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Jaina-Rupa-Mandana on Ambika and on the introduction of Sāsanadevatās in Jainism we have shown the association of this Sāsanadevatā pair with other Tirtha karas.
A beautiful specimen of a figure of standing Neminātha, of c. 10th cent. A.D., is preserved in temple no. 2. Devgadh. Here miniature figures of Balarama and Krsna are also shown standing on the right and the left respectively of the Jina. Lucknow Museum no. 66.53 of standing Neminātha, of Svetämbara tradition has a similar arrangement of the figures of Krspa and Balarama on the sides of the Jina. Devgadh Temple no. 15 was known as Neminātha Jinalaya according to an inscription from this temple as noted by Bhagchandra Jain, op. cit., p. 72 note.
There is a beautiful figure of Neminātha in padmāsana in the Bharatpur Museum. The conch is shown in the centre of his seat. There is no parikara, no throne, no pedestal.
Ac sixth century sculpture of standing Neminātha, obtained from Padhavali, M.P., is preserved in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior. On the pedestal, the conch symbol is on one side while the cakra is on the other end and between the two, near the cakra is a worshipper (Fig. 52).
A standing Neminātha from Narwar, M.P. is preserved in the Shivpuri district Museum, Shivpuri. M.P. The sculpture is assignable to the twelfth century AD. A beautiful ornate simhāsana of another sculpture of Neminātha, also from Narwar, is preserved in the above museum. There is a small figure of a conch carved below the dharmacakra. Looking to the shape and size of the pedestal, on the analogy of other sculptures from Narwar it may be assumed that this simhasana had on it a figure of Neminātha sitting in the padmāsana.
There is another sculpture from Padhavali in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior. Here the Jina sits in padmāsana on a simhasana. The conch symbol is carved on the lower end of the simhāsana.
A standing Neminátha from Gurgi, Rewa, is preserved in the Allahabad Museum (no. AM 498). The conch and the yaksa and the yakşi also are shown (Stone Sculptures in the Allahabad Museum, fig. 287). No. K.14 in the Khajuraho Museum represents Nemi in padmasana, with 23 other Jinas around, conch symbol and Sarvānubhūti and Ambikā on the pedestal.
In the Dhubela Museum, M.P., is a sculpture of Neminātha in padmasana, probably from Shahdol (AA. III. pl. 367B). Above him are 21 seated Tirtharkaras in three rows and a standing Tirtharkara by the side of the elephants on either side. Thus this is a Caturvimšati-pasa of Neminātha. The central Jina is recognised with the help of the farkha lañchana on the ornamental pedestal. On the right extremity of the simhasana is a two-armed yakşa while on the left end is a beautiful standing two-armed Ambika with her lion vāhana. The Dhubela Museum has an image of Nemi with his name given in the inscription on pedestal dated in 1142 A.D. Kielhorn bas referred to an image of Neminātha in the Horniman Museum. The image is dated in 1151 A.D. The conch is shown on the pedestal and according to Kielhorn the conch figure occurs on the chest of the Jina also.
of the two images unearthed a few years ago at Narhad near Pilani, Rajasthan, one, of Neminátha, is now preserved in the National Museum, New Delhi (no. 69.132) while the other of Munisuvrata is in the State Museum, Jaipur. Neminātha stands in the kâyotsarga pose and shows camaradhara attendants standing near his feet. The conch cognizance of the Jina is carved on the base in front (JAA, III, plate 336B).
A bronze image of Neminátha, obtained in the Aluara hoard, is in the Patna Museum (no. 10688). Rock-cut figures of Neminātha are found on the walls of the Navamuni, Bäräbhuji and the Mahavira caves at Khandagiri, Orissa. R.P. Mohapatra, in his Jaina Monuments from Orissa, fig. 89, has illustrated a sculpture of Ambika with a Jina above on simhāsana, from Jambhira, district Keonjhar. In cases like this the Jina can be identified as Neminätha because in the mediaeval period when different yakşi is for different Jinas were evolved and worshipped, Ambikä remained the yakşiņi of Neminātha.
Neminātha standing in kayotsarga mudrā on a big conch, from a temple in Müdabidri, is illustrated in Fig. 45. This is a typical representation which reminds of the Sarkha Jinalaya at Sauryapura referred to by Jinaprabha sûri. There was a famous Sarkha-Jinalaya in the South. B.A. Saletore writes: "... in the 7th or 8th regnal year of Western Calukya monarch Vinayaditya Satyāśraya (A.D. 680-A.D. 696), a grant was made to the Jaina priest Udayadeva Pandita also known as Niravadyapandita, who belonged to Devagana sect attached to the Müla Samgha and the Sarkhabasti at Puligere (modern Lakshmes
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