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The udumbara is divided into two registers, the lower being plain and the upper showing a band lower showing mouldings of khura, jād yakumbha and of diamonds and beads-, a minor karnika, fillet, karņika, and the upper a semi-circular projection jadyakumbha, kurnikā, antarapatra decorated with carved with stemmed lotus in the centre, a projec- diamonds, chadyaki teeming with caitya-arch pattern, ting kiritimukha on each side of it, and a sculptur- and grāsapatti. The front (northern face) of the ed niche on either extremity. The niches depict a pitha, however, is treated like an ornamental balusfour-armed lalitasana image of Sarvănubhūti on trade (Fig. 39). It consists of a bhitta, a rājasenaka proper right and of Ambikā on proper left, both decorated with diamond-and-double volute pattern, being accompanied on the inner side by a female a vedikä and an asanapatta. The vedika is divided incaur7-bearer and a flute-player. The uttaranga to upright posts alternating with depressed vertical continues the decorative bands of the sākhās and slabs. Below, the posts are plain, while above, they depicts a padmasana Jina in dhyanamudra on the show a kirttimukha, goose, dancer, lion or creeper lalāļa. Above the uttaranga is a relief panel con- in roundel, a ghatapallava, and volute pattern. The taining eight auspicious Jaina symbols called asta- slabs show foliate scrolls, lotus scrolls or creepers. marigalaka. The astamangalaka is a rare depiction The dvichadya asanabatta with a bell rooflet projects in the Taina temples of our period. In front of the boldly over each post, and it recedes with a kirttidoor is a moonstone which consists of an ardhacandra mukha over each slab. The balustrade on each side tied at both ends with gagāraka, farkha and lotus of the staircase carries two projecting sculptured stem and flanked in turn by a talarūpaka.
niches on the vedikā. Each niche is surmounted on
the asanapata proper by an udgama; and below it The interior of the gūdhamandapa is square and
on the rājasenaka is another smaller udgama flanked shows an octagonal arrangement of eight pilasters,
by two elephants carrying male pitcher-bearers on supporting a domical ceiling on an octagonal frame
their back. The niches contain images of fourof architraves. The base of the pilasters consists of a
armed lalitāsana gods and goddesses. The two bhitta and a kumuda; their shaft is square at the
niches on proper right shelter Sarvänubhati and base, octagonal in the middle and circular on the
Acchupta, but the objects held by the god and the top; and their capital has a short round bharani of
goddess on proper left are mutilated, and hence padma, surmounted by roll-brackets. The archi
their identification could not be possible. traves are plain. The domical ceiling, commenced from each pilaster by a square block inset with
The mukhamandapa consists of ten ornate pillars, rosette-marked diamond, is composed of six circu
eight running east-west in two lines of four each, lar courses. The first four are padmas, each orna
and one each placed in the southeast and southmented with lotus petals and surmounted by a band
west corners. Besides, there are two ornamental of diamonds and beads. The fifth is an eight-foil
pilasters flanking the gadhamandapa door and dis. kola carrying kirttimukhas on the triangular spaces.
posed in alignment with the corner pillars. The The sixth is a quatrefoil kola, also carrying kirtti
four pillars in the front row are of the square order mukhas on the triangular spaces. The dome is
with corners chamfered into three angles. Their closed up by a circular kola. The four corners at
base consists of a khura, kumbha carrying images the base of the dome are plain.
of four-armed lalitäsana goddesses in niches, kalasa,
antarapatra, and kapota decorated with caitya-arch Mukhamandapa
pattern. The shaft has four sections, viz. square, Rectangular on plan it is divided into six bays octagonal, sixteen-sided and circular. The square and is landed up from the rangamandapa by a flight section is the longest one, the circular is next in of five steps cut into the central bay towards the length, and the sixteen-sided is the shortest one. Tangamandapa (Fig. 38). Below the stair is a moon- The square section of the shaft carries framed stone of the same kind as we find in the northern figures of four-armed standing Vidyādevis on the door of the gadhamand apa. The pitha on the two four faces. The octagonal section bears eight lateral sides carries mouldings of two bhittas-the figures of four-armed lalitasana goddesses. The
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