Monolithic JinasMotilal Banarsidass Publ., 1977 - 186 pages Kalika Purana |
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4-armed Ambikā Amoghavarṣa Arhat ascetic Bahubali Bharata Bombay Buddha Buddhist Calukya Cave Temples centre century CHAUMUKHA creepers devotees Digambara elegance elephant Ellora Jain enlightenment excavation external female figure Gajalakṣmi GODDESS ON LOTUS gods Govinda ground floor cave Hemacandra Homage to Bahubali Ibid iconography ideas Indian art Indra Indra Sabha Inscriptions Jain art Jain caves Jain sculpture Jain temples Jaina Jainism Jinasena Kailasa Kannada karmas Konkani Kṛṣṇa Kṣetrapāla Lankeshvara later Left panel Mahāvīra Mahāyāna male monolithic Objects and poses panel Seated tirthankara Pārs PĀRSVA Pārsvanatha Pārsvanatha's temptation pavilion Rāṣṭrakūṭa Right panel Rṣabha sage samavasaraṇa Samkara Sarasvati Sarvānubhūti Sarvārthasiddhi Saudharmendra Seated tirthankara Seated tirthankara 15 seated tirthankaras Bottom serpent shrine skandhas Śrī Standing tirthankara styles sūtra Śvetāmbara symbols Tantras Tantrika temple tower texts themes things tirthankara 11 tirthankara b Seated tirthankara Seated tirthankara tirthankaras Bottom tier Top tier unfinished U. P. Shah Yadava yakṣa yaksas yakşi YOGINS
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Page 14 - J. Fergusson and J. Burgess, The Cave Temples of India, London, 1880, book IV, ch.
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Page xi - So she half-mistrusted it, there was a mixture of dislike in her attitude to it. Now, by a curious gathering, knitting of his eyes, the faintest tension of ecstasy on his face, he gave her the uncomfortable feeling that he was in correspondence with the creature, the lamb in the window. A cold wonder came...
Page 88 - That king ] by whom, verily, was caused to be constructed a temple on the hill at Elapura, of a wonderful structure, — on seeing which the best of immortals who move in celestial cars, struck with astonishment, think much constantly, saying, ' This temple of Siva is self-existent; in a thing made by art such beauty is not seen...
Page viii - I take it, the word is not properly used ; because pedantry is the too frequent or unseasonable obtruding our own knowledge in common discourse, and placing too great a value upon it; by which definition, men of the court or the army may be as guilty of pedantry as a philosopher or a divine; and, it is the same vice in women, when they are over copious upon the subject of their petticoats, or their fans, or their china.
Page x - The rest have left nothing more behind them than grammars and dictionaries; and though they deserve the praises due to unwearied pains and industry, yet they would, perhaps, have gained a more shining reputation, if they had contributed to beautify and •enlighten the vast temple of learning, instead of spending their lives in adorning only its porticos and avenues.
Page x - It is a circumstance equally unfortunate that men of the most refined taste and the brightest parts are apt to look upon a close application to the study of languages as inconsistent with their spirit and genius : so that the state of letters seems to be divided into two classes, men of learning who have no taste, and men of taste who have no learning.
Page 5 - By its roaring waves and dashing spray proclaiming that it had mountains and pearls was the ocean surrounding Jambudvipa, in the middle of which was mount Meru, south of which was the land of merit Bharata-Khanda.
Page xi - With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull; Or, at some banker's desk, like many more, Content to tell that two and two make four; His name had stood in City annals fair, And prudent Dulness mark'd him for a mayor.
Page 54 - Plunged in the nectar of good meditation, he was unconscious of the sun in the middle of the hot season, like a fire pit, over his head.