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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 600 TO 1000
[PART TW of hands playing on musical instruments are seen over the chara. On the back slab are shown twenty-four Tirthankaras in kayotsarga-posture arranged in two rows of twelve. About the temple (plate 83B) Mitra says:
"Like the Orissan temples, its bada has different divisions pdbhaga, jantghd, and baranda. Built on a narrow platform (upána), the păbhaga consists of four lowermost mouldings, khurd, kumbha, khurd and inverted khura, the last two relieved at intervals, with heart-shaped motifs. The north-west and south sides of the janghd are relieved with with six pilasters, three on either side of the central projection, the last containing a niche, meant for the parsva-devatas (no longer existing). The pilasters are plain, except for the two mouldings, khurd and inverted khurd at the top. The baranda is a projected moulding, the recess over which demarcating the båda from the sikhara is crowned by a series of mouldings forming the sikhara of the temple. Five of these mouldings are now extant.
“The central projection on the front (east) side is thicker than the rest and in it is provided the entrance. The door-opening is spanned at the top by five inconspicuous corbels, capped by a lintel, the last extending to the entire width of the central projection.
"The temple is tri-ratha on plan, its inside 4' 21" (1.40 m.) square. The thickness of the walls is 2' 1' (63 cm.), so that the outer sides are exactly double the inner sides. The interior of the temple corbels inwards to the garbha-muda (the lowermost ceiling of the sanctum) which is formed of two stone slabs. There was at least one more cell over the garbha-muda, approach to which was provided by a narrow opening above the lintel of the door.'
In addition to the above, the village contains some other mutilated Jaina images of the same period.
At Chitgiri, opposite Ambikanagar, there are some relics including a figure of a Tirthankara in kdyotsarga-pose. The lanchana below the pedestal looks like a deer and the figure in question is therefore that of Santinätha.
Barkola, about 4 km. east of Ambikanggar, was an important centre of Jainism as the extant remains from this place would show. Among the relics of interest from this place are an Ambika with her usual attributes and a .. child holding her hanging left hand, and two Tirtharkaras in kdyotsarga, with
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