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ART-OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
[PART X with a bunch of mangoes in her right hand. The image is carved out in buff sandstone and is datable to the Pratihāra period. Plate 335.
NEMINĀTHA (69:132; height 1.18 m.): From among two images of Munisuvrata and Neminātha, unearthed some years ago at Narhad near Pilani in Rajasthan, the latter was acquired by the National Museum. The image is in käyotsarga-pose and shows cauri-bearing attendants standing near his feet on either side. The deity wears a śrivatsa-mark of four lotus-petals on his chest, He wears a transparent dhoti. A conch, the cognizance of the Tirthankara, is carved on the base in front. The image is made of kasauți-stone, on which gold is tested. It is an excellent example of the Cahamāna school, twelfth century. Plate 336B.
SARASVATI (1/6-278; height 1.48 m.); A white marble image of Sarasvati, originally from Pallu, Bikaner, shows the goddess standing gracefully in tribhanga pose on a full-blown lotus and holding in her various hands a rosary, a white lotus, a palm-leaf manuscript tied with a silken string and a watervessel. She wears an elaborate tiara and other ornaments, a diaphanous sari secured with an elaborate girdle, with its pearled tassels and festoons falling on her thighs. On either side she is flanked by female attendants playing on vīna held in their hands. Behind the head, near the lotus-halo, appears the miniature image of a Tirthankara. The donor and his wife appear on the pedestal on the left and the right sides. A swan, the vāhana of the Devi, appears on the pedestal in front. The image represents the high watermark of Cahamāna art of the twelfth century. Plate 337.
Madhya Pradesh
NEMINĀTHA (73.23; height 69.5 cm.): An image of Neminātba stands in kāyotsarga-pose on a rectangular pedestal. His hair is arranged in small ringlets and he bears a śrīvatsa-mark on his chest. A conch, the cognizance of the Tirthankara, is carved on the pedestal. The image resembles the Khajuraho sculptures and can be stylistically assigned to Candella school of art, though it lacks the usual finish.
Gujarat
A TĪRTHANKARA (50-277; height 54:4 cm.): A marble image of an unidentified Tirthankara from Ladol, District Mehsana, shows him standing in käyotsarga-pose. He wears a dhotī, which proves that the image was made for the worship by the Svetāmbara Jainas. A cauri-bearer is shown on the right and
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