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Bengal and one stone sculpture from the Northern India.? At least two such icons have been reported from the Central India."
Recently, the author of this paper has noticed a masterpiece stone sculpture showing the Adimithun along with Jina in the Sri Campupur Digambar Jain Siddhaksetra, Nathogar (Bhagalpur ). It gives all iconographic details which we Jiscussed earlier. (fig. 1) It is carved out in black basalt stone which is locally available in the Rajmahal and Kharagpur Hills. It measures 30.5 x 15.3 centimeters. It is quite in tact. It was discovered from a dricd tank at Campanagar (a suburb of Bhagalpur town) in the year 1914 A.D.10 The couple looks like a royal pair because they are heavily decked with beautiful ornaments. They are seated in sukhåsunu pose. The ornamanted writubandhujutajuca of the couple is quite attractive. Even the babies in their laps and children seated beneath are also provided with ornaments. The Jina is seated in the yoga-mudra upon a well-decorated and ornamented throne. The trilinear umbrella over his uswisu styled hair is quite unusual from the iconographic point. The author thinks that it shows some influence of local art.
According to some, such sculpture shows the Jina's parent" while others try to identify them as Yaksa and Yaksi.l! The author of the present paper agrees with the first view. The sealed Jinsi can be identified with Bhagavan Adinatha and the couple with his parents. We know Bhagavan Adinatha was born in the facily of Kulakaru Nabhi. He was the tirst king and the first Tirthankara."
The Adimithuna, the parents of Bhagavan Adinatha has also been ' worshipped by the Jainu devotees because they gave birth to the founder of Jainism. The Bhagalpur Adimithungi ime can be called in s 8th century A.D).
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