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ART-OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
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who wears a thick set of necklaces, an elbow-ornament and a series of bangles. The drapery is loose with flowing ends and bows on the sides with a looping sash with festoons and tassels banging in front. On the karanda-mukuta is a miniature Tirthankara figure. The piece belongs to circa thirteenth century. (Plate 384B).
BRONZES IN THE GOVERNMENT MUSEUM, PUDUKKOTTAI
Among the bronzes in the Museum, all from Kalasakkadu, a locality in Pudukkottai town, are: two Pärávanāthas (heights 20-3 and 10 cm.), one in the early and the other in the late style, both having a serpent-hood over the head and standing on a pedestal; a Mahăvira (10 cm.) seated in ardha-paryarikasana in dhyána over a pedestal; and a catur virtati-patta (37 cm.), a relievo of twenty-three Tirthankara arranged in the frame of the prabha-mandala around the mula-ndyaka RşabhanAtha standing on a pedestal.
K. R. SRINIVASAN
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WANIT
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