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Tuisama, Choto Balarampur, Charra, Arsha, Sanka and Senera in Purulia dt.; Ambikanagar. Kendua, Harmashra, Deulbhirra, Bahulara and Dharapăt in Bankura dt; Nunia and Organda-Rajpara in Midnapur dt, Punchra & Sat Deuliyä in Burdwan dt. The Jaina Temple near Biharinath hill has been converted into a Saiva one. Likewise, the Jaina temples at Pareshnath and Bahulara have been converted to Śaiva ones and the Jaina Temples at Arsha and Dharapāt to Vaiṣṇava ones. The site of Haraktore in Purulia dt. was once a Jaina establish
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ment, but it became a Śaiva centre in later time. There might have been Jaina shrines in places of north Bengal near Surohar etc. and in south Bengal near Kantabania and Nalgora. Sculptures of Jaina divinities have mostly been found at the sites of Pakbirra, Charra, Anai-Jambad, Lalpur, Cheliyama, Deoli, Sufaran, Suissa, Arsha, Sulgi. Jhalda, Haraktore and Barabhum in Purulia dt.; Ambikanagar, Pareshnath, Sarengarh, Baskola, Ranibandh, Harmastra, Bahulara and Deulbhirra (under Joypur P.S.) in Bankura dt.; Punchra and Satdeulia in Burdwan dt., bronze sculptures of Mahavira and Ambika from Parihāti; dt. Midnapur, Nalgara and Kantabaria in 24 Prgs. dt.; Surohar. Mandoil, Belowa and Govindapur in Dinajpur dt. (Bangladesh); Deopara and other places in Rajshahi dt, They belong to 10th-12th centuries A. D.
There is an impressive array of Jaina sculptures at Pakbirra of which mention may be made of Padmaprabba, Chandraprabha Ṛṣabhanatha, Santinatha, Neminatha, Ambikā, Yakşa couple (upsalas), Jina and his consort, miniature Chaumukha shrines. At Deoli, near Sufaran, a Pañcayatana group of Jaina Rekha Temples (cir 10th cent. A. D.), all dilapidated, may still be noticed. One of these temples was perhaps dedicated to Tirthankara Aruanatha as found in its cella. At Arsha near Boram, several Jaina sculptures including one of Ṛşabhanatha flanked 24 Tirthankaras, 2 Yakşa attendants, 9 Grahas are found. At a place, called Lalpur, on way to Telkupi one stone sculpture of Ambika has been found. Mrs. D. Mitra has noticed some Jaina sculptures at Telkupi and its neighbourhood. At Suissa, P. S. Baghmundi several Jaina sculptures (Tirthankaras etc.), viz. of Padmaprabha, Rşabhanatha, Parsvanatha, Śantinātha, Mahavira, besides miniature Chaumukha shrines (votive) need mention. At Anai-Jambad also several Jaina stone sculptures have been noticed. From Charra miniature votive shrines have been found. From the dt. of Bankura, stone sculptures of Mahavira, (Ranibandh), Ambika (Ambikanagar), Ajitanatha and Suvidhinatha besides a miniature votive shrine (Barkola) have been recovered. The bronze sculpture of Ambikä from Nalgara and the stone sculpture of Parsvanatha in the Käyotsarga pose having
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