Comparative Study of Jainism and Buddhism

Author(s): Shitalprasad
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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INTRODUCTION
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also visit and generally they pay respect to the Jain images.
(3) Sravasti or Saheth Maheth (Gonda U.P. in Balrampur State).
This is the birth place of Sambhava Nath the third Tirthankara of the Jains. Some Jain images were found here. They are kept in the Lucknow Museum. This is the chief religious place of the Buddhists also.
(4) Nâsik (Bombay P.) Pandulena Caves. Here are many Buddhist caves with images and stupas. There is also a Jain cave with Jain images.
(5) Ellora caves (near Aurangabad, Hyderabad, Nizam state). Here are many caves of the Buddhists and the Jains side by side with their own images.
(6) Taxila (Rawalpindi). Here are many Buddha stupas and images. Some sites are found out which appear to belong to the Jain temples. Vide Guide to Táxila by Sir John Marshall (1921). '*;
Page 7. At Jandial a little to the north of Kachcha Kota are two conspicuous mounds, on one of which is a spacious temple dedicated, there is good reason to believe, to fire worship, and a little beyond these again, are the remains of two smaller stupas which may have been either Jain or Buddhist probably the former.
P. 68. Sircap city-- Among these buildings is a spacious apsidal temple of Buddhist and several smaller shrines belong either to Jain or to Buddhist.
P. 74. In several houses, is a stupa shrine occupy. ing in each case a court which opens with the high