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cardinal dirction and giving preaching. Manastambha is a freestanding column generally infront of the temple with the four facing Tirthankar.
4.4 Jainism in Odisha
The stature of Odisha as a place where there is significant spirituality is seen by the way in which it has had an association with the three-orthogenic religious traditions of India: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Speaking of Jainism in Odisha, it was thetwenty-third Tirthankar, Parsvanath, which gave impetus to the custom and made an important speech here in the eighth century BC. Buddhism saw an awakening with emperor Ashoka, but Jainism was worshiped in a similar way (Foot & Brown).
History has wide support of Jainism from the Kharavelas the Chedi administration in the first century BC, which developed indoor caves in Kumari Parvata, now known as Khandgiri and Udaygiri, on the edge of Bhubaneswar, so that the Jainist monks can live and reflect.
The significant inscriptions inside these caves reveal numerous certainties of history. They speak of the lords of the Chedi line, also called Mahameghavana who administer Kalinga around the 1st century BC. The predominant part of these caves began in the middle of Kharavelaa time, when Jainism was the religion of the Kalinga state. The inscriptions also make one specific to two other rulers of this line, Kudeparisi and Vadukha, as contributors. Equipping records that confirm the success of ambitious Kharavela vocation, the construction of cave temples and recovery of Kaling-Jin statue by the king Nandas of Magadha in (4th century BC) and its reinstallation on the Kharavela hills.
Indeed, even after the death of the sovereign Kharavela, Jainism continued to have an impact under its successors, the governments of the Ganges and Jainism Saladod excessively treated with surprising consideration, this witnessed by numerous archaeological finds have revealed the state (Foot & Brown).
The hollows at Khandagiri and Udayagiri, with their sculptures what's more, engravings are the earliest remains. Despite the fact that no early Jain Shrines or monuments, aside from the above, have been found, it is early Jain hallowed places or monuments, aside from the above, have been found, clearly the extensive quantities of
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| SR No. | 034443 |
| Book Title | Critical Analysis of Jain Architecture in Bihar Region and its Influence on Regional Architecture |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ravish Kumar |
| Publisher | Department of Architecture National Institute of Technology Patna |
| Publication Year | 2018 |
| Total Pages | 359 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 31 MB |