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Unique Jaina Site Deogarh and its ... : 89 To conclude it may be observed that the earliest collective representation of 24 yakṣīs is found in the rathikās of the facade of Šāntinātha temple (Temple no. 12, 862 CE).'/ Equally unique is the mention of the names of yakśīs under the respective figurers, which according to M. N. P. Tiwari, fully correspond with the list of the eighth century Digambara text Tiloyapannatti. Further in the images of Bāhubalī several innovations such as of associating yakșa and yakșs with him and showing Bāhubali with Jinas in the Tritirthi image (fig. 03) are also confined only to Deogarh." In Pārsvanātha images also several types of rendering are noticed in which mostly yakşa and yakși figures and snake cognizance are not shown. Besides the independent images of Pārsvanātha several Dvitīrthi Jina images are also represented in Deogarh, wherein either two figures of Pārsvanātha, standing in kāyotsarga-mudrā are carved. Pārsvanātha with some other Jinas like Rşabhanātha and Supārsvanātha (fig. 05) are also shown on same pedestal in same example of Dvitīrthī images.
fig. 05- Pārsva
sarga-mudrā), verandah, Temple no. 11, Deogarh, 12°h century CE.
Likewise in a unique Tritīrthi Jina image, carved on enclosure wall of Temple no. 12 (10h century CE), the figures of Neminātha (with conch cognizance), Pārsvanātha (with seven-hooded snake-canopy) and Mahāvīra (lion conizance) are carved together, who are the last three Jinas of the present Avasarpiņi (aeon). In such examples where two or three Jinas were put together on single pedestal is suggestive of the equality of the all the three Jinas in terms of devotion and cultic worship.
