South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses c9.s3.9

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² Jaina images called Chaturmukha or Chaumukhi are often made of a single stone. The four identical images on the four sides are surmounted by a series of umbrellas common to all, which appear like the spire of a temple (see Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X, p. 115). The Buddhists also seem to have possessed such figures; see Nagendra Natha Vasu's Mayūrabhanja, p. 41.