Arhat Parshva and Dharnendra Nexus

SR No.: 002108
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 204
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English, Articles, History, Art, E000, & E001
File Size: 8 MB

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Arbat Parsva and Dharanendra Nexus
West Dinajpur District (West Bengal), Mahästhängarh in the Bagura District (Bangladesh), and Tamluk in the Midnapore District (West Bengal).
14. Debala Mitra, "Some Jaina Antiquities from Bankura, West Bengal", Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. XXIX (1958), p. 133 f.
15. Ibid., p. 134.
16. Gaurisankar De, "The Jaina Background of 24 Parganas," Jain Journal, Vol. XVII (1983), p. 143. 17. Kalidas Dutt, "The Antiquities of Khari", Varendra Research Society Monograph, No. 3 (1929), p. 5 and fig. 3.
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18. Idem, "Antiquities of North-west Sundarbans", ibid., No. 4 (1930), p. 7 and fig.3.
19. D.K. Chakravarty, "A Survey of Jaina Antiquarian Remains in West Bengal", Jain Journal, Vol. XVIII (1984), p. 145.
20. Information regarding the last two sites in the Midnapore District was kindly supplied by Shri Gaurisankar De.
21. Find spot of this image is not mentioned in the Accession Register of the Indian Museum where it is now preserved. Its accession number is 72/6.
22. For an account of the sculptures found at Pakbirra, see Krishnajivan Bhattacharyya, Pratip Kumar
Mitra and Atul Chandra Bhowmick, "Jain Sculptures at Pakbirra", ibid., Vol. XX (1986), p. 127ff. 23. This piece of sculpture, collected from elsewhere, is now kept in the Haripada Sahitya Mandir Museum, Purulia.
24. This caumukha votive shrine is preserved in the Vangiya Sahitya Parishad Museum at Vishnupur. 25. Puran Chand Nahar (Jaina Inscriptions, Calcutta 1918, Pt. 1, p. 1) brings to our notice an epigraph
on the back of an image of Parsvanatha dated in Samvat 1100. The image is installed in a temple at Azimganj (Murshidabad District). Roma Chatterjee (Religion in Bengal, Calcutta 1985, p. 358) takes this epigraph as an evidence of the revival of Jainism in Bengal during the 12th century. Nahar, however, indicates that the image was brought from Chitor.
26. J.N. Banerjea, The Development of Hindu Iconography, New Delhi 1974, p. 554.