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243. The Kalyāṇatraya-paṭṭa, dated S. 1343/A.D. 1287 is placed in the extended eastern portion of the mukhamandapa or satcatuskya where it faces west. The patta is a rare type of representation, two dimensional (showing one face out of the usual four faces of the tridimensional symbolic representation) theme of the three Kalyāṇakas-renunciation, enlightenment, and salvation of Jina Aristanemi—that are believed to have happened on Mt. Ujjayanta, the vogue which apparently had been started by minister Tejapala in early thirties of the 13th century. In the Neminatha temple example, the upper or third panel is missing.
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244. The Samalikavihara-carita-paṭṭa is after a Jaina myth of a kite sitting on a tree near Bṛgukaccha which was killed by a hunter. At her dying moments, she heard the sermon from the compassionate Jaina munis who then were passing by, on account of which she was reborn as a princess Sudarsana of Lankā. One day, on suddenly recalling her past existence, she voyaged by ship to Bṛgukaccha and founded there a temple to Jina Munisuvrata. The paṭṭa illustrated here is dated to S. 1338/A.D. 1282. Bhandarkar saw it set up in the closed hall of the Neminatha temple, though now it is placed on a pedestal in the mukhamandapa of the Mahāvīra temple. Bhandarkar, however, could not identify its theme. Cousens quoted a parallel, of a very similarly delineated patta (of S. 1335/A.D. 1279) in the Tejapāla temple at Mt. Ābu. Such pattas so far have been unknown before the latter half of the 13th century. They are likewise unknown from the Kṣapaṇaka, its offshoot the Yapaniya of northern Karnataka, and the Digambara sect.
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A corresponding Aśvāvabodha-paṭṭa has been fixed above the south wall bhadra-khattaka of the Neminatha temple, the like of which is also paralleled in the Luna-vasahi temple, Delvāḍā, Mt. Ābu. (Cf. Jayantavijaya, Ābu, Pt. 1, Ujjain 1933, Plate opposite p. 109.)
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