महाराणा कुम्भा (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य के अद्वितीय विजेता, निर्माता व विद्वान्)

Maharana Kumbha.
one popularly known as Nāl-Mandapa. Each
one of the open porches is accessible by another
flight of stairs ; but of the latter, that facing
the west, contains far more stairs than the
others and consequently the entrance on the
west is considered to be the principal one.
Facing the sides of each of the Mukhamanda-
pas of the principal or Chaumukha shrine is
a mādar or larger subsidiary shrine; and
facing each Sabhamandapa is a smaller subsi-
diary shrine or Khūnt-ra Mandar, so called
because they stand exactly on the nāsaks or
angles formed by lines drawn through the
centres of the Sabhamandapas. The sides
of the temple, between the mādars and the
entrances are occupied by bhāmtis or ranges
of cells for images, each with a pyramidal
roof of its own but without any partitioning
walls. They contain inscriptions belonging
to the first half of the 16th Century and
recording the erection of devakulikās or cells
by Jain devotees, most of whom were Oswals,
hailing from Pātan, Cambay and other
places "¹
¹ Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar's article in the Annual Report
of the Archæological Survey of India for 1907-8, p. 211.
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