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250 / The Rāştrakūtas and Jainism.
monuments of the Rāştrakūta age. The 8 feet tall standing image of Jina, is difficult to date precisely, but it could be assigned to the late tenth century, on the basis of the characteristic features of the sculpture in question. To subscribe to the popular belief of the local people, and the devout Jaina laity, that the tall figure is of Bāhubali alias Gommata, it is stylistically an impossible reality. It could be Bharata, in which case a corresponding Bāhubali image is missing. There are some loose sculptures, including nisidhi and nāga-nagini, placed at the feet of the standing nude image.
8.8.1. But the image of seated Jina is can apparently be assigned to early ninth century. Jina is seated on viśvapadma, double lotus, which is in turn on the simhapitha, a lion-throne. Behind the seated Mahāvira Jina is an elaborately worked prabhāvali, aureola, enclosed within an excellent makara-tõraņa, supported on either side by columns with additional details. The image with cāmaradharas possesses features of serenity, divinity of power and beauty, preserved inspite of being exposed freely to the abrasive weather, which are reminiscent of a style of the Rāstrakūta period.
8.8.2. Of the other Jaina relics dispersed around the village Kaļasāpura are a broken image of a bust of Yakși, a seated Jina, a quadruple image - block et cetera are noticed. Regarding their exact plausible date, nothing can be said. The caumukha, about half a meter tall, a monolithic votive, chiselled out of local stone, has a base from which rises cylindrical body and a row of receding parasols. A square block with four images on its four faces, called caturmukha, auspicous from all cardinal directions, is a distinctive Jaina iconographic motif. It is also called caumuha and is more popular in the north. . 8.8.2.1. Generally Ķsabhanātha, śāntinātha, Pārsva
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