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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Lana-Vasahi ]
folded hands.1
(19) The rectangular ceiling slab in the second bay in front of cell No. 9 is noteworthy. It shows, in the centre, a three-tiered Samavasarana with a Jina in a small cell shown in the centre of this circular Samavasaraṇa (fig. 39). On one side of the Samavasarana is a row of standing sadhus fourteen in all, in another row are shravakas and in a third one the shrāvikās sitting with folded hands. Each monk carries a danda (staff), a muhapatti (mukhapaṭṭika-mouth piece) and an ogho (rajoharana). He wears a lower-garment reaching below the knees, the upper one leaves the right shoulder bare. Three of these monks carry water vessels (tarapani).
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On one end of this relief slab is shown an ocean with gulf in which are acquatic animals and boats. The coastal region is filled with trees and a shrine of a Jina. It represents the port of Dvārikā.
Another end of the relief patta shows four Jaina temples on the Mount Girnar. Outside the temples is a Jina standing in kayotsarga. The shrines are surrounded by smaller cells or temples, trees etc., and having on one side a row of shravakas carrying pitchers, garlands, incense-burners, fly-whisks etc. (accessories for worship of Jinas), headed by six monks carrying the danda, the ogho, the muha-patti, the tarapani etc. Other rows of elephants, horses, devotees, dancers, etc. suggest that this is a scene of a samgha going to the shrines at Girnar, or people going to attend the discourse of the Jina in the Samavasaraņa.
(20-21) Each of the first bays in front of cells 10 and II show a figure of a goddess with a swan as her vahana.
1 I have omitted references to Bhava, 14-17 which merely refer to small images of Jinas or Ambika common in these shrines-Translator.