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APPENDIX A NOTES ON JAINA SYMBOLS AND TECHNICAL TERMS Aştamāngalika- . to wit, a Svastika, Śrīvatsa, Nandyāvarta,
Vardhamānaka, state-seat, pitcher, fish and
a mirror. Ayāgapata or tablet of homage. It is an ornamental
slab bearing the representation of a Jina or of some other object of worship and the term may be appropriately rendered by 'tablet of homage or of worship'. Since such slabs were put up in temples as the numerous inscriptions on them say 'for the worship
of the Arhats'. Avašyakas arc singing hymns to the 24 Jinas Stavana,
Vandanā, Pratikramaņa, kāyotsarga. Dharmacakra (wheel of law)-It seems to have been
borrowed from Buddhism to indicate the preaching of the Dharma in connection with
the Tirthankaras. Dundubhi The Heavenly Dundubhis consist of five
musical instruments. These are the Pañcamahāśabda viz. (1) Sringa, the horn. (2) Tammata, the drum. (3) Samkha, the conchshell. (4) Bheri, the trumpet. (5) Jayaghāta, the cymbal. (Cf. Prof. Bhandarkar's "Jaina Iconography"
Ind. Ant., 1911, June.) Hāra
is a combination of 18 strings of jewels (The Antagada-Dasão and Aņuttarovavāiya-Dasão
Oriental Translation Fund, p. 21). Nandyavarta It is defined as a Svastika with nine corners.
It is a peculiar geometrical pattern. (See Colebrooke's Mis. Essays, Ed. by Cowell
Vol. II p. 190).1 A sort of building in the form of a quadrangle without a western Setc-Apte's dictionary.
