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-- Holy Abu of this age, each mother holding the child Jina on her lap. Total 3 sculptures.
Cell 13–1 saparikara sculpture of mūlanāyaka Shri Shāntinātha. 3 mutilated pairs of Jaina donors, beautiful and old, deposited in a niche in a side-wall of this cell."
Cell 14—1 saparikara sculpture of Shri Supārshvanātha installed as mūlanāyaka.
Cell 15—1 sculpture of Shāntinātha with parikara, installed as mūlanāyaka.
Cell 16-1 sculpture of Chandraprabha with parikara, worshipped as mūlanāyaka.
Cell 17–1 unidentified Tirthařkara image with parikara, as mūlanāyaka.
Cell 18-1 sculpture of Neminātha, with parikara, worshipped as mūlanāyaka. Cells 17 and 18 have no partition wall between them. . ..
Cell 19–1 saparikara sculpture of Munisuvrata-svāmi installed as the chief deity of the cell. 1 Pañchatirthi sculpture with parikara, but without the figure of the central Jina, which is now missing, though the snake-hoods over the head of the Jina still remain. I beautiful stone slab recognised as the Ashvāvabodha and Samaļīvihāra Pațţa, and depicting some well-known incidents from the life of the Tirthařkara Munisuvrata.
1 Some preservation of the mutilated parts was attempted in V.S. 1987 by joining them. . 2 The sculpture is said to have been first identified by the late Pravartaka Munirāja Shri Kāntivijayaji of Pātaņ, for the late Dr: D. R. Bhandarkar who discussed it in Annual Report, Archæological Survey of India, for 1905-06.
8 After attainment of Kevalajñāna, the twentieth Tirthankara Munisuvrata Svāmi went on preaching the doctrine
| SR No. | 023259 |
| Book Title | Holy Abu |
| 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 |