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Faina
Temples of Western India
alās of Devarāni (younger brother's wife) and of a khura, kumbha, kalaša, antarapatra, and kapota Jethāni (elder brother's wife). The corners of underlined with leaves. The kumbha of the southboth the niches have been eliminated by chamfe- east corner pillar depicts an image of four-armed ring. Each niche is divisible into three parts, lalitāsana goddess on each of the four faces, while viz. pitha, wall and spire. The pitha consists of that of the northeast corner pillar is decorated with two bhittas, a jadyakumbha, a karnika, a kapota deco- caitya-arch ornament. The shaft has three sections, rated with caitya-arch pattern and underlined namely square, octagonal and circular, the first with leaves, a grāsapatti, a gajathara representing being the longest and the second the shortest. the fore part of elephants but the two elephants in The square section carries framed figures of four. the centre, lustrating a cait ya, are in profile, and armed standing goddesses on the four faces. The finally a kapota with cogged lambanas underneath octagonal portion is divided into two horizonal The wall is chamfered and diapered with a series belts by a kumuda. The lower belt is inset with of horizontal and vertical flutings on the two sides, eight figures of lalitasana goddesses, while the while on the front is the niche containing a upper one is adorned with an eight-petalled halfsaparikara image of Jina seated in dhyānamudra. blown lotus flower having buds in between the The image in the proper right khattaka is of Santi- petals. Below, the circular section shows a decoranātha, while that in proper left one is of Sambha- tive band of saw-tooth pattern and four projecting vanātha. At the base of the wall, on each side, pendants, while above, it is clasped by a band of stands a goddess flanked on the outer side by kirttimukhas spewing festoons which are fastened female attendants. On either end of the wall is below by a sharp-edged band. The capital has a vertical band carved with lotus scrolls. The a double-course round bharani of karnika and wall is surmounted by a ribbed eave cornice. The ridged padma, surmounted by four-armed doublespire is composed of three courses of balcony models, roll brackets, the side face of each bracket of each course carrying figure sculptures on the front, which is carved with half Rörttimukha. The sculptures in the first and second courses are of Gaja-Lakşmi seated in dhyānamudra, while the
II. This group includes six pillars, viz. two image on the top course is of a male divinity, whose central pillars on the south, two central pillars on attributes are broken off. On either extremity of
the west, and two pillars in the northwest and the spire is a small standing male figure.
southwest corners. These pillars are of the hexa
gonal type with angles deeply chamfered from Rangamapdapa
base to the bharani by close vertical flutings. The
base and capital of these pillars are similar to those It consists of twelve pillars disposed along
noticed in the pillars of the first group, but here the four sides of a square platform which is the kumbha of the base is decorated with half slightly raised from the level of the courtyard
diamonds and the brackets of the capitals on the (Fig. 93). The three sides of the platform central pillars are five-armed. The fifth arm of are carved with a strip of diamonds, while the the brackets, square in shape and located towards fourth is attached to the mukhamandapa. Eight of the inner side, is decorated with diamonds and these pillars form an octagon and support a highly carries a pendant underneath. Their shaft, howe. ornate domical ceiling on an octagonal frame of ver, varies. On the basis of ornamentations the architraves.
shafts are divisible into three categories, each
comprising two pillars : The pillars of the rangamandapa may be divided into three groups :
(1) It shows vertical flutings with beveled edges
on the six facets. I. This group includes two pillars; they are located in the northeast and southeast corners. (2) It carries one male dancer and five female These pillars are of the square type with corners dancers below and six successive belts of minichamfered into three angles. Their base consists ature shrines above. The shrines of the lower
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