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dedication. He used to stay at Gurgaon for more than four months in a year. Here one can learn and see the art related material from any Corner of India in the form of documentary, photographs, CD and written material, etc. Photographs of sculptures from any museum within India are availabale too.
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His important work is the four volumes of 'Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture' which he edited.
In the introduction of his valuable edited work 'Arhat Parsva and Dharanendra Nexus he first thanked Dr. Herman Jacobi for his findings of distinctness of Nirgrantha religion together with historicity of Arhat Parsva who was regarded in the tradition as the 23rd Jina in succession. According to Dr. Dhaky the original Agama and Agamic works belonging to the sect of Arhat Parsva and also 14 Purva texts which could have thrown considerable light on other Jina's biography but many of them are lost. He concluded -
"We are today dependent on what scanty references to him are scattered through the agamas of the alpachela-Nigantha sect, in essence and in a small measure preserving also the books of the more ancient achel-Nirgrantha of Arhat Vardhaman, and now surviving within the fold of sacred scriptures of the sachela or Svetambara sect, these have been mentioned in the foregoing passages along with some relevant agamic commentarial works, the latter doubtless were the products legitimately of the Svetambara sect. According to all these sources Parsvanatha was born in Iksavaku/Ugra dynasty in Varanasi; his parents were king Asvasena and queen Varna ...
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In the same introductory chapter he mentioned the dialogue between Kesi and Gautama sramanas from Uttaraddhyayanasutra-23. The main point of discussion in the dialogue was a clear pointer to the fact that, in Parsvanath's tradition ascetics were allowed to wear garments. Dr. Dhaky also supported above from Vyakhyaprajnapti. Some of Parsvanath's beliefs and doctrines are recorded in Isibhasiyaim - an early work of his sect that he
