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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Jaina art-Pudukkottai State has more than 50 Jain monuments important for the study of Jain iconography. Frescos in Jain cave temple named "Sittannaväsal Siddhanivasam" are the earliest Jain paintings known in South India.
The Jains formed an integrated part of the entire Tamil Society for not less than fifteen centuries.
Tamil Literature-If Jain authors' works on each and every subject both Jain and non-Jain are excluded from the Tamil literature there will be practically no Tamil literature as such. Some Tamil works mentioned.
1443
K. C. OJHA--The Yavana invader of the Gangetic basin, (Proc., IHC, XIXth Session), Patna, 1957.
P. 174. Dr. K. P. JAYASWAL read the name of inscription. But his reading has been found to be useless. The Hāthigumphā inscription refers to a Satakarni, ruler of southern India. Gautamiputra Satakarni claims in his Nasik cave inscription expulsion of the Graeco Bactrians along with the Sakas and Pahlawas. It is clear that the Graeco Bactrians were occupying some parts of inner India in the time of Khāravela and śātakarni kings, that is about the beginning of the Christian Era.
1444
C. StvaramMURTI -- Presidential Address. (Prof. IHC, XXth Session), Bombay, 1958.
P. 25. Kundavai, a sister of Rājarāja Chola, endowed a Jaina institution at Nagapattinam. A Vijayanagar monarch brought about place between Vaişnvas and Jains by requesting his own Rajaguru literally to shake hands in friendship with the Jaina preceptor.
1445
K. A. Nilakanta SASTRI-A Note on Virasaivism-Its History and Doctrine. (Pr. & Tr. A. I. O. C. 18th Sess, 1955, Annamalainagar, 1958).
P. 386. 1 he reign of Bijjala, the first and greatest of the Kalachuris who ruled in Kalyāni in the second half of the 12th century, was remarkable for a notable revival of Saivism (Virasaivism of Lingāyatism) in Karnataka. Knowledege of this movement comes mainly from literary sources of a Purānic character, much mix ed