Maladevi Temple of Gyaraspur

SR No.: 250205
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishna Deva
Publisher: Z_Mahavir_Jain_Vidyalay_Suvarna_Mahotsav_Granth_Part_1_012002.pdf and Mahavir_Jain_Vidyalay_Suvarna_
Total Pages: 10
Language: English
Classification: Article & Pilgrimage
File Size: 4 MB

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266 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME designs of scrolls, nagas in anjali-mudra, mithunas and two pilasters containing scrolls of different designs, the inner one being stencilled and the outer one in relief. The mithunas alternate with bhutas or pasa-like design. The lalata-bimba shows an image of Cakresvari riding on Garuda. She is eight-armed and holds spiral lotus-stalk in the lower right hand, the objects in the other right hands being indistinct. In three of her left hands she holds lotus, cakra and ball-like object which may represent a fruit. The door-jambs show at the base figures of Ganga on the left and Yamuna on the right, each river-goddess being flanked by attendants and two dvarapalas wearing kiritamukuta. While two of the dvarapalas face east, the remaining two are placed, juxtaposed to each other in the passage of the doorway. Ganga is flanked by a female umbrella-bearer and a dwarf female carrying a net suspended from the right hand. Above the head of the umbrella-bearer on a lotus-stalk pedestal are seen miniature figures comprising a seated god flanked on each side by a seated attendant and a standing cauri-bearer. This group is flanked on each side by a vidyadhara seated on lotus leaves issuing from the same stalk. Yamuna is also flanked by a female figure carrying a large round ornamental gada and a dwarf female carrying a net in her left hand. Above the head of the female gada-bearer occurs on a lotus pedestal a similar group of five figures, the central figure being a sage seated in padmasana with the right hand in the vyakhyana mudra. Above this group occurs a group of vidyadhara figures carrying flute, vina, drums and garlands and seated on lotus leaves issuing from the same stalk. The door-sill is carved centrally with lotus-stalks entwining dwarf ganas, and is also embellished with crocodiles and elephants, symbolising Dig-gajas. On the extreme ends occur a couple of devotees flanked by lions. Μαηάαρα The mandapa is centrally supported on 'four pillars. Its ceiling (Fig. 5) is octagonal and probably of the sama-ksipta variety, consisting of four diminishing courses of gajatalus of which only the fringes have survived. The lintels and the architraves of the mandapa ceiling are decorated with two rows of miniature shrines, which are repeated on the architraves of the ardha-mandapa and antarala where they alternate with chess-pattern. The inner walls of the mandapa are bare, except for two purely decorative blind windows. Against the southern wall of the mandapa has been placed centrally a colossal standing image of Jina flanked by two seated male devotees.