Jaina Monuments and Places First Class Importance

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

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JAINA MONUMENTS
rare find. More than 100 objects of all sorts in all were found deposited at Haduvallı in a holow metal block of a big Chaitya pillar (mänastambha) wh.ch had been buried underground by the local Jainas lest the the images should be stolen away from the open and dilapidated basades of the place. The block forms the bottom-most prop of the pillar and bears an inscription of Saka 1407. Stone images of Padmavati and Brahmadēva were also found.
The Tirthankara images which were found in North Kanara district in large numbers have no special interest Six photographs of the most important of the finds were sent at my request by Mr. Panchamukhi. And their description is as follows :PHOTOGRAPH 1: Head of Tirthankara. Date
Vijaya
nagara.
(a) Adinatha: Seated in dhyana on a high padmasana. The image is of excellent finish recalling the best of the Vijayanagara period.
(b) Nandisvara a symbolical representation in pyramidal form of Nandisvaradvipa, rising in three tiers. Several Siddha figures can be made out sitting on the sides of the pyramid in meditation. (Cf. Tiruparuttikunaram and its Temples, P. 181 and Plate XXXI. figures 3 & 4.) The specimen is crude and appears to be late (post-Vijayanagara)
PHOTOGRAPH 2:
PHOTOGRAPH 3
(a) Brahmadēva (Kshettrapala) on horse back and sword in right hand. Of Vijayanagara period.
(b) Block showing 24 Tirthankaras (23 of them in miniature and the 24th in large