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vira plucking his hairs when turned an ascetic and Sakra the leader and king of the gods catching up the hairs in a cup a cup of diamond and bringing them to the ‘Milk ocean.'
Kalpasūtra--mentions Mahävira and his 23 predecessors plucking hairs in five handfuls :- Only the image of one Jina i.e. Rșabha is shown as wearing matted locks like the Brahman Jațila monks carved on Sunga monuments. Image of other 23 Jinas mostly show heads with bump covered by hair arranged in ringlets becoming the Mahapuruşa. Images of Jinas with shaven head-not unknown. Mention of the image of Jina Pārsva with smooth head from Mathura is referred to by Dr. CooMARSWAMY (The origin of the Buddha Image-fig. 43).
888 BANERJEE, J. N. Uşnişa -- Siraskuța in early Buddha images of India. (I.R.Q. Vol. VII, 1931).
P. 506. "In Mathura, however, both Buddha and Jina images are represented at first, with a spiral protuberance which is a lock of hair and not an Uşņiša ; later the whole head and hair are covered with sınall short curls, and this type after the second century becomes the almost universal rule, the only example of the smooth head dating from the Gupta period being the Mankuwar image 448-9 A.D."-Dr. CooMARSWAMY (The Origin of the Buddha Image) (M. F. A. Bulletin Vol. IX no. 4, p. 23).
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BAATTACHARYYA, B. C.-The Goddess of Learning in Jainism. (Malaviya Commemoration Volume. Benares, 1932. Pp. 291-303).
I'p. 291-2. Sixteen Vidyādevās and one Śruta-devi or Sarasvati in Jainism, conception of Vidyadrvis modelled after the rakṣinis.
Description of Saiasvati according to Svetāmbara books (e. g. Pratisthakalpa. p. 146). and Digambara texts (ie. Pratisthā Sarodhāra) --similarity of Sarasvati with the consort of a Dikpala, the consort of Bramhā.
Pp. 293-303. The sixteen Vidyadevis :- Rohini, Prajñāpti, Vajrassmkhalā, Vajrāmkuśā, Apraticakrā or Jambunadā, Puruşadattā, Kali, Mahākāli, Gauri, Gāndhāri, Mahājvālā or Jvālāmālini, Mānavi, Vairoti, Achyutā, Mānasi, and Mahāmānasi-the conception of each according to Svetambara and Digambara texts.
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M. H. KRISHNA.- The Art of the Gomata Colossus. (AIOC. VIIth or VIIIth sesa sion, 1933) P. 690.
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