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at the top” The most important feature of the images is that the Jinas appear with usnisa, long ear lobes and also the keshavalları falling on the shoulders as in the Rishabhadeva images
Another group of bronzes comes from the Akola hoard (Gujarat) 57 The Most important feature of these images is that they are not represented as naked but clad in a dhoti 58 The best among them, highly mutilated, is of Rishabhanatha All the standard features of the Gupta sculpture-manapurusa laksanas (usnisa, trivalı in the neck, tanuurtta-madhya), half closed silver inlaid eyes-can be seen in this image On stylistic grounds, it is parallel to the Buddha image found from Sultanganj In this hoard, one image, identified as of Rishabharatha, stands on an extra-ordinary long pedest 1 which also carries two small Yaksa and Yaksı image on its corners Shah is of the opinion that there is no literary ur archaeological evidence to prove the inclusion of Yaksa worship in Jainism before 6th century AD 59 One of the images of the hoard is of Jivantasvamı From Valabhi, Bhandarkar also found five bronzes of stauding Jinas which are preserved in the Prince of Wales Museum,60 Bombay
At Sıra Pahari,6l a hill near Nacana (MP) is found a group of Jain sculptures dated to the Gupta period On stylılistic grounds these sculptures indicate transitional stage from the typical Kusana to the classical Gupta type
Although Jain literary traditions62 of the period describe different types of structures--Vimana, palace, Samvasarana, pillars etc , with their full decorative details, yet the architectural remains of the Guptu period are scanty Here, mention may be made of Sona
57 See, UP Shah, Studies in Jan Art, 1955, p 16 58 UP Shah. "The age of defferentiation of Svetambara and Digambara Jain images' Bulletin of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay, I, No 1, 1950-51, pp 30 ff. Akcia Bronzes, Bombay, 1959, pp 26, flgs 8a and 8b 69 UP Shah, in Jain Art and Architecture, Vols, p 136 60 Shah, op at, 1950-61, p 36, Studies in Jain Art, fig 29 61 As referred by UP Shah, in Jain Art and Architecture, Vol 1, p 129, în 4. Cf also Joahn Williams, Two New Gupta Jina images', Oriental Art, XVIII, 4, Winter. 1972, pp 378-80 62 See, Raypaseniya Sulta, Cf JC Jain, Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, P 181, For Samavasarana See Mahapurana 22 76-312, pp 525-538. Avasuaka Curni, pp 324 ff, Vasudevahindi, pp 341-45, Avasyakauti of Haribhadra. DD 229 ff. Samvasar ana rachanakalpa of Jina Prabha in Vividhatirthakal da pp 87-88
