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ART-OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
[PART X 1178 (twelfth century). Patancheruvu has also yielded a caumukha with a Sikhara.
An important centre of Jainism was Nizamabad. A Parsvanatha image endowed with all the mahd-purusa-lakṣaṇas comes from this place. The place has also yielded several other figures.
Gulbarga was another centre. The Museum has a Pārsvanatha figure in kayotsarga from this place. Besides the five-hooded snake-canopy the image includes cauri-bearers and a triple chatra. The inscription, which refers to the image as that of Parsvanatha (Parsvadeva), is palaeographically assignable to the twelfth century.
A number of sculptures were found at Dharmavaram which had a Jaina temple. The Museum has a caumukha from this place. Each of its facets is divided into three panels, each panel showing two Tirthankaras. The total number thus comes to twenty-four, thus making it a caturvimsati-patta (plate 361A). The images are cut in low relief. Traces of a much-faded inscription are to be found on the image.
Some beautiful Jaina sculptures are exhibited in the premises of the office of the Director of Archaeology and Museums. They include a Pärsvanatha, about 92 cm. in height, standing nude in kayotsarga with a seven-hooded coiled serpent covering his head. A three-tiered chatra crowns the snake-hood. Twenty-three Tirthankaras in yoga-mudra are represented over the frame; two attendants, one male and one female, bearing cauris stand at the bottom on either side. Two more male cauri-bearers, standing on makaras, are carved near the shoulders of the main figure.
An image of Candraprabha, about 70 cm. in height, shows him seated in padmasana with hands in yoga-mudra. His hair is shown in tiny ringlets; he has elongated ear-lobes. The moon is incised on the middle of the base. On the basis of an inscription in Telugu-Kannada characters the image can be assigned to the eleventh century.
KHAZANA BUILDING MUSEUM, GOLCONDA
Among the collection is an unfinished slab with two cauri-bearing attendants standing on either side at the bottom (plate 361B). Due to some unknown reason, the main figure in the middle was not carved. Tirthankaras seated in padmasana are shown at the top of long stalks in the cusps of trefoil
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