Jain Rup Mandan

SR No.: 001961
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Umakant P Shah
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 466
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Art
File Size: 27 MB

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Iconography of 24 Tirthankaras
185 maradi in Belgaum district. The sculpture is assignable to c. 10th cent. A.D. A later sculpture of standing Pārsva, with a canopy of five snake-hoods and the coils of Dharanendra behind, is in worship in Panca Basadi, Stavanidhi, Belgaum district, Chikkodi Taluq. The Jina here stands under an arch supported by two pillars on tops of which in niches are two small sitting Jina figures. Near the right leg of Pårsva sits four-armed Dharanendra yakşa while on the corresponding left end sits four-armed Padmavati yaksi, both of them having a snake-hood above the crown. The sculpture dates from c. 13th cent. A.D.
A somewhat earlier and more beautiful sculpture of Pärśva, from neck upwards and with feet and pedestal also broken, is preserved in the museum at Bidar and hails from Basavakalyana in the Humnabad Taluq of Bidar district. This is a Covisi Digambara sculpture with rows of sitting Tirthankaras on two sides and an attendant male câmaradhara on each side. A much later figure of standing Pārsva with four-armed yaksa and yakşi near his legs is in worship at Rona in Dharwar district. Here small figures of sitting Jinas are shown in the hollows of the toraņa arches above and one more row on lotuses springing from them, thus making this a Caturvimśati-Patta image of Pārsvanātha. Another late sculpture of standing Pārsva with four-armed yaksa and yakşi is in worship in the Adinatha Basadi. Mugadd in Dharwar district. Another Eka-Tīrthi of Pārsvarātha with a canopy of seven hoods and fourarmed yaksa and yakşi sitting near the legs is found from Lakkundi in Dharwar district. The beautiful sculpture dates from c. 12th century A.D.
Of about thirteenth century is a standing Pārsvanātha with standing four-armed yakşa and yakşi by the side of his legs in worship in Sankesvara Basadi in Dharwar district. A much later stone sculpture of Pārsva sitting on a big seat is preserved in the Kannada Research Institute, Dharwar. Here also fourarmed Dharanendra yakşa and Padmavati yakşi are standing on two sides of the high seat.
A beautiful sculpture of standing Parsva with a fine circular canopy of seven snake-hoods is found from Lakkundi. The sculpture of fine Chalukyan style dates from c. ninth century A.D. There are no other members of the parikara nor a back slab. This is a sculpture in the round unfortunately broken below the knees. It is now preserved in the local museum. Of about the same age is a similar sculpture in the round with part of the snake-hoods mutilated and broken from below the knees. It is found from the site of the ancient Jaina Tirtha Kulpak in the Nalgonda district. It is now preserved in the local site museum of Someśvara temple. Kirit Mankodi has published two single figures of Parávanātha from the wall of the Jaina temple at Hallur in north Karnataka.343
A beautiful standing figure of this Jina with seven snake-hoods and coils of the snake behind his body is preserved in the Panchakūta Basadi at Kambadahalli, Karnataka. In a small village known as Bellur on the way to Bangalore from Kambadahalli is a fine sculpture in the round of Parsva sitting in ardhapadmāsana with five snake-hoods overhead and coils of the snake at his back. Dating from c. 10th century and of the style under the Gangas, this sculpture is said to have been brought here from Nagamangalam.
A beautiful early sculpture of Pārśva seated in the ardhapadmāsana against a back seat made of a horizontal bar supported by two dwarf pillars with lions standing on hind legs is found from a ruined Basadi at Bankur, Chitapur Talug, Gulbarga district. Between the back-rest and the body of the Jina are the coils of the seven-hooded Dharanendra at the back of the Jina. From two ends of the back-rest spring two camaradhara yakşas. There is a triple umbrella over the snake-hoods. The sculpture dates from c. 8th cent. A.D.
There is a beautiful sculpture of Pārsvanatha standing with coils of Dharapendra at the back in worship in a shrine at Sravana Belagola. The canopy of seven snake-hoods is arranged in an almost complete circle. The sculpture is a beautiful specimen of the Ganga art of c. 10th cent. A.D.
Of c. late 11th century is a fine sculpture of Pārsva standing preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see fig. 46). Four-armed Dharanendra yakşā and Padmāvati yakşi are sitting on two sides near the legs of the Jina. The sculpture hails from northern Karnataka.
Of about the 11th cent. A.D. there is also a sculpture of Pārsva sitting in the ardhapadmasana against the back-seat with a horizontal bar supported by two pillars. On the back of the Jina is also a big cushion. Two câmaradharas are shown springing as it were from the back-seat. In all these cases the Jina has canopy of seven snake-hoods. This sculpture is preserved in a shrine in Sravana Belagola. In