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The Structural Temples of Gujarat (5) Composite figures representing a combination of several deities are found at Delmal,28 Valam, 29 and Than30. The figure at Delmal perhaps represents a composite form of Brahmā, Vişnu, Siva and Sūrya as Dr. H. D. Sankalia presumes.31 The same is the case with figures at Valam. The composite figure at Than represents trimūrti i. e. the trinity of Brahma, Vişnu and Siva
(6) Figures of the river Goddesses Ganga and Yamunā usually occur in the lower part of the jambs of shrine door. They are seen at Kadvar,32 Than, 33 Roda, (Temple III, VI )3 4 Khandosan, Karvan etc.
Other miscellaneous figures are those of Dikpālas found in many Caulukyan temples as for instance they are found at Modhera, Vadnagar (Hāțakaśvara), Kumbharia etc. The other figures found on the walls of the temples are Rişis, Tāpasas, and Devānganās. They are also found in the door-frames of the shrines. The temples at Modhera, Sunak, Delmal, Vadnagar, Khandosana, Roda have such figures.
(7) Images of Jinas (Tirthankaras) are hardly placed in niches of the walls of the temples. The various parivaradevatās and other subsidiary figures associated with Tirthankaras in Jain iconography are enshrined for decorative purposes. These are Yakșas, Yakşaņis, Vidyadharas, Vidyādevis, Gāndharvas, Kinnaras
28. AANG. plt. LXIX. 29. Here Fig. 213. During my visit to Ranchhodji temple at Valam I come across two such figures enshrined in the niches of the garbhgļiha. Moreover I noticed there figures of the 24 forms of Vişņu enshrined in the cella. Vide here Appendix 'A'. 30. SMTK. plt. Lill & LXVII. 31. AG. p. 164. 32. SMTK. p. 39 plt. XXXIV.
34. SSR. figs. 83-86. 33. lbid. plt. L.
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