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492 JAINA CAVE-TEMPLES.
and female Naga figure. At the right end is a standing Jina with
two female attendants, and behind him a tree with two figures
among the branches of it to the left.
The entrance into the hall is 8 feet wide divided by two pillars,
much of the same pattern as those in the Brahmanical cave not far
off. The hall is 15 feet by 17 feet 8 inches with a chapel at each
side 14 feet by 5, divided off by two pillars in front of each. The
roof is carved with a large central rosette or lotus and four others
at the corners, the interspaces being filled with makaras, fishes,
flowers, and human heads with arabesque continuations.
At the back of the hall are two dwarpalas with high headdresses
and frill behind, as in the Elephanta sculptures, and attended the
one by a male dwarf, and the other by a female. The entrance to
the shrine like that to the hall is divided into three apertures by
two pillars. The shrine, about 8 feet 3 inches square, a sitting
figure of the Tirthankara very similar to that at Badami.
The walls of the chapel to the left of the hall are covered with
sculpture consisting of Mahavira on his sinhasana on the middle of
the back wall with chauri-bearers, and about a dozen other figures,
some on elephants, apparently come to do him homage; the whole
seems to be a sort of Jaina copy of the Baja Mandala of Buddha,
where the rajas and great ones come to do him homage. This
sculpture, however, has never been finished.1
Jaina Caves at Patna.
In the west side of Kanhar Hill fort, which overhangs the east
side of Patna village, near Pitalkhora, are two rock excavations
known as Mgarjuna's Kotri and Sita's Nhani.
The second of these consists of a verandah 28 feet in length with
two pillars rudely blocked out, and inside an irregular room abou
24 feet by 13, with two rough pillars near the middle of it. Mg*1'
juna's Kotri is the same in general plan, irregular in shape, u
with a good deal of Digambara Jaina sculpture. The verandah is
18 feet long by 6 feet wide at one end' and about 4 at the other,
supported in front by two pillars, one square and the other r o
boidal, with moulded capitals. In the left or south end of
verandah is a small room with a bench along the back wall; an
outside the verandah at this end is cut in the rock a 8a
1 See Arch. Stir. W. Jnd., First Sep., p. 37-
and female Naga figure. At the right end is a standing Jina with
two female attendants, and behind him a tree with two figures
among the branches of it to the left.
The entrance into the hall is 8 feet wide divided by two pillars,
much of the same pattern as those in the Brahmanical cave not far
off. The hall is 15 feet by 17 feet 8 inches with a chapel at each
side 14 feet by 5, divided off by two pillars in front of each. The
roof is carved with a large central rosette or lotus and four others
at the corners, the interspaces being filled with makaras, fishes,
flowers, and human heads with arabesque continuations.
At the back of the hall are two dwarpalas with high headdresses
and frill behind, as in the Elephanta sculptures, and attended the
one by a male dwarf, and the other by a female. The entrance to
the shrine like that to the hall is divided into three apertures by
two pillars. The shrine, about 8 feet 3 inches square, a sitting
figure of the Tirthankara very similar to that at Badami.
The walls of the chapel to the left of the hall are covered with
sculpture consisting of Mahavira on his sinhasana on the middle of
the back wall with chauri-bearers, and about a dozen other figures,
some on elephants, apparently come to do him homage; the whole
seems to be a sort of Jaina copy of the Baja Mandala of Buddha,
where the rajas and great ones come to do him homage. This
sculpture, however, has never been finished.1
Jaina Caves at Patna.
In the west side of Kanhar Hill fort, which overhangs the east
side of Patna village, near Pitalkhora, are two rock excavations
known as Mgarjuna's Kotri and Sita's Nhani.
The second of these consists of a verandah 28 feet in length with
two pillars rudely blocked out, and inside an irregular room abou
24 feet by 13, with two rough pillars near the middle of it. Mg*1'
juna's Kotri is the same in general plan, irregular in shape, u
with a good deal of Digambara Jaina sculpture. The verandah is
18 feet long by 6 feet wide at one end' and about 4 at the other,
supported in front by two pillars, one square and the other r o
boidal, with moulded capitals. In the left or south end of
verandah is a small room with a bench along the back wall; an
outside the verandah at this end is cut in the rock a 8a
1 See Arch. Stir. W. Jnd., First Sep., p. 37-