Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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Central Pagoda set on a bill-top in the leart of a beau. tiful city, where the Effulgence of Pure Intelligence pre. sides in its Eterval Splendour. This is the Holy Jina. Bani (Revelation) that proceeds from the Tirthamkara whose Worshipful Image is installed in the sanc. tuary to guide and inspire mankind in the Right Path. The Light of Intellectualism is here so powerful that only a few worshippers can approach the Sanctuary without blinking. But there are covered passages from different parts of the city which lead to an underground maze of courts over the walls of whicii are painted many beautiful figures of gods and men done in life-like perfection. Each tribe has its own court in the maze ; there are the Vedic Court, the Jewish Court, the Parsi Court, the Arabian court and many other Courts raised by different peoples some of whom have now entirely passed away. All these courts are built round the base of the Sanctuary where the Goddess Jina-báni presides over the IMAGE of TRUTH; and the paintings on their walls are so arranged that they exactly fit into niches carved out in the wall of the Sanctuary itself by the Sculptors and Artists of old. And so excellent is their workmanship and so cunning the skill of the Sculptor that you do not perceive them as images made by human hand, but as living gods and men and animals, engaged in the fun and frolic of the Immortals. Here you have Ganesha presiding over the entrance to the Hindu Court, where you may still see Indra embracing his guru's wife, marked with ugly spots that are