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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. 5. Rivalry and jealousy between diverse Indian sects.
Šaiva P. 1. Indian sects-impalement of the Jains through the efforts of a saint, Tirujnanasambandha; an era current among the Saivas in South India, the initial year of which dated from this event.
P. 12. Early literary records of Jainism contains incidental references to the religious practices of the Hindus.
P. 18. Hindu Anthological works like Manasara containing texts on architec ture, iconography also deal with the construction of images belonging to the rival creed of Jainism.
P. 41. Three seals (from Indus Valley) bear representations of nude tree Gods standing erect with arms hanging on sides like the images of the Jinas in the Kayotsarga posture, evidence worship of images of human and superhuman beings in yoga postures (R.P. Chanda, Medieval Indian Sculptures in the British Museum, P. 9).
P. 68.
Religious texts of the heterodox sects like Buddhism and Jainism throw a flood of light on the religious practices of the other section.
Pp. 76-77. Niddesa furnishes a record of the various religious systems that prevailed at the period: "The deity of the lay followers of the Ajivakas is the Ajtvakas, of those of the Nighanthas is the Nighantas...
P. 89. Literature of the Buddhists and Jainas sectaries heterodox, throws much light on the form of worhsip prevalent in the period in which both iconic as well as aniconic symbols played a great part.
Jain Education International
Pp. 95-96. Shrines, erected by various sectaries including Jain, existed in the centuries just preceding the Christian era and succeeding it and had divine images. enshrined in them. A broken figure of a nude Jaina Tirthankara found at Lohanipur near Patna (Bihar)-it has been dated in the Mauryan period (J.B.O.R.S. Vol. XXIII, Pp. 13032 and plates).
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