Sambodhi 1973 Vol 02

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

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Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari
Io the principal niches on three side of the facades were barboured a images, of which only throne and parikara are extant on two sides. ove the vacant niche on south facade is kept a plaque representing
scene of Asvavabodha from the life of Munisuvrata The niched figures the adhisthana representing four-armed seated divinities include Laksmi figs.), Vajraskhala (2 figs.), a goddess ) with goad and noose in two xer hands, Sarasvati (2 figs.), Robini, a goddes ) with trident and tke in two upper hands, (Jata - mīkuța), Cakreśvara (4 figs, some aring kirifa-mukufa), a goddess (?) with long purse in two upper hands. nesa (solitary instance at Kumbhārā, 4 armed, elephant - headed, -bellied and riding a mūşaka. He wears an udarbandha, naga-yajño pavita d carries an elepheat tusk, parašu, long - stalk lotus, and a pot filled
sweel-balls-modaka-patra. His trunk broken from the middle is being "ned towards modaka-pātra), Vajrankuša (2 figs.) and a goddess (?) with rada, long-stalk lotus, noose, broken,
In the Gidhamandapa on west side is installed a stone plaque, inscribed Sattavat 1310 (A.D. 1253) and representing 172 Jina figures, all being kted. The number of the Jigas numerically includes also the Jinas of • past and future ages together with those of the present. Two other sages representing respectively Pārsvanātha and Suparsvanātha and both trying Inscriptions, dated in Samvat 1214 (=A.D. 1157), on the thrones, e preserved in the Gudhamanda pa. Both the Jinas are accompanied by Hrvaqubhati Yaksa and Ambika Yakşt. Two other images of Rşabharātha, escribed in Samvat 1314 (=A.D. 1257) and installed in the Gudhamandapa 30w Sarvăn übhuti as the rakṣa and Cakreśvars as the Yakşt. The colossal nage of Neminātha enshrined in the sanctum without parikara appears to ¢ of a subsequent date.
The door-way and the pillars of the Rangamaņda pa and the Mukha. anda va are decorated with the figures of popular Jaina goddesses. On ast wall of the Mandapa, above the niche, is carved four-armed Hajatakştni (The goddess seated cross-legged and being bathed by two lephants, when represented in the series of the fourteen auspicious kreams, 18 endowed in the label inscriptions with the appellation Mabaakm) sitting cross-legged on padmasana with a row of nine vases mama-nidus) carved below and two elephants lustrating at top. In a niche of the Mukhamandapa is sheltered a plaque, inscribed in Samvat 1322 (A.D. 265) and representing the Nandiśvara dvipa. Four groups of Jina figures with 13 Jinas in each are carved on four sides of central concentric band, two other representations of the Nandjśvaradvipa were noticed by the tothor at Sadri and Rāṇakpur temples in Rajasthana. The former patta oming from the Pārsvanātha temple at Sadri is incorporated in the