Jaina Monuments and Places First Class Importance

Author(s): T N Ramchandran
Publisher: Veer Shasan Sangh Calcutta

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JAINA MONUMENTS
"Image (of Tirthankara) set up or consecrated by the good!
Sri Jina-vallabha". The image being inscribed serves as a guide to date the large number of similar Jaina images in the same style that hail from South Kanara. From a photograph of his image in my possession I could just make out as the lāñchhana the figure of lion (?), in frontal pose from which its identity as Mahāvīra becomes clear.
3. SOUTH INDIAN BRONZES.
(a) BELLARY DISTRICT, HARPANAHALLI TALUK,
KOGALI VILLAGE.
(Now in the Madras Museum and found while digging for carth in 1936.)
(i) TIRTHANKARA SUMATINATHA - BRONZE: Total height 32.5 c.m. Width 21.5 c.m. Seated on padmāsana attached to a simhäsana. The chakra his cognizance is present on the pedestal between two lions which indicate the Simhāsana. There is an inscription in Kanarese on the left side of the pedestal which reads as "Svasti Sri silo (to?) ma si lpi ya pra ti me." To the pedestal is fixed an elaborate prabhāvali in the shape of a vimāna presenting the following :- Yaksha and Yakshini on either side of the Tīrthankara; there are chamaradhārinis one on either side of the Tirthlankara ; bhāmandala and Mukkodai. A dwarf is seated by the side of the Yakshini.
(ii). MAHĀVĪRA - BRONZE : Total height 36-3 C.M. Total width 19.5 c.m. Standing on a padmāsana attached to