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Cell No. 15:-One Pancha-tīrthika image of an unidentified Jina, along with parikara ; one Jina figure with parikara, and two simple Jina figures. 4 images in all.
Cell No. 16:-Shāntinātha installed as mūlanāyaka. The figure shows attendant parikara carvings. Four more Jina-images. One marble seulpture showing a figure in the padmāsana (crossed-legs ) posture, sitting upon a full-blown lotus with a rather long thick stalk, under the shade of a tree. A shravaka and a shrāvikā with offerings in hands stand on his two sides. No inscription below. It seems that the sculpture represents Shri Puņdarika-svāmi? (the chief disciple or Gañadhara of the first Tirthaikara Ādinātha). Total 6 sculptures.
Cell No. 17 :-A representation of the Samavasaraņa 2 carved out of white marble. On the top is the four-sided the left one. His form is like that of the Yaksha Sarvānubhūti invoked in the Snātasyā-stuti, cf. Bulletin of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, Vol. I, No. I, pl. xiii, figs. 23-24 and pp. 45-46—Translator.)
1 It is also possible to identify the figure as representing a Jina, since such representations of Jinas, sitting under a tree with its foliage spread over the Jina, are not unknown. One such image with an inscription carved below is preserved in the Pañchāsarā shrine, Aşahilwāļ Pāțan. For similar figures in Gujarāt and in the South, see Madhyakālina Jaina Gujarātī Shilpakalā, Jaina Satyaprakasha (Gujarāti monthly, Ahmedabad), December 1951.---Translator.
2 A Samavasarana is a sort of a magnificent Lecturetheatre, with all facilities, erected by gods when a Tirthankara delivers his sermon or sermons. For a detailed description see Trișașțishalākāpuruşhacaritra I (translated by Dr. H. Johnson in Gaekwad's Oriental Series, Baroda, Vol. LI), pp. 190 ff.; Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar in, Indian Antiquary, Vol. XL, pp. 125 ff.; 153 ff.
