Jain_Satyaprakash 1952 04

Author(s): Jaindharm Satyaprakash Samiti - Ahmedabad
Publisher: Jaindharm Satyaprakash Samiti Ahmedabad

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વૈભારગિરિ અને શ્રેણિક મહારાજા
લેખક : શ્રીચુત માનલાલ દીપચ ચાકસી
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(1) The new town of Rajagriha is said to have been built by king Srenika otherwise called Bimbisara the father of Ajatsatru, the contemparary of Buddha.
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(2) On mount Baibhar there are five modern Jain temples, beside the ruins of an old Saiva temple,
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(3) The son Bhandar cave has one door and one window. This inscription, (in son Bhandar cave) which is not later than A. D. 200, and is perhaps earlier, records that a certain "Muni, named Vaira Deva, of powerful dignity, was able to obtain emancipation, having shut himself up for spiritual enjoyment in this auspicious cell" a retired abode of Arhantas, fitted for an ascetic for the attainment of liberation.
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(4) In the centre of the valley between the five hills and in the very midst of ten old city of Rajagriha, there is a ruined brick mound 19 feet 8 inches in height,......A deminutive Jain temple, called Maniar math, stands on the top of the mound.
The second is a naked standing figure, with a seven headed snake forming a canopy over the head.
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(5) Due north from Rajgir, and seven miles distant lies the the village of Baragaon, which is quite surrounded by ancient tanks and ruined mounds, and which possesses finer and more numerous speciments of sculptur than any other place.........
The ruins at Baragaon are so immense, that Dr. Buchanan was conveinced it must have been usual residence of the king; and he was informed by a Jain priest at Bihar that it was the residence of Raja Srenika and his ancestors......I can show beyond and all doubt that remains at Bargaon are the ruins of Nalanda.