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The Temples in Kumbhariya
231.
This large and gorgeous torana is said to be before the principal image in the sanctuary of Jina Mahāvīra. Also, it is said to be inscribed, its date being S. 1213/A.D. 1157. However, the inscription is not traceable on the lower uncarved part of its poles, nor is the text of the inscription published.
The style of the torana-posts seems derivative of the sakhās of the elaborate doorframes in the Pārsvanātha temple. Such toranas, set up before the images in the sanctuaries, are known from a couple of devakulikās (west wing) in the Pārsvanātha temple here and in the devakulikā of the Vimala temple (east wing left side), Mt. Abu. None of them, so far cited, is earlier than the latter half of the 12th century.
232.
Two posts of a large marble toraņa that once may have been in the garbhagrha of the Pārsvanātha temple (vide Insc. 19). The toraņa proper, usually supported above the posts, however, is lost. From the style of the figures, it could be of the time of Jayasimha Siddharāja. If this inference is accurate, then this may be looked upon as an instance earlier than all known from Abu and Kumbhāriya.
233.
The large discarded toraṇa which is said to be once before the principal image of Neminātha in his main sanctuary. The style of the Vidyādevī figures seem of the 12th century. As in the doorframes, so also in toraņa posts, the rūpastambha bore the figures of Vidyādevīs. The āndola-torana, in style, somewhat resembles that in the balanaka of this temple.
234 The two toranas, earlier referred to, inside the two devakulikās of the
Pārsvanātha temple. Although the design is not bad, the details and their 235. execution are somewhat poor. In all instances, the torana type used is of the
andola specification.
236.
The discarded yellowish marble fragment of the top of a Samavasarana with quadruple and semicircular parikara tops, now lies in the eastern sector within the precincts of the Pārsvanātha temple. There was thus somewhere a second Samavasarana in Kumbhāriyā, perhaps in the Neminātha temple.
237.
The convention of sculpting the slab bearing the 24 mothers of the Jina had come into vogue from at least the 12th century. The uninscribed patta shown here, once probably in the gūdhamandapa of the Neminātha temple and now in the store room of one of the temples, is carved in four strata, the first one
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