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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[Holy Abu of the two toraņas are represented fifty-one figures of standing or sitting Tirthankaras. :
Outside the main entrance to the sanctum is carved, on an architrave, a representation of the Chyavana-Kalyāņaka (Descent from heaven into the Mother's womb ) of a Jina. The Mother is shown resting on a cot and seeing the fourteen dreams.
On the upper storey, is again a four-fold image ; facing the south is the figure of Sumatinātha, installed by shrāvikā Manju of the Kharatara gaccha; on the west is the Lord Pārshyanātha installed by the same donor; facing the north is Ādinātha installed by shrāvaka Dhanna while Pārshvanātha, facing the east, was the gift of Samghapati Mandalika. All the images were installed on Friday, the first day of the dark half of the month of Āşhāda, V.S. 1515.
On the ground floor are worshipped 17 more loose images of Jinas, without any parikara, while on this storey are worshipped 32 such icons of various Tirthankaras. Besides the Chaumukha image on this floor, there is a sculpture of the goddess Ambikā, which according to the inscription on the pedestal, was the gift of Sagmhavi Mandalika, installed in V.S. 1515 by Shri Jinachandra sūri of the Kharatara gaccha.?.
All the four sculptures on the Chaumukha images on the third storey represent Pārshvanātha and were the gift of Samghapati Mandalika, installed on the date noted above, in V.S. 1515. The inscriptions on them further show that three of them were originally installed on the second floor. The parikara etc. of these images are lost
In all there are 57 parikara-less Tirthankara figures in the Kharatara Vasahi, besides the three Chaumukhas and one sculpture of the goddess Ambikā noted above
Abu, Vol. II, Inscription no. 452,