Ayagapata
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Ayagapata or Ayagapatta is a type of votive slab associated with worship in Jainism.
Ayagapata, excavated from Kankali Tila, circa 25-50 CE
Vasu Śilāpaṭa, Jain Tablet of homage showing a Jain stupa (Circa 1st Century CE) (Photo:Government Museum, Mathura)
A Kankali Tila plate, with an inscription mentioning the year 42 of the reign of Northern Satraps ruler Sodasa
The Jina Parsvanatha (detail of Parsvanatha ayagapata), Mathura circa 15 CE, Lucknow Museum.
The Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa, also called the Iryavati stone tablet, or Amohini ayagapata, is a large stone slab discovered in Kankali which mentions the rule of the Northern Satraps ruler Sodasa
Ayagapata
…scholar on Jain art wrote about an Ayagapata discovered around Kankali Tila, "The technical name of such a tablet was Ayagapata meaning homage panel." Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa and Parsvanatha ayagapata are one of the important Ayagapata. Tablet of Sodasa is an adoration to Mahavira dating back to c. 42 CE and Parsvanatha…
The Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa (photograph and drawing), with an inscription mentioning the year 42 of the reign of Northern Satraps ruler Sodasa.
The tablet was found in Kankali Tila, right outside Mathura.
Splayed pillar with recumbent lions and central palmette on the Amohini ayagapata Mathura (mirrored half portion), 15 CE