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500 JAINA CAVE-TEMPLES.
sculpture still sharp and spirited. In the entrance to it on the right
hand is a four-armed Devi with two discs in the upper hands, and a
vajra in her left on her knee ; and on the left another Devi,—perhaps
Sarasvati,—eight-armed, with a peacock. The hall is exactly similar
in plan to that on the east, but the four central pillars have capitals
with looped drooping ears, as in the great hall, and everything has
been finished in the close grained rock more elaborately and sharply.
Indra, Gotama, and Parswanatha recur in their usual positions.
The Jagannatha Sabha.
A little beyond the Indra Sabha is another cave-temple, with a
court in front, known as the Jagannatha Sabha or Court of Jagan-
natha (lord of the world): the screen, if any, and the ehmmulcha
mandapa, however, must have been structural, and have now dis-
appeared ; while the number of fragments of loose images that
were discovered in cleaning out the court of this cave testify to the
quantity of sculpture that must have been in these caves in addition
to what was cut in the rock on the original execution of the work.
On the west side of the court is a hall with two heavy square
pillars in front, and four in the middle area (Plate XC, fig. 1)- "
is sculptured like all the rest, Parswanatha on the left and Gotama
on the right, with Mahavira or some other Jina in the shrines, on
pilasters, and in a few recesses. Indra occupies the left end of
the verandah, and Ambika the right or north end. There are some
inscriptions, a few letters of which are legible, on the pillars of this
cave. They are in the old Canarese character, and may belong to
about a.d. 800-850, though such evidence can hardly be much relied
upon for the date of a cave so far from the country to which that
alphabet belongs.
Eight opposite to this is a chapel with a pretty large cell inside,
this is carved with the usual figures also. The cave at the back o
the court has been long filled with earth, and the sculpture m
generally in a remarkable state of preservation. In the ends or e
front aisle are Indra and Ambika under trees, with attendants, a
very sharply cut, and the features as yet but little injured,
front pillars are square and fluted; those behind the front aise,
square below and sixteen-sided above; and the four in the inner
area are square with drooping-eared capitals. The shrine has
sculpture still sharp and spirited. In the entrance to it on the right
hand is a four-armed Devi with two discs in the upper hands, and a
vajra in her left on her knee ; and on the left another Devi,—perhaps
Sarasvati,—eight-armed, with a peacock. The hall is exactly similar
in plan to that on the east, but the four central pillars have capitals
with looped drooping ears, as in the great hall, and everything has
been finished in the close grained rock more elaborately and sharply.
Indra, Gotama, and Parswanatha recur in their usual positions.
The Jagannatha Sabha.
A little beyond the Indra Sabha is another cave-temple, with a
court in front, known as the Jagannatha Sabha or Court of Jagan-
natha (lord of the world): the screen, if any, and the ehmmulcha
mandapa, however, must have been structural, and have now dis-
appeared ; while the number of fragments of loose images that
were discovered in cleaning out the court of this cave testify to the
quantity of sculpture that must have been in these caves in addition
to what was cut in the rock on the original execution of the work.
On the west side of the court is a hall with two heavy square
pillars in front, and four in the middle area (Plate XC, fig. 1)- "
is sculptured like all the rest, Parswanatha on the left and Gotama
on the right, with Mahavira or some other Jina in the shrines, on
pilasters, and in a few recesses. Indra occupies the left end of
the verandah, and Ambika the right or north end. There are some
inscriptions, a few letters of which are legible, on the pillars of this
cave. They are in the old Canarese character, and may belong to
about a.d. 800-850, though such evidence can hardly be much relied
upon for the date of a cave so far from the country to which that
alphabet belongs.
Eight opposite to this is a chapel with a pretty large cell inside,
this is carved with the usual figures also. The cave at the back o
the court has been long filled with earth, and the sculpture m
generally in a remarkable state of preservation. In the ends or e
front aisle are Indra and Ambika under trees, with attendants, a
very sharply cut, and the features as yet but little injured,
front pillars are square and fluted; those behind the front aise,
square below and sixteen-sided above; and the four in the inner
area are square with drooping-eared capitals. The shrine has