Book Title: Holy Abu
Author(s): Jayantvijay
Publisher: Yashovijay Jain Granthmala

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________________ 109 -- Holy Abu of this age, each mother holding the child Jina on her lap. Total 3 sculptures. Cell 13–1 saparikara sculpture of mūlanāyaka Shri Shāntinātha. 3 mutilated pairs of Jaina donors, beautiful and old, deposited in a niche in a side-wall of this cell." Cell 14—1 saparikara sculpture of Shri Supārshvanātha installed as mūlanāyaka. Cell 15—1 sculpture of Shāntinātha with parikara, installed as mūlanāyaka. Cell 16-1 sculpture of Chandraprabha with parikara, worshipped as mūlanāyaka. Cell 17–1 unidentified Tirthařkara image with parikara, as mūlanāyaka. Cell 18-1 sculpture of Neminātha, with parikara, worshipped as mūlanāyaka. Cells 17 and 18 have no partition wall between them. . .. Cell 19–1 saparikara sculpture of Munisuvrata-svāmi installed as the chief deity of the cell. 1 Pañchatirthi sculpture with parikara, but without the figure of the central Jina, which is now missing, though the snake-hoods over the head of the Jina still remain. I beautiful stone slab recognised as the Ashvāvabodha and Samaļīvihāra Pațţa, and depicting some well-known incidents from the life of the Tirthařkara Munisuvrata. 1 Some preservation of the mutilated parts was attempted in V.S. 1987 by joining them. . 2 The sculpture is said to have been first identified by the late Pravartaka Munirāja Shri Kāntivijayaji of Pātaņ, for the late Dr: D. R. Bhandarkar who discussed it in Annual Report, Archæological Survey of India, for 1905-06. 8 After attainment of Kevalajñāna, the twentieth Tirthankara Munisuvrata Svāmi went on preaching the doctrine

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