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Jaina community in Bengal in the fields of building temples, modelling images of the Tīrthankaras and “Pārsva-devatās” and decorating the temples with friezes and the Pārsvadevatās and other minor divinitics with rich and colourful ornaments. These vigorous temple-building and image-making activities of the Jainas continued unabated for centuries till the advent of the iconoclast Khalji hordes in Bengal at the fag end of the 12th century A.D.
Most of the archaeological relics and fragmentary images of the Tīrthankaras and their attendant gods and goddesses which have been so far discovered in the Districts of (Rajshahi, Bogra, Dinajpur in Bangladesh) and in undivided 24 Parganas including Sundarvans, Hoogly, Burdwan, Midnapur, Bankura, Purulia, North and South Dinajpur in West-Bangal are assignable to the latter half of the 9th & 10th A.D. according to expert opinion.
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