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SRINIVASACHARI, C. S. Progress of Archaeological Research in Mysore (I. H. Q. Vol. II, 1926).
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P. 190. Mention of Jain monk Laksmisägaragani of Tapagaccha of the Prajñāta line referred to in Somacaritragani's Guru-gana-ratna-kara.
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IYER, A. V. T. Indian Artchitecture Vols. I & II-Madras, 1926.
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Pp. 21-22. Plate XIV-Interior of a Jain temple on Mount Abu. The structural style of the Jains was more after the Dravidian Aryans. Classified by FERGUSSION as the Western Hindu style of about the sixth century, a result of long experience and continuous artistic development. Temple of Adinath on Mount Abu-built by Vimala in 11th century. Carvings of the Dravidian style. The existence of the Sikhara over the Garbhagriha.
P. 24. The structure with high basement, pillared Varendaha with horizontal beams look quite Dravidian and Jainic in the Jain temple of Ranpur in Godwar dist. in Jodhpur.
P. 347. History dawns with Vardhamana Mahabir as the last "Tirthankara' of the Jains.
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P. 348. Jains with non-Brahmanical allegiance. Jains followed more nearly the doctrine of Śankya Philosophy. Their influence over the whole of India. Mahavira a moderate religionist. "Jainism less diametrically opposed to the victorious creed of Brhamans". RHYS. Jain religion "a faith older than, and was an elder sister of Buddhism similar to it in ethics but different from it in its psychology". Virchand GANDHI,
P. 349. The Jain literature contains an admixture of faith taught in both the Brahmanical and Buddhist cults.
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