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JAINA TIRTHAS IN INDIA Avanti-Sukumala by his son. This Avanti-Sukumala was the son of a merchant from Ujjain and was contemporaneous with Aryasuhastisvāmī Siddhasena-Divākara, a learned Jaina, who composed his Kalyana-mandira-Stotra in this temple. The shape of the serpent hood in this image is of a different type. It is of white marble.
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Figure 45-PARSVANATHA from the Jaina temple at Bhanduka near Wardha. It is of black marble and was secured from excavations some years ago. The image is anointed now. It is seated in the ardhapadmasana pose.
Figure 46-Parsvanatha. Same as above with the angi or dress and ornaments.
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Figure 47:-NEMINATHA. This black marble image is near Pundarikasvāmī in the first pradakshina path on the Moți Tuk on the Satruñjaya Hill and attracts every devout Jaina.
Figure 48-AMIJARA PARSVANATHA image from a temple on a knoll to the right after entering the Waghan Pol on the Satruñjaya Hill. Plate 23
Figure 49:-MAHAVIRASVAMIN. This yellow image is situated in a niche near the door on the left, on entering the temple of the Mula-Nayaka or Adinatha on the Satruñiaya Hill.
Figure 50-PARSVANATHA. On the Satrunjaya Hill near Pālitāṇa, there is the tük of Balabhai Modi. In it there is a temple on the left just when one enters it. Outside the sanctum of the temple there are two nicely carved niches which remind one of the niches called Derani-Jethanina Gokhlas. This image is installed in one of the niches. It belongs to the 18th or 19th the Cen. after Christ and carving of the niches seems to be of the 12th or 13th Cen. A. D. It is possible that the carved stones of these niches are extraneous and have been fixed at a later date.
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Figure 51-SANTINATH (Satrunjaya Hill). This image is installed as the Mula-Nayaka or chief image in the temple that is seen on the left just on entering the Waghana Gate. Every pilgrim to the Satrunjaya Hill visits other shrines after making obeisance to this
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