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CHAPTER 2
JAINISM AND ITS RELEVANCE TO ARCHITECTURE
2.1 ORIGIN OF JAINISM
Adinath or Rishabh Dev is "considered as the harbinger of human progress. Since he presented the Karma-bhumi (the season of development); set up the social foundations of marriage, family, law, esteem, state, and so on. He demonstrated mankind the headway of land, unmistakable articulations and claims to distinction, analyzing, composing and number juggling; amassed towns and urban communities; and essentially, drove the various types of activities with a view to give another sort of social demand suggested for developing the welfare of human animals". The Jain most of the time express that the indigenous name of India, that is BhArat, comes after the name of Bharat the eldest son of Lord Rishabh Dev. He had surrendered his position of remarkable quality and had denied the world for plausibility; his other discernible young son was Bahubali, who is on the same path adored by the Jain, but not as a Tirthankar. From now on, the other twenty-three Tirthankars that ended with the Lord Sri Mahavir followed the Lord Sri Rishabh Dev.
A time-line spread of Jain religion in India from the 500 BC till present date is shown in figure 2.1. As per the census 2011 presently Maharashtra has highest population of Jains in India, followed by Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and other states. Bihar region (Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha) have only 1.02% of Jain Population. As it is evidence that, the Jain religion first started in Bihar and spread to other parts of India.
2.1.1 Jain Architecture
The dedication of Jain Architecture to standard art in India has been remarkable. The extensive Jain temples and the extraordinary framed purposes of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan are acclaimed worldwide. The Jain Architecture cannot be confirmed by its particular exceptional style, since it was only a branch of Hindu and Buddhist styles. In significant years, several Jain temples were built that flanked the Buddhist temples following the style of the Buddhist beating cut. In the beginning, these temples were regularly cleaned up by the shake faces and the use of squares in every
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