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Vimala-Vasahi ) a row of ornamental lotus-buds, the middle one showing a row of diamonds while the uppermost represents ( 122 ) some human figures. In one corner is a sādhu standing and a shrāvaka performing pañchānga-namaskāra? to the monk, with three more shrāvakas standing with folded hands. On another beam is a standing Jina. (126) On a third beam is an achārya sitting on a simhāsana, a disciple shampooes his foot, another bows down to the teacher and some sādhus and shrāvakas are standing in attendance (fig. 7).
(13) Cell no. 8, first ceiling shows, in the central circle, a samavasaraņa of a Jina with a Chaumukha. The second and third circular bands round the samavasaraņa show a person on a simhāsana and some men, elephants, horses etc. The whole is enclosed in four rectangular panel-borders on the four sides, showing a Jina sitting in padmāsana on one side, on another a Jina standing in the Kāyotsarga pose, on a third panel are two standing sādhus, an achārya with sthāpanā (wooden crossed stand, serving as a symbolical representation of one's teacher) in front and giving discourse which is being heard by Jaina laymen in front of the sthāpanā.
(14) Cell no. 8, second ceiling, one of the beams enclosing it shows (a) three Jaina monks standing, and a shrāvaka in front, bowing down to him with outstretched hands, inquires, of the teacher, the latter's good health and peaceful progress of religious practice (technically, this is called abbhutthio khāmavo). Two more shrāvakas are stand
1 By Pañchānga-Namaskāra is meant þowing with five limbs-two hands, two knees, and head-touching the ground. In Ashtanga-Namaskāra, eight limbs touch the ground when the worshipper lies down on the ground like a stick with back upwards.
