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CHAMAR LENA. 493
about 6 feet high, including the base, and with carvings of the usual
sort upon it.
Inside, the hall is about 20 feet wide by from 14 to 16 feet deep
with two irregular pillars in the middle. At the base of the left
one sits a fat male figure upon a mass of uncarved rock, and with
a similar mass over his head; at the base of the other is a female
figure with a child on her left knee seated on a plain seat, and a tree
carved over her head with squirrels, birds, and fruits among its
foliage. These two figures correspond to those known as Indra and
Amba or Indrani in the Jaina caves of Elura.
On the back wall, on a slightly raised dais or throne, is an image
of a Jina or Tirthankara, squatted on a lotus, the back of the throne
being richly carved with two elephants' heads, two standing Jinas,
two chauri-bearers, maharas, vidyddharas, &c, and over the head a
conventionalised triple umbrella, with foliage hanging over it. On
either side beyond and a little back from this sits another cross-
legged Jina figure about 2 feet high.
On the south wall, near the back, is a life-size standing Jina, with
nimbus, triple umbrella, and small attendant figures on each side of
his head and shoulders. There is a small irregular cell in the back
wall near the south end; and three niches in the north wall with one
m the south, as if for movable images.
l'his cave bears a close analogy to the latest Jaina excavations at
Elura, and is probably of the same age. Like them it may belong
to the ninth or even to the tenth century a.d.
Chamae Lena.
The Chamar Lena hill lies a few miles north-west from Nasik,
aw* contains a few excavations at about 450 feet above the level of
we road which passes not far from the foot of the hill. They are
at« Jaina work of the 11th or 12th century, or it may be even
er> cut in a coarse porous rock. There are two caves containing
g°od deal of rude sculpture of Jinas seated in meditation or
todmg in ascetic abstraction, with the usual Indras and Ambikas.
n the wall of one of them is a small image of a Tirthankara
edon a sinhasana with celestial attendants, two other small Jinas
each side of his head, and nineteen more in the sculptured border
H making the 24 in all. Beside the caves is a large open
* J*^011 "^k a colossal bust having a snake hood over it but
aeTer finished.
about 6 feet high, including the base, and with carvings of the usual
sort upon it.
Inside, the hall is about 20 feet wide by from 14 to 16 feet deep
with two irregular pillars in the middle. At the base of the left
one sits a fat male figure upon a mass of uncarved rock, and with
a similar mass over his head; at the base of the other is a female
figure with a child on her left knee seated on a plain seat, and a tree
carved over her head with squirrels, birds, and fruits among its
foliage. These two figures correspond to those known as Indra and
Amba or Indrani in the Jaina caves of Elura.
On the back wall, on a slightly raised dais or throne, is an image
of a Jina or Tirthankara, squatted on a lotus, the back of the throne
being richly carved with two elephants' heads, two standing Jinas,
two chauri-bearers, maharas, vidyddharas, &c, and over the head a
conventionalised triple umbrella, with foliage hanging over it. On
either side beyond and a little back from this sits another cross-
legged Jina figure about 2 feet high.
On the south wall, near the back, is a life-size standing Jina, with
nimbus, triple umbrella, and small attendant figures on each side of
his head and shoulders. There is a small irregular cell in the back
wall near the south end; and three niches in the north wall with one
m the south, as if for movable images.
l'his cave bears a close analogy to the latest Jaina excavations at
Elura, and is probably of the same age. Like them it may belong
to the ninth or even to the tenth century a.d.
Chamae Lena.
The Chamar Lena hill lies a few miles north-west from Nasik,
aw* contains a few excavations at about 450 feet above the level of
we road which passes not far from the foot of the hill. They are
at« Jaina work of the 11th or 12th century, or it may be even
er> cut in a coarse porous rock. There are two caves containing
g°od deal of rude sculpture of Jinas seated in meditation or
todmg in ascetic abstraction, with the usual Indras and Ambikas.
n the wall of one of them is a small image of a Tirthankara
edon a sinhasana with celestial attendants, two other small Jinas
each side of his head, and nineteen more in the sculptured border
H making the 24 in all. Beside the caves is a large open
* J*^011 "^k a colossal bust having a snake hood over it but
aeTer finished.