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
P. 31. Coorg Province-the three Jain temples at Mullur were treated. P. 47. Rajgir-Jain shrines on Vaibhar Hill-contains several small stone Jain images of the Digambara sect (Plate XII-c)-one sculpture depicts a seated Tirthankara with attendants on one side, and a female figure with a Tirthankara on its top, seated on the back of a tiger, on the other.
Pp. 51-54. Excavations at Mahasthan-Govinda Bhita at Mahasthan in the Bogra Dist., Bengal-a Plaque represents a woman sleeping on a couch, her right hand extended and touching a bull descending from the skies (Plate XV-a)--the scene portraying the dream of Marudevi, the mother of the first Tirthankara, Rishabhadeva, who is said to have noticed a bull descending from the skies and entering her mouth.
Pp. 62-66, The Antiquity of Korkai-at Korkai was formed the first settlement of civilized men in Tinnevelly and it was there that the name of Tamraparṇi by which the river became known was first given to it; in the time of Alexander, the island was known as Taprobane; it was the capital of the Pandyas from about 600 n. c. The images of Buddha' that CALDWELL refers to (History of Tinevelly, 1881) as being seen here are really Jain figures.
Pp. 88, 89, 90. Sohagpur (Rewa state)-in the Kothi of the local Thakur was found a Jaina image with a short votive inscription which reads: Vapiya pultrasya Dhanadattasya Kritile, i. e. (this is) the work of Dhandatta, the son of Vapiyas. The numerous Jaina images found built into the walls of the Kothi show that there must have been once a splendid Jaina temple in the neighbourhood Lakhwaria, 2 miles from Arjhula, a village situated at a distance of 20 miles from Shadol and 7 miles. from the Burhar Railway station, here are rock-cut caves in front of the caves in the north is the ruins of a temple under a tree in the vicinity are placed a few Jaina images and bas-reliefs, originally belonging to this temple; in one cave is a small standing figure of a Tirthankara; below the hill are a few more broken Jaina images. The site seems to have been a fairly big Jaina establishment and the cells were probably used by Jaina monks as residence. Singpur, a village 8 miles to the south-east of Shadol. In one of the walls of Panch Math temple here the figure of a Jaina goddess with a badly damaged votive inscription in Nagari is found; there is a tank in the vicinity on the bank of which are placed four big images of Tirthankaras, partly immersed in water. At Mahoba on the Kathesvara hill situated on the southern side of the town near the temple of Chandika, there are several figure of Tirthankaras and other images carved on the rocks. On these rocks are five Jain votive inscriptions, three of which are dated. The earliest is dated Samvat 1235 and mentions Saiddhamta Gunabhadra. The other two bear one and the same date viz., Samvat 1240 Maghasudi 13 Šukré (Friday, 27th January,
A. D. 1184).