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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fifth and sixth consist of eight-foil and quatrefoil kolas respectively. The triangular spaces of the kolas are occupied by kirttimukhas. The ceilingslab has gone now.
Jaina Temples of Western India
The ceilings in the north porch and in a bay in the east wing are similar to the preceding one, but here is found only one course of kola.
References
1. The tryanga plan always shows these three buttresses. When it is doyanga, it consists of bhadra and karna. In either case the bhadra is always the biggest member.
2. For details see my article, "Two Kausaggiyas from Vadnagar," Jaina Journal, vol. VI, No. 2, pp. 79-80.
3. Cousens, H., Somanatha and Other Mediaeval Temples in Kathiawad, pl. XLIII.
4. Ibid., p. 51.
5. Dhaky, M. A., "Vimalavasahini Keṭalika Samasyão," Svadhyaya (Gujarati), vol.I X, No. 3, p. 356.
6. Ibid., pp. 356-57.
7. Jayantavijaya, HA, p. 36.
8. See pp. 50-51.
9. HA, pp. 36-38.
10. Ibid., p. 39.
11. Ibid., pp. 54-55, bhavas 1 and 2.
12. Shah, U. P., "Iconography of the Sixteen Jaina Mahavidyas," Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, vol. XV, pp. 114-77.
13. HA, p. 55, bhāva 5c.
14. Shah, U. P., in HA, p. 56, n. 1.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., p. 55, n. 2.
17. HA, pp. 56-61, bhāva 6.
18. Nanavati, J. M. and Dhaky, M. A., Ceilings
in the Temples of Gujarat, p. 75, No. 52.
19. HA, p. 61, bhāvas 7 and 8.
20. Nanavati and Dhaky, op. cit., p. 75. 21. HA, p. 63, bhäva 11.
22. Ibid., pp. 69-70, bhāva 17.
23. Ibid., pp. 64-65, bhävas 12-12a. 24. Ibid., p. 65, bhāva 13.
The remaining ceiling is located in a bay in the east wing. It consists of four courses, the first being octagonal and the rest, circular. The octagonal course bears usual decorations. The other three courses consist of padmas, each decorated with lotus petals. The ceiling-slab is relieved with a full-blown lotus flower set up in a border of foliate scrolls.
25. Ibid., pp. 65-66, bhava 14. 26. Ibid., pp. 66-67, bhava 15. 27. Ibid., p. 69, bhāva 16. 28. Cf. Ibid., p. 70, bhava 18. 29. Ibid., pp. 70-71, bhäva 19. 30. Ibid., p. 71, bhäva 20.
31. Ibid., pp. 71-75, bhava 21.
32. Ibid., p. 75, bhava 25, n. 2.
33. Ibid., p. 75, bhāva 27.
34. For details see Shah, U.P., Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, vol. XV, pp. 125-33.
35. HA, p. 76, bhāva 29.
36. Shah, U. P., in HA, p. 76, n. 2.
37. Ibid.
38. HA, p. 77, bhāva 36.
39. Ibid., pp. 77-78, bhāva 37.
40. Ibid., p. 78, bhāva 38.
41. Cf. Ibid., p. 78, bhāva 39.
42. Ibid., pp. 62-63, bhāva 10.
43. Shah, U. P., in HA, p. 38, n. 1. For the complete list of images installed in the devakulikäs see Jayantavijaya, HA, pp. 39-51.
44. HA, pp. 82-83.
45. Jayantavijaya, Arbuda Präcina Jaina Lekhasamdoha, Ābu, vol. II, No. 229.
46. HA, pp. 78-82.
47. Ibid., p. 28, n. 2.
48. Ibid., p. 96.
49. Ibid., pp. 96-97.
50. Nanavati and Dhaky, op. cit., p. 83, No. 77. 51. Ibid., p. 82, No. 75.
52. For details of their iconography see Shah, U. P., "Iconography of the Sixteen Jaina Mahavidyas," Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, vol. XV, pp. 114-177.