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The Temples in Kumbhāriyā
legendarily happened on Ujjayantagiri or Mt. Girnār. The convention of representing these as tri-dimensional symbols and building temples to enshrine them was started by the minister Tejapāla on Ujjayantagiri in the first instance and next he set it up on Mt. Abu in the hastiśālā of his temple for Jina Neminātha. This representation is so far unknown in the Ksapanaka or for that matter in the Digambara tradition. On the other hand, the pattas bearing a single pair of a Jina's parents which are frequently encountered in the Kşapanaka (and possibly Digambara) religious art of central India are completely unknown in the Svetāmbara tradition. Also, representing the first and the last tīrthankara (Rşabha and Vardhamāna) together as kāyotsarga images and called 'Adyāntanātha', favoured in east India and sometimes seen in central India, is a depiction that is not so far known in the Svetāmbara sources—literary, epigraphical, or concrete.
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