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There is a sitting variety, placed on the louts seat, with two hands placed upwards over the face.
Plate No. CL-coloured plate illustrating the above description.
First group-Siddhar; second group Sugandhas; fourth group-Arhalas, fifth group Parivakas; Tirthankaras-comprising 24 types. Names of all the 24 Tirthankaras with their different signs-bull, elephant, horse, monkey, red goose, lotus, Svastika, crescent moon, crocodile, tree or flower, rhinoceros, buffalow, boar, lotus with stalk, shell, snake, lion, porcupine, thunderbolt, antelope, goat, pinnacle and tortoise.
P. 66. Chapter LVIII-Mythical beings, comprising six types. First typeYaksha, attendant to the gods, Jain deities, bearer of Chowri, measured in the nine. täla; made of one of the nine materials; furnished with two arms, eyes, the Karanda crown, legs clad in clothes, demon shape, bright-blue and yellow complexion, plough shaped legs turned towards the back, the right leg being in the svastika pose and the left bent, hands kept touching the knees and raised towards the gateway, one hand. holding up chowry and the other kept touching the ground carved on arches thromes places and storeyed buildings.
P. 69. Chapter LXV-Talas, comprising twelve types.
First type-Large ten tālas, in which measures of one hundred and fifty-four parts (limbs) of the body is given. It is used in measuring super human deities, including Buddha, Jina etc..
P. 70. N.B.-Each of the tala system admits of three varieties large, middle and small; ordinarily in the ten täla, the whole height of an image is ten times its face, in nine tāla it is nine times, in eight täla it is eight times, and so forth.
Plate sheet No. CLVI. showing large Dasa and other Nine Tālas.
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BANERJI, R. D. Eastern Indian school of Medieval sculpture, Delhi, 1933.
Pp. 8-9. Khandagiri Udayagiri Hills-Häihigumpha inscription, caves, and basreliefs representing scenes from the lives of the Tirthankaras.
P. 12. Acanthus leaf ornament in the Jain images of Mathura, majority of the sculptures of the Kushan school of Mathura are Jains,
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