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according to the Hanasaga given. According to Smith, Jaina images differing in age by a thousand years are almost indistinguishable in style. Three colossal of South India-The statues of Gommata or Bahubali-a detail discussion; Legend. The bastis or Jain temples their plans described; the stambhas; sculptures.
Pp. 83-89. Painting-Mural painting. The task of the Jainas in selecting the best views for their temples and caves.
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Adris BANERJI. Some Sculptures of Quto Mosque. Indian Culture, Vol II, Calcutta,
Pp. 780-85. Qutbuddin Aibak occupied Delhi in 1193; the mosque of Quwatul-eslam (the might of Islam) built on the site of an ancient temple; column Shafts bases, and capitals obtained from the ruins of demolished Hindu and Jaina temples. Bas-relief on a lintel in the domed chamber at the South-west corner, quto Mosqueshow men and women worshipping Tirthankara Pārávanatha.
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S. PARAMASIVARAM. Technique of the Painting Process in the cave temple at Sittannaväsal. (Native, Vol. 139, 1937, Pp. 114-115). Great Britain (?).
Technique adopted is one of fresco-secco or painting in lime medium on plaster. Pigments-lime, carbon, ochres, lapis lazuli Terre verte.
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SASTRI HIRANANDA. Pre-Mughal Citrapata from Gujarat. (Ind. Hist. Qu. Vol. XIV. No. 3, Calcutta, 1938).
P. 425. Illustrated Mss. mostly Jaina; king Kumarapala of Gujarat employed hundreds of writers to copy out in golden ink important Jaina works: similarly Vastupala pent 7 crores of rupees on this work of copying.
P. 426. Jains, in imitation of Hindu and Buddhist ideas, created mystic diagrams or Yantras; Siddhayantra and Rimandala very popular; Rimandaladescription.
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SASTRI, HIRANANDA. A per-Mughal Citrapata from Gujarat. (I. H. Q Vol. XIV, Calcutta 1938).
Pp. 425-431. A Citrapata from Patan, the old capital of Gujarat, illustrates the Reimandala-yantramnaya (mystic diagram) dated S. 1571; fully described.
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