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(1) Inscription on a coping-stone. (2) Inscribed Digambara Jain image, the year 9 (Kushana era). (3) Inscribed Jain image, the vear 12, excavated from a Digambara Jain temple at Ramnagar. (1) Inscribed image of Sambhavanátha, the year 18. Jain images of the Scythian period cannot be identified unless the names are mentioned in their inscriptions. Distinctive symbols were assigned to the Jains at a much later period. (5) Inscribed Jain image, the year 58. (6) Inscription on a Jain image from Mathura, the year 71. (7) Inscribed Chaturmukha from Ramnagar, the vear 74. (8) Inscribed image from Mathura, the year 80. (9) Inscribed bas-relief from Mathura, the year 99, this is an image of Pārsvaná:ha with a sevca-tooded snake on the head.
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SASTRI, H. KRISHNA. Dariavulapadu Pillar Inscription of Srivijaya. (EI, X, 1909-10, p. 147-153).
Engraved on the thiree faces of one of the Jain pillars at Sanavulapadu, Cuddapah district. Records that general Srivijaya voluntarily resigned this world & took Samnyāsa in order to attain eternal bliss. In the second part of the inscription is an invocatory clause proclaiming glory to the prosperous doctrine of the Jina. King Sripatunga also called Atiśayadhavala and Amoghavarşa, identical with the Răstrakūța Amoghavarşa 1 (A.D 814 to 877-8)-Srivijaya mentioned in the Sravaņa-Belgoļa epitaph of Mallisena, was one of the Jain teachers of great learning, a successor to Hemaseria and a contemporary of an unspecified Ganga king.
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FLEET, J. F. The Hathi-Gumpha Inscription. (JRAS, 1910, pp. 824-828).
P. 825. The inscription is a Jain record, in somewhat imperfectly spelt Prākrit, beginning with the formula :-Namo Arahantānam namo sava-sidhāna. It contains a brief account of the career of Khåravela from his birth to the 13th year of his reign.
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