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pilgrimage generally overlap one another so that we can hardly see any figure in full. The
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us remember the density of the war-paintings of Rajasthan. The motely crowd is standing at the gate. The theme of the pat thus seems to transgress the narrow bounds of traditionally ritualistic portrayals and encompasses the
entire social and cultural milieu of the contemporary society. This pat painting, thus being informed with an unmistakable secular thrust, has hardly any parallel elsewhere.
The pat is remarkable in one more sense that the artist seems to be in full controll of the parts sparsely filled in as well as those densenly filled in. The temple at the centre is framed in with a pattern of images of Tirthankars in small squares. The surrounding walls of the fort with small temples popping up at regular intervals lead the eyes of the beholder in a continuous glide from place to place. The colours used also require a special mention. The brownish yellow in the central background is relieved with the yellow ochre and white in the turbans. Women and other pilgrims wear dreses of Rajasthani colours. The white used in the marble architecture of the temple, the robs of the priests and nuns, and in horses and cows, the bright gold used in the domes of the temple, idols, in some of the ornaments, flags and flaglets, howdah, and the frills of the palanquins give the pat a bright look. The Shatrunjay pat is then an extremely rare piece of art frought with unmatched excellences all over. It is indeed unique of its kind in South Gujarat.
The second wooden pat is on the right-hand-side wall of Shri Chandraprabhu Temple. It is that of The Akruti (Map) of Chaud Bhuvan. According to a Jain belief, the infinite space or cosmos can be divided into Alokakash and Lokakash. Alokakash is a mere empty space or an absolute void. Lokakash is the space that also contains all living beings, Jiv and Pudgal or objects having different rup-rasas or forms and constituents. Lokakash is also known as Lok or the world and is surrounded on all sides by Alokakash.
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