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
J11
It has a hall and a shrine (Fig. 18). The hall is around 3.45m by 2m. It is open in the front with two slender and ornamental pillars and corresponding pilasters (Plate 26). The side and the back walls are covered with sculptures.
A flight of two steps with hastihasta and the chandrašila leads to the shrine. The doorway, measuring 1.37m by 0.71m has two plain sakhās. The doorfittings are in the form of a round groove on the each side of the door ceiling and a corresponding squarish groove on the doorsill.
The shrine is 2m by 1.4m.
Sculptures
Icon No
Icon
Size
Distinct Features Hall 1.97m by 1.54m Five attackers (Fig. 23a)
on
Kamatha's attack Parsvanatha Seated Jina
Sarvānubhuti
0.88m by 0.49m | Carved in the upper portion of the wall,
touching the ceiling. Damaged as a part of it has cut through J10. The triple chhatra is
destroyed 1.36m by 0.93m Elephant is on a rectangular piece of rock.
No tree above the head. Instead, above the throne back, on the back wall is a minutely carved makara on each side with a female chauri-bearer emerging from it and a flying
couple above it (Fig. 23b) 1.24m by 0.89m As Sarvānubhuti, lion is on a rectangular
piece of rock, tree is absent, instead there are similar makaras, female chauri-bearers
and flying couples (Fig. 23c) 0.82m by 0.55m | Three lions on the throne of 1.77m by 1.4m Fig. 23d, Plate 44
Ambika
Seated Jina Penance Bahubali
Seated Jina
Shrine 1.9m by 2.1m Seated on a lotus kept on the throne. Three
lions on the throne (Fig. 23e)
Paintings
There are faint traces of paintings on the hall ceiling, shrine doorway and the main icon in the shrine. There are no traces of either plaster or painting on the sidewalls or the ceiling of the shrine. The colour on the main icon is primarily red.