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P. 98. Temple of Sambhulinga-Kundgol. Brahmins of the village maintain the temple to be Jain originally--no vestige of Jain work. A large image of a seated Jina and a small standing image of Pārsvanātha---just outside the temple at the school house.
P. 107. Vill. Balaganive in Maisur 14 miles to the S.W. of Hirc--Kerur in Dharwar dist. Remains of a colossal image of a Jina lying upon a mound on the north-east of the village. Jain figures and Jain inscriptions about the village.
P. 121. Two old Jain temples in the fort, Belgaum.
(1) Jain temple facing north-Described. A row of little seated and standing Jinas in niches in the lower octagonal part of the dome. A seated Jina above the dedicatory block of the doorway. A dancing male figure above the door of the anti-chamber like tāndava image of Siva mutiliated—Shrine doorway elaborately carved. A seated Jina upon the dedicatory block.
Two stone tablets taken to the must um of the Bombay Branch of the R.A. Society record a grant to the high priest in A.D. 1205 for the purpose of a Jaina temple of the Rattas which had been built by King Bicha.
(2) The Jaina temples facing south----described. A seated Jina on the centre slab with his hands in lap and attendants on each side. A devi on the west--four armed holding in her upper hands ankusa and pasa---lower hands broken-Existence of a devī the female counterpart of Vishņu and Garuda above the shrine door point it out to be a Vaishṇava shrine. Jains appropriated when it was disused.
P. 125. Gersappa town right bank of the Shiravati river--Chaturmukha-Basii in ruins, a cruciform ruined temple having four porches one facing each of the four cardinal points. Four seated life-sized Jinas in the Shrines one on each side of the square facing each door,
Mention of temples in ruinous state built of laterite. Existence of images and inscriptions. The temple of Vardhamana Svāmi with a five, perfect black-stone image of a Tirthankara temple of Neminātha-deserted. Fine large image on a circular asana. Collection of images in Pārsvanātha temples nearly a dozen neglected images of standing Digambara Jinas all huddled together to the West. A black stone image of Pārsvanātha in Kade Basti-a fine image of Virabhadra with arrow, sword, shield and bow with wooden sandal, (khadavās) on the Virabhadra deval over grown with a large tree, a collection of images in the S. E, corner of Pārsvanātha temple.
P. 129. The temple of Pārsvanātha-Bilgi in North Kanara. Three old temples-largest and the most important being of Pārsvanātha of Dravidian style.
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