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Figure: 5.1 - Jain Tirtha, Shravanabelagola.
Source: (Jain Tirtha, Shravanabelagola, 2018)
Despite the expressive arts of painting and small-scale-themed divider, the threedimensional images of meru. Such data may be almost zero, about one meter high and made of brass, or it may be more noticeable routine contours such as white marble. Typically, the insignificant metallic representations of meru are held in places of the application side, which contain the rooms and the largest temple mandapas structures.
Going through the section, it will be shown that the representations of meru and samosaran are clearly correlated in a lasting way and an extraordinary part of the time is almost indistinguishable. From the open material, independently, the impression is created that it is more typical that meru figure is octagonal and sometimes has a square base, and that the three-dimensional samosaran are round.
The mythological dimension
Jain's social group built typically has a policy of confusing astronomical geography, as well as a significant unambiguous drive and fables. In the concentrations of myths and legends of Jain are the biographies of the twenty-four Jain Tirthakaras. The records of the Jin are inexorably related and are taken after a controlled agreement and those that portray the life and actions of Adinatha and Mahavira are the lowest. It is said that all the Jin are familiar with a ksatriya family, the heavenly creatures to their destiny mixed as meaningful instructors, deny life wrenching sensible world, monk wrapping and after gravity strenuously achieve enlightenment. As a result, the celestial creatures have an impact on an
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