Jainism in Odisha (Orissa)
by Ashis Ranjan Sahoo | 2015 | 106,639 words
This essay studies the presence of Jainism in Odisha or Orissa by documenting the Art, Architecture and Iconography of Jaina images, relics, structures and establishments from different districts. In Odisha, archaeological evidences show how Jainism flourished during the 1st century BCE during the reign of emperor Kharavela, stating that Jainism wa...
Jaina Antiquities at Sunderpada (Khordha)
A chaumukha (Pl.LXXVB) is noticed at the Kalia-Sani gramadevati shrine in Ward No-57 of Sunderpada area. The upper portion of the chaumukha is missing so as the heads of the Tirthankara figures depicted in the four cardinal directions of it in kayotsarga posture. Except one, other Tirthankaras are identified on the basis of their lanchana’s viz., bull, deer and moon as Risabhanatha, Santinatha and Chandraprabha respectively. The chaumukha is kept along with some beautiful and important naga-nagi images with nectar pots in hand of very early period in a flat roofed RCC structure.