Book Title: Jaina Tirthas in India and Their Architecture
Author(s): Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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________________ 32 JAINA TIRTHAS IN INDIA karas carved on it. This sculpture is of yellow stone and is fixed in the back wall of the principle Jaina temple which is at the foot of the Kadambagiri near Palitāņā in Käthiāwād. There is a pair of a Srāvaka and a Srávikā standing with hands folded below the central image, giving an idea of the male and female costumes in the 15th Cen. A. D. Plate 29 Figure 60:-SAHASRAPHANA-PARSYANATHA. This is a Mulanayaka image from the Parsvanātha temple of the Gurāmakā talao from Jodhpura. It has been described by me in my article quoted above in the Bharatiyavidya (Fig. 12). Figure 61 :-DADASAHEB. The image is enshrined in Bhavnagar as the Mulanayaka in the Jaina temple known as the Mota Derasar. The name Dadasaheb is printed under the picture through oversight. Figure 62 :-SRI-PARSVANATHA. All these three images are worshipped in the Jaina temple at Delwādā about three miles from Unā in Käthiāwād. The middle one is of the Mulanayaka-Sri-Pārsvānatha. Plate 30 Figure 63 :-SAMAVASARANA DESIGN carved in a mandovara of Dharana-vihära, a Jaina temple at Ranakapura near Sadadi in Märwäd. Figure 64 :-SRI-PARSVANATHA. A black marble mage from a Jaina teinple situated near the Dharaṇavihāra mentioned above. Figure 65 :-PADMAVATI. from Patan. This is a white marble image of Padmādevi on the right side in the temple of Sri Sitalanātha, the 10th Tirthankara, in the pada of Khetarapāla in Patas. Plate 31 Figure 66 :-CHANDRAPRABHA. A fine white marble image with all its paraphernalia from the pada of Khada-Kotadi. The inscription on it reads:(1) Patasha-Sri Mahamadarajye: Samvat 1598 Varshe Vaisakha Sudi 12 dine Adajya Modhanyati Sri Pattana-vastayyam 1 Thakara gotana bha: Kau Suta ...... bha. (3) Dahisuta Thakara-asadhara--bharjya (bharyya) Achhabade Sri Chandraprabha pratishtha Karapita (4) gurusri Anandavimalasuri pati-Sri-Vijayadanasuri-pratishthitam. 5) .............. Figure 67 :-RISHABHANATHA. A fine white marble image of the G Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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