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outside the shrine, but within the complex, near the dwarf entrance, with Yajñopavita, ceremonial thread on the burly but youthful body, and yogapattika, belt for contemplation also belongs more or less to the same age. It is difficult to say whether a śikhara, crowning cupola exited or not.
8.5.3.5. Corroborative evidence suggests that a Jaina monastery existed attached to the basadi, and that there were few more Jaina edifices than those now seen scattered around the little township. At a distance from the temple are seen Jaina images of Pārśva and yakşas which are definitely of the Rāstrakūța times : "A beautiful early sculpture of Pārsva seated in the ardhapadmāsana against a back seat made of a horizontal bar supported by two dwarf pillars with lions standing on hind legs is found in a ruined basadi at Bankūr, Citāpur Tk. Between the back rest and the body of the Jina are the coils of the seven-hooded Dharaņēndra at the back of the Jina. From two ends of the back-rest spring two cāmaradhara yakşas. There is a triple umbrella over the snake-hoods. The sculpture dates in C. gth cent. A. D." (Shah, U.P. : Jaina Rūpamaņdana : 1987 : 185).
8.5.3.6. On the outskirts of the village is another large Jaina dvitala storeyed edifice, larger than the one referred above, which is now converted into Rāmalingēśvara guļi. It consists of garbhagļha, open antarāļa, navaranga with two vacant dēvakoșthas, an open mukhamaņdapa, front-hall. A Mānastambha before the entry hall indicates that the temple had an entrance from there, which is closed now. A small shrine, within the compound, to left corner of the entry-hall has a seated caturbhuja Padmāvatidēvi yakși. Doorframe of the main sanctum has three doorjambs and a seated Jina as its tutelary figure and two more Jinas above it, aslo seated in paryankäsana. A stone ladder from left side of the gūdhamaņdapa leads to the vacant shrine above the garbhagpha.
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