Jaina Bibliography Part 1

SR No.: 016035
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 1070
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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AINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. 284. The principal cult images of Jainism were free from ornaments; but the ornaments were depicted on the images of the subordinate deities like the Sāsana-devatās.
P. 295. Mythology necessited representation of nude body e.g. the figure of a Jina or a Tirthankara of the Digainbara Jain i creed or of a Bhikşasanamürli of Siva.
P. 314. The words mana, unmāna and pamana occur in the Jain Kalpasutra in its description of Mahāvira's body, (S.B.E. XXII, p. 221).
P. 335. The newer cult-deities, the primitive folk Gods and Goddesses of inferior or secondary deities described in early Jaina texts as Vyantara Devatās.
P. 336. The Jaina camonical literature enumerates the Vyantara Devatas as : Pišācas, Bhūtas, rakşas, Rākașas as, kinnaras, Kimpuruşas, Mahoragas (Nāgas) and Gandharvas.
P. 338. Patanjali's evidence regarding the existence of Yaksa images and shrines corroborated by early Jain texts. (COOMARASWAMY in this 'Yakşas' Part I, Pp. 17 ff.).
P. 350. Plate XX, fig. 4 figure of Nāgini, she may illustrate the Jaina version of the snake goddess, her Brahmanical counterpart being Manasä.
P. 357. The Jains seem to have held Gaņapati in some respect.
P. 372. Reference to the Goddess Śri-Lakşmi in the auspicious dream of Trišalā, the mother of Mahavira (Barua and Sinha, Barhut inscriptions, p. 74).
P. 377. Like Sri-Lakşmi, Sarasvati, the Goddess of learning and music, also was held in high veneration by the Jains who made her the head of the Śruta-devatās and the Vidyadevis.
Pp. 378-79. One of the earliest figures of Sarasvati with a manuscript as her emblem was unearthed from the Kankāli Tilā, Mathura; fully described; Kushăn period,---of either 132 or 122 A.D.
P. 391. Avatāras : The Bhagavatapurūņa enumerates the Avatāras thrice : in the first recounting, the number is 22, in the second 23, and in the third 16, but none of them omits Rşabha (Ādinātha or Rşabhanātha, the first Tirthankara of the Jainas) and Buddha.