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Varada boon-conferring hand-pose; a four hand yakşini holding a rosary, a book, a lotus and the fourth in varada position. This is identified with the affiliation of Padmaprabha Tirthankara.
Vimāna the sanctum in the Cālukyan Jaina architecture.
REFERENCES
1. Dr. Hiraial Jain, Jain Contributiond to Indian Culture [Kan.tr. Mirigi Annaraya], p.349, Jain Cultural Heritage, Solapur, 198 1. 2 Dr. M.A. Dhaky, Ed. Aspects of Jain Art and Architecture, p.319. 3. Cited by Dr. M.N.P. Tiwary, Ambika in Jaina Art and Literature, p.2, Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi, India1989.
4. Ibid., p.3..
5. Dr. Jose Perira, Monolithic Jinas, p.12, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. 6. Dr. John Cort in Jinamañjari, Canada-USA, April 1993.
7. Dr. Perira.
8. Dr. Tiwari, p. 4; also see T.A. Gopinatha.Rao, Jaina and Bauddha Vestiges in Travancore. p.15, Indological Book House, Delhi, 1986. 9. Dr. Tiwari, pp.4-5.
10. Gopinatha.Rao, p.4-61.
11. Dr. N.M. Kansara, Art Notes on Sculpture in Dhanapala's Tilakamañjari, in Sambodhi, Ahmedabad.
12. Aspects of Jain Art and Architecture, pp. 266-67.
13. Ibid., pp.328-333.
14. Dr. Shasikant, The Hathigumpha Inscriptions of Khāravela, pp. 64-6, Prints India, Delhi, 1971.
15, Ibid., P. 39.
16. Dr. Klaus Fischer, Caves and Temples of the Jains, pp.1-20, The World Jain Mission, Aliganj, 1956.
17. Dr. A. Ekambaranathan, Jainism in Tamilnadu, Jain Humanities Press, Canada USA
18. Cited by R.S. Shukla, India As Known to Haribhadrasuri, p.137 from Jaina Harvamṣapūrāṇa of Jinasena, III,175.)
19. P.C. Roy Choudhary, Temples and Legends of Bengal, p.135, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,
20. Ibid., p.129.
21. Ibid., p.131.
22. Ibid., p.135.
23. Ibid., p.141.
24. Aspects of Jain Art and Architecture, pp.323.
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