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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jain temple at Achalgarh dedicated to Pärśvanäth erected by Sasa and Suratan two Jain brothers of Malwa (A. D. 1513), repaired in A. D. 1715. Three images of Adinath and one of the Santinath placed.
P. 64.
Summary:
Durlabha (Chalukyan king of Anhilwara)
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Jain-1010-1022.
Bhimdeva II -do- Jain-1178-1241.
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SARASAVTI, S. K. and SARKAR, K. C.
Kurkihar, Gaya and Bodh, Gaya-Rajshahi, 1936.
vii. No artistic difference in the treatment of Budhist, Jain and Brahmanical images produced in one centre at a given period.
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CHANDA, Rama Prasad. Medieval sculptures in the British Museum, London, 1936. Basis of Jainism-transmigration of soul and final liberation from the revolving wheel of rebirths.
Pp. 5-6. Early Buddhist texts name six great rivals of Buddha, one of them is called Niganth Nataputta (Mahävira). Terms Buddha and Jina applicable to both. No Jain image assignable to an age earlier than beginning of Christian era yet discovered earliest known Jain images found in Mathura. Impulse for making the images of the Jinas came from West (Mathura) to East.
All seated Jain images are in full paryanka (cross-legged) posture. The postures described by Jainasena in Adipurana.
Pp. 9-10. The cult of the images of the Yogi in Norh-Western India a revival of an old cult. 3 seals of Mohanjodaro bear representation of nude tree deities like the images of the Jinas in the Kayotsaraga posture.
P. 12. Jain images at Mathura from the year 3 to 98 in the successive reigns of Kushan kings, from Kanishka to Vasudeva. In the Indian sculpture room of the British museum are five fragments of the images of Jinas without drapary from Mathura.
Pp. 41-43. Three inscribed Jain image sculptures of the early post-Gupta period-their description.
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