Jain Temples of Rajasthan

Author(s): Sehdav Kumar
Publisher: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Art Abhinav Publications

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According to the Indian tradition, the range of crafts extends over the entire culture and comprises the work of the sculptor and the potter, the perfumer and the wheelwright, the weaver and the architect. The number of arts is unlimited but they are summed up by sixty-four kalās, the arts, each one of which is represented by a goddess, a kalādevi. In addition to the sixty-four kalādevis, there are thirty-two goddesses of science, vidyādevis. These two categories, the arts and the sciences, comprise the sum total of human knowledge and skill.
The kalās include the visual arts, music, dance, drama, as well as dressmaking and acrobatics. The perfections of delight which are experienced by the other sense count among their highly specialised branches — the culinary art or that of the perfumer, and the more comprehensive art of making love. There are many degrees of competence in all these arts, and a genius is known when met.
Kailasa Temple at Ellora: Plan of upper storey (After B. Rowland and Sivaramamurti).
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On page 53 Carved column, with figures of jina on it, and with a flower ceiling in the southern portico in the Lunavasahi temple. Carved in high relief, the mandiraka element is best represented in this ceiling