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2.3 SPREAD OF JAINISM WITH TIME
> Lord Sri Mahaveer, the last Tirthankar is generally regarded as the founder of
Jain religion.
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There are twenty-four jinas or saints who were attained nirvana and possessed high place in Jain Architecture.
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Jina implies "conqueror" or, then again "leader" from which the Jain is determined.
One particular variety found in Jain temples is that they are four confronted or "chaumukh”. Thus rather than a solitary figure with single face, one path, with one access to the cell, they gave a fourfold picture or a gathering of four different Tirthankars.
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This requires the holy place chamber with four entryways, which influenced impressively the layout design of temples.
2.3.1 Jain Architecture (3rd century B.C-17th century AD)
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Jains exploited its necessity in the construction of the outside and fit as a shape of vimana.
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They presented the colonnaded gathering of little places of worship around the four sides of the courtyard in which the primary temple stands.
Eight to twelve columns are masterminded as an octagonal set inside a square. The dome is supported by these columns joined by section sort raking struts.
The dome is built on flat courses with successively reducing square, laid corner to corner to each other, with "Amalaka" or, on the other hand decorative "Kalasa" at the top.
> Another innovation was the construction of flawlessly cut and marbled roof
with central pendants practically like light fixtures in their delicacy and grace.