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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE A.D. 600 TO 1000
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either side of the door-opening has each a large standing Tirthankara, dvārapala-like while further beyond on the east face of the wall is a large panel of Pārsvanatha and another with pair of Sumatinathas whereas correspondingly, on the western extension is a panel of Gommata, and a pair of Sumatinathas. The ceiling and beams of the mandapa are painted, that of the verandah showing two layers of such paintings.
Through the south-east corner of the mandapa is reached a cave-temple cut into the rock to the south on the east wall of the courtyard, with it principal shrine dedicated to Sumatinatha. The mandapa in front has four kalasatopped pillars and a lotus carved at the centre of its ceiling. The walls, ceilings and the shrine-interior are covered with exquisite paintings, fairly well-preserved Besides the flying Gandharvas or Vidyadhara couples, the most interesting painting is that of an eight-armed deity on the ceiling of the antarala in the catura-mode of dance. The absence of marks or attributes of Siva in the painting would distinguish it as obviously one of a deity of the Jaina pantheon, perhaps Indra.
The south-west corner of the main hall leads into a similar cave-temple dedicated to Sumatinatha; this also is replete with paintings of exquisite quality but poorly preserved. The most striking feature of this excavation is the elaborately-carved kapota-entablatures of the façade one separating, as it were the lower from the upper storey, and the other topping the upper storey, the lower with a lion- and elephant-series in the frieze and the upper with a chain of miniature shrine-fronts enclosing Tirthankara forms. The monolithic vimana in a court will be considered in the sequel.
The Jagannatha-sabha (Cave 33) (plate 120A) is essentially similar to the Indra-sabha but lacks the regularity of plan. The ground floor is a complex of three unsymmetrically-disposed sanctuaries, each a complete unit made up of agra and maha-mand apa and real shrine-opening into the entrenched courtyard which has crumbled away, leaving little of the traces of the central mandapa and front screen or prakara-wall with the entrance facing south. This floor has the usual front verandah with four pillars and with Kubera(?) (plate 121) and Ambika on lion (plate 122), one at either end. The hall behind is square, with a large niche on each of its lateral walls. These niches and the flanking wallspaces contain reliefs of Gommata, Parsvanatha, and of other Tirthankara (plate 123). The shrine at the rear, dedicated to Sumatinatha, has a shallow portico or vestibule. The pillars of this floor are of two types-the kalasa-topped and the kumbhavalli-cum-kalasa-topped types (plate 125). Their intricate carvings
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