Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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D. R. PATIL --The Cultural Heritage of Madhya Bharat, Gwalior, (1952).
P. 9. Peoples and Languages -1,00,234 Jains. The Jains though a little more than one per cent have throughout history played proportionately a far more important role in the life of this territory especially in the fields of industries, trades and commerce.
Arts and Architectures :
P. 32. Sacred Architecture- 4th/6th centuries A.D. Udayagiri sacred to the Hindu and Jain faiths. The Gupta or earliest temple was an unassuming structure except for its finest sculptural material. It was a simple one room tenement for the residence of the deity. Such temples have not survived in Madhya Bharat exeept the "false cave” No. I at Udayagiri which gives the idea what the earliest temple was like.
Religious history as told by monuments :
P. 61. Jainism : 89 Jain shrines or temples, so far recorded to exist in Madhya Bharat, the earliest are the rock-cut caves Nos. 1 and 20, at Udayagiri in Bhilsa district. At this a Jain temple existed at Besnagar. In the medieval age of 8th to 12th centuries. Jainism gained considerable following. This is amply reflected in the numerous temple remains at Badoh, Gyaraspur, Bhilsa, Buddhi Chanderi, Narwar, Padhavli, Bithola, Rakhetra, Suhania, Dubkund. Gandhaval etc. Besides these, rock-cut images of Tirthankaras and divinities are also found at Chanderi, Barvani, and other places. Abundance evidence in litera. ture indicating popularity of Jainism in the hay day of the Paramar rule in Malwa. it continued to flourish in later centuries in northern Madhya Bharat as is evident from the numerous and colossal rock-cut images carved on the face of the hill-foot of Gwalior and from the colossal images at Barai, 14 miles away to the north, all of them of 15th century A.D.
Brief Directory of important places of Archaeological interest in Madhya Bharat :
P. 76. Gwalior-Gigantic Jain Sculptures, 24 Tïcthankaras-one of 57' high. 15th century, when Torman princes were ruling over Gwalior.
Pp. 85-86. Padhavli--Mitaoli-ruins of Jain temples ; to the west of the village on the western face of a hill and on its top ruins of Jain shrines with sculptures; other Jain shrines and images around the village.