Jaina Tirthas in India and Their Architecture

SR No.: 006717
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 24 MB

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JAINA TIRTHAS IN INDIA
of this work also had been twice on pilgrimage to this tirth where he tried to derive spiritual happiness.
Figure 21 :-A PAIR OF YAKSHAS from Curzon Museum of Archæology, Mathurā. Mr. Vasudeva Saraṇa Agravala, the Curator of the Curzon Museum of Archaeology at Mathurā has tried to identify this image in an article of his published in the Jaina Satyaprakasa Vol. IV. pt. 12 without success. In the sculpture a man and a woman are seated side by side. The hands and faces of both are damaged. Over the head is a tree in which is carved a Jina image seated in the padmasana-pose. Traces of a child held by the woman in her left hand are distinctly observed. This leads me to identify it as of Ambikadevi. The male must be a two handed Yaksha.
Figure 22:-Sculptures representing the Yaksha HARINAIGAMESHI secured from Kankāli-țilā near Mathnrā. For a discussion of these images see the monthly Jaina Satyaprakasa (Ahmedabad) Vol. IV, 1-2.
Figure 23:-A COULPE OF Devotees. This image secured from the Kankāli-țila, gives a correct idea of the dress put on by the Sravakas and Sravikas of old days. A wreath of flowers has been carved by the sculptor between the folded hands of the male devotee. The serene and devout expression on the face of the male so successfully shown by the sculptor evokes our admiration.
Plates 10 & 11 Figure 24:-A Jaina image. Figure 25:-A Jaina image. Figure 26 :-RISHABHADEVA. Figure 27 :-PARSVANATHA.
All these four images were excavated at Mahudi, a village in the Baroda State and have been identified as Buddhist by Dr. Hirananda Sastri in the Annual Report for 1937-38 of the Archaeology Department, Baroda state. I have however disproved the identification of Dr. Sastri by his own evidence and have shown that the images are Jaina, in my article on very Ancient Jaina images from Gujarāt published in the Bharatiya Vidya Vol. I. pt. 2.
Plate 12 Figure 28:-A Jaina image in the Kayotsarga form, from the Mahā vīrasvāmi's shrine at Pindvādā (Mārwad). A detailed description of this image has been given by Kalyāna-Vijayaji in the Nagaripracharini-patrika N. S. Vol. XVIII pt. 2 pp. 221 to 231. It is