Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s8.34
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s8.34
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c13.s8.34
The Svayamvara halls have been already mentioned, they rested on hundred columns and were embellished with sportive sālābhañjikā¹³⁹ statues We had attanasālā (hall for gymnastic exercises), majjanaghara (bathing house),¹⁴⁰ and nhānamandapa (bath room) containing windows, ornamented with pearls, its floor studded with various jewels and precious stones and equipped with a bathing stool (nhānapītha)¹⁴¹ We also come across uvatthānasālā¹⁴² (attendance hall) posahasālā¹⁴³ (fasting hall), kūdāgārasālā¹⁴⁴ (pinnacled hall) and square tanks¹⁴⁵ (pokkharinī)