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Jaina Rock-cut Caves in Western India
1. Seated Jina: 1.5m by 0.87m.
This figure, measuring 0.96m by 0.8m, is placed in a niche with pointed top. The legs, hands and the face of the figure are damaged. The Jina is seated on a plain throne. His asana is not clear. He has a round halo and triple chhatra. The throne is 0.64m long and is unfinished. It is much narrower than the width of Jina figure. Thus, part of the Jina's legs, are outside the throne.
In front of the Jina, on the floor of the shrine is cut a water channel, about 0.8m by 0.17m.
To the right of this icon are traces of a standing figure of Jina, around 0.32m by 0.13m. Only the feet and a single chhatra above can be seen.
2. Tritirthika: 1.6m by 0.97m.
The other figure of seated Jina is a tritirthika and is the main icon of the cave (Plate 140). The legs and the face of the main figure are damaged, as in the case of the previous icon. The malanayaka is a seated figure of Rsabhanatha flanked by a smaller figure of standing Jina. The figure of Rsabhanatha, measuring 0.76m by 0.8m, is seated on a throne. As the legs are damaged, his asana cannot be determined. He has an oval-shaped halo, triple chhatra and strands of hair on each shoulder. There is a very eroded figure of a chauri-bearer to the right of Jina, shown near chhatra. The throne of the Jina is very eroded. It has five compartments. The extreme right compartment has a figure of bull-faced Gomukha yaksa seated in maharajalilasana with hands on the knees. The objects held in hands are not clear, but seem to be fruits. The extreme left compartment has a yakṣi figure, probably of Ambikā. She appears to be seated in vamalalitasana with the right hand on the knee and probably holding a child with the left hand. Of the three compartments in the middle, the side ones has a lion each, while the central one has a wheel.
The standing Jina figure measures 0.52m by 0.14m. The head of the right Jina is gone. The figures of Rṣabhanatha and two standing Jinas are carved in a niche, while the triple chhatra, the figures flanking the chhatra and the throne are carved outside the niche. The niche is 0.89m by 0.97m. Over the chhatra is a tōraṇa arch.
3. Ambika: 0.77m by 0.65m
This panel is very eroded. The figure of Ambika is seated in vamalalitāsana holding an amralumbi in the right hand and supporting a child seated on her lap with the left hand. Above her head is a mango tree with a bunch of three mangoes hanging down, on each side. The facial features are unclear. Below her left leg is the small figure of her vahana, the lion. To her right is a standing figure of an attendant, turned towards Ambikä and holding either a flower or chauri, kept on the shoulder, in his right hand, while the left hand is on the hip. To her left is the standing figure of Brahmaṇa, holding a chhatra above his head.
Above the mango tree is a figure of seated Jina, while below him, are two more figures of seated Jinas, one on each side.
4. Kshetrapala/Bhairava: 0.5m by 0.28m.
This figure is quite damaged and indistinct. The figure is nude and stands in tribhanga. Behind the head is a round halo. In the right hand is held a long stick like
