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Dome of the rangamandape in the Lunavasthi temple, with another domical ceiling. The second ceiling has two panels of dancers and a beautifully carved flower in the centre, with four kinnar couples in the comers.
In the Jain temples at Dilwara and Ranakpur, lotuses have been carved on the ceilings in the navacaukis and in the marble domes of the rangamandapa, or on the ceilings in the porches and the corridors in myriad ways, and with mesmerising magnificence and subtlety. Hundreds of yakşas and yakşīs, vidyādevis and vidyadharas, apsarās and jinas, dancers and musicians adore the ceilings, domes and columns of these temples - meditating, dancing, celebrating, in the midst of lotus flowers, on lotus petals, re
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