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very similar in workmanship; one of them has, on its pedestal, an inscription dated in V.S. 1302 (1246 A. D. )1.
On the third or the southern face, a metal image to the left of the main Jina image was installed in V. S. 1566, while the stone image on the right was carved in V. S. 1537. On two sides of the big bronze on the Western face are two smaller metal images of Jinas, installed in V. S. 1566 according to the inscriptions on them.2
Thus in the mula-garbhagṛha of this shrine are 4 principal bronze images, two big bronzes of standing Jinas, three big bronzes of Jinas, one stone image of a sitting Jina and two big stone sculptures of standing Jinas. In the cell adjoining the sanctum, i.e. in the guḍhamandapa are three more images of Tirthankaras placed in different niches.
In the sabhamandapa, is a small cell on each side, the one on the right has an image of Parshvanatha as the mulanayaka with the images Shantinatha and Neminatha to the right and the left respectively. All the three sculptures, according to the inscriptions on their pedestals, were installed in V.S. 1698 by Shah Rauta, Shah Lakhamana and Shah Karmachanda, the sons of a Pragvāța Bania Shāh Vaņavīra, a native of Sirohi.
In the cell on the left is a very beautiful bronze figure of Shri Neminatha installed in V. S. 1518 by Dosi Goinde (Govindadeva), son of Dosi Dungara of Pragvāța caste. Two images on the sides of this bronze were installed in V. S. 1698.
1 Abu, Vol. II. Inscription No. 468.
2 Ibid., Inscriptions Nos. 473, 474.
New patas or plaques, about fourteen in number are being prepared on the walls of the maṇḍapa, under the direction of the Pedhi of these shrines.
Abu, Vol. II. Nos. 476-480.
