TProfuse ornamentations in the shape of foliage, flowers, birds and human figures were used in decorating every part of the pillar, arch, lintel or bracket. There hang the graceful full blown lotus-shaped pendants from the centre on the ceiling of the ‘mahamandira’ dome. Over the columns of the porch are the bracket capitals, which are also surmounted by dwarf columns, which support the architraves of the dome, and the struts supporting the gallery. Between the bracket capitals and under the struts are placed beautifully ornamented ‘torana’-shaped figure forming a kind of pierced arch. The surrounding courtyard is enclosed by a double colonnade of smaller pillars, finely carved and ornamented ceilings. Behind it, there stands a range of cells and each of it contains the cross-legged seated Tirthankara. Before the entrance gate of the temple is the porch supported by decorated columns. Just over the ‘chhajas’ at both corners in the friezes of the porch are two figures of elephants. The carvings perforated in the architraves, ‘kangura’, parapet, specially the ‘shikhara’ or dome, and over the porch are elegant and graceful. The greatest attraction of the Jain temples in Jaisalmer Fort is the ‘toran’ (तोरण) that stands on a pair of decorated columns in front of the entrance porch of Parshvanath Jain Temple. The columns are ornamented with lotus, animals, ‘makaras’ and adorned with sculptures, which seem almost instinct with life and motion. There is a wonderful grace in these sculptures of different gods and ‘apsaras’ etc.