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Panhāla Fort is the same as foc. Mr. R. V. Karandikar of the Nerbudda Valley Research Board has tried to correlate these traditions with thiose discovered on the Nerbudda. If a Panlāla Fort was a 4 colony then it at once brings the Kolhāpur area in close touch with the Nerbudda culture.
सूत्र 225.
ताल = The distance between fully-stretched thumb and the middle fiager.
तालमान = measurement by ताल, of sculptural objects. These may be मूर्तिs (icons), their conveyances etc. All objects large or simall, are comprised within a range ordinarily varying between one to ten alas. The lower the scale of life or the development biologically, of the object to be represented sculpturally, the smaller is the af3 for its representation and vice versa. मानसार-शिम्परलम्-सुप्रभेदागम and the Hindu Iconography by Gopinath Rao have taken cognisance of this range of the तालमान..
___But बिंबमान (Ms. in the British Museum No. 558-552) has a wider ranee .doing upto 12 तालs, while अपराजितच्छा has overtopped all the above treatises and extended the range upto 16 तालs; and स्वच्छन्दभैरव in अपराजितपृच्छा is represented under this scheme of तालमान by 21 तालs.
___ I have given these तालमानs of विबमान, सुप्रभेदागम, अपराजितपृच्छा and रूपमंडन for facility of reference as under. Objects in विमान सुप्रभेदागम अपराजितपृच्छा रूपमंडन
२. अंगुल 1 ताल वधूका (१) कूष्मांड (a kind कीर्तिवक्त्र-जल्चर ग्रासबकूत्र
of spirit) fasura 2 तालs birds
मत्स्य विहंग
पक्षिन् Kinnaras किनर
कुंजरा (It ought
to be किन्नर) भूत
तुरंग
किन्नर गणेश वामन-विघ्नहर किन्नर
सुरवृष-शकर-वामन 5 व्याघ्र गन्धर्व गणनाथ-यक्ष
गणनाथ यक्ष राक्षस-अपुर . मानव
मानव मनुष्या (नरनारी) दिव्यमार्षमनुष्य दिव्ययोषितः पार्वतीदेवी 8 दानव शक्ति अन्यदेवा सर्वदेवा
सर्वदेवा देवीमनुष्य-बुद्ध ईश्वरादि चतुर्मुर्ति राम, विष्णु, बैरोचन, राम, बलि, रुद्र, जिन 10
सिद्ध, जिनवर देवता
रुदभूतानि
स्कन्द, हनुमान,
भूत-चण्डिका 11 राक्षस
मधुमुरौ-वताल वेताल __ 12 राक्षसाः
राक्षस दानवाः चामुण्डा-भृगुरू भृगुरूपा जटामुकुटचन्द्रालंकृताः नरदेवीs