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.: P. 110. The Jain Masjid of Ahmedabad-at the threshold of the central entrance of it, there is embedded in the floor a large slab of black marble--an inverted plinth of a Jain image imported from some Jain temple (Jas. BURGESS - The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmedabad, Pl. I, Pp. 30-35).
P. 113. From the time when Vimal Sha, the Jain minister of the Solanki Rāja Bhim Deva I, erected his separate temple on Abū in 1032 to the final conquest of Gujarat by the Muslims at the end of the thirteenth century, the wealthy Jain community exercised a powerful influence on the architecture of Western Indiathe Saracen architecture of Ahmedabad is essentially derived from the Jain forms which it replaced.
P. 114. Spoilation of Hindu cities and temples for materials--the spoilation which began under the Nazims of the Delhi Sultans during the fourteenth century continued apace. When Ahmad Shah established his new capital near the city of Asawal he found in the old Hindu towns of North Gujarat sufficient material for his purpose. In the Jain masjid, in the Sultan's private mosque in the Bhadra, and in several of the earlier masjids of the city (Ah nedabad) pillars and ceilings are to be found that have been transferred bodily from the Jain temples, and many a delicately sculptured work of art scornfully cast into walls and foundations, has been brought to light during the last fifty years.
P. 169. The city of Junagadh is dominated at its northern angle by the ancient fortification know as Uparkot (or Citadel)-the large mosque which stands on the crest of the Uparkot--the large number of free-standing columns in this mosque were obtained by the spoilation of same of the beautiful Jain temples of old which adorned the brow of the sacred Girnar.
P. 191. Pavagadh (Pavakgadh or the fire-hill) in Gujrāt-a hill fortressamong other antiquities on the ‘Mauliya' plateau, on the east are some small but finely carved Jain temples of considerable antiquity.
P. 243. During 1411-1514. A period of growth and evolution, the style of architecture assumed two distinct forms; the one a combination of Jain' and Sarcenic elements; the other almost wholly Jain' made up a constructive form 'invented specially for the arch-heating Hindus'--the minarets and arched windows being successfully combined with the flat Hindu aisles.
Stage in the evolution of Ahmedabad architecture 1411-1514.
P. 255. Durate BARBOSA's (a Portuguese who arrived in Gujarat about 1515) account of Gujarat-his account of the manners and custorns of the Jains-Jain doctrine of ahimsā-Jains do not eat anything subject to death--they slay nothing, they are not willing to see the slaughter of any animal. If the king or governor of the land
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