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Pp. 12 and 16. Sculpture of Gaja-Lakshmi at Udayagiri (Fig. 10) of about the 2nd and the 1st century B. C.--a fine panel and an excellent illustration of cult object between adorants. The goddess Sri or Lakshmi stands as the central figure in a composition in which lotus buds and blossoms, elephants raising well-filled vessels with their trunks and emptying them on the goddess, and birds picking at lotus buds, are presented in pairs but disposed symmetrically on either side of the goddess.
P. 30. In Jain art as in the Buddhist, the various cults were often represented in conformity with the formula cult object between adorants.
P. 51. Circle is a substitute for the lotus or the wheel and either of them may represent Brahman, the Buddha, the Jina-in a piece of Jain sculpture (Fig. 16:13) four nandipadas surrounded a circle in which is depicted the Jina.
P. 55. Jaina inconography-smaller images on the head-Ambikā-devi, the Yakși or the Šasanadevatā of Neminātha the twenty-second Tirthankara and a seated Jina (Nerinātha) poised on her head.
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P. 3. The existence of a primitive religion in Eastern India is revealed in Jaina texts.
P. 7. Manibhadra Chaitya is said to have situated to the north-east of Mithila—the fact revealed by Surya Prajñapti an ancient Jain text.
P. 13.
The narration of the lives of several Chakravarlines in Jaina literatures.
P. 37. Jaina tradition recognise Samprati as the earliest consecrator of Jina images.
Plate II—Sarnāth capital.
Indian Architecture according
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Pp. 76-78. Jaina images and their details, according to the MānsāraŠilp-aśāstra, a work of architecture, sculpture, etc.
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