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ARCH., ARTS, & MUSEUM REPORTS
Upper India-The third one sitting cross-legged in meditation on a lotus resting on two lions-Description in details of other figures about this Tīrthankara-consecrated in Samvat 1216 ( A.D. 1159)-Good specimen of the Jain Art of the 12th century A.D. ..
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COOMARSWAMI, ANANDA K. Jaina Sculpture. Massachusetts, 1922. (Bull. Mus. of Fine arts, No. 120, Aug. 1922, p. 53).
Mahāvīra, the historical founder of Jainism and contemporary of Buddha, is represented in Jain art from the Kuşan period onwards as a deified saint to whom prayers may be addressed-The sculpture is probably from Bundelkhand, North Central India, and may be assigned to the ninth century.
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Gwalior Fort Album. Gwalior, 1922. (Published by the Archäological Department, Gwalior State).
P. 5. Most of the rock cut Jain sculptures on the Fort were made at the time of Dungarsingh Tomara, a Rajput.
Pp. 54-57. Jain rock sculptures (With two plates).
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GANGULY, MANOMOHAN. Handbook to the Sculptures in the Museum of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. Calcutta, 1922.
Pp. 47-49. Jain sculptures.
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JOUVEAU-DUBREIL, G. Pallava Painting. (IA, lii, 1923 pp. 45-47). :
Sittannavāsal, a Jain temple, carved out of the rock in the time of Mahendravarman I before his conversion by
