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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 1000 TO 1300
(PART V
PALMEIHENTAI
FIG. XIII. Allahabad Museum: a deud-kuliká. (After Pramod
Chandra)
FIG. XIV. Allahabad Museum: a shrine. (After Pramod
Chandra)
which ultimately degenerated in stylization. The temples probably had attached porches and pillared halls, but nothing definite could be said about their shape or structural details.
TEMPLES
Countless temples belonging to the Jaina faith were raised under the rule of the imperial Cāhamānas. In the Jaina literature and contemporary inscriptions, numerous references to such buildings are available. Structural as well as sculptural remains also indicate the existence of numerous Jaina buildings in this period. Unfortunately, most of the Cahamāna temples and other buildings were subsequently destroyed and the few surviving ones were modified beyond recognition in the course of later repairs or renovations. Perhaps the only good examples of the Jaina building-art of the period can be seen in the famous complex of the Mahāvira temple at Osia or ancient Upakeśa (fig. XV), which is mentioned as a place of Jaina pilgrimage in the Sakala-tirtha-stotra of SiddhasenaSūri. This temple, originally built in the reign of the Pratihāra ruler Vatsarāja (783-92), consisted of a sanctum (garbha-grha) with an ambulatory, a vestibule,
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