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. 25. Portraits of Mahendravarman I were carved in his life time in the rock-cut caves of Trichinopoly and Mahabalipuram, and a portrait was painted at Sittdhavasal all of 7th century A.D.
P. 47. Plate, Devotee below Jina-Memorial temple.
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J. HACKIN. La Sculpture Indienne ET Tibetaine Au Musee Guimet. Paris, 1931.
P. 14. Planche XXXV. Munisuvrata, 20th Tirthankara.
Plate XXXV. Bronze, Inde, XVI siecle. Hauter; OM28.
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V. S. AGRAWALA-Pre-Kushana Art. of Mathura (I. U. P. H. S. Vol. VI, 1933).
P. 110. The Vedika or railing was the most important product of the early art and was cherished as the main object for display of the sculptor's decorative skill. Instances of Jaina railings have been unearthed at one of its most ancient sites, the Kankäli Tila (Mathura). The Jainas were settled in Mathura in the second century B.C.
An ancient Jain stupa existed in Mathura, which in A. D. 167 was considered to have been built by the Gods. i. e. was so ancient that its real origin had been completely forgotten (E.I. Vol. II, P. 198). There were two temples (Prasada) on the site of the Kankalt mound, one of these existed in the middle of the 2nd century B. C.
Pp. 111-112. For an example of the ancient Jaina stupa (Smith's Jaina stupa, Pl. 72 Fig. 1.) Dr. BHANDARKAR has described this as an example, of a square stupa (Excavations at Nagari, Arch. Memoir No. 4, P. 136). The structure is surmounted. by a Dharma-chakra. The stupa was a monument raised by the followers of Jainism and Buddhism for enshrining the relics of their saints. As example of the Jain DharmaChakra and stupa we have reference to the Wheel and the Relic Memorial in line 14 of the Hathigumpha cave inscription (E. I. Vol. XX, P. 80). Käya Nisidi-an equivalent of stupa. Nisadya (Nisidi, Nisidhi, etc.) was the common name for a stupa. Dr. BUHLER remarks "that the ancient art of the Jainas did not differ materially from that of the Buddhists (Ref. Ind. Vol. 11, P. 322)-Fig. 22. Jain Dharma-chakra from Kankali Tilä, now in Lucknow Museum.