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Description of Plates
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the 'śāsana' of Jina Rşabha. Their presence further confirms that the temple originally was dedicated to that Jina. The three concentric belts around the central panel demonstrate the 14 dreams and the Kalyāṇaka scenes. The first ceiling in this aisle, in its outer belt, depicts the life of a tīrthankara while the inner two belts contain the figures of the parents of the 24 Jinas, each seated in a pavilion.
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The eastern aisle has, as its second of its six rectangular ceilings (counted from the trika onwards), three circular belts in the central portion. These together depict a 'yantra' or magical diagram showing in the outermost circle the figures of 16 Vidyādevīs carved on the 16 lotus petals, the second belt has regimented human figures, the central-most contains the figure of Jina seated on lion-throne and within a parikara-frame. The two straight lateral belts show the rows of adorers.
120 The two views of the third ceiling show in the outermost belt adorer and
dancing figures in the rectangular panels, the inner belt displays procession 121. scene on one of the longer sides, the delivery of sermon in the second, and
upāsakas in the shorter sides. The inner four larger boxes have couples in pavilions.
122 The composition of this fourth ceiling is based on figures set in boxes. The
& outermost belt is, as in several ceilings in the eastern aisle in the Mahāvīra 123. temple, the second and the fourth show elephant figures and musicians, and
the central belt, in its two centrally situated boxes, enshrine Brahmaśānti and Gomukha Yaksa.
124. In terms of theme, the fifth ceiling is like the one shown in Plates 122, 123. 125. In the central belt, the couples alternate with seated divinity figures. 126. The ceiling is thematically formed by figures set in boxes throughout its lay.
The figures represent adorers, musicians, dancers, elephant-riders and cavaliers. The workmanship is inferior to that of this type of ceilings met with
in the Mahāvīra temple. 127 Two views of the Aştāpada in the kulikā located at the south-eastern corner & at the back of the mūlaprāsāda of the śāntinātha temple. The Aştāpada or 128. Kailāsa mountain where Ādinātha Rsabha is believed in Jaina mythology to
have attained salvation, began to be depicted in the Svetāmbara tradition from
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