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Fig. 19. Close-up View of Fig.18.
Such recent examples of the samavasaraņa are not a new idea, however. In 1984, during a visit to India, I had the good fortune to visit the storage area of the Lucknow Museum. There I saw the archaeological remains of a built samavasaraņa of the Kuşāņa period in the familiar red stone of Mathurā. This discovery added to the evidence that the samavasarana was indeed of major importance to the Jainas at least as early as the period of the āyāgapaļas. (figs. 19, 20)
Fig. 20. Samavasarana in open court before main shrine, Adinatha Temple, Satrunjaya, Palitana, Southern Gujarat. (Photo by A.W. Norton)
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