Jaina Temples of Western India

SR No.: 006730
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Harihar Singh
Publisher: P V Research Institute Varanasi
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 362
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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Description of Temples
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double course round ribbed bharapi of karnika and padma, topped by four-armed convoluted brackets. The interior being plastered up with lime, nothing more can be said about this mandapa.
Devakulika
The devakulikās are landed up from the court by a flight of four steps cut across the platform on which they are perched, but those at the back are reached by three independent staircases. They are screened by one arcade of pillars, forming thus one bay in front of each devakulika. But at the back they have double arcade of pillars, so that two bays are formed in front of each devakulika. Their doors are simple, and many of them are alike. One of these, which Burgess regarded as a fair type, 102 is of the dvifakha variety, consisting of patrafakha decorated with foliate scrolls and a
Sakha carved with diamonds and beads. At the lower part of the patrašakha stands a female carrying water pot. The uttaranga continues the decorations of the sakhas and depicts a diamond on the lalata. The udumbara shows a square projection carved with foliage in the centre, a diamond on each side of it, and foliage and diamond on either extremity. Inside the devakulikās are installed images of Jinas, mostly dated in the 14th-15th centuries A. D.
The exterior walls of the devakulikäs show or nate mouldings. The devakulikās are surmounted by multi-turreted fikharas. Nalamapdapa
This square mandapa rests on the same floor level as do the devakulikās. It is also roofed by a dome.
SAROTRA
BĀVANADHVAJA JINALAYA
Its elevation displays pitha, vedibandha, jangha, This temple consists of a mülaprafada, a gūdhama.
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varanduka
varandika and Sikhura. The pitha is embeded in ndapa and a rangamandapa, the whole standing in a
debris. The vedibandha consists of a khura, a kumbha rectangular court, round which runs a row of fifty.
carrying figure sculptures on the body and foliage two devakulikās with a colonnaded corridor in on the shoulder, a kalata decorated with beaded front (Text Fig. 10; Fig. 86). The temple-complex
garlands and rosettes, an antarapatra carved with rests on a high jagati, which is reached from the no
diainond and double volute pattern, and a kapota. rth through a porch landed up from the ground by The jangha, supported by a maficika, carries framed a flight of nine steps. The temple faces north. The figures of standing gods and goddesses, each surtemple no more exists now: all our information is mounted by an udgama. The figures on the karyas based upon the report of Burgess, 103 The temple appear to be those of the dikpalas. Above the has also suffered from restorations, and when Burgess udgama comes a round bharani clasped by drooping visited the temple it was in ruinous condition.
foliage. The varandika consists of a kapota and a From the number of spires on the devakulikās, on
ribbed eave-cornice. The jangha on the bhadra has which there were flag-staves when the temple was
a sunken niche. There is a praņāla on the west. in use, it has received the name of Bävanadhvaja.
The sikhara, which is built of bricks and is plaster
ed up, seems to have been rebuilt. Mülaprasada
The interior of the sanctum is square with an It is tryanga on plan consisting of bhadra, prati- angle projecting inwards at each corner. In front ratha and karna, each of the latter two argas being of the door is a moonstone which consists of an broken into three planes and the bhadra carrying ardhacandra tied on either and with gagaraka, five planes. The karna and pratiratha are not only farkha and lotus stem and flanked in turn by a talaequilateral but they also have the same proportion. räpaka. It is hard to say to whom the shrine was Between the angas are salilantaras. The frontal dedicated as the image of the mülanäyaka had been karna and pratiratha are transmuted in a buffer wall removed from the sanctum. But from an inscripwhich separates the gūdhamand apa from the müla- tion of Sam. 1689 it appears that the temple was prāsāda (Fig. 87),
dedicated to Mahavira, 104
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