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Nagada's Ancient Jaina Temple
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The temple, though largely inornate, is important in that its sikhara is almost intact and thus is one of the rather fewer examples of relatively earlier Māru-Gurjara temples in Western India which have preserved that feature. It also demonstrates, to a smaller extent though, the small advances of the local style made after the Sas-bahu temples.
Notes :
1. Cf. R. C. Agrawal, "Khajuraho of Rajasthana : The Temple of Ambika at Tagal",
Arts Asiatiques, Tome X, Fasicule 1, Paris 1964, 2. See author's article, 'The Mahävira temple at Alar and Vişnu temple, Ellingaji,' Jour
nal of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, Vol.XIV, 1972. No. 1. 3. I am discussing the 'Sás-babu' temples in detail elsewhere, 4. From a few castya-paripāti psalms. 5. Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, Western circle for the year
1904-05, p. 62. 6. Cf. Aparājitapyocha of Bhuvanadeva, G.O.S. No. CXV, ed. Popatbhai Anbashankar
Mankad, Baroda 1950, vss. 21-23. 7. The urahsynga itself here seems to be also a functional substitute of the wilgama. 8. The Samarānganasul radhāra of Bhöjadēva of Mälava (ca. 1035-1055) and the para
jitaprcchā (ca, third quarter of the 12th cent.) occasionally use this metaphor apropos
the curvature of the sikhara. 9. Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle for the year
1905-06.p. 63. 10. “Some Early Jaina temples in Western India." Shri Mahavir Jaina Vidyala Golden
Jubilee Volume, Bombay 1968, p. 340.
