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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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
tion flanks the mouth of the cave on one side and on the other are two rock-cut images of Tirthankaras one of which is that of Pārsva. In the inscription the image of Jina (Jinakritim) is qualified by the adjective spuhata-Vikato-tkatam which Dr. Fleet (Gupta Inscriptions, page 259) rendered by (richly endowed with the expanded. hoods of a snake) and an attendant female deity. Of course, the hoods of the snake are present in the rock sculpture referred to above, but the female attendant is not. This however can be very easily accounted for. Because the natural interpretation of the qualifying phrase quoted above is "mighty and fierce on account of the hoods of a snake". This description fits in very well with the rock-cut images in questionthat the inscription refers to this image rather than (as held by Dr. Fleet) to some other loose image which has disappeared now. The style of sculpture, the image is referable to the same period (5th century A. D) to which the inscription belongs. The word achikarat occuring in the inscription would refer to the 'making or chiselling' of an image (in rock) rather than to the installation of a loose image.
P. 26. Inscription copied :
No. 3 Badoh (Dt. Bhilsa)-on a door jamb of a cell in Jain temple. 4 lines, old Nagari, Sanskrit v. s. (11) 13, is a pilgrim's record it reads:
ॐ स्वस्ति द्वादस [क्क] मंडले प्राचार्य केवलि [वं दिजै ? ] भूपचंद्रस्व ।। स-१३ [६] में The date evidently omits the figures 11.
No. 4.-do-do- on another door jamb of a wall in Jain temple. 3 lines old Nagari, Sanskrit. v. s. 1134, is also a pilgrim's record. Text.
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P. 36. Photographs.
Serial No. 1-Badoh Dr. Bhilsa-Jain Temple before conservation, from south
Serial No. 2.
Serial No. 3.
Conservation from north-west.
S. No. 4.
Conservation, from North.
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P. 38:
S. No. 57 Gwalior Museum, Chaumukha, from Bhilsa.
S. No. 61
S. No. 62
S. No. 63
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North-west.
interior, before.
from Mohanpur.
another view.
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interior after.