Encyclopaedia of Jaina Studies Vol 01 Jaina Art and Architecture

Author(s): Sagarmal Jain, Others
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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platform on the north. The temple has straight sides without anga projections. The plain and low adhisthāna consists of an upana, jagati, padma, antarita, karņaka, antarita and kapota. The walls of both the compartments with their cantoning slender pilasters are also plain, but the pilasters occurring on the exterior walls of the antarāla are massive and faceted. The eave-cornice and the parapet are unimpressive. Probably, the vimana had not been intended to carry superstructure.
The entrance porch rests on a low adhisthāna of jagati, antarita, pattika and kapota and then it has an āsanapatta bearing decoration of lozenges in panels. The porch has two unadorned lathe-turned pillars and two fine pilasters with a ceiling.
Inside the gudhamandapa are four plain citrakhanda pillars and a niche on either flank of the antarala. One of the two niches contains a figure of Sarasvati. Inside the garbhagsha the pedestal is intact, but the enshrined image is missing. From the inscription engraved on the doorway it is apparent that the temple originally was dedicated to Jina Mallinātha and not to Adinātha and its consecration was performed in A.D. 1138. The present appellation is a misnomer to Adinātha-basadi. The headless image of Mallinātha has now been kept in the adjoining temple of śāntinātha.
Sāntinātha Temple - This temple is almost of the same size as the great Pārsvanātha temple, but in disposition of the plan it follows the Adinātha temple in having a vimāna, an antarala, a gūdhamandapa and an entrance porch, the last belonging to the Vijayanagara period though. The exterior of the temple is also like that of the Adinatha temple, but the tall, highly polished, lathe-turned nave pillars (Pl. 111) of the gūdhamandapa are similar to those of the Pārsvanātha temple, although they lack the decorative carvings. The pillars here too support a lantern ceiling on an octagonal frame of architraves but is left unadorned. The image of śāntinātha in the garbhagsha is almost as tall as the Pārsvanatha image in the Pärsvanätha-basadi. The temple was founded in or before A.D. 1196 by two tradesmen, Kavadamayya
and Devi Setti. HERAGU
Heragu, situated in the Hassan district of Karnataka, has a ruined Jaina temple of Pārsvanātha founded in A.D. 1155 by Jakkabe, wife of Cāvimayya, a Mahāpradhāna of the Hoysala king Narasimha I (A.D. 1142-73). The vimäna of the temple is completely gone except for the doorframe bearing Jina figure on the lalața. The front walls of the hall are also gone but the pillars, lathe-turned or square with recessed corners, are intact and carry nine carved ceilings of the lantern class. The doorframe of the hall now adorns the hall of the local Kamatheśvara temple. PUSPAGIRI
Mallikārjuna Temple - Puspagiri is located near Halebid in the Hassan district of Karnataka. Originally a Jaina temple but converted at some later date into a Saiva temple, it consists of a vimana, a featureless gūdhamandapa and a pillared rangamandapa and is entered through an elaborate pratoli-gateway. Of these only the pratoli is of some reference.
The pratoli stands on a moulded adhisthāna made up of an upana, two jagatis, padma, antarita, karnaka, antarita, kapota with uncarved bosses, and pratikantha decorated with figures of makara-heads. Its flat north and south walls with serried pilasters carry sham-turreted niches at the middle and extremities. Inside are two pillar-bearing platforms with a central passage. The platform pillars are fluted and 32-pointed star-shaped on the east front, lathe-turned in the middle and square with recessed corners at the west end.
Stylistically, the temple is datable to the latter half of the 12th century A.D. NITTUR
śāntinātha Temple - This east-facing Jaina temple at Nittur lying east of Tiptura town in Karnataka consists of a small vimāna (Pl. 112), a long antarala and a large gūdhamandapa. The flat-roofed dvi-anga vimana has a well-articulated bhadra and karna with deep salilantara between. The bhadra is also marked by subhadras, while
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