Jaina Shrines In India

Author(s): O P Tandon
Publisher: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Vovernment of India

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Jaina Shrines in India
principles and assimilation of iconographic was built in 1032 A.D. and is locally callnorms. A Chalukya temple bears closested the Vimala-Vasahi. It was renovated affinities with the north Indian temples in the twelfth century but the sanctum though it has some distinctive individual gudha-mandapa and trika-mandapa are features. The design of mandapas in a original. The next great marble temple peristylar with richly omamented pillars group is found at Kumbharia (Banaskantha). and decorative designs is unique. The The Mahavira Temple (Pl. X) was built pillars are arranged in an octagonal form in 1062 A.D. It is remarkable that four and have ornamented aj ches. The domical Jaina temples are found round a Saiva ceiling of the mandapa is supported on an temple. At Kumbharia, another temple, octagonal frame of architravas which rest very much similar to the Mahavira temple over pillars and constitute concentric in plan and execution was dedicated to rings converging on the central pendant, Santinátha in C. 1082. A Parsvan åtha architecturally known as Padma-sila. temple at Kumbharia is a little later in time,
built in the time of Siddharaja Jayasimha Literature alludes to the construction (1094-1144 A.D.). The temple has nine of Jaina temples in Gujarat from the eighth deva-kulikas which are highly decked. The century. Buildings ascribed to this period Neminátha temple at Kumbharia was built have been mentioned before, built at a little later during Siddharaja's reign. Patan-Anhilawada, although all the lite- Its pillars are richly carved and bear resemrary allusions are hard to be traced out in blance to the pillars of the Vimala-Vasali materiality. The earliest known example temple of Mount Abu. A small temple of of Jaina temple in west India is the Adinátha Sambhavanātha built in 1231 A.D. is dimimarble temple which was built by the Dutively laid that contains the general Dandanayaka Vimala on Mount Abu. It features of a Chalukya temple.
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