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Description of Temples
marble, now damaged (Plate 73). Its fourth door opening at the east is, some decades
go, built up. A marble parikara-torana, dated S.1213/A.D. 1157, believed to have been placed before the cult image in the garbhagrha of the mūlaprāsāda, was some time in the past reërected at this situation (Plate 231). This devakulikā is roofed by a samvaraņā (Fig. 6; Plate 74).
A bicellar vestry/storeroom built against the west wall, was possibly a utilitary adjunct in the originally contemplated plan (Fig. 3).
The last component of the complex is the mukhamandapa or entry-hall located at the north after the point where the pattaśālā is bisected. Between this hall's peripheral pillars are inserted screens displaying geometric designs and auspicious symbols in boxes (Plate 76).
That the temple, from the beginning, was dedicated to Jina Mahāvīra is evident not only from the inscription on the old and original pedestal of the cult image (A.D. 1062) (No. 4) but also by another inscription which refers to the fane as
Vīranātha-sya mandira' (A.D. 1091) (No. 16). The iconological evidenceNegamesa with a child shown on the lintel of the closed hall as also the figures of the same deity on two brackets in the rūpakantha of the karotaka-ceiling of the rangamandapa at its southern bhadra, which arrowwise is in the direction of the main shrine, further support the aforenoted deduction regarding dedication.
The temple was built by the Fraternity since the inscription (No. 15) of A.D. 1091 calls it ‘Sangha-caitya.'
The śāntinātha Temple (Ādinātha Phase II)
The temple complex (Fig. 7; Plates 2, 3) stands on a featureless jagatī supporting the mūlaprāsāda (which is the smallest in the entire ensemble), next the gūdhamandapa directly conjoined with the prāsāda sans the kapilī or buffer wall, then the satcatuski, the rangamandapa, the 24 devakulīkā-surround along with the pattaśālā, and finally the main entry-porch at the north, also a side entry through the western porch, the corresponding opening at the east, though introduced, has otherwise no pillared portico and is usually kept closed (Fig. 7; Plate 3).
The tri-anga mūlaprāsāda, with meagrely differentiated bhadra, karņa, and pratiratha, is only 14 ft. in diameter, the short karņa-pītha has the usual set of unadorned mouldings (Fig. 4b). The mandovara is largely plain except at the three
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