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the attendant guard or the horse himself born as a god.
To the right of Munisuvratasvāmi, in a smaller pavilion is shown King Chandragupta of Simhaladvipa with his daughter Sudarshana seated on his lap. Beside him is standing on his left the Jaina merchant Dhaneshvara standing courteously with hands folded, followed by an attendant carrying the presents in a dish. On the other side of the king is his attendant holding a purse-like object.
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The Shravaka and Shrāvikā standing on two sides of the shrine of Munisuvrata may represent the King of Broach and Princess Sudarshanā coming to worship the Lord.
The lower panel shows a huge bunyan tree with a kite on one of its branches. The hunter shoots an arrow from one side of the tree and a figure of the dying kite fallen on ground is shown in front of the stump of the tree. On the other side of the tree, in front of the poor kite are two Jaina monks, the front one holding his mouth-piece and the stick in his two hands, the second one carrying his stick in his right hand and the tarapani (wooden watervessel) in the left. Both hold their rajoharana (broom) under the elbows. On the extreme left end, beside the second monk is standing a shravaka with hands folded in
to above. A slab similar to the one in the Lunavasahi, is still preserved in a shrine at Kumbhāria, a few miles from Abu, and according to an inscription it was installed in the year V. S. 1338, in the shrine of Neminatha. It may be noted that the inscription refers to it as 'Shri Munisuvratasvami-bimbam Ashvavabodha-samalikavihāra-tirthodhara-sahitam.'
Thus all such plaques of relief representations of Shatruñjaya etc., common in Jaina shrines, are technically called uddhara'. A smaller but more beautiful representation of the AshvāvabodhaSamaļīkā-vihāra theme is preserved in a Jaina shrine at Cambay and dates from c. 13th century A. D.-Translator,
| 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 |