Studies in Jaina Art

SR No.: 001610
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Umakant P Shah
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 218
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Art, & Culture
File Size: 9 MB

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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I am thankful to the Director-General of Archaeology in India for his kind permission to obtain photographs from various circles and museums in India, throughout my studies in Jaina Art and Iconography as also to the Superintendents of all the circles of the Department of Archaeology and the curators of the various museums in India and outside who have extended their co-operation. For the photographs reproduced here, I must gratefully acknowledge the Copyright and Courtesy of the Director-General of Archaeology in India, New Delhi for figures 1, 4, 7, 41, 51, 52 81, 82; the Epigraphist to the Government of India, for fig. 72; the Department of Archaeology, old Gwalior State for figures 24, 61, 62, 74; Curator, Madras Museum for fig. 77, Curator, Patna Museum for figures 2, 15, 17, Curator, Provincial Museum, Lucknow, for figures 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14A, 16, 88; the Curator, Indian Museum, Calcutta, for figures 18, 23, 36, 42, 44; the Curator, Mathura Museum, for figures 25, 26, 27, 67, and 14B; the Director, Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay for figures 3, 29; the Curator, British Museum, London for figure 35; the Superintendent of Archaeology, Eastern Circle, Calcutta for figures 37, 38; the Superintendent of Archaeology, Central Circle, Patna, for figures 28, 41; Shri Jagan Mehta, Ahmedabad for figures 30, 32, 55, 57, 58, 65, 66; Dr. A.N. Upadhye, Kolhapur for figure 63.
I am also thankful to Muni Śrī Punyavijayaji for his kind cooperation and guidance throughout my studies and for the facilities provided by him in taking photographs from different Jaina Bhaṇḍāras and for loan of Manuscripts to Dr. A.N. Upadhye of Kolhapur whom I could always refer to for elucidations of problems connected with Digambara Sect; to my friends and colleagues Śrī J.S. Pade-shastri, M.A, and Śrī Pandit M.R. Nambiyar, of the Oriental Institute for checking certain references etc., to Dr. Y.J. Tripathi for preparing part of the Index, and to the Manager, M.S. University Press, Baroda, for excellent printing.
I am especially grateful to Pandit Śrī Suhkalalji and Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malvania who took keen interest in these Studies and invited me to deliver the lectures.
UMAKANT P. SHAH