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flanking the dharmacakra (Plate 9). The third figure (Acc. No. 24048 : 84 x 20 cms.), is dateable to c. 10th century A. D. Of the four, only Rşabhanātha and Pārsvanātha may be identified on the testimony of hanging hair-locks and sevenhooded snake canopy (Plates 10-11). All the Jinas with śrīvatsa are shown with haloes, drooping leaves, trichatra and a drum-beater. The fourth figure (Acc. No. 691 : 32 x 18 cms.) attributable to c. 11th century A. D., likewise show identifying marks of only two of the four Jinas-Rşabhanātha and Pārsvanātha. The Jina figures are accompanied by the usual maladharas, gliding in air, and prabhā. mandala.
Cakreśvari
This is a solitary instance of its kind (Acc. No. 24049 : 69 x 38 cms.) in the Museum (Plate 12). The figure is of Cakreśvari, the Yakși of Rşabhanātha. The figure, by virtue of its style, seems to have been carved probably in the Cedi country in M. P. and is dateable to c. 10th century A. D. The eight-armed Cakreśvari here rides a garuda in human form and holds the varada, vyākhyāna-cumrosary, disc, and conch in her surviving hands. She has a halo. Her garland bearing female attendants wear tall kiritamukuța with a small Jina figure at the crown-front. The body of the goddess is slim, balanced and proportionate and the face is oval.
Architectural Fragments
The Museum has four architectural fragments which mainly contain the figures of the Jinas. The first piece (Acc. No. 50: 75 x 20 cms.) of c. 10th-11th century A. D. is a detached part of a pilaster exhibiting eight Jina figures. Of the eight one is standing as sky-clad while the others are sitting. The remaining three pieces in buff sandstone is assignable to c. 11th-12th century A. D. The second piece is a fragmentary portion of an śikharika (Acc. No. 86) which shows a standing Jina on one side, while the other side shows the branches of a mango tree topped by three small figure which is suggestive of the representation of the Yakşi Ambikā, now lost. Of the three small figures, the central one is of a seated Jina flanked by two maladharas. Third piece (Acc. No. 401 : 34 x 55 cms.), a fragment of door-lintel, shows three seated Jina figures, each flanked by two male atteadants. (Not illustrated.)
The fourth piece (Acc. No. 264) is of special importance since it shows Jina figures on two sides and the figures of Ambikā Yakși and a Jaina couple on the remaining two sides (Plates 13-14). The piece forms the lower portion of a pillar. On one side there stands a sky-clad Jina with snake coils running all along his body which helps us to identify the figure with Pārsvanātha, although the snake canopy over head is damaged now. Pārsvanātha is joined by two usual camaradharas. On other side, there appears a scated Jina figure although badly mutilated,
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