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P. 16. The earliest example of Saraswati yet found in India in a headless image from Mathura with an inscription of about the beginning of the Christian era-Fig. 2.
P. 25. The symbols, Svastika and Srivatsa in Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela suggest svastiśrı, a form which in actual writing marks the beginning of Chālukyan grants afra Aai etc. This is in addition of the brief salutation to the Jinas.
P. 26. Salutation to Jinas begins all Jain inscriptions which abound in the Canarese country and Northern Gujarat. .: P. 28. Early legendary ancestor mentioned in Khāravela's inscription.
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Raj Bali PANDEY.— Indian Palaeography. Banaras, 1952.
P. 4. Samavayāngasutra & Pannavanāsūtra refer to the tradition of the antiquity of writing in India.
Pp. 22-23. The names of 18 scripts according to the Jaina Sūtras.
P. 78. Silver plates inscribed with 'namokāra mantras' & risi-mandala-Yantra in Jaina temples.
Pp. 129-130. First specimen of a puri eulogy in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela fully given.
P. 149. The earliest invocation occurs in the Hathigumphā inscription of Kāravela- Namo arhantānam & namo Savasiddhanam.
P. 152. The Jain inscriptions, invoke one of the Tirthankaras, some Jain saints or the Jain creed.
P. 169. Eulogy & Benediction in the Khāravela inscription. P. 176. Dating and Eras–Viranirvāṇa samvat. P. 177. Mahāvir or Vira Nirvāņa Era. 527 B. C. P. 182. Regnal years of Khāravela.
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