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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nos.
Origin.
Date.
Language.
Object.
190.
Honwād
Śaka 976
Sk. and V. C.
Construction and endowment of temples in honour of Pārsvanātha and of Sāntinātha at Ponnavāļa (Honwad), under the reign of Cālukya Someśvara I.Aryasena, Brahmasena and Mahāsena have been cited as Digambara masters of the Pogari gaccha, Syena gaña.
680
G. BÜHLER, New Excavations in Mathura. (Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Vol. V, Pp. 59-63). Wien, 1891.
Study of some inscriptions of Mathura.
1. Inscription of Saka 78 (156 A. D. ) recalling the gift of a statue of the Arhat Nandiavarta which was erected at Mathura, to the stupa "Built by the Gods" Sithupe devanirmite", by order of Vriddhahastin, of the Koliya (Kottiya) gana, Vairā (Vajra) sākhā.
The Arhat Nandiavarta must be the Tirthankara Aranātha, thus designated by its particular symbol, the diagram "nandyavarta". This inscription is important because it bears witness to the cult of the stūpas to the Jains from a period so remote that already, at Mathura, it was lost into the legend,
II. Another inscription mentions a king of the name of Hukşa (perhaps Huviska or Huviksa).
III. In a third inscription, probably of 430 A.D., the name of the monk Datilācārya, and that of the Vidyadhāri šākhā of the kottiya gana have been raised again.
Remarks on some other epigraphical fragments.
681
G. BÜHLER. Dr. Fuhrer's Excavations at Mathura. Wiener Zeitschritf fur die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. V, Pp. 176—180). Wien, 1891.
Study of several Jaina inscriptions discovered at Mathura in January and February, 1891,
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