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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 300 TO 600
[PART WHI period. The attendants of the sitting Jina stand on full-blow, lotugas hoki by dwarfs (7) looking like thick stalks. Similar treatment of Yaksas stapding on lotudos with long stalks is found on two beautiful sculptures, B. 6 and 8. 7, in the Mathura Mercum. Tho troatment of the figure of the standing Jina is comparable with the treatment of two standing Jinas on the Vaibhira hill, Rajgir. Both these Tirthankara figures from Gwalior follow the Gupta idiom. The attendants wear decorated cap-like crowns and ekavalt nock-ornaments. The parikara of the Jinas is still simple and not olaborate as in post Chlupta sculptures.
UMAKANT P. SHAR
1 Shah, op. cit., figs. 25 and 27. (Also mentioned above, chapter 10, and one illustrated, plate 46. Editor.)
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