Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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JAINA BRONZES IN THE PATNA MUSEUM : 289
“ Sri Ācārya (ya) Su-mayila." Height : 12". See fig. 6 also, Patna Museum Catalogue, pl. XXXVI. (27) P. M. Arch. No. 10679.
Ditto, seated on lotus pedestal with two serpent-devotees on pedestal, inscription on pedestal indistinct. Height: 5". (28) P. M. Arch. No. 10698 : Head of a Jina.
Head of a Tirthankara with ūrnă on his forehead and hair on head arranged in a top knot fashion, having half closed eyes and wearing elongated ear-rings. Height: 53". Patna Museum Catalogue, pl. XXXVII. (29) P. M. Arch. No. 10694 : Ambikā (?).
Image of a female deity probably19 Ambikā standing in tribhanga attitude on lotus pedestal, profusely ornamented and wearing a sari as her lower garment, her left hand kept low in an artistic manner and touching the side of her knees with her fingers and her right hand raised up towards the front and holding some object; pedestal showing two attendants (only the legs one of them present) and her emblem —the “Lion”. Height: 5". See fig. 7. Also Patna Museum Catalogue, pl. XXXVII.
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19 She can be safely identified as Ambikā, the Yaksiņi of Neminātha.
In the photo published here, the figure of the child on the right is mutilated but in the photo published in the Patna Museum Catalogue, the figure is clearly seen. Photo published here is from a negative prepared by the Prince of Wales Museum, Western India, Bombay. Photos of figures 7 and 8 are by courtesy of the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay.-U. P. Shah.
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