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whisk, is carved at each top side. Further above again appears a single poised figure with a garland on each top edge, the one to the left being damaged now.
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Thus the Bahubali figures from Deogarh showing certain peculiarities, distinctly suggest that a continuous effort was made towards raising the status of Bahubali to equal the Jinas. The rendering of the asta-prātihāryas and the yakşa-yakşi pair reinforce the same point. In one instance, however, Bahubali is also represented in the midst of three Jinas on a tritirthika Jina image. The figures of the vidyadharis holding the creepers are carved only in two instances (Temple No. 12 and 11) at the site. It thus appears that the traditional practice of showing the vidyadharis was abandoned possibly to pave the way for modelling Bahubali images after the Jina figures, which however, culminated in the rendering of the yakşayakşi figures with Bahubali in one instance. 20
• This is the only instance wherein yaksa-yaksi figures are carved with Bahubali.
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