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JUNE, 1911.)
JAINA ICONOGRAPHY
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South-east corner : (II) Inscription. 2 Parshada Vaimdnika-devin din 4 rúpa = 2nd congregation : 4 figures of the Vaiminika goddesses. [Females standing with hands folded near breasts; benda bearing five-peaked coronets.]
South-east corner : (III) Inscription. 3 Purskada mahasatini 4 ripa = 3rd congregation: 1 figures of the great sddhvis. [They are four female ascetics, all standing. Three face full front with hands folded and besoms held like the Jatis above. The fourth has her face turned towards the right; her left hand is lowered and holds a besom, and the right is apraised and bears a manuscript; her feet are touched by a person fallen prostrate.]
North-east corner : (IV) Inscription. Nairita-kaņi 4 parshrda Jyotishini-devila=North-east corner, 4th congregation. The Jyotishka goddesses (though the number is not here specified through inadvertence, I think, these are four females standing. The remaining details as in II).
North-east corner : (V) Inscription. 5 Parshada Bhavanapatini-devind: 4 ripa=5th congregation : four figures of the Bhavanapati goddesses. (Four females standing with hands folded near breasts and heads canopied by three-hooded cobras.]
North-east corner : (VI) Inscription. 6 Parshada Vyovitarani-ile înai 4 rûpa = 6th congregation : four figures of the Vyantara goddesses. [Four females standing. The remaining details as in II.) . North-west corner: (VII) Inscription, vayavya-kiri 7 parshada Jyotishi-devâncini 4 ripa = north-west corner, 7th congregation : four figures of the Jyotishka gods. [Four males sitting and with hands held as in I, head-dresses raised in three tiers]
North-west corner : (VIII) Inscription. & Parshada Dharanapati-der Anasi 4 rúpa = 8th congregation : four figures of the Bhavanapati gods. [Four males sitting, as in VII; henda canopied by three-hooded cobras.]
North-west corner : (IX) Inscription. 9 Parshada Vyantara-der an 4 rüpa = 9th congregation : four figures of the Vyantara gods. [Four males sitting : details as in VII.)
South-west corner: (X) Inscription. Pod nakkni 10 pa-shad, Vaiminika-devandu 4 rupa = south-west corner, 10th congregation : four tigares of Vaimînika gods. [Fonr males sitting, as in I.]
South-west corner : (XI) Inscription. 11 Parshada Manushyán&nie 4 rápa=11th congregation : four figures of men. [Four males sitting, as in I, but with beards.]
South-west corner : (XII) Inscription. 12 Parshada Manushi-strindah 4 rúpa = 12th congregation : four figures of women. [Four females standing; one only has her head-dress raised in three tiers. ]
These notes speak for themselves, but it is evident from them that the intermediate directions such as the south-east, north-east and so forth, assigned in the Golerâ templo at Kumalgadh to the various congregations exactly agree with those specified for them in the works. There is also a perfect agreement as to who is to stand and who to sit except in one respect. In the Golerâ temple the twelfth congregation, i. e., women, is sculptured standing, whereas, in verse 16, as we have seen above, they are represented as sitting.
Whenever the diagram of & Samavasarung is given in old works, it is always represented as in Fig. 9. It is, roughly speaking, a ground-plan of it, Instances of it are also met with in temples. There is a ropresentation of it in a ceiling of the north corridor of Tejahpâla's temple on Mount Åbů. The Jaina temples at Kumbharia also in the Danti State contain similar representations. It is, in fact, the custom in Jaina temples to carve ceilings with the principal incidents in the life of the Jina, to whom the main shrine or a corridor cell is dedicated.
11 Devinah & ra pa was originally meant to be engraved.
