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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Besides these statistical information, one finds further in the different volumes the following accounts :
Vol. I (Vol. V, Oxford. 1908).
156
Pages.
7-12.
(6-7)
81
(93).
93-97.
(97,90.
106, 108).
104.(115, 119).
112
(133).
(146)
124.
(176).
141-142.
(189)
Jain Education International
206
(260)
Articles.
Mount Abu.
Ahar.
Ahmadabad.
Ahmadnagar.
Ajaigarh.
Ajmer.
Ajodhya (Ayodhya)
Akola Town.
Alwar.
Accounts,
The five Jaina temples of the Mount Abu, with particular description of the great temple of Varișabha, of the Vimalasah dedicated to Adinath and of the temple of Vastupala and Tejalipala in honour of Neminatha.
Some ancient temples. are still to be traced.
The city of Ahmadabad is a very impor tant Jaina centre. One counts there more than 120 temples. The majority of the merchants and bankers are Jains (Shravak)The Jaina art at Ahmadabad.
The banks belong in general to the Marwari Baniyas, of Jaina creed. (Jains 16,254).
Relics of ancient Jain temples.
Jains 26,939 (in 1891) and 19,922 (in 1901).
The realm of Kosala, the capital of which was Ayodhya, is famous as ancient Jaina country. One sees still today several temples, some of which erected in the 18th century, on the supposed places of birth of five Tirthakaras.
Before the Mussalman invasion, the princes of the district were Jains. 226 Jains. (in 1901).
Several temples. Jains 4,919.
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