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shrine. A few more sculptures are lying in the courtyard of the temple and include images of Nșsimha form of Vişhņu, some goddesses, and Vişhņu in the incarnation of Buddha. The last mentioned sculpture shows four-armed Vişhộu-Buddha, sitting in the padmāsana with two arms placed in the dhyāna mudrā and the two upper ones carrying the conch and the lotus. 1
Shri Durgāshankar K. Shāstrī has noted 2 some more Hindu sites on Ābu, which are not included in the above account. They are mentioned below:(1-2) On the bus-road to Ābu, are situated the minor
sites of Sūryakunda and Karņeshvara Mahadeva. (3-6) At some distance from the shrine of Kanyākumārī
and Rasia Vālama, are the Hindu sites of Paigutīrtha, Agni-tīrtha, Piņdāraka-tīrtha and Yajñesh
vara Mahādeva. (71 In the village of Oriya, is another Shiva temple,
known as chakreshvara Mahādeva, situated near the temple of Mahāvīra, where a fair is held every
year on Āşhāda Shukla II. (8) At some distance from Oriyā, near the Jāvāi village
is a Nāga-tīrtha where a melā is held annually on the Nāga-pañchamī day.
1 Vide his paper in Gujarati on " Abu-Arbudagiri " in Gujarāta ( a Gujarāti Journal, now defunct ), Vol. XII. No. 2
· I have not not visited this shrine. But Muni Jayantavijayajis description of the image, given above, shows that it might be an image Nārāyāņa as described below :
ध्येयः सदा सवितृमंडलमध्यवर्ती नारायणः सदसिजासनसन्निविष्टः । केयूरवान्मकरकुण्डलबान्किरीटी हारी हिरण्मयवपुःधृतशंखचक्रः ।।
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