Jinamanjari 2000 09 No 22

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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STYLES OF JAINA IMAGES OF DAHALA MANDALA AND SOUTH KOSALA, CENTRAL INDIA
Jinamañjari, Volume 22, No.2, October 2000
Dr. R. N. Misra
A brief study of Jaina sculptures in Central India and their stylistic evolution style in the region under the patronage Kalachuris of Dahala and South Kosala have been made.' The Kalachuris first started as a branch of the main line of Tripuri and sometime during the reign of Jajjiladeva-I (1090-1120 C.E.) became independent.
The regions of Shadol (Antara, Singhpur) and Jabalpur (Tewar, Karitalai, Bilhari, Darshani Gurji, Bahoribaodha), Sagar (Biba-Barha, Deori, Rtal), and Satna (Ramvan Museum, Patyan Dae) were once the part of an extensive Dahala Mandala. Images of Jinas, sasanadevis and upāsakas having a bearing on the Jaina art and iconography12 are abundant in the regions of Dhahala Mandala. The records of the Kalachuris show the construction of Jain temples and patronage of the religion by both the royal and individual households.
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The pedestal inscription of an image dated 1149 C.E., and now in Sagar university Museum, records the setting up of a Jina image at Tripuri by Jasadeva and Jasadhaval of Mathura.3 Another inscription on the Bahoribandha Jina image of the time of Gayakarna (1123-1153 C.E.) also records the construction of a temple with a very white vitana canopy in front of it dedicated to Santinatha Jina by Mahabhoja, son of Sarvadhara. Its architect was Śreshthin and the ācārya who consecrated it was Subhadra of the Desigana in the line Amnaya of holy Chandrasekara." The Alhaghat inscription dated 1159 C.E. mentions that Ranaka Chihula who belonged to the line of the Rautiyas of Kausambi and a feudatory of the Kalachuri Narasimhadeva (1153-1163 C.E.) commissioned the Shatishadika Ghat and a temple of Ambika on the road to the ghat. It also mentions the names of the craftsmen: Kamlasinha and his team of
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