Jain Journal 2001 04

SR No.: 520142
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 92
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXV, No. 4 April 2001 A Jain monastery was built beneath a hanging rock amidst sylvan surroundings here and adjacent to it a Jain temple with three rooms and a Bhagawan Mahavir statue in the Padmāsana posture.
A statue of Parsavanathar in the nirvana posture is seen beneath the idol of a dancing snake, besides the images of two lions carved at the pedestal of the Mahavira statue. To the right of the Mahavir statue, there is the image of Goddess Padmavathy.
Historical researcher Dr S Padmanabhan while speaking to The New Indian Express said the monastery once served as a palli (educational centre), where the tenets of Jainism were imparted to students. The temple has the images of the 24 Thirthankarars and, according to the inscriptions, King Vikramaditya Varagunan had visited the monastery in the ninth century.
During the World Heritage Day functions organised at Chithral in November by ASI and the Kanyakumari Historical and Cultural Research Centre, the temple was spruced up but to the chagrin of the visitors, the tower was left in a dilapidated condition.
Vellancodu panchayat president CS Raj said several representations had been sent to the AȘI in Trissur for maintaining the temple but to no avail. The relic has neither approach roads nor lights worth the name, he added.
Will the ASI wake up before it is too late ?
The New Indian Express 14.3.2000
ASI digs out Akbar's summer palace
An air-conditioned palace for Einperor Akbar to spend the summer months. That's what a team from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) found below the fort at Fatehpur Sikri while exploring its preMughal heritage.
ASI's superintending archaeologist Dharamvir Sharma, who's heading the excavation team, said: "I started exploring in August '98 after I realised that structures within and outside the fort have not been identified properly. And this is what we came upon."
The ASI team has dug up the steps leading down to a water tank set in the middle of the main palace complex. The structure above this water tank called 'Anup Talao'-familiar to all of us as the purported