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in stone. Its estimated cost was 330 honnu.1 The wooden model must easily have been dispensed with in cases of material which was as tractable as wood. For instance, at Barkur. Buchanan observed a basti, built ly the Wodeyars, about which he remarks-"The workmanship of the pillars and carving is superior to anything that I have seen in India, probably owing to the nature of the stone which cuts better than the granite in common use, and preserves its angles better than the common pot-stone, of which many temples are constructed." The variety of material used for temple structure, naturally varied with the locality. There is a Jaina temple in Belgaum with pillars of black Belgaum porphyry which is said to take a high polish and is strongly magnetic. At Ellora, in one of the Jaina caves, a shrine has two round pillars of polished red stone which give a hollow metallic sound when tapped with the fingres.
The plans of these bastis are everywhere the same, with but slight variations according to size. They begin with spacious, well lighted porches or mandapas-of which there are three in larger temples, (known respectively as Tirthankara.- Gaddige, and Chitra-mantapas), and two in smaller ones (called Tirthankara, and Namaskara-mandapas)-leading to a cell in which the images of one or more Tirthankaras are placed. A special type of the smaller shrines common in Mysore is what is called the Trikutachal with three garbha-girihas, three sukhanasis, and a Navarangi or porch. Shrines of this type are taken as good specimens of the Hoysala style, two examples of which are: the Jaina basti at Markuli (a small village 3 miles east of Ambuga on the Mysore Arsikere railway-line) and the Santinatha temple of Jinanatha-pura (a mile north of Sravana Belgola). The latter is said to be the most ornate temple in the whole of Mysore State.5
1. Cf. Rice, Coorg Inscriptions, Ep. Car, I, 10, p. 56.
2. Buchanan, op. cit. III, pp. 132-33.
3. Cf. Belgaum, Bom. Gaz. XXI, p. 540.
4. Fergusson, op. cit., p. 79; cf. Madras Ep. Rep. 1916-17, pp. 113-14.
5. Mysore Archæological Report, 1925, p. 1: Ep. Car. II Introd., pp. 32-33.
| SR No. | 529551 |
| Book Title | Jain Siddhant Bhaskar |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Siddhant Bhavan |
| Publisher | Jain Siddhant Bhavan |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 417 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Siddhant Bhaskar, & India |
| File Size | 10 MB |