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JAINA METAL IMAGES IN THE STATE MUSEUM,
LUCKNOW N. P. Joshi
In the collection of the Lucknow Museum, which has got a long standing of more than hundred years, there are twenty three metal images which depict Jaina teachers and divinities. With the depicted subject in view, they can be enumerated as below:
1 each
Ādinātha Pārsvanātha Chandraprabha Vimala, Kuntha Śreyānsa and śāntinātha Ambikā, two-handed Ambikā, four-handed Unidentifiod Yaksiņi Unidentified Tirthankara Some Jaina teacher Fragment of a back slab
Total
23
Out of these nineteen figures bear inscriptions on them in Devanāgarī characters and vary in dates in-between 1157 and 1595 A.D. All the inscriptions, with the exception of one, are in corrupt Sanskrit and are votive in nature. Usually, they give the names of the donors and their castes, gotras, teachers, placos and the Kings. In very few cases name of the artist also appears. The following table gives this information in a Consolidated form:
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