The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c48.s4.2

c48.s4.2

Fig. 43 shows a very fine slab which was found in a Jaina temple at Amīnbhāvi, a village about six miles to the north by east of Dhārwār. It represents a Digambara *jina*, nude as all their images are. Above him are twenty-one small *jinas*, which, with the two beside him, under snake hoods, and himself, make up twenty-four, the number of the *jinas* or *tīrthankaras*; but two of these are of one, Pārśvanātha, with his serpent hoods. It will be noticed that the little fat male figure, down to the right of the big image, is the same as we found occupying the shrine in the Jaina temple near the temple of Virūpāksha at Aihole.