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
and records that during the reign of Krishnarāja this image was set up by one Vardhamāna of the Veshtika family, the architect being Narāditya.
Pp. 154-55. In the Jain Basti at Lakkundi in the Dharwar district are placed a standing image of Brahma in the round (Plate XXXVLL-a) and a seated image of Padmāvati (Plate XXXVII-b). According to Hemachandra's Abhidhāna Chintamani 1, 42 Brahma is the name of a yakşa who acts as a guardian to the church of the tenth Tirthankara Sitala. The Brahmeśvara and Brahmayaksha figures illustrated by Burgess in his article on Digambara Jaina Iconography (Ind. Ant. Vol. XXXII, 1903. Pp. 459-64 and Pls, II and IV) depict the former with four heads and eight arms-six holding symbols and with the lotus-bud for a cognizance and the latter. Though the special attendant of Sitala the tenth Jina is also represented separately as mounted on horse back, with four heads, holding whip, sword and shield. But this sculpture has all the attributes of the Brahmanical God-many of the Brahminical deities are included in the Jaina pantheon may explain the presence of the above image in the Jaina temple. In the Jaina temple at Taundi near Nipani in the Belgaum district of the Bombay presidency the image of Brahma is being worshipped under the popular name of Bharamappa.
The image of Padmavati-Digambara Jaina Yakshiņi of the 23rd Jina Pārsvanätha--seated in Jilāsana is 3 ft. 8 in. high and 2 ft. 10 in broad, has 4 hands: the upper right holds the ankuša, the lower right is in the Vardda pose; the upper left holds a pāśa and the lower left a conical (citrus) fruit, her crown shows a dhyāni figure in front, the crown is shaded by a fine-hooded cobra. The cock is her vāhana. The following stotra copied from a manuscript in the Jaina Bhandar at Zira, Dist. Ferozpur speaks of her fierce character, profuse ornamentation and great importance.
Śrimad Ginānachakrasphuţa-mukuţatați divyamāņikyamala.
Jyotirjvālā karāla sphurita-mukurika dhrsta padāravinde, tvam vand" devi padme dharanidharayuté parsvamāmraksha padm.
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A. Ghosu. The Pottery of Ahichchhatra, District Bareilly, UP (Ancient India, No. 1, Delhi, 1946).
P. 37. Ahichchhatra, the capital of the kingdom of north Panchala. The ruins of Ahichchhatra are situated about half a mile to the north-east on the village of Ramonagar which is even now known to the Jainas as Ahichchhatra.