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JAINA-BIBLIOGRAPHY
architecture of immensely rich congragations--marble, precious materials, careful and intricate work with a sense of proportion, but lacking the lyrical spirit which animates stone. Khajurāho has a group of Jaina (950-1050 A. D.) temples. .
P. 189. Jain Bronzes.
South Indian Jaina bronzes, some of them of the 10th century A. D. of East and West Bengal 11th century A. D.; Gwalior (9th-llth century A. D.).
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Odette MONOD-BRUHL. Indian temple, 1952; preface by Sylvain LEVI.
Pp. vi-vii. Mahāvīra founded an ascetic brotherhood; his fundamental doctrine of the absolute sanctity of life and Ahimsā, the famous "non-violence" upon which Gandhi trying to build a new India. He taught a peculiar method of discussion, and a casmology in which mathematics has a large place. Rejected the idea of a supreme God. The Jaina cult still pursues its dim destiny, it spread all over India, but its ancient centres of activity are still maintained in Gujrat, Bengal and the Deccan. Its adherants came chiefly from the merchant class who never ceased to erect, with unrivalled generiosity, admirable monuments of their faith. Mathura revealed the splendour of their temples at the beginning of the Christian era and Girnar, Palitana, and Mount Abü are some of the glories of the religious architecture of India. It is an architecture of immensely rich congregation : precious materials, delicate, and careful work with a fine sense of proportion, but lacking the lyrical impulse which animates and transforms stone; plates and notes. P. 5.
Nos. 47-Mount Abü-Jain Temple.
-48-Ahmedabad--Temple of Hathisingh.
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Department of Archaeology---Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy for the year ending 31st March, 1939, Calcutta, 1952.
P. 2. Para. 4. The so-called Jaina temples near the Pampapati temple at Hampi were examined in close detail, and found that they are Brahmanic temples of the Trikuțā style meant for enshrining Śiva, Vishậu ctc.
P. 3. Para. 4. In the Jamkhandi State, between Asangi and Kulhalli is a hill called Gombigudda, there is a much weathered rock-cut cave near the Sambhulinga temple at Kundgol excavated about 25 feet below the ground level.
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