Jain Bibliography

Author(s): Chhotelal Jain
Publisher: Bharti Jain Parisad

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 33-34. Jhalrapatan : Temple of śāntinātha. Abu: Dilwara temples. P. 46. Amvam: A Jain temple belonging to the Digambara sect. P. 51-63. Keshorai Patan : Images of Jina.
Bijolia : Jain temples-Temple with Niședhikā pillars setting forth the order of succession of the Jain pontiffs belonging to the Digambara sect-Unnata Sikhara Purāņa, a Jain poem, inscribed on a rock-An inscription recording repair of Pārsvanātha temple by Loliga, a Parvad Mahājana, in about 1160 A.D.--A seated image of a Jina in the double shrined temple of Mahākāla and Baijanātha-Seated image of Siva, looking like a Jina.
Jadoli: Saiva temple Baijnātha-kā-Mandir with siva in Jina fashion-Digambara chaumukha sculpture, called Părvati by the ignorant people in the temple Undo devrā. On the dedicatory blocks of many Saiva temples in Rajputana, Siva is figured like a Jina.
Mandalgarh: Temples of Rişabhadeva, Undeśvara-Mahädeva, Chāturbhuj and Jäleśvara-Mahadeva-Figures of Jinas in the temple of Jāleśvara.
Kareda: A large marble temple of Pārsvanatha with an image of the Tirthankara dated 1656 V.E.-Tradition about the erection of the temple with the pecuniary help of a man of the Vanjärī caste-Local tradition about Akbar's visit to the temple and erection of a masjid to make the building sacred both to Muhammadans and Jains-The masjid is probably to prevent the temple from being destroyed by the Muhammadans-The temple of Rişavdeva at Satruñjaya, has a miniature idgāh built upon it for the same purpose.
Nagda or Nagahrada : Mandar of Padmavati, a Jain temple. Inscriptions of V.E. 1356 and 1391 on the central shrine pertain to the Digambara sect, and prove that the temple was originally a Digambara one-The loose figure in the mandapa brought from elsewhere and kept there : or, in the time of Kumbhakarņa, the temple was appropriated by the devotees of the Kharatara gachchha-Figure of a Jina in the centre of the slab-Adbhudji's temple, a Jain edifice, containing a colossal image of śāntinātha, set up in V.E. 1494, during the reign of Kumbhakarņa, by a merchant named Saranga-Images of Kumthunătha and Abhinandan on the side of the walls-another Jain