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P. 22 No. 13. Inscribed pillar in the Jain temple at Bargaon (Nalondo).
P. 22. An inscribed pillar in the Jain temple at Bargaon, ancient Nalanda (Aihar).
(I.A. Vol. XL, VII, 1918, P. 110).
Pp. 144-6. Majority of Tirthankaras were born or died in Magadha province. Jain image found at Mandoli near Godagari, on the Padma, Rajshahi district, Bengal-kept in the Museum of Varendra Research Society. A Jain image discovered in the village of Ujaini, near Mangalkot, Burdwan district-kept in the Museum of Bangiya Sahitya Parisat. Mr. Dikshit's discovery of several Jaina images in Bankura district, one in the village of Bahulura and another at Harmashra-all these four images are nude, which proves that the Digambara sect were preponderant in Bengal.
Many stone-built temples and thousands of mutilated Jain images in Ranchi, Singhbhum and Manbhum districts-- beginning from Barakar and Dhanbad and ending in Jungles of Rewa stated and Orissa Feudatory states—these places one populated by Jains-Buddhist images never found here and Brahmanical images very few. These images generally made of coarse-grained sand stone or schistose rocks-basalt and mica schist every rarely used.
Jaina zone of influence once extended from south bank of the Ganges and western bank of the Bhagirathi to northern frontier of Jungle country of Gondwanaall images nude---so of Digambara sect-such images still worshipped by Jaina inhabitants of Orissa, called Saraks (Śrāvaka).
Ruins of Jain temples, images, of Vardhamāna's father and mother, Santinātha, Pārsvanātha, Rishabhadeva in temples found in village Chhatra, near Purulia, Manbhum district--some images of Chhatra very big.
P. 150. Stone temples at Chhatra (Bankura) and Begunia (Burdwan) temples at Barakar show affinity with Jain temples--most temples of Chota Nagpur originally Jain.
P. 163. Oldest Jain footprints to be found in the Svetāmbara temple on Vaibhār hill at Rājgir (Bihar).
Plates : Plate LXXXVII (a) Pārsvanātha from Bahulara, Dt. Bankura.
(b) Pārsvanātha from Harmashra, Dt. Bakura. (c) Santinātha from Mangalkot, Dt. Burdwan,
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