Ambika on Jaina Art and Literature

Author(s): Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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With consort, Akotā (Vadodara), 9th century (p. 44)
Kumbhāriä, in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, was indeed a prolific centre of Jaina art. There are five magnificent Jaina temples and immense amount of iconic data at the site.8 The temples are dedicated to Mahāvīra (A.D. 1062), Sāntinātha (A.D. 1084), Neminātha (A.D. 1135), Pārsvanātha and Sambhavanātha (13th century A.D.). In the Jina-samyukta images, mostly in the deva-kulikās, the two-armed Ambikā invariably appears with almost all the Jinas. Besides, we are also encountered with a good number of her independent images wherein she appears as two-armed (Fig.
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