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 JAINA ARCHITECTURE. BOOK V. means of illustration, to convey a correct idea of the extreme beauty and delicacy of these pendant ornaments, but the illustrations on Plate XXI. and woodcut No. 286 from photo- graphs will explain their form, even if it cannot reflect their 286. Pendant in Dome of Tejahpala's Temple at : Abu. (From a Photograph.) beauty. In each of them there are placed, on brackets round the circumference, sixteen four -armed female figures called Vidyadevis goddesses of knowledge. 1 In the roofs of the corridors, also, the coffers are carved in the richest and most varied patterns. Over the doors of the cells or kulikas are forty-six inscriptions recording their construction and grants for the worship of the i Buhler, ' Indian Sect of the Jainas,' English translation, p. 65. For other analogous examples, see 'Archaeological Survey of Western India,' vol. ix. p. 49, and plates 20, 21, ; p. 85 and plate 58 ; p. 104 and plates 84, 86. The engraver of the above woodcut (No. 286) has failed to realise that these figures have four arms : otherwise it represents the roof quite accurately.