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Vizagapatam (1907).
P. 62. Jainism was never preponderant in this region; it counts there today 49 adepts only. One meets Jain antiquities only at Ramatirtham (p. 335).
Malabar and Anjengo (1908).
P. 446. The Jain temple of Palghat.
Jhelam District.-Lahore, 1907, (PDG, Vol. XXVII-A).
P. 46. Dr. STEM's identifications of Singhpura with the Kitas locality and the Jain temple with Mürti.
Pp. 114-117. Jain sects: Dhundipanthis.
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L. S. S. O'MALLEY. Bengal District Gazetteers-Puri.-Calcutta, 1908.
P. 7. Historically, most interesting hills are Khandagiri and Udayagiri near Bhubaneswar, honeycombed with caves cut by the Jains 2,000 years ago.
Digambars,
P. 24. During the Mauryan rule, Jains settled in the district; KhandagiriUdayagiri caves used by Jains & monks for centuries; Hathigumpha inscription; Kalinga became independent after the downfall of the Maurya; Kharavela, his career; Kaling made powerful by him; his pious deeds; he and his family were Jains.
P. 28. In medieval times, Jainism continued to retain its hold on the affections of the people, inscriptions and rockcut Jain images of that period testify
to this.
P. 56. Earliest Jain caves of Khandagiri-Udayagiri excavated between the third and first century B. C.
P. 85. Saraks-word derived from Sravaka (a hearer) i. e. a layman as distinguished from the yatis, the monks; Orissa Saräks have taken to weaving and are known as Saraki Tanti.
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Four main settlements in Orissa-in the Tigiria and Baramba States, in the Bankithana in Cuttack, and in Piplithäna in Puri; Puri Saraks have no connection with others. Saräks all vegetarians, they assemble once a year (on the Magh Saptami) at the cave temples of Khandagiri.
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