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. 49 (n). Aloka first set the fashion of erecting memorial pillars and from the Buddhists this practice spread to the Jains and Hindus. (Pillars of one kind or another were no doubt common in India from time immemorial P. 48.).
P. 76. Cells for images as in Jaina temples.
P. 155. Stapa cult among the Jainas.
P. 179. The workmanship of the Brahmanic, Buddhist and Jain divinities. originated from a common workshop.
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In some of the Buddha images of the Gupta period, the draperies are barely indicated or entirely obliterated, and to distinguish it from the naked Jain image we find the mark where the edge of the garment cuts the arms and legs above the wrists and ankles and folds on the pedestal.
Pp. 264, 266, 275, 277, 280-Kharavela, Häthigumpha inscription.
P. 280. The ablative inato is found in the Jaina inscriptions from Mathura.
497
K. R. SRINIVASAN. The Megalithic Burials and Urn-Fields of South India in the light of Tamil Literature and Tradition (Ancient India, No. 2. Delhi, 1946),
Pp. 9-10. Palndavakkuli-The burial of those who performed useless penance i. e., the Ajtvikas or Jains were buried in pots.
The natural caverns in the hills, with drip-ledges, beds and inscriptions, are the earliest monuments extent. These religious resorts were mostly associated with the Jaina ascetics.
Pp. 11-12. The earliest stratums of Tamil literature shows the influence of the growing religions of the North, and the date of this active penetration of Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jaina religions into the South may be placed in the last three centuries before Christ. We have Jaina caverns of this date in the Tamil country.
P. 14. The Takkaya-kapparani of the poet Ottakkuttar of the twelfth century. A. D. mentions pali-natural caverns where useless penance was per formed -meaning thereby the Jainas or Ajivikas.
P. 15. Naccinärkiniyär (c. Fourteenth century), in his commentary on the earliest extent Tamil work Tolkappiyam, attributes to the Ajivikas the practice of entering the tali for penance until death.