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ARCH., ARTS, & MUSEUM REPORTS
79
136(1)
Annual Report of the Provincial Museum Committee, Lucknow, for the year ending 31st March, 1890.
Pp. 3-4. Excavations of the great Jain temples buried under the Kankāli Țīlā at Mathura-Discovery to the east of the large Svetāmbara temple, of a brick stūpa, and to the west, of another large temple belonging to the Digambara sect-Yielding of 80 images of Jain Tirthankaras --Reference to some inscriptions proving the correctness of the Jain tradition with respect to the early existence of six divisions of monks, noť traced before–These inscriptions settle the antiquity of the doctrine allowing women to become ascetics, as recorded in the Svetāmbara scriptures.
136 (II)
Report, do, for the year ending 31st March, 1891.
P. 4. The Jains of the Indo-Scythic period at Mathura used for their sculptures materials from an older temple-There was a Jain temple in Mathura before B. C. 150.
In Samvat 78 was set up a statue of Tirthankara Aranātha.
Reference to a donative inscription, dated Samvat 1080, proving that some ancient temples were used by the Jains during the greater part of the eleventh century.
136 (MI) Report, do, for the year ending 31st March, 1892.
P. 3. An erect Digambara statue of Jina Aranātha, found in one of the old disused stone quarries on the left of the road running beneath the Naubat-khănā, the first recorded instance of a Jain statue ever having been found at Fatehpur-Sikri and it is open to conjecture how an image belonging to this sect came there.
136 (IV) Report, do, for the year ending 31st March, 1895.
P. 3. A beautiful sculptured image of Mahāvīranātha, the 24th Tirthankara of the Jains, dated Samvat 1238 or A.D. 1180.
