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
Seated image of Parsvanatha (261"x15") (Plate LVI) installed in modera Jaina temple on Udayagiri hill with an inscription-9th century A. D. headed Nāga the congnizance of Parsva. Coiling round the Jina seated on the lotus throne conveys a splendid decorative effect. Image of Vardhamana. (Plate LVII) in the modern Jain temple at Rajgir and of Rishbha (Plate LVII-b) in the Svetambara temple of later mediaeval sculpture.
Image of Munisuvrta (Plate LVII Fig. c) in the Svetambara temple.
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Image of Rishabha in the Sonagiri temple (Plate LVII fig. d). Inscription in Nagari of the former is mutiliated and that of the latter dated v. s. 1504. 15th century Jain images of Rajgir and other Jain centres lifeless, soulless and crude.
Kanarese inscription in Cave No. 4, Badami (one next to Vaishnava cave) records the death of a Jaina lady Akkiyakka, wife of Jinavarama and mother of Kala deva. Probable date 12th century A. D.
P. 167. Discovery of a bronz. Jains image in the village of Chahardi Taluka Chopda, East Khandesh in 1924-25. Image belongs to Neminatha-standing in the centre with miniature figures of the other twenty-three Jinas arranged in horizontal rows above and on either side of the centre figure, attended by Yakshi or Sasanadevi, Ambikä or Kushmandini and by a male figure corresponding to the Yakshi on the opposite or proper right side represents 'Gomedha".
Pp. 176-182. Chap. The Svetambara and the Digambara images of the Jinas. The rise of Digambara sect narrated in Avassakanijjutti by Bhadrababu, Pravachana pariksha or Kupakshakausikasahasrakirana by Dharmasagara, in the commentary on Kalpasutra by Samayasundaropadhyaya. Agreement of these authorities in holding Botika or Digambara order of Jains to have been started in 609 years after the Nirvana of Mahavira, i.e. in 82 A. D. by Šivabhuti at Rathavirapura. Devasena a Digambara in his Dariana-ara (A. D. 933) states the Svetämbaras order to have been started by Jinachandra at Valabhi in Saurashtra (Kathiawar) 136 years after the death of king Vikrama i.e. 79 A. D.
Codification of Jaina canons in the council of Pataliputra of the Jains to 12 Angas in the year 170 after the death of Mahavira.