The ' Nāgabandha ' and the ' Pañcāṅgavīra ' Ceiling

While writing "The ceiling of the Temples in Gujarat", J. M, Nanavati and I had to forego detailed discussion on two popular illustrative' types of ceilings met inside the halls of the fifteenth century Western Indian Jaina temples. That was because no helpful light then seemed coming from the mediaval manuals in Sanskrit on architecture,

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ढाकी पन्द्रहवीं शताब्दी के पश्चिम भारतीय जैन मन्दिरों की दो छतों की पहचान करते हैं: 'नागबन्ध', जिसमें कृष्ण कालिय का दमन करते हैं, और 'पंचांगवीर', जिसमें पाँच शरीर एक मस्तक तथा एक भुजायुग्म साझा करते हैं। वास्तुशास्त्र में इनका आधार खोजकर वे शत्रुंजय एवं राणकपुर के उदाहरण देते हैं। Dhaky identifies two illustrative ceiling types of fifteenth-century western Indian Jaina temples: the nagabandha, showing Krsna subduing Kaliya, and the pancangavira, a figure of five bodies sharing one head and one pair of arms. He finds their warrant in vastusastra texts and illustrates them from Satrunjaya and Ranakpur.

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