DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9541#0276
Chap. III.
T( AVER AT CHITTORE.
253
was of tliat age. It was dedicated to Adnath, tlie first of the Jains
Tirthankars, and liis figure
is repeated some hundreds of
times on the face of the
tower, but, so far as I could
perceive, not that of any of
the other Jaina saints.
The temple in the fore-
ground is of a more modern
date, being put together
principally of fragments of
older buildings which have
disappeared.
Most of the buildings
above described belong to
the first or great age of
Jaina architecture, which
extended down to about the
year 1 ;>()<), or perhaps a little
after that. There seems
then to have been a pause,
at least in the north of India, |
but a revival in the lath
century, especially under
the reign of Khumbo, one of
the most powerful of the
kings of the Mewar dynasty
whose favourite capital was
Chittore. His reign ex-
tended from 1418 to 1468,
and it is to him that we owe
the other of the two towers
that still adorn the brow of
Chittore. The older one has
jiist been described and illus-
trated. This one was erected
as a pillar of victory to com-
memorate his victory over
Mahmud of Malwa, in the
year 1439. It is therefore
in Indian phraseology a Jaya
Stambha, or pillar of victory,
like that of Trajan at Rome,
but in infinitely better taste
as an architectural object than the Roman
Tower of Vk-tory erected by Kliunibo Bona at
Chittore. (From a Photograph.)
example, thong]
1 in
T( AVER AT CHITTORE.
253
was of tliat age. It was dedicated to Adnath, tlie first of the Jains
Tirthankars, and liis figure
is repeated some hundreds of
times on the face of the
tower, but, so far as I could
perceive, not that of any of
the other Jaina saints.
The temple in the fore-
ground is of a more modern
date, being put together
principally of fragments of
older buildings which have
disappeared.
Most of the buildings
above described belong to
the first or great age of
Jaina architecture, which
extended down to about the
year 1 ;>()<), or perhaps a little
after that. There seems
then to have been a pause,
at least in the north of India, |
but a revival in the lath
century, especially under
the reign of Khumbo, one of
the most powerful of the
kings of the Mewar dynasty
whose favourite capital was
Chittore. His reign ex-
tended from 1418 to 1468,
and it is to him that we owe
the other of the two towers
that still adorn the brow of
Chittore. The older one has
jiist been described and illus-
trated. This one was erected
as a pillar of victory to com-
memorate his victory over
Mahmud of Malwa, in the
year 1439. It is therefore
in Indian phraseology a Jaya
Stambha, or pillar of victory,
like that of Trajan at Rome,
but in infinitely better taste
as an architectural object than the Roman
Tower of Vk-tory erected by Kliunibo Bona at
Chittore. (From a Photograph.)
example, thong]
1 in