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also contain the figures of two-armed Yakṣa and Yakṣi as Śāsanadevatās (Deogarh, temple no. 11 and Santinatha Jaina Museum, Khajuraho 12th century A.D.). In one of the examples from Deogarh (temple no. 2, 11th century A.D.), Bāhubalī is also shown alongwith Śītalanatha and Abhinandan Jinas in tritirthi image."
References :
1. He is also called Bhujabali and Kukkuṭeśvara and is supposed to be the first among the Kamadevas of this avasarpiņī age.
The Bahubali figures from Ellora also show deer, dogs, rats and camels.
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The Brahmanical correspondence to such rigorous austerities is the sage Valmiki around whom also ant-hills and creepers grew during his deep trance. See. U.P. Shah, "Gommatesvara Bahubali, the Great Saint", Jain Journal, VoL 15, No.4, April 1981, p. 133.
6. Paumacariya 4.43-55 (ed. H. Jacobi, Prakrit Text Society Series 6, Varanasi 1962, pt. 1, pp. 34-35.
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Dalsukh Malvania, "The Story of Bharata and Bahubali", Jain Journal, VoL 15, No.4, April 1981, p. 141.
The story is also narrated in the Avaśyaka-bhāṣya as quoted in the Avaśyaka-vritti of Haribhadra and the Avasyaka-cūrṇi: See. U.P. Shah, op.cit., pp. 131-34.
7. Padmapurāṇa, Vol. I, 4.74-77; Harivamsapurāṇa, 11.98-102; Adipurāṇa (of Mahāpurāṇa) 36. 104-186; Triṣastśalakapurușacaritra, Vol. I, Ādiśvaracaritra, 5.740-98.
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Valmikavivarodyatairatyugraih sa mahoragaih/
śyāmādīnaṁ ca vallībhiḥ vestitaḥ prapkevalam// Padmapurāṇa, 4.76 Also see, Harivaṁśapurāņa 11.99-100.
Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra, Vol. I, Adiśvaracaritra 5.745-77; Adipurāṇa, Vol. II, 36.165. It is mentioned in the Adipuraṇa that the lions, elephants and other wild animals of great enmity used to sit amicably near Bahubali. This at once reminds us of the Jina Samavasaraṇa.
10. Two snakes in case of Aihole figure and four in case of Bādāmī figure.
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