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Tirthankara who is worshipped as the Mulanayaka in the Khada-kotadino pado at Patan. The cognizance of the Tirthankara-the bull is seen on pedestal.
Both these images (figs, 66 & 67) provide examples of the exquisite workmanship of sculptors in the 16th Cen. A.D.
Plate 32 Figure 68:-A Jaina image from the Tāladhvaja Hill near Talāja the terminus of the Bhavnagar Talājā Tramway. Standing Jina image of fine white marble like this are on the right and left of the main Jaina temple. The image has human appearance. Both the images have a two-armed Yaksha on the right of the pedestal and on the left Ambika image with a bunch of mangoes in the right hand and a child supported in the left hand. As both the images have no lanchhana or cognizance on the pedestal, they seem to belong to the 11th or 12th cen. A.D. The whole of the Tāladhvaja Hill does not possess a more exquisite icon.
Figure 69:-STONE CHOVISI from Prabhāsapāțan. Just after entering the Chintāmaņi Pārsvanātha temple one sees on the left hand wall three stone slabs containing chovisis of Tirthankars, past, present and future, and one of them is illustrated here. The inscription below it reads:-Samvat 1454 Varshe Vaisakha Sudi 6.
Plate 33 Figure 70:-SAHASRAKUTA. The sculpture of white marble called Sahasrakuta is in a small Jaina temple of the five Pāņdavas on the Satrunjaya Hill. The total number of the Jina icons in it is 1028.
Figure 71 :-Sri Neminātha with the Yādavas. This sculpture of the chori of Sri Neminātha is in the cellar of the Jaina temple called Vimala-vasahi which is seen on the left just after entering the Wāghaņa Pol on the Satrunjaya Hill. In the middle of the figure is a marble image of Neniinātha, the 22nd Tirthankara. The small images are of the Yadavas who espoused Jainism with him after he returned from his party and who obtained salvation. In the upper right hand corner of the figure there is a design of Samavasarana which represents Neminātha's Kaivalya Kalyāṇāka. Elephants and horses are shown in all the corners, symbolical of the marriage proces. sion of Neminátha. The picture can be best appreciated from the original.
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