Sambodhi 1973 Vol 02

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Iconographic Data at Kumbharia
Jinas) on east are noteworthy. Another ceiling on east shows in the middle a seated figure of Suparsvangtha provided with the canopy of five-hooded cobra overhead and surrounded by four-armed figures of the sixteen Mahavidyas, all being seated in lalitasana.
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The second temple dedicated to Mahavira is also a late eleventh century construction. It also contains, like the Santmatha temple, 16 cells on three sides of the corridor. The Jina images (now the figures of the Mulanayakas being lost and the inscriptions on the pedestals ranging in date between A.D. 1083 and 1129) installed in the cells show similar details as noticed earlier Here Taksi Ambika is sometimes represented as carrying a fruit in place of an amalumbi. It may be noted here that with Parsvnatha and Suparśvanitha even the Taksu-Yakyt ligures are those of Sarvanubhuti and Ambik... A stone plaque lying near the western access to the shrine sho.. the representation of the respective mothers of the twenty-four Jints. Fach seated female figure supports with left hand a child, seated in lap and touching the breast of the mother, just as noticed In case of the Ambika figures. The corresponding hand of the mothers bears fruit. Another similar representation of the late twelfth century is lying near the entrance to the temple on north. It is important to note that the name of the respective mothers of all the Jinas are also inscribed here below the figures. The Mahavia image installed in the sanctum has only lateral jambs in original, and the figure of the Mulanayaka and the throne are of subsequent date.
The figures carved 111 the aisle-ceiling on east represent Laksms, Sarasvati, Sarvanubhuti, Ambika, and Vajrankusa. The entrance-door of the Gudhamandapa contains the figures of the same goddesses as noticed in the Santinatha temple. The two niches of the Mukhamandapa also harbour thrones of the Jina images with the usual Faksa-Takst figures. One throne is inscribed in Samvat 1148 (A.D. 1091). The figures of the Mulanayakas are lost in both the cases.
An important representation carved on a plaque and incised in Samvat 1338 (A.D. 1281) lies near the entrance on north. It refers to the story of Sakunikavihara, an incident from the life of Jina Munisuvrata. However, the story of the Asvavabodha in the life of the same Jina, everywhere else represented together with the story of the Sakunikavihara, can be seen fixed on the south wall of the Mulaprasada of the Neminatha temple, Two other replicas of the above representation come from the Luna Vasaht temple (Cell No. 19) at Mt. Abu and the Parsvanatha temple at Jalor in Rajasthan. The instance from the Jalor, seemingly the earliest of all such representations, is perhaps for the first time reported by the
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