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arrangements were made to procure the non-availabe text or get it copied. Well trained experts in the art of copying and preserving the Manuscripts, who could read and recite with proper commentary were maintained by the cloisters attached to the concerned sanctuaries.
8.1.5. Jainas have, throughout the course of the Rāstrakūta years, installed innumerable images and erected excellent shrines : 'They have verily enriched Indian Art and patronised Indian craftsmen and artisits to an extent which is so great and varied that we have not yet been able to do proper justice to this Jaina contribution by our study and research' (Shah, U.P. : 1975 : 50]. Jaina basadis, edifices, and monuments have added their distinct contributions to the development of temple architecture in southern India.
Inscriptions, which open with Jaina invocatory, reveal that the Rāştrakūța munificence flowed to the sacred Jinālayas and to Jaina holymen. This chapter is exclusively devoted to an overall survey and analysis of the Jaina edifices and monuments of this period, commissioned either directly by the Rāstrakūta monarchs or by their feudatories.
8.1.6. Most of the Jaina material from the earlier period of the (Gangas, the Kadambas, the Bādāmi Calukyas) Rāştrakūtas has been either devoured by time or raged to the grounds and reduced into debris or buried several layers beneath the ground. But epigraphical notices do occasionally refer to Jaina monuments which are largely lost. The severe calamity and destruction of these temples should not always be attributed to the atrocities of alien religion or culture. Jains also neglected and forgot to maintain and survive these holy places.
8.1.6.1. Cāla invasions caused extensive destruction of Jaina edifices and shook the Kuntaladēša. In a number of temples, after the disappearence/damage of the original images, the statue of some other Tirthankara/ a similar
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