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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William CROOKE-Things Indian, London, 1906.
270. Colossal images are common both to Buddhists and Jains. The largest Jain figure at Gwalior is 57 ft. high, while that at Śravana Be!goļa in Mysore, the colossal statue of Gommatesvara, cut out of a single rock, is 60 ft.
Pp. 283-286. Vardhamāna of Mahāvīra, born in about 599 B.C., the founder of Jainism-Absolute nudity was one of his chief rules-Difference between Jainism and Buddhism-Jainism remarkable for the magnificence and profuse ornamentation of its shrines. Jain temples at Palitana, Girnar, Mt. Ābū, Pārasnātha and Khajūrāho-Two kinds of Jain temples bastis and bettus. Jainism not a separate religion, but rather a sect of Hinduism.
P. 397. Disturbances between Jains and orthodox Hindus in connection with Jain processions.
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C.V. VAIDYA--Epic India; or, India as described in the Mahābhārate and the Rāmāyaṇa. Bombay, 1907.
P. 347. Idol worship the outcome of Buddhism and Jainism.
P. 359. Jainism borrowed two planks from the orthodox religion of India, viz., fasting and abstention from slaughter.
P. 369. The only philosophical discourses in the Rāmāyana throws light on the state of orthodox feeling towards Jainism and Buddhism, about Ist cent. B.C.
P. 377. The Rāmāyana refutes the doctrines of Jainism and Buddhism not by argument but by down-right condemnation.
P. 447. Buddhism and Jainism followed by a resuscitation of the Karmakända and Vedic sacrifices.
P. 505. The ahimsa doctrine was a part and parcel of Hinduism long before it was taken up by the Jains and the Buddhists.
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C. W. WHISH-India. London, 1907.
P. 15. Rise of Buddhism and Jainism may be dated in about 500-450 B.C.