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PART I
MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 300 TO 600
FIG. VIII. Srivatsa-parks. 1-3, Kushan (SML, J. 16, J. 36, J. 17) and Gupta (SML, J. 118;
AMM, B. 6, B. 7) Similarly the lanchanas. Each of the twenty-four Tirtharkaras has traditionally a sign or mark known as lanchana specially attributed to him. Jina images being very similar to each other, it was perhaps thought necessary to assign marks to each of them for purposes of distinction. This does not seem to have been an age-old practice. In none of the Kushan and Gupta sculptures from Mathură do we come across lanchanas. Inscriptions, hair-styles and attendants are the only available means for the identification of individual Tirthankaras.
Similarly, the caumukhi or sarvatobhadrika and caubtsi or catur vishatika types of Tirthankara images are practically absent in the Gupta times at Mathura. So are māna-stambhas.
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