Jain Thought and Culture

SR No.: 011055
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G C Pandey
Publisher: University of Rajasthan
Total Pages: 195
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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Jainism in Early Archaeology
of venerable (Jasuka) (who was the pupil) of the great preacher and garun Devamitra of the Koliya gana, the Brahmadasıya kula, the Voce (nagori) Shakha, the Srigrha sambhoga-at his (1 e Sıha's) request (this image was dedicated) for welfare and happiness of all beings
as the gift of Mittra, the first wife of Haggudeva 1:41 A11 images and other architectural pieces bearing such inscriptions dated to the pre and post-Kusana period are well known and have been published by scholarslike Smith,42 Luders, 43 Agrawala,44 Lohuizen,45 Banerjea, 46 Buhler,47 Dowson,48 etc
The Jain antiquities belonging to the Gupta period indicate the popularity of Jainism in different parts of India In the Mathura school of sculpture itself a number of Jain images in seated (dhyanasana) and standing (Khadgasana) poses have been dated to the Gupta period 49 Iconographically, among all these images from Mathura, only a few can be identified as of Adinatha, Neminatha and Parsvanatha Stylistically, as Agrawala50 observed, some of them represent the transitional stage between Gupta and middle ages
Along with the Mathura images of the Gupta period mention may be made of recently discovered stone images from Durjanpur 51 (Madhya Pradesh) and Rajgir52 (Bihar) The Durjanpur sculptures 41 Lohuizen, The Scythian Period, p 247 42 V A Smith, The Jain Stupa and other Antiquities at Mathura, ASI, (New Imp Series), Vol XX, Allahabadi, 1901 43 H Luders, A List of Brahmi inscriptions from the earliest times to AD 400, with the exception of those of Asoka, El, Vol X 44 VS Agrawala, Hand Book of Sculptures in the Curzon Museum of Archaeology, Mathura, Allahabad, 1939 45 JE Van Lohuizen De Leeuw, The Scythian Period, EJ Brill Leiden, 1949 46 RD Banerji, 'Mathura Inscriptions in the Indian Museum', JASB, New Series, Vol V, 1909, pp 237-244 47 A Buhler, 'New Jain Inscriptions from Mathura', El Vol I, 1897, pp 371 397, 'Further Jain Inscriptions from Mathura', El Vol II, 1894, pp 195-212 48 J Dowson. 'Ancient Inscriptions from Mathura', IRAS, New Series, Vol V, 1871, pp 182-196 49 VS Agrawala, IUPHS, Vol XXIII, 1950, pp 52 ff According to NP Joshi, Archaeological Museum of Mathura preserved 38 and Lucknow Museum preserved only 21 images of the Gupta Period (Jain Art and Achitecture, yol sp 107) 50 op cit, pp 55 56 51 GS Gai, 'Three inscriptions of Ramagupta’, JOIB, Vol XVIII, 1969, pp 247-51, EI, Vol XXXVIII, 1970, pp 46-49 62 Cf MH Kuraishi and A. Ghosh, Rajgir, Delhi, 1956 5, p 24, See also RP Chanda, ASIAR, 1925-26, Calcutta, 1928, pp 125-126