Holy Abu

SR No.: 023259
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayantvijay
Publisher: Yashovijay Jain Granthmala
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 380
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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the act of performing the Chaitya-vandana (Obeissance to the Chaityas etc.) while on the corresponding right wall are seen three figures playing on different musical instruments. Similar reliefs of two persons performing the Chaityavandana are seen on the front wall of cell no. 53. On the wall to the left of the entrance to cell no. 54 figures are carved in groups of three, one below the other, and include sadhus, shrāvakas and shravikās. The first group could not be properly identified, the figures may represent Jaina monks following the more rigorous practices known as the Jina-Kalpa (moving about naked and with no possessions). The other groups represent sadhus following the SthaviraKalpa (what the Shvetambara Jaina monks practise to-day) and are shown wearing a lower garment reaching below the knees and an upper one leaving the right shoulder bare. Under his elbow, each monk carries a broom-stick (rajoharana) and holds a staff in one hand and the mouth-piece (to ward off insects while speaking) with the other.
(12) The ceiling of the corridor or Bhamati is divided into two sections or bays, in front of each cell (devakulikā), by the crossed beams supporting it. Thus in front of each cell there will be one bay adjacent to the cell described here as the first ceiling or dome in front of cell so and so, and another towards the open end of the corridor referred to as the second ceiling or dome in front of any particular cell. Numbers given here to Bhāvas or scenes are inscribed below them in the temple which will help a visitor to locate the scenes with least possible difficulty.
(12-12a) The second ceiling in front of cell no. 7 may be considered. The inner surfaces of the beams supporting such bays are adorned with different relief carvings. One of the beams of this second bay (in front of cell 7) is divided into three horizontal panels (fig. 8), the lowermost being