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FIG. XLVIII. Nandiśvara-dvipa.prasdda. (After P.O. Somapura.) as the eight-day function falling thrice a year. A similar Nandisvara-tapas practised by the Svetāmbaras along with půjd of the Nandiśvara-pata is referred to in the Pravacang-säroddhāra.
Thakkura Pheru does make a provision for the dväpañcasat Jinalaya type of temple which is a set of fifty-two small sanctuaries (fig. XLVIII) including of course the main one which would find its place in the centre (fig. XLIX), with seventeen cach on its both the sides and eight on the front and nine in the back sides. This number, fifty-two, resembles that of the Jinalayas in the Nandiśvara which has, unlike this one, its own design according to cosmography and likewise to the architectural tradition, but
Spocial reference to the commentary by Siddhasena-gapi, Bombay, 1952, 8&tha 1915.
