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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. padmasan, two standing, Kayotsarga ones, one on each side of the middle one and two padmåsan images on both sides on the top of the standing figures. We moreover find other figures of gods and goddesses as musicians and votaries some worshipping and some waving chamars, some in prayers kneeling or standing with folded hands &c. We also find figures of elephants carrying water or water-pots with their trunks pouring over the head of the Tirthankars on both sides.
The statues at Sravana Belgola (Mysore) of Digambaris and Karkala and Yemur in South Canara are well-known, gigantic and perhaps the largest free-standing statues in Asia. The biggest one is about 57 feet in height and is cut out'of one solid block of stone.
The place of Jain paintings among the Indian Fine Arts is also of importance. A special feature of Jain painting lies in the drift and quality of its line. Line is the chief thing which shows the difference of objects. This line is so finely drawn in the Jain School of Painting that there is no school of Art
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