Book Title: Jain Journal 1977 07 Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication Publisher: Jain Bhawan PublicationPage 41
________________ JULY, 1977 35 The remains of Pakbirra as assigned by the Bengal listó date back to the 9th or 10th century A.D. From the nature of the ruins and number of images found out it may safely be assumed that some thousand years ago it was a very large centre of the Jainas. Villagers of the area speak ously about the ruins. According to their statement every corner of the area when dug produced images in numbers. It was an enormous ruins of images, cut stones and bricks. Day after day images have been shifted away, cut stones have been employed by the villagers in household works, bricks have been utilised for arranging benches of the attached school. Pakbirra where once twenty one temples stood with their lofty towers, being denuded of its past glory is now almost an open field, a quiet and forlorn island amidst murmuring villages. Photographs by Sri Shib Sundar Dan : Sketches by the Author * List of Monuments of Bongal, P.W.D., Govt. of Bengal, 1896. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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