 20 and 21) and Khajuraho (Temple No. 32), the four- armed Yaksi with lotus, manuscript, abhaya-mudra and pitcher (or fruit) suggests the prevalence of some independent form. Out of a number of figures from south India, some very interesting figures of Jvalamalini depicts the Yaksi with eight arms and with the attributes like trident, disc, sword, arrow, bow, conch and noose. One such image of about 11th - 12th century A.D. is presently kept in the Siva temple at Aihole (Pl. 177). It may be noted here that Jvalamalini in southern tradition was one of the four most popular Yaksis. (9) Ajita Yaksa and Sutara (or Mahakali) Yaksi of Suvidhinatha (or Puspadanta) (9th Jina) (i) Ajita Yaksa- According to both the traditions, the vahana of the four-armed Yaksa is tortoise but we find some difference in respect of the attributes. The Svetambara texts prescribe fruit and rosary in right and nakula and spear in left hands (Nirvanakalika - 18.9) while the Digambara texts provide varada-mudra in place of nakula (Pratisthasarasamgraha - 5.33). The south Indian texts almost fully correspond with north Indian texts prescribing trident in place of sula or sakti. However, so far independent figure of the Yaksa is not known to us. (ii) Sutara (or Mahakali) Yaksi-The four-armed Sutara, according to Svetambara texts, rides a bull and shows varada-mudra and rosary in right and pitcher and goad in left hands (Nirvanakalika - 18.9) while the four-armed Mahakali of Digambara tradition is provided with tortoise vahana and thunderbolt, mudgara, fruit and varada-mudra in hands (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.163). The south Indian tradition mostly concurs with the north Indian Digambara tradition wherein sometimes the vahana is lion also. We come across only two figures of Mahakali Yaksi from Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and Barabhuji cave. However, in both the instances the traditional features are not shown. In case of Deogadh the Yaksi with Puspadanta has been labelled as Bahurupi. The two-armed Yaksi bears flywhisk-lotus in one hand. In case of Barabhuji cave the Yaksi with bull mount is ten-armed and holds disc, some bird, pot filled with fruits, ardhacandra (half crescent), snake and twig, besides varada-and tarjani-mudra. Thus apparently the iconographic form of Yaksi was not standardized in sculptural renderings. (10) Brahma Yaksa and Asoka (or Manavi) Yaksi of Sitalanatha (10th Jina) (i) Brahma Yaksa- In both the traditions fourfaced Brahma Yaksa with lotus mount is provided with eight arms but in respect of attributes we find some difference. The Svetamabara texts prescribe for trinetra Brahma fruit, mudgara, noose and abhaya-mudra in right and nakula, mace, goad and rosary in left hands (Nirvanakalika - 18.10 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra - 3.8.111-12). The Yaksa, according to Digambara texts, bears arrow, sword, varada-mudra, thunderbolt, axe, bow, staff and shield like attributes (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.138 and Pratisthatilakam - 7.10, p. 334). The Aparajitaprccha (221.49) however conceives Brahma Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata Yaksa with four arms and hamsa vahana which alongwith four faces remind of Brahma of Brahmanical sect. In south Indian tradition the Yaksa, known as Brahmesvara or Brahma, with four faces, three eyes and lotus or lion mount is eight-armed. The attributes mostly correspond with the details of north Indian Digambara texts. We do not find any example of the rendering of Yaksa in sculptural art from anywhere. The textual references, barring name, four faces and in one case hamsa mount do not correspond with the iconographic form of Brahma of Brahmanical cult. (ii) Asoka or Manavi Yaksi- The four-armed Asoka in Svetambara tradition has lotus and Manavi in Digambara tradition has boar (or black cobra) as vahana. The Nirvanakalika (18.10) prescribes varadamudra and noose in right and fruit and goad in left hands. The Acaradinakara (34, p. 176) in addition mentions that the Yaksi should be surrounded by the figures of dancing nymphs. The Digambara texts however provide fruit, varada-mudra, fish and noose in hands (Pratisthasarasamgraha - 5.36 and Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.164). The south Indian texts envisage both boar and makara as vahana and fish as main object in hand. We know of only two figures of the Yaksi, coming as they do from Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and Barabhuji cave. None of these exhibits the traditional features. In case of Deogadh the four-armed Yaksi carved with Sitalanatha is labelled as 'Sriya Devi' who holds fruit, lotus and pitcher in three hands while the fourth one rests on waist. The rendering of tree trunk on two sides are important. The Yaksi appears to have the bearing of Laksmi. The four-armed Yaksi with some animal mount in Barabhuji cave bears different attributes varada-mudra, staff, disc and conch. These features remind us of Vaisnavi. (11) Isvara Yaksa and Manavi (or Gauri) Yaksi of Sreyamsanatha (11" Jina) (i) Isvara Yaksa- In both the traditions the Yaksa is provided with three eyes, four arms and bull mount, which suggests the bearing of Siva. The Nirvanakalika 301 (18.11) and other Svetambara works (some texts also give the name Manuja and Yaksaraja) envisage fruit and mace for right and nakula and rosary for left hands. The Digambara texts further strengthen the impact of Siva by providing trident and staff in two hands while the other two hands bear fruit and rosary (Pratisthasarasamgraha - 5.37 and Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.139). The south Indian texts are in full agreement with the north Indian Digambara texts and adds also crescent with the Yaksa to further bring him closer to Siva. Somehow we are not aware of any sculpture of Isvara Yaksa from anywhere. (ii) Manavi (or Gauri) Yaksi- Manavi Yaksi of 10th Jina Sitalanatha in Digambara tradition becomes the Yaksi of 11th Jina Sreyamsanatha in Svetambara tradition who is also called Srivatsa or Vidyunnada. According to Svetambara texts, the four-armed Yaksi rides a lion and shows varada-mudra and mudgara (or noose) in right and pitcher (or nakula or thunderbolt) and goad (or rosary) in left hands (Nirvanakalika -- 18.11 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra - 4.1.786-87). The Digambara texts, on the other hand, visualize fourarmed Gauri with deer mount and with mudgara, lotus, pitcher and varada-mudra in hands (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.165). The south Indian texts bring Gauri even closer to Siva by providing bull mount and crescent. We come across mainly three figures of the Yaksi which like most of the previous instances are affiliated to Digambara sect. These figures are known from Deogadh (Temple No. 12, A.D. 862), Gyaraspur (Maladevi temple) and Barabhuji cave. However, the figure from Maladevi temple (south facade) only concurs with the available textual injunctions. The four-armed Yaksi seated in lalitasana with deer mount shows varadamudra, abhaya-mudra, lotus and fruit. The earliest figure is from Deogadh wherein the two-armed Yaksi carved with Sreyamsanatha is labelled in the inscription as 'Vahani'. She does not exhibit any distinct attribute. She merely shows lotus in right hand. The four-armed Yaksi in Barabhuji cave shows varada-mudra, rosary,

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302 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies manuscript and water-vessel in hands. However, the right) and flower (or noose) and mace (in left) mount is damaged. (Nirvanakalika - 18.12 and Trisastisalakapurusacaritra -- (12) Kumara Yaksa and Canda (or Gandhari) 4.2.288-89). On the other hand, the four-armed Gandhari Yaksi of Vasupujya (12th Jina) in Digambara texts is provided with lotus and makara(i) Kumara Yaksa- Both the traditions provide vahana and she bears pestle, lotus (in two hands) and swan mount for Kumara Yaksa but the Digambara texts varada-mudra (Pratisthasarasamgraha - 5.40 and conceive of him as three- or six-faced. The Nirvanakalika Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.166). In south Indian traditions, (18.12) speaks of four-armed Yaksa as bearing fruit and the four-armed Yaksi has snake, swan or even makara arrow in right and nakula and goad in left hands. The vahana with mirror (in two hands) and staff in hands. Pravacanasaroddhara (12.373), however, prescribes vina We come across only four independent examples in place of an arrow. The Pratisthasaroddhara (3.140) of Yaksi (9th to 12th century A.D.), coming as they do visualizes four-armed Kumara with varada-mudra and from Deogadh (Temple No. 12), Gyaraspur (Maladevi mace in right and bow and fruit in left hands. In the temple) and Navamuni and Barabhuji caves. The twoPratisthatilakam (7.12) the Yaksa is six-armed and holds armed Yaksa carved with Vasupujya, in case of Deogadh, arrow and nakula in additional two hands. Interestingly is labelled as 'Abhaugaratina'. The Yaksi with snake the Aparajitaprccha (221.50) keeping in view the name and long garland does not correspond with the textual Kumara provides peacock as mount, but, besides the injunctions. In case of Maladevi temple (10th century name and the six faces of the Yaksa and also the A.D. - western facade) the Yaksi sits on lotus in lalitapeacock mount, the Yaksa does not reveal the attributes mudra with the face of makara carved below the seat. of Kumara or Karttikeya of Brahmanical pantheon. In It is interesting to find in a row the nine vases suggesting any case this is an example of the partial borrowing Navanidhis (nine jewels) on the pedestal. The Yaksi of Brahmanical deity. In south India the six-armed in concurrence with the south Indian tradition holds Yaksa with peacock mount is three-faced and holds mirror alongwith lotus. The four-armed figure in the noose, spear, abhaya-mudra in right and thunderbolt, Navamuni cave with peacock mount and jata-mukuta bow and varada-mudra in left hands. Sometimes the shows abhaya-mudra, fruit, sakti and a baby. Apparently mount is swan also. We are not aware of any independent the Yaksi may be identified with Kaumari, the sakti figure of Yaksa but an image (15th century A.D.) of of Karttikeya. In Barabhuji cave the eight-armed Yaksi five-headed (sixth head on the back is invisible) and with some bird mount shows in her right hands the twelve-armed Yaksa seated with peacock mount in varada-mudra, fruit, rosary and nilotpala (blue lotus) lalitasana from Girnar may be taken to represent Kumara while the corresponding left hands carry water-vessel, Yaksa (Pl. 178). The Yaksa in his hands bear varadaksa, conch, flower and long stalked lotus. The Yaksi sword, shield, arrow and bow like attributes. It is apparently does not correspond with any of the known important to note that the Sanmukha (six-faced) Yaksa traditions. Thus we find two different traditions for the (in Svetambara tradition) of the 13th Jina Vimalanatha rendering of the same Yaksi in Navamuni and Barabhuji with peacock mount also suggests the impact of caves. Karttikeya. (13) Sanmukha (or Caturmukha) Yaksa and (ii) Canda (or Gandhari) Yaksi- The four-armed Vidita (or Vairoti) Yaksi of Vimalanatha Yaksi in Svetambara tradition is also known as Pracanda (13 Jina) and Ajita. Yaksi Pracanda in Svetambara tradition has (i) Sanmukha (or Caturmukha) Yaksa : The horse as mount. She shows varada-mudra and sakti (in twelve-armed Yaksa in both the traditions is said to Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yaksi or Sasanadevata 303 have peacock mount but the number of faces as is (14) Patala Yaksa and Ankusa (or evident from the names varies. The six-faced Yaksa, Anantamati) Yaksi of Anantanatha (14th Jina) according to Svetambara texts, carries in his right hands (i) Patala Yaksa- Both the traditions visualize fruit, disc, arrow, sword, noose and rosary while the three-faced, six-armed Patala Yaksa as riding on makara. corresponding left ones show nakula, disc, bow, shield, The Nirvanakalika (18.14) prescribes lotus, sword and goad and abhaya-mudra (Nirvanakalika - 18.13 and noose in right and nakula, shield and rosary in left Trisastisalakapurusacaritra -- 4.3.178-79). The four- hands. The Mantradhirajakalpa (3.38) makes him threefaced Yaksa as per Digambara texts carries parasu in eyed also. The Digambara texts also speak of threeright upper hands while the remaining four hands show hooded snake canopy while the attributes in hands are sword, rosary, shield and danda-mudra goad, spear, lotus, kasa, plough and fruit (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.141). The south Indian texts (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.142). These features reveal the prescribe almost the same attributes for twelve-armed bearing of Balarama who was an incarnation of Adisesa. Sanmukha as found in north Indian Digambara texts. The south Indian texts envisaging the same features as The Yaksa rides on cock or monkey or even peacock. found in Digambara texts of north India speak of axe The figure of Yaksa is not found from anywhere. and trident also to suggest Saiva impact. The figure of (ii)Vidita (or Vairoti) Yaksi, The four-armed Patala Yaksa, however, is not known to us. Vidita in Svetambara tradition has lotus mount while (ii) Ankusa (or Anantamati) Yaksi- The fourfour-armed Vairoti in Digambara texts like 13th armed Ankusa, according to Svetambara texts, is Mahavidya Vairotya (earlier in tradition) is provided conceived with lotus mount and sword and noose in with snake mount and also as having snakes in two right and shield and goad in left hands (Nirvanakalika - hands. The Nirvanakalika (18.13) envisages arrow and 18.14). On the other hand, the four armed Anantamati noose in right and bow and snake in left hands. The in Digambara texts rides a swan and shows in hands Digambara texts (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.167) also bow, arrow, fruit and varada-mudra (Pratisthasaraprovide bow and arrow in two hands in addition to samgraha - 5.49). The south Indian texts provide snakes in two hands. The south Indian tradition, apart identical details and the mount sometimes is peacock from snake mount, also gives deer as mount. The also. attributes are almost the same as found in north Indian We come across only two figures of Yaksi from Digambara texts. Digambara Jaina sites - Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and We come across only two sculptures of Barabhuji cave. In case of Deogadh the name of Yaksi Vairoti from Deogadh (Temple No. 12, 862 A.D.) and is inscribed as Anantavirya (closer to Anantamati). The Barabhuji cave. However, in both the cases the features two-armed Yaksi (with flywhisk and kati-hasta) does do not correspond with texts. The two-armed figure not show any distinct features. Surprisingly the example from Deogadh is carved with Vimalanatha and is from Barabhuji cave has donkey mount. The eightlabelled as 'Sulaksana'. The Yaksi without any distinctarmed Yaksi shows varada-mudra, dagger, spear and attribute stands with flywhisk in left hand while right sword in right and staff, thunderbolt, long stalked lotus is akimbo. The eight-armed figure from Barabhuji cave and shield in corresponding left hands. has sarasa (crane) mount. The Yaksi shows varada- (15) Kinnara Yaksa and Kandarpa (or mudra, arrow, sword and axe in right hands while the Manasi) Yaksi of Dharmanatha (15th Jina) corresponding left ones carry thunderbolt, bow, spear (i) Kinnara Yaksa- According to both the and shield. traditions, the six-armed Kinnara Yaksa is three-faced. Jain Education Intemational

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304 Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies The Nirvanakalika (18.15) visualizes Yaksa as riding a tortoise and as bearing fruit, mace and abhaya-mudra in right and nakula, lotus and rosary in corresponding left hands. The Digambara texts (Pratisthasaroddhara 3.143) on the other hand prescribe fish as mount and mudgara, rosary and varada-mudra (in right hands) and disc, thunderbolt and goad (in left hands) as attributes. The south Indian texts almost concur with the injunctions of north Indian Digambara texts. The independent image of the Yaksa is hitherto not known. (ii) Kandarpa (or Manasi) Yaksi- In both the traditions Yaksi is provided with goad and noose in her two hands but the vahana is different. The Svetambara texts speak of fish mount for four-armed Kandarpa who exhibits in her right hands lotus and goad while the left ones show lotus and abhaya-mudra (Nirvanakalika - 18.15). The six-armed Manasi in Digambara texts rides a tiger and bears lotuses in two hands while the remaining four hands show bow, varada-mudra, goad and arrow (Pratisthasarasamgraha -5.51 and Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.169). The south Indian texts vary in respect of mainly the vahana which is either a lion or a deer or even a tiger. We are encountered with two figures of Yaksi at the Digambara Jaina sites of Deogadh (Temple No. 12) and Barabhuji cave. In case of Deogadh the name of the two-armed Yaksi in the label inscription is 'Suraksita' who holds lotus in right hand while left one is akimbo. The other figure from Barabhuji cave with camel mount is six-armed which suggests another tradition. She shows varada-mudra, fruit (?), three-pronged object in right and bell, pataka (flag) and conch in left hands. The features indeed are unconventional here. Another figure on the northern facade of the Maladevi temple of Gyaraspur may also be identified as Manasi on account of her fish mount. The four-armed Yaksi shows varada- mudra, abhaya-mudra, lotus and fruit. (16) Garuda Yaksa and Nirvani (or Mahamanasi) Yaksi of Santinatha (16th Jina) (i) Garuda Yaksa- The Svetambara texts conceive four-armed Garuda Yaksa as possessing boar face and boar mount and as carrying fruit, lotus, nakula and rosary (Nirvanakalika - 18.16). The four-armed Garuda Yaksa in Digambara texts is said to have boar or parrot mount and bearing thunderbolt and disc in upper and lotus and fruit in lower hands (Pratisthasarasamgraha 5.52 and Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.144). The four-armed Yaksa in south Indian Digambara tradition is addressed to as Kimpurusa Yaksa who rides either a bull or an eagle but the main attributes (disc, thunderbolt and lotus) are like north Indian Digambara tradition. Thus the impact of features of Visnu images is discernible in respect of boar and eagle mount, boar face and disc in hand. The solitary example of independent figure of Garuda Yaksa referred to by B.C. Bhattacharya is known from Deogadh (on a western gateway pillar of Deogadh fort). The four-armed Yaksa with boar mount holds mace, rosary, fruit and snake. All other figures datable from 8th century A.D. are carved only with the images of Jina santinatha. In such examples from western India, the Yaksa is usually Sarvanubhuti with purse, goad and noose in hands and elephant as mount. In other instances the two-or four-armed Yaksa (without conveyance) holds two or three of these attributes - lotus, fruit, axe, mace, staff, purse and abhaya-mudra. (ii) Nirvani (or Mahamanasi) Yaksi, The fourarmed Nirvani in Svetambara texts has lotus mount while four-armed Mahamanasi in Digambara texts has peacock or eagle mount. The Nirvanakalika (18.16) prescribes manuscript and lotus in right and watervessel and lotus in left hands. According to Pratisthasarasamngraha (5.53) Mahamanasi holds fruit, snake and disc in three hands while the remaining one is in varada-mudra. The lotus and peacock vahana and lotus, manuscript and water-vessel like attributes are suggestive of the bearing of Sarasvati. The vahana in South Indian texts is peacock but the attributes are quite different from north Indian tradition. The attributes in southern tradition are sword, shield, noose, spear and disc. Jain Education Intemational

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Yaksa-Yakst or Sasanadevata holds conch, sword, disc and varada-mudra (Pratisthasarasamgraha-5.55). The south Indian texts speak of varying mounts; it is either peacock or goose or even boar. The main attributes of Yaksi like north Indian Digambara texts are disc, conch, sword and lotus. The Vaisnava impact is apparent. We have come across only two independent figures texts prescribe boar vahana for four-armed Jaya who carved in the collective renderings of the 24 Yaksis at the Digambara Jaina sites, namely Deogadh (Temple No. 12, A.D. 862) and Barabhuji cave. In case of Deogadh the four-armed Yaksi (in tribhanga) with Santinatha has been labelled as 'Sriyadevi'. The Yaksi with buffalo mount holds sword, disc, shield and axe which are the features enunciated for 6th Mahavidya Naradatta. The example in Barabhuji cave is Jaina version of Brahmanical Gaja- or Abhiseka-Laksmi. The Yaksi here sits in dhyana-mudra on lotus and holds in both of her hands long stalked lotuses with figures of two elephants above to lustrate the goddess. Thus the traditional features are not shown in known examples. In the Santinatha images from western India the Yaksi as usual is Ambika while in some of the examples from central India (Deogadh and Khajuraho) the four-armed Yaksi sometimes is shown with lotus (in one or two hands), manuscript and water vessel to reveal some concurrence with Digambara tradition and thereby the impact of goddess Sarasvati. Two examples of the rendering of Yaksi are known from Digambara Jaina sites. The first figure from Deogadh (Temple No. 12, A.D. 862), represents the four-armed Yaksi with nara (man) vahana and as holding disc (ring), lotus and skull in three hands while the fourth hand rests on thigh. The other figure from Barabhuji cave depicts the ten-armed Yaksi with the figure of Kunthunatha above. The Yaksi with buffalo mount shows varada-mudra, staff, goad (?) disc and rosary in right hands while the corresponding left ones carry three-pronged object (small trident like), disc, conch, lotus and pitcher. The figures in both the instances apparently do no conform with the known textual injunctions. (17) Gandharva Yaksa and Bala (or Jaya) (18) Yaksendra (or Khendra) Yaksa and Yaksi of Kunthunatha (17th Jina) Dharani (or Taravati) Yaksi of Aranatha (18th Jina) (i) Gandharva Yaksa- According to Svetambara texts the mount of four-armed Yaksa is swan and he shows varada-mudra and noose in right and fruit and goad in left hands (Nirvanakalika - 18.17). The Digambara texts conceive four-armed Yaksa as riding on paksiyana (chariot drawn by bird) or parrot and as carrying arrow, bow and noose in hands (Pratisthasaroddhara - 3.145). The attributes in south Indian tradition are the same as prescribed by north Indian Digambara texts but the vahana is either deer or chariot or even the paksiyana. The independent figure of Yaksa is not found. (ii) Bala or Jaya Yaksi- The four-armed Bala in Svetambara texts is provided with peacock mount and fruit, spear (or trident), musundhi (made of wood with iron nails) and lotus in hands (Nirvanakalika18.17) and Acaradinakara - 34, p. 177). The Digambara 305 (i) Yaksendra or Khendra Yaksa- Both the traditions are unanimous in conceiving Yaksendra as twelve-armed, six-faced and three-eyed with conch mount. The attributes are also more or less the same in both the traditions. The Yaksa bears fruit, arrow, sword, shield, spear (or vajra), goad, noose, mudgara, nakula, bow, rosary and abhaya-mudra (Nirvanakalika