Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SŪTRA
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(paklcha), pinion supports (pakkhabāhā), cross beams (vamsa), ribbings (varsakavelluya), panels (pattiyā), thatches (ohāļaņī), and thatches under the ribbings (uvari pufchani).'
The other Jaina works also throw a good deal of light upon the architectural technique and its development." Sculpture
The study of the references to some images of the Goddesses, Sri, Hri, Dhrti, Kirti, Buddhi, and Lakşmi, which were presented by king Bala to his newly married daughters-inlaw as marrige gifts clearly shows that Sculpture was a branch of learning and was patronized by the kings and the nobles. Art of Painting
The art of painting also was highly developed, as is evidenced by the fact of the mention of a costly painted curtain, decorated with many devotional pictures and figures of beasts, birds and creepers.
Moreover, the reference to the painting of pictures and exhibiting them by Markha Maňkhali and his son Gośāla Munkhaliputra, for earning their livelihood throws more light upon the cultivation of this art of painting during the period of the Bhs.
The evidences of the art of sculpture and painting as revealed in the Bhs are also found in other Jaina texts in great details.
As regards the cultivation of the art of sculpture there are references to the wooden figure of the sage Vārattaka, made and worshipped by his son,” images of plaster (puttha), ivory (danta),
i Rajapraśniya Sūtra, 97 f. ; Nāyādhammakahão, 1, p. 3 f; Brhat. K. Bhāşya Pithikā, 582 ff.
Bhs, 11, 11, 430. 4 10, 11, 11, 428.
6 16, 15, 1, 540. & Nāyādhammakahão, VIII, 78, p. 106 ; Brhat Kalpa Bhāsya,
1. 2429 ; Āva. Cu, II, p. 165; Nayadhammakahão, 8, p. 95. ? Vyavahāra Bhāsya, 2, 11.