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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 1000 TO 1300
(PART V
The commonest medium employed for the sculpture is sandstone but schist and marble have also been used in several cases. Metal images, especially of bronze, were also cast, but mostly they were of smaller or medium sizes. A Jaina bronze image (fig. XVI) datable to about the eleventh century was
Fio. XVI. Kemla (Bulgaria): bronze Tirtha kara (Razgrad
Museum). (After Brentjes)
discovered in 1928 at Kemla in north-east Bulgaria. It is now in Razgrad Museum there. The image depicts a seated Tirthankara on a cushion over a throne resting on a ticred pitha. It is undoubtedly of north-Indian origin, perhaps carried as a personal object of daily worship by some Jaina trader to some central-Asian or west-Asian country in the medieval period. Stylistically it shows affinity with the Cāhamāna art-tradition. Recently some fine bronze
1 B. Brentjes in East and West, 21, 3-4, Sept.-Dec., 1971, pp. 215-16.
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