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Mahāvira -- where independent kings like Siri Sada, Mahā Sada, Sivamaka Sada etc., the contemporaries of the early Maharathis, caused Jain stūpas on Vaddamānu hill. The site however has not yielded any anthropomorphic forms but only several symbols of stūpas, astamangalas like swastika, dharmacakra, purnaghata, șrivatsa and nandyavarta. The Jaina archaeological site of Mathurā has yielded an inscribed Jaina image dated 42 of Satrapa king Sodasa, and this may probably cited as the earliest anthropomorphic form of a Jina.
REFERENCES
1. Nāma Jina Jinama thavanajina punijinanda Padimavo davvajina Jinajiva bhāva Jina samavasaranātha - Pravacana Sarodhāra, dvāra - 41.
2. B.C. Bhattacharya, Jain Iconography, p. 186.
3.Veera rsavha nemimhih tesam Jinanam paryankasanam sesa Jinanam utsargasanam - Sattva Sarodhāra, dvara 151.
4. Chattārimangalam purvohunnaijatya paschimasara paryanam assago esapuna hoyi Jinamndra - Pancāstikāya - 3 viva.
5. Vasa hagaya turaya vanara kuncho
Kamalamchana satthio chando Mayara sirivachha gandaya mahisa varahoya senoya Vajjam harino chhagalo mamdavathhaya kalasa kumbhoya. Niluppala sankhaphani siho ajinana cinayim. Pravacana Sarodhaa, dvara 16.
6. Yapati sasanamjainam sadya pratyuhanasini Sabhipreta samudyarthabhuyat sasana devata:
Pratistakalpa, p.13.
7. Dr. U.P. Shah, “Beginnings of Jaina Iconography” in Jainthology, ed. Ganesh Lalwani, p.110, Jain Bhavan, calcutta, 1991.
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