Parshvanath Vidyapith Swarna Jayanti Granth

SR No.: 012051
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Parshwanath Shodhpith Varanasi
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 402
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Smruti_Granth & Articles
File Size: 23 MB

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dies in Jaina Art and in the recently published Jaina Rūpamaṇḍana but much more work remains to be done in this field.
The publication of three volumes of Jaina Art and Architecture, edited by Dr. Amalananda Ghosh has been of great importance as the work done upto c. 1970 in the field of studies in Jaina Art an Architecture has been ably summarised by various scholars in these three volumes. I refrain from giving here a historical account of modern studies in Jaina Art and Architecture. But I must point out here that much more remains to be done in the study of Jaina monuments all over India. There is still scope of further studies of the Jaina finds from Mathura.
After the earlier initial study of some Jaina monuments by scholars like Fergusson, Burgess, Cousens, Coomaraswamy, Percy Brown, D. R. Bhandarkar, M. H. Krishna and others, Shri M. A. Dhaky has now initiated several deeper studies of architecture of Jaina temples. I understand that his work on Satruñjaya will soon go to press. He has already published valuable studies of different Jaina temples from Western India and I believe his monumental work on this subject is nearing completion. Much of his work on architecture of Jaina temples from all over India will be included in the different volumes of Dictionary of Indian Architecture being prepared and published by the American Institute for Indian Studies, Centre for Art and Architecture, Varanasi. Krishna Dev has contributed a few good articles on architecture of a few Jaina temples but we still await his detailed study of Jaina temples at Khajuraho. We must note here Klaus Bruhn's monumental work on the Jaina images of Deogarh. At least one more volume on Deogarh from the pen of Dr. Bruhn awaits publication. We hope Shri M. A. Dhaky and Dr. Michel Meister will publish deeper studies on the architecture of the Jaina shrines at Deogarh, Khajuraho and other sites in the Madhya Pradesh. S. Settar has published a small good monograph on Sravana Belgola but his bigger thesis on Śravana Belgola is still unpublished.
Except Muni Jayantavijayaji's book on Holy Abu wherein he mainly identified the sculptures in the various shrines at Delvada, Mt. Abu, nobody has published a good detailed study of the architecture and sculpture of the Delvada shrines on Mt. Abu. Harihar Singh has publi shed a book on Jaina shrines of Western India wherein the shrines at
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