Jain Journal 1978 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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brought it from Murshidabad-a Jain settlement in Bengal for a fairly long time. As he had no son, he made a gift of his house in which the deity had been kept to the Jain community in Calcutta. Jains called the place Charder. asar, where the image of a Tirtha. nkara is kept for worship in a re sidential building.
In historic Calcutta, the signi. ficance of the .cooperative ap. proach to problems had even then been realized and the word "Pan. chayati" was appended to the name of the temple when it was founded A board of Trustees eleeted by Swetambor Jains manages the temple and its properties which have gradually increased through donations, subscriptions and endowments.
At the altars in the Jain Swetamber Panchayati Mandir is a galaxy of images of Tirthankaras. They are mostly decorated with silver angis (ornaments).
Calcutta has about eight import. ant Jain temples of the Swetam. ber and Digamber sects; three are in Gouribari and one In Belgatchia. A Tirthankara of the Jain. religion is one who. alter attainment of perfection iluminates the world and its inhabitants through his life and teachings.
To the Dadaji temple garden at Gouribari, the image of Sri Dhar. manath, the 15th Tirthankara is cartied from the Cotton Street Mandir for its annual short stay during the Kartick Purnima in October November. The Swetambers carry the image in a silver throne on their shoulders.
Among the images in the Cotton Street temple is one (of Sri Adi path) which it is claimed. 15 1,000 years old and another (also of Sri Adinath) 5110 years old.
Seth Aumolakchand Parruck. R business man of Bikaner. came in 1855 to Caleutta, where he settled. Ho commanded respect among members of the city's merchants and took the initiative in vesting the management of the temple in the hands of representatives of the Jain community. From then the members of the Parruck family have taken an interest in the tem. ple and its management.
The Jain Swetamber Panchayati Mandir In Cotton Street, Calcutta, whose 150th anniversary will be oelebrated on Sunday.
-Statesman.
JAIN TEMPLE NOW bloanda" les management
150 YEARS OLD
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By a Staff Reporter TYUCKED away in Burrabazar's busy Tulaputty stands
Calcutta's first Jain Swetamber Tirthankara temple, whose 150th anniversary will be observed on February 7. Celebrations in connexion with the event are already in progress. The The Jain Swetamber temple at Makrana (Rajasthan) stone 139. Cotton Street. was a two
storeyed building in the second de. facade of the building cade of the last century, Dhiraj
seurice Singbjee Johury, who Adinath the dun surroundings.
1810 the image of Sri Adinath. the first of the 24 Tirthankaras, in it.
Facsimile of the special stanıp to be issued by the Posts & Telegraphs Department on November 13 in honour of the Saint Mahavira during the 25th centenary year of his Nirvana. The temple at Pavapuri in Bihar, where Mahavira attained Nirvana, has been adopted
as a motif.