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he wears a jaṭājūta with locks of hair falling over his shoulder. The projected frames at the edge of the back-slab are relieved with figures of eight Jyotiska-devas (their arrangement identical to that in No. 45) and two attending cauri-bearers. The recessed portion of the stele reveals triangular plaques on cross-bar and a large roundish aureole adorned with beads and flame-tongued border devices. The tiered chatra above the head of the Saviour is damaged.
66 cms x 36 cms
Circa 10th Century A.D.
Plate No. 40
48. Rsabhanatha with Twenty-four Jinas
The almost rectangular stele of the image is rounded off at the top. The nimbused Jina stands on a lotus placed on a pañca-ratha pedestal having a bull flanked by a kneeling donor couple and a ratna-pātra heaped with offerings in its central projection. Stylized representations of crouching lions occupies the adjacent facets while the exterior ones are left blank. The Jina is devoid of any worldly attire, has elongated ear-lobes, and wears a shapely jaṭājūta with kesa-vallari falling by the sides of his head over the shoulders. He is attended by two stiff and roboust looking cauri-bearers, profusely bejewelled, with their left hands in katyavalambita posture and the right hands holding camaras. The back of the throne consists of posts decorated with mouldings and criss-cross scratched pilasters, supporting a horizontal cross-bar with lightly incised square rhizomes at its ends, above which there are triangular foliated plaques. The ovoidal prabhā is embellished with beads and flame-tongued border devices and has a flowering twig on its either side. On the projected part of the back-slab there are miniature representations of twenty-four Tirthankaras arranged in six vertical rows of two each on either side of the mula-nāyaka. Their lāñchanas are indicated on a small pedestal placed below them. Above, also on a projected portion, can be seen a chatra-trayi with drooping leaves over it, disembodied hands playing on musical instruments, and a Vidyadhara couple holding long garlands and hovering in the clouds.
83 cms x 49 cms
Circa 10th/11th Century A.D. Plate No. 41
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| SR No. | 520082 |
| Book Title | Jain Journal 1986 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Bhawan Publication |
| Publisher | Jain Bhawan Publication |
| Publication Year | 1986 |
| Total Pages | 75 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |