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224 / The Rāştrakūtas and Jainism
After laving the feet of Guņacandra Pandita he entrusted the donation to the pontiff.
8.4. Pattadakal Jaina temple of sāndhāra, ambulatory, order has a womb-house with circumambulatory path, an half-hall articulated with Drāvida vimāna, pillard sabhāmaņdapa and a porch with kakşāsana, stone-bench. pradaksinā-wall of the lower storey has decayed and the jālās, grille, on the subhadras, central offset of bhadra, are now lost. The porch seems added an after thought. The moulded base shows bhadra, pratibhadra and corner divisions. The out standing edifice three-storeyed [Uparitala shrine above the sanctum, built into the sikhara, crowning cupola, is reached through a stone ladder in the navaranga).
8.4.1. "The recesses between bays contain narrow pañjara-kõșthas with beautifully carved lalāțanāsis in the gādhas of which are stationed seated Jina images, yakşis, etc. The gudhamandapa walls are crowned by hāra. Praņālas to drain the roof are provided in the salilāntaras. Just below the roof-level, elephant - figures jut out above the extremities of the bhadra... This Jaina temple is one of the finest of later Rāstrakūta buildings, and was probably founded early in the reign of Kșşņa-II" [Soundara Rajan, K. V.: EITA : 149-50].
8.4.1.1. Elephant rider in the back walls of the gūdha maņdapa are supposed to be Indra himself. Triple - shrine Jinālaya, at Mulgunda, also of Krşņa-II's period dated C. E. 902, had superb sculpture of highly decorated elephant with rider on three sides of the vimāna, perhaps modelled on the Pattadakal Jinālaya, built two decades earlier, in circa 880 C. E.
8.4.2. The Rāstrakūtas had developed a sentimental attachment to Elāpura (Ellōrā) ever since Govindarāja-I was enjoying that area as his fief, granted by Pulakēsin-II (60842). The apellation of Govinda (Govindarasa, Govindara, Govindarāja, Goggiga - are the aliases) is repeated in the
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