Ambika on Jaina Art and Literature

SR No.: 002006
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 184
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Art, & Literature
File Size: 15 MB

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13. The Ayodhya excavation has yielded a terracotta figure of c. third
century B.C. which is taken to be the earliest Jaina terracotta figure so far excavated in India. Consult Lal, B.B. and Srivastava, S.K., 'Perhaps the Earliest Jaina Terracotta so far excavated in India', Madhu (Recent
Researches in Indian Archaeology and Art History), pp. 329-31. 14. Sircar, D.C., Select Inscriptions, Vol. I, Calcutta, 1965, pp. 213-21. 15. Consult Shah, U.P., Studies in Jaina Art, Varanasi, 1955, pp. 8-9;
Prasad, H.K., Jaina Bronzes in the Patna Museum', Mahāvira Jaina Vidyalaya Golden Jubilee Vol., Bombay, 1968, pp. 275-80. The image in the Patna Museum is procured from Chausa in Bhojpur district of
Bihar. 16. A colossal Tirthankara image from the Kankāli Tilā is dated in V.S.
1234 (A.D. 1177). 17. These narrative panels of the Kuşāņa period are on display in the State
Museum, Lucknow (Acc. Nos. J626, 1354). Consult, Buhler, G.,
Specimens of Jaina Sculptures from Mathurā', Epigraphia Indica,
Vol. II, pp. 314-18; Pauma-cariya, 3. 122-26. 18. Tiwari, Maruti Nandan Prasad, Jaina Pratima-vijñāna, Vārānasi, 1981,
pp. 49-52. 19. Consult, Tripathi, L.K., 'The Erotic Sculptures of Khajuraho and their
Probable Explanation', Bhārati, No. 3, 1959-60, pp. 82-104. 20. 3a 14cae taea sfasi TUCI
जिनागारे समस्तायाः प्रजायाः कौतुकाय सः ।।
Hari-vaṁśa-purana, 29.2. 21. Hari-vamśa-purāņa, 29. 1-10. 22. However, Ganesa, Nava-grahas, kşetrapāla, Brahma-śānti and
Kaparadin Yakşas, 64 Yoginis, Santi-devi and the parents of the Jinas
were included after c. eighth century A.D. 23. For details consult, Tiwari, Maruti Nandan Prasad, op.cit., pp. 29-44:
The story of the transfer of embryo of Mahavira, the image of Jivantasvāmin Mahavira and reference to Mallinātha as female
Tirthankara are not mentioned in the Digambara works. 24. Samavāyānga-sūtra, 157; Kalpasūtra, 2,184-203; Paumacariya 1.1-7. 25. The aşta-mahā-prātihāryas-eight chief accompanying attendantsare
the Aśoka tree, the deva-dundubhi, sura-puspavrsti (scattering of flowers by gods), the tri-cchatra (triple umbrella), the câmara (fly-whisk), the siṁhāsana (lion-throne), the divyadhvani (divine music) and the bha-mandala (halo)-See, Pauma-cariya, 2.35-36;
Harivarśa-purána, 3.31-38; Pratisthā sāroddhāra, 1.76-77. 26. Chanda, R.P., 'Jaina Remains at Räjgir Archaeological Survey of India,
Annual Report, 1925-26, pp. 125-26; Tiwari, Maruti Nandan Prasad, 'An Unpublished Jina Image in the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi', Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1-2, March-Sept.
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