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mandapa with a canopy above, representing the royal throne, on which sit King Siddhartha and his Queen Sri Trisalādevi. In front of them are shown, sitting in a row the royal infantry soldiers, labelled as padativarga
The lower panel in Fig. 1 is equally interesting. Beginning from the right, the first two scenes represent the sufferings of Mahāvira during the period in which he practised rigorous austerities before obtaining Kevalajñāna. Technically known as upasargas, these suffer
ings are calamities or hardships brought on the great sage by human beings or semi-divine beings and the saint remains steadfast and unruffled in meditation inspite of such obstructions to meditation such as fitting nails into the ears of Mahāvīra, the approach of a deadly poisonous snake and so on.
The next section in the same lower panel represents Chandanabālā and Dhanabhūti, Chandanabālā sitting in an apartment and Chandanabālā giving alms to Mahāvira. Chandanabālā turned
UNIDENTIFIED SCENES FROM CEILING IN CORRIDOR
OF TEMPLE BUILT BY TEJAPĀLA, ABU Copyright: Archaeological Survey of India)
