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P. 13. Mention of usurpation of Jain temples by Lingayats. Hoysalas originally followers of Jain.
P. 14. Desecration of Jain and Hindu temples for three hundred years by Moslems in the Dakhan.
P. 19. Mention of Jain temple at Lakkundi.
P. 20. Jaina temples—comparatively plain exteriors.
P. 22. The identification of Jain temples by the image of seated or standing figure of a Jina.
Pp. 26-27. The old Jain temples of Chalukyan period possess distinctive Jaina Characteristics. The little group of Gaja Lakshmi when occured upon the dedicatory block over a temple is not a sure sign of Jain temple.
P. 31. Temple of MEGUTI, Aihole. Figure of a colossal Jaina seated upon a throne-lying in the passage round the shrine, on the west side, is a huge slab containing the image of a devi. Known by the either names of Ambikā Ambā Bhaväni, Ambādevi and Ambāji. Children held by attendants on cither side. Temple faces north the Jains not being particular upon this point. Figure of a small seated Jina in front of the shrine door.
P. 32.
The two storeyed Jain temple, Aihole.
P. 39. Durga temple at Aihole-on a stone in the basement words 'Shri-finAlayan' Holy temple of Jina in Characters of 696-733 Ad. Scribbled by Jaina stranger mistaking the temple to be a Jaina one when found deserted.
P. 45. Temple in field No. 268, Aihole Jaina temple in the fort at Belgaum is styled after this.
Pp. 48-49. Jaina temple No. 39 in the N. E. corner of the village Aihole near the temple of Virupāksha of later Chälukyan type a little Jina upon the doorway of the shrine and antichamber in a small temple in front of temple No. 39. The figure of a Jaina deity on the simhasana of the small temple.
Fine image of a nude Jina seated upon the throne in the temple No. 39. Small Jinas in the little niches on the mouldings outside-Figure of nude Pārsvanātha high up above the doorway outside. Image of Pārsvanātha in the main shrine.
Temple of
P. 49. Fig. 14. Image in small temple in front of No. 39, Aihole Virupāksha close beside No. 39. Facing south possibly a Jain temple.
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