Jinamanjari 2000 09 No 22

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

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form of a female figure, and most probably carved from stone or wrought in metals such as gold and set on pillars. Such mechanisms were utilized for waving câmaras to the kings and royal inmates in the palaces.
Yantra-dhārā-gṛha: According to Dr. Dwijendranath Shukla, this was a type of shower-bath; however, on the evidence of Dhanapāla, it actually appears to have been a room on all the sides of which water was made to fall in jets as a cooling device (much in the same manner as, for instance, is to be found in the chimney-like cooling towers of the thermal power-house at Sabarmati, Ahmedabad) The water supply to the object was connected with the adjoining reservoir.
N.S.P. 2nd edn. 1938, pp.224 ff., and 344 ff; the readings are according to the critical text as determined by me with reference to about ten original mss.
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