Jaina Tirthas in India and Their Architecture

Author(s): Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE
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about a little over four feet in height and its pedestal bears a fivelined Sanskrit inscription which reads as follows:
(1) Om Niragatvadibhavena sarva natvavibhavakam | Jnatva bhagavatam rupam Jinanam=eva pavanam || Dro-Vayaka... (2) Yasodeva.....bhih.... ridam Jainam karitam yuktam uttamam \\\ (3) Bhavasataparampararjita-gurukarmmaras (j) O....ta.... vara darsanaya suddha sajjhana charanalabhaya ||
(4) Samvat 744.
(5) Sakshat pitamahen-eva Visvarupavidhayina | Silpina Sivanagena Kritam-etaj-Jinadvayam ||
The fourth line gives the date as V. S. 744 and the fifth mentions the sculptor Sivanaga.
Figure 29-RISHABHADEVA from the same locality as in figure 28. For a description of this image vide Bharatiyavidya Vol. I. Pt. 2 (Fig. 8).
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Figure 30-PARSVANATHA from Piņdavādā (Marwad). The Jina is to be seen in the centre of the sculpture, flanked by two standing Kayotsarga figures. A very fine lotus is engraved below the pedestal. Its petals are engraved below the seat and under them is engraved a richly decorated piece of cloth in front of which is drawn a dharmachakra symbol flanked by a couple of deer. At the end of the pedestals are shown figures of lions. On the right hand side near the lion is seated a Yaksha with a fruit in one hand. Under the Yaksha is his conveyance, the elephant. To the left is the figure of the seated Yakshi with a bunch of mangoes in the right hand and a child in the left. It is the Yakshi Ambikā, riding a lion. Behind both the Yaksha and the Yakshi, stands a female chowri-bearer. In the lowest course of the pedestal, below the Yaksha, the Yakshi and the Dharmachakra, are drawn the figures of the nine grahas. Such exquisitely carved sculptures seem to have been divinely inspired to the sculptor.
Figare 31-PARSVANATHA from Wankaner, (Kathiawad). For a detailed description of this, see my article on old Jaina images in Bharatiyavidya Vol. I. pt. 2 (fig. 9).
This images almost resembles the image in fig. 30. Still both appear to be of different periods and do not seem to be the work of one and the same artist.