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2. We then classed it under "Kautuki (curious) figures". 3. Ed. Popatbhai Ambashankar Mankad, Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. CXV, Baroda,
1950, chap. 218/36
4. Cf. 'Nāga damana ni Chata ane Vástuśāstra-vidhana' (Guj.), Purātana, Porbandara
1973. pp. 122-123 & fig. contra p. 38,
5. Cf. H. Bhisham Pal, The Temples of Rajasthan, Alwar-Jaipur 1969, fig. 91. The
author docs not say in which temple at Jesalmere docs it occur. One of my older notes, which however is unsupported by source-reference, mentions this type of ceiling in tbe Laksmana Vihāra there. Whether this is the same, or otherwise, I am
unable to decide since never visited Jesalmere. 6. Pt. Ambalal Premchand Shah, Ranakpur-Në Parcatırıhî (Guj) First Ed, Bhavnagar
V. S. 2012 (A, D. 1956), fig. 23; here see figs. 3&4. These are located in the central bay of the lowermost storey of the two storied (Western) balāşaka (entry-hall), and the forebay of the second storey of the selfsame balayaka. There is one more ceiling of the nāgabandha type in this temple, in the Southern Meghanāda hall, in the
upper storey there. 7. See Sarabhai Nawab, Jaina Tirthas in India and Their Architecture, Ahmedabad 1944
fig. 195.
8. I am discussing that temple at some length (in collaboration with Shri Amritlal
Trivedi) in Satrunjaya Malātirtha-11ās Jaina-mandiro (Glj.),now in the final stage.
9. Ed. Shriyut Sarabhai Manilal Nawab, "Pandarmä Saikā-ni Satrunjaya Caitya-Pari.
vāti (Guj.) Sri Jaina Satya Prakāša, Year 12, No. 3, Sr. No. 135, dt. 15-12-46, pp. 96-97.
10. I am at present editing this in a special compilation of hitherto unknown psalms,
11. Smt. Vidhatriben Vora and myself are editing this psalm at present,
APPENDIX
The Girnär-caitya-pari päļi, as mentioned earlier, takes notice of the nāgabandha ceilings in the Kbaratara-vasahi, on the Girnar hills. But the ceiling there surely does not betray the nägabandha motif : Instead, one meets Vişnu encircled by human figures, whether the gopa-s (young cowherds or demons being vanquished by Him, it is hard to decide : (Cf. Nawab fig. 197). A third ceiling in the Kharatara-vasahi on Satrunjaya also depicts the same theme. One more instance is a huge stele found from near the older temple of Madhavarāya at Madhavapura in Saurāşğra and now transferred to the Junagadh Museum, The purport of this theme is still unclear, but it surely is not the nägahandha, and the writer of the Girnar-caitya-parpai mistook the motif it seems. Sambodhi 4.3-4
