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Dome in the rangamandapa of the Vimalavasthi temple. Sixteen vidyddevis and vidyadharas are shown in the dome. The dome is 25 ft in diameter and less than 30 ft in height from the floor to the apex. The dome is composed of eleven circular courses and a long circular padmafile.
In another ceiling, in the Vimalavasāhi, four of them are shown along two diagonals; they are seated in lalitāsana and are four-armed. Their mounts are also shown: Vajrānkusi with elephant, Apraticakra with eagle, Prajñapti with peacock and Vajraśộnkhala with lotus.
Four corridor ceilings in the Vimalavasāhi are dedicated to the depiction of sixteen-armed vidyadevis Rohiņi, Acchuptă and Vairotyä with their bull, horse and snake mounts respectively, and twenty-armed vidyadevi Mahāmānasi with her lion mount.
In Lunavasāhi the vidyādevis are seen not only in the dome of the rangamandapa but also on the pitha of the gūdhamandapa and the mukhamandapa and on the corridor ceilings.
As part of iconographic evolution, towards the end of the thirteenth century the multi-armed images of vidyādevis in Jain temples became quite infrequent.
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