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333 Kumbharia. Age, eleventh century A.D. The first and the fourth panels in the illustration show scenes from the life of Parśvanātha. Photo Courtesy, Shri Amritlal Trivedi, Palitana.
Fig. 83 (Pl. XLVII). Ambika Yakṣi with two sons and the lion vāhana on her left. Her right hand rests on head of a small female figure on her right. There is a bigger dancing figure with one hand raised, on the right end of the relief. This cannot be identified. From cavern on the hill, Kalugumalai, Tamil Nadu. Age, c. 9th-10th cent. A.D., Pandyan. Compare with this, for iconography, a relief sculpture of Ambikā, carved on a boulder at Anandamangalam, Tamil Nadu. Copyright, Archaeological Survey of India.
Fig. 84 (Pl. XLVII). Panels of Past and Future Tirtha karas of this age, from a ceiling in the Mahävira temple, Kumbharia. All figures have inscribed labels below them. Age, eleventh cent. A.D. Also see text, p. 103. Copyright, U.P. Shah.
Fig. 85 (Pl. XLVIII). A sculpture, cylindrical in shape, with Rşabhanātha in the uppermost panel and in all 148 miniature figures of standing Tirthakaras in the seven rows below. See text, p. 97 for explanation. From Sat Deulia, Burdwan district, West Bengal. Ref. P.C. Das Gupta, A rare Jaing. icon from Sat Deulia, Jaina Journal, vol. VII, no. 3, pp. 130-32 and plates.
Fig. 85 A (Pl. XLVIII). Parents of the Jina Rşabhanātha identified with the help of the bull cognizance. From Khajuraho Museum. Age, c. 11th cent. A.D. Ref. Shah, U.P., Parents of the Tirtharkaras, Bull. of Prince of Wales Museum, No. 5. Copyright, U.P. Shah.
Fig. 86 (Pl. XLIX). A Covisi (Caturvimśati-pata) of Rşabhanātha (with Rşabhanātha in ardhapadmāsana in the centre). Brass or Bronze, from Lilva Deva, Pancha Mahals, Gujarat, now in the Baroda Museum, Acc. No. A.C. 8.89. Age, c. tenth century A.D. Style, Rashtrakuta. Ref. Shah, U.P., Seven Bronzes from Lilva-Deva (Panch-Mahals), Bull. of the Baroda Museum, vol. IX.I-II, pp. 43-52 and plates.
Fig. 87 (Pl. XLIX). A Sat-tirthi bronze of Parsvanātha from Vasantagadh. Dated v.s. 1055= A.D. 998. Ref. Shah, U.P., Bronze Hoard from Vasantagadh, Lalit Kala, 1-2 (1955-56), pp. 55-65 and plates; Akota Bronzes, fig. 63a. Copyright, U.P. Shah.
Fig. 88 (Pl. L). Sculpture of Ambika-devi from Meguti temple, Aihole. Age, 634 A.D. Ref. H. Cousens, The Chalukyan Architecture, Arch. Surv. of India, New Imperial Series, vol. 42, p. 31, pl. 4. Shah, U.P., Iconography of the Jaina Goddess Ambikā, Journ. of the Univ. of Bombay, vol. IX, part 2 (1940-41), pp. 147-169. Copyright, Archaeological Survey of India.
Fig. 89 (Pl. L). Two-armed Ambikā from Ellora, Cave 32. Also see Jose Pereira, Monolithic Jinas. Copyright, Archaeological Survey of India.
Fig. 90 (Pl. L). Two-armed Padmāvatı yakși of Pārsvanātha and to her left two-armed Ambika, the vaksins of Neminátha, from wall carvings of the Navamuni cave, Khandagiri, Orissa. Padmavati shows the abhaya mudra with her right hand and holds a lotus flower in the left hand. Below her lotus seat is her våhana, the kukkuta-sarpa. Ambikā, sitting in lalitāsana under a mango-tree, holds a child on her lap with the left hand while her right hand is held in the abhaya mudrå. A defaced figure of the lion is seen below the lotus seat. Age, c. 10th cent. A.D. Mohapatra, op. cit., pp. 189-190, pl. 86, fig. 2, also see pl. 84, fig. 2 for figures from Barabhuji cave. Copyright, Archaeological Survey of India.
Fig. 91 (Pl. LI). Door-jamb from Khajuraho, found in the compound near Matangeśvari temple, shows Ambika, Cakreśvari and Padmavati and smaller figures of the nine planets. Ambika, four-armed, carries amralumbi in three hands and the left lower hand holds her son on the lap. Lion vehicle. Cakreśvari, in the central projection, four-armed and riding on the eagle, holds the gadā and the cakra in her right and left upper hands and shows the varada mudrā with the right lower hand. The left lower hand symbol is mutilated. Padmāvati on the left end projection is four-armed with a canopy of seven snake-hoods overhead. In the right and left upper hands she holds the noose and the goad respectively while the right lower hand is held in the varada-mudra. The fourth hand is mutilated. A kukkuja-sarpa is her vāhana. Age, c. 10th century A.D. Copyright, American Institute of Indian Studies, Varanasi.
Fig. 92 (PI. LI). Old pedestal of a big brass or bronze image of Pārsvanātha, from Patan. Twoarmed Sarvāṇha (Sarvānubhūti) and Ambika on two ends and nine planets in a row. Dharanendra and
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