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has received coatings of red colour, it has a dreadful appearance. The complexion of the goddess is white. So I humbly suggest that if in Future the trustees of the temple start colouring it white, I think the inage would look serene and pleasing in appearance.
Figure 96:-SRI-PADMAVATI-DEVI. This four-handled image is found in the tuk of Sri-Pujyaji on a small hill to the right of the resting place called chhala-kunda on the way leading up to the Satruñjaya Hill.
Plate 46 Figures 97 :-SRI-YAKSHESAYAKSHA. This marble image is in a niche on the left side of a Jina temple while entering the tuk of Chomukhaji.
Figure 98 :-SRI-KALI-DEVI. This is a white marble image in the same temple as above.
Plate 47 Figure 99:-GOMUKHA-YAKSHA. This white and shining marble image is found in a small shrine to the right of the steps of the main temple in the tuk of MotiShāh.
Figure 100:-SRI-CHAKRESVARI-DEVI. This is an eight-armed image of Chakresvarī-devi riding Garuda to the left of the steps that lead to the highest point of the Chomukhaji on the Satrunjaya Hill.
Plate 48 Figure 101 :-THREE SRAVIKAS OR LAY-SISTERS. The slab with these three lay-sisters is fixed in the wall on the right hand side on the outside of the main temple of Sri-Adišvara, the Mulanayaka, on the Satrunjaya Hill.
Figure 102:-SRI-JINAPRABHAsuri. This image of a monk is seen in the circumambulatory passage in the tuk of Chomukhaji on the Satruñ. jaya Hill. The inscription on the pedestal of the image looks to be modern, engraved afterwards by some devout follower of the Gachchha, für Jinaprabhasūri had been a great inonk of the 14th Cen. A. D. when even the tuk did not exist.
Plate 49 Figure 103 :-SRI-AMARACHANDRA-SURI. This white marble image of the famous monk dated in V. S. 1349 is found in the Jaina temple in the Tängadiya-wādā at Patan. The monk was the author of many works including Padmananda Maha-kavya, Amurakosa, LughaTirthankaracharita etc. The inscription on its pedestal reads:
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