Jaina Rock Cut Caves In Western India Part 01

SR No.: 022810
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Viraj Shah
Publisher: Agam Kala Prakashan
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Jaina Rock-cut Caves in Western India
78 Sculptures
The icons on the sidewalls of the hall are within niches.
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Five attackers (Fig. 19a, Plate 41)
Hall Kamatha's attack | 1.98m by 1.56m on Parsvanatha Seated
1.03m by 0.63m Rsabhanatha Sarvānubhuti 2m by 1.02m Ambika
2.07m by 1.44m Seated Jina
1.03m by 0.63m Penance of 2.06m by 1.7m Bahubali
Shrine Seated Jina
2.04m by 2m
(Fig. 195) A male attendant to right (Fig. 19c) A devotee couple to right
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The head is destroyed
Cave XXXII or Indra Sabha (J7 to J20)
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This group of cave is enclosed by a prakāra wall and ekaćala gopura. The wall has plain kapiśirsas and a corpulent figure of a seated yaksa, probably Sarvanubhuti on left. The gopura is entered by a flight of four steps with hastihasta. It has a heavy kapota surmounted by a long sala śikhāra with seated vimānapala vidyādhāras at the ends. Above the sala is a crouching lion on each side. The stupi has disappeared. The kuksināsis have figures of vidyādhara and seated Jina, while the panjarakoştha has a figure of seated Jina (Plate 21).
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The sarvatobhadra shrine in the middle of the court is monolithic (Fig. 18). It is a fine, dravida shrine with a door on all the four sides, though the flights of stairs are provided only on the southern and the northern sides. On the ground plan, it has a shrine with a narrow, open verandah on all the four sides. It is a triratha shrine. On elevation, it has adhisthāna. bhitti, which is open with a pillared prāggriva, a kapota and śikhara. The adhisthāna has a tall jagati, padma, tripatta kumuda, kantha with floral diamonds and kapota with nāsis. The kapāta is decorated with vallimandala at the corners and at the centre. The underside of the kapota is carved with stone rafters. The sikhāra is dvitala. In the first tala are karņakūtas and a large pañjaranāsi in the place of bhadraśala. The pañjaranāsi on the east has a mukhapatti carved with beaded festoons as in Chhota Kailasa. The simhaśikhās are very richly carved. In the gādha of pañjaranāsi are madalas and a standing figure of Jina. At the lower ends of the pañjaranāsi are vimānapāla vidyādhāras. The stupi of only one karņakūta on the south survives. Between karņakūta
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