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Vimala-Vasahil
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miniature shrine (Chaumukha ) with one Jina sitting in padmāsana, each side. They are ( 1 ) Mahāvīra, ( 2 ) ? (3) Ādinātha and (4) Chandraprabhanātha (identified from names carved below the figures ).
Outside this cell, placed in the verandah or passage in front of it, there is a smaller samavasaraṇa, showing three conventional fortifications, shown one above the other, and surmounted by a square pavilion (having a Jina image on each side placed in it) with a shikhara-top.
Cell No. 18:3 images, including one of Shreyāmsanātha, installed as the principal deity. This cell with its dome and doorway shows modern repairs.
Two more cells following this are empty.
Cell No. 19:-7 images including one of Shri Adinātha and 2 more Jina images with simple parikaras, making a total of 9 images in this cell.
In a niche on the outer wall of this cell is placed a Tritirthika image of a Jina with snake-hoods overhead.
Cell No. 20:—A big hall with a big black stone sculpture of Rşhabhadeva installed as mūlanāyaka.It is an old sculpture. There is, besides, a circular representation of a samavasaraṇa, with four sa-parikara Jina figures installed on top ( fig. 21). The hall contains following more sculptures:
According to a legend, Ambikā devi advised Vimala, in dream, to dig out this sculpture from a particular spot. Vimala did so and installed it in the year 1088 V.S. = 1031 A.D. It is said that it was fashioned in fourth subdivision of this avasarpiņi age, i.e. about. 2460 years ago! Vimala first constructed this cell and placed the image here. Later on he installed a very beautiful brass image of Rşhabha as the mūlanāyaka of the shrine and left this sculpture in this cell.
