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JAINA ART IN SOUTH INDIA
went to Timmajila, King of Yeņūr, and did fine work with only one arm and one leg. His sister, Kallurti (another devil worshipped in South Kanara) is said to have taken full revenge for the illtreatment of her brother to which the fall of the Kārkal Wodeyars is attributed. The legend also amply illustrates the life of a sculptor, his skill, his sense of honour, his hereditary attachment to his vocation, his small remuneration, as well his hardships which often disabled him for life, though his indefatigable enthusiasm for bis task was more than could be curbed by such calamities. But in spite of all this we cannot fail to notice that lack of versatility in expression, which resulted in repeating the same acts and same acts and same forms over and over again at Belguļa, at Kārkal, and al:o at Yeņūr, almost like a machine turning out stereo-type blocks. “Numberless images might be figured," says Smith, “ without adding anything to the reader's knowledge of Indian art. They differ from one another merely in the degree of perfection attained in mechanical execution." There is in the Madras Museum, a Jaina image on the base of wbich are written the words that King Salva Deva, a great lover of Sahitya (literature), made (the image) according to rule.'4 There are innumerable suoh images made of metal, stone, or even gems. “The Jainas," as Walhouse has remarked, “delighted in making their images of all substances and sizes, but almost always, invariable in attitude, whether that be seated or standing. Most of the images belong to the Digambara sector school, and are nude. Small portable mages of the saint are made of crystal, alabaster, soap-stone, bloodtone, and various other materials ; while the larger are carved rom whatever kind of stone is locally available." He also menions a life-size brass image of Santiśwara at Yeņūr, "erect and nshined in burnished silver and brass-work variegated with red
1. Evidently, Timmerāja who erected the Yemūr colossus. He must therefore
have belonged to the Ajila or Ajalar family. See, Sturrock, op.
cit., p. 55. 2. Burnell, op. cit, p. 224, 3. Smith, op. cit, p. 268. 4, Rangachary, Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, II, 325
