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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:"Sihanamdika ayagapata", Jain votive plate, Kankali Tila, Mathura dated 25-50 CE.jpg|thumb|Ayagapata, excavated from [[Kankali Tila]], circa 25-50 CE]]<br />
'''Ayagapata''' ([[Hindi language|Hindi]]:अयागपट्ट) or '''Ayagapatta''' is a type of [[votive]] slab associated with worship in [[Jainism]]. <br />
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== Background ==<br />
Numerous such stone tablets discovered during excavations at ancient Jain sites like [[Kankali Tila]] near [[Mathura]] in India. Some of them date back to 1st century C.E. These slabs are decorated with objects and designs central to Jain worship such as the ''[[stupa]]'', ''[[dharmacakra]]'' and ''[[triratna]]''.<ref name=Brit>{{cite web|title=Ayagapata|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/46406/ayagapata|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=18 April 2012}}</ref><br />
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A large number of ''ayagapata'' (tablet of homage), votive tablets for offerings and the worship of ''tirthankara'', were found at [[Mathura]].{{Sfn|Jain|Fischer|1978|pp=9–10}}<br />
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== Description ==<br />
These stone tablets bear a resemblance to the earlier ''Shilapatas'' - stone tablets that were placed under trees to worship ''[[Yaksha]]s''. However, this was done by indigenous folk communities before [[Jainism]] originated suggesting that both have commonalities in rituals.<ref name=Brit /> A scholar on Jain art wrote about an ''Ayagapata'' discovered around Kankali Tila, "The technical name of such a tablet was ''Ayagapata'' meaning homage panel."<ref>{{cite web|title=An ayagapata or Jain homage tablet, with small figure of a tirthankara in the centre and inscription below, from Mathura|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/a/019pho000001003u00852000.html|publisher=British Library|access-date=18 April 2012}}</ref><br />
[[Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa]] is one of the important Ayagapata. This Ayagapata is an adoration to [[Mahavira]] dating back to circa 42 CE.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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File:Jain Tablet Homage Set-up by Vasu the Daughter of Courtesan Lavana Sobhika - Circa 1st Century CE - Kankali Mound - ACCN 00-Q-7 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 5987.JPG|Ayagapatta, Jain Tablet of homage showing a [[Jain stupa]] (Circa 1st Century CE) (Photo:[[Government Museum, Mathura]])<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Quintanilla|first1=Sonya Rhie|title=Āyāgapaṭas: Characteristics, Symbolism, and Chronology|journal=Artibus Asiae|date=2000|volume=60|issue=1|pages=79–137 Fig.26|doi=10.2307/3249941|issn=0004-3648|jstor=3249941 }}</ref><br />
File:Amohini relief, Mathura, circa 15 CE.jpg|A [[Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa|Kankali Tila plate]], with an inscription mentioning the year 42 of the reign of [[Northern Satraps]] ruler [[Sodasa]]<br />
File:Jina Parsvanatha ayagapata, Mathura circa 15 CE.jpg|The [[Arihant (Jainism)|Jina]] [[Parsvanatha]] (detail of an ayagapata), Mathura circa 15 CE, [[Lucknow Museum]].<br />
File:Colossal Parasol with Eight Auspicious Symbols - Circa 1st Century CE - Gita Enclave - ACCN 00-72-5 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-23 5570.JPG|[[Ashtamangala#Jain_symbols|Jain Ashtamangala]], 1st century<br />
File:Sivayasa Ayagapata, Kankali Tila, Mathura, 75-100 CE.jpg|Sivayasa Ayagapata, [[Kankali Tila]]<br />
File:Upper Half of Ayagapatta with Miniature Tirthankara and Other Sacred Symbols - Circa 1st Century CE - Chaubia Pada - ACCN 48-3426 - Government Museum - Mathura 2013-02-24 5984.JPG|Upper Half of Ayagapatta with Miniature Tirthankara and other sacred symbols, circa 1st Century CE<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Jain art]]<br />
* [[Kankali Tila]]<br />
* [[Mathura museum]]<br />
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==References==<br />
=== Citation ===<br />
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=== Sources ===<br />
* {{citation |last1=Jain |first1=Jyotindra | last2=Fischer | first2=Eberhard | author1-link=Jyotindra Jain | author2-link=Eberhard Fischer (art historian) |title=Jaina Iconography | volume=12 |url={{Google books|gFZ7vQ2jwlEC|page=|keywords=|text=|plainurl=yes}} |date=1978 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|BRILL]] |isbn=9789004052598 }} <br />
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