The Hindu Temple v2.c12.268

v2.c12.268

A celestial spirit beating the drum (divyadhvāni) which is one of the Prātihāryas or miraculous appearances carved on the slab of the image of a Tīrthaṅkara hurls himself down, succinct as a drum beat. His body soars above the drum. Serenely the face smiles and the arms pause broadly open, while the sound of the drum reverberates in the modelling of the heads of the elephants, their trunks and the volutes of plants and ‘swans’ as the carved music of the sphere under whose lotus canopy is the place of the main image of this slab.