Jaina Tirthas in India and Their Architecture

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

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AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE pillars of the temple are also exquisitely carved. One of the pillars is shown here.
Figure 160 :-A small WOODEN TEMPLE FROM PATAN in Pandya Abhyāsagriha at Pațan. A similar shrine from Patan has been sold to the Prince of Wales Museum at Bombay by some unscrupulous Merchant.
Plate 83 Figure 161 :-THE MARRIAGE PROCESSION OF NEMINATHA in wood carving from Pāțan. This is one of the exquisitely carved wooden pieces from the Jaina temple in the Maniyāti-pāda at Pāțan.
Figure 162 :-A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF SCULPTURE FROM CHARUPA. While I was on a tour to Pațan in connection with the Jaina Literary Exhibition held at Ahmedabad, I visited Chārūpa, which is about four miles from Pāțan, where I saw this sculpture among loose stones lying in a compound. The letter-press below the picture has Chanasma printed for Chārūp through mistake.
Plate 84 . Figure 163:-A CEILING OF CARVED WOOD from the rangumandapa of the Jaina temple in the Damkha Mehta's pāda at Pațan. The ironi bars seen in the photo are for hanging handis and Zummars for illumination during Jaina religious festival.
Figure 164 :-THE JAINA TEMPLE AT CHARUPA about four miles to the north of Patan. This temple has been completely rebuilt in place of the old dilapidated one.
Plate 85 Figure 165 :-SRI-AJITANATHA TEMPLE-Tārangā. This lofty temple built by Kumārapāla, the illustrious rular of Gujarāt has been fully described in Architecture Antiquities of Northern Gujarat by Burgess and Cousens pp. 115-16 (Archaeological Survey of India (New Series) Vol. XXXII].
Plate 86 Figure 166 :--Sculptured southern walls of the temple mentioned above.
Figure 167 :-Back view of the Ajitanātha temple at Täranga. The jali work in the picture exactly corresponds with similar work in the monuments of the Gujarat Sultans of Ahmedabad. But these jalis belong to the period of Kumārapal, much earlier then the period of the Gujarāt Sultāns.