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The Temples in Kumbhāriyā
8.
The Kumbheśvara temple from southwest reveals that the building has suffered more at the hands of renovators than from the hammers of the iconoclastic invader.
The Adinātha Temple (Phase I)
9.
The doorframe of the sanctum of the main shrine of the so-called śāntinātha temple apparently is a reused relic of the preceding Adinātha (Phase I) temple.
10. Gangā, standing, at her usual location, namely the pedyā or the lowest section
of the central jamb of the selfsame doorframe (on-looker's left side), possesses suavity and poise typical of early 11th century sculptures. Gangā, and correspondingly at the contra-side, Yamunā figure at the doorway is a feature frequently encountered from the fifth to the ninth century but is seen only in relatively earlier medieval centuries, and thus their presence here upholds the suggested earlier date for the doorframe and hence the original temple.
11.
The corresponding Yamunā figure betrays the same quality. It is sheltered under a lotus canopy of the western Indian medieval form noticeable in the tenth and 11th century.
12 Sanctum's same doorframe. The surging creeper crisply delineated in low & relief together with the powerfully rendered lotus petals carving on the 13. neighbouring bahirśākhā or external jamb is in style characteristically of early
11th century. The third, the antaraśākhā or innermost jamb is of the ratnaśākhā specification; it is thin and without the detailed ornamental enrichment.
The Mahāvīra Temple
14. The Mahāvīra temple's well-formed sikhara of the mūlaprāsāda viewed
together with the conventionally accurate saṁvaraņā roof of the closed hall, as viewed from southeast, express the feeling of workmanship of the 11th century.
15. Back view, south, of the mūlaprāsāda or sanctuary proper of the Mahāvīra
temple; its plain janghā shows the medial and the upper grāsapattī as its sole ornamentation. The pratirathas are lean compared to the karnas. The
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