Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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The Later Gangas: Mandali-Thousand
23. Old original Jinabimbas, broken into two, triple umbrellas,
a pedestal and other Jina relics kept behind the temple at Gurupura. Though the vestiges contain two broken parts of a Jina, one upper half and the other lower half, yet they are not of the same figure. [Vide, Sh. 64. C.E. 1112. pp. 63-69]. Not less
than three jinālavas must have existed at this place. during leventh and twelfth centuries. This is the same place which is referred in the epigraphs as Kuruļi tirthada basadi and a Ganga Jinālaya commissioned by Nanniya Ganga Permmādideva-ll,
in C.E. 1132
24. Another view of the basadi, from right side
25. A view of basadi, from left side, at Gurupura. The shrine is located in a cocoanut garden which is the property
of Sri Ādicucnanagiri Matha. The ruined Jaina shrine has ekatala śikhara. Vimāna of Drāvida style and rudracanda: sukanāsi seems to have been renovated. Door frame has four säkhăs-vātāyana, pillar, valli (vine) and Vajrapattikā.
Creeper bearing door-jamb and the neatly framed dvārapālakas are very attractive
26. A displaced Jina Pārsva's head dumped behind the basadi
at Gurupura. Though the face is disfigured, frizzy hair on the head, seven hood canopy capped with triple umbrella, aureola, dancers and musicians - are so neatly executed that the original
image must have been a magnificient Tirthankara figure; compare with a similar image from Islāpura (plate No. 64)
27. One of the inscriptions of Gurupura, now safely preserved in the Shimoga Govt. museum
28. Mānastambha, a characteristic Jaina pillar of eminence, in fornt of a Jinālaya at Basavanna Gangūru near
Shimoga; raised platform has collapsed