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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 42. King Bimbisāra was a Jain. Bimbisara inspired by Mahavira, regulated social conditions and guilds.
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P. 74. Twenty Tirthankaras attained salvation on Mount Sametsikhara, now called Parsvanatha Hill.
P. 80. King Prasenjit of Kosala became a Jain.
P. 94. According to Jain books Pärśvanätha was the son of king Asvasena of
Käsi.
P. 121. King Chetaka of Vaisali promised not to marry his daughter with a non-Jaina.
P. 159. According to the tenets of Jainism, a monk should stay in the same. place from the 14th day of Ashadh to the 14th day of Kartika, i.e. four months.
Pp. 166-7. Karkandu, the founder of the Chedi dynasty, the son of Padmavati, a Jain nun, was a devout Jain-his setting up of a gold idol of Pärsvanatha in his capital Kanchanpur-the first example in Jainism of setting up an idol--Vijayanandasūri states that at Bhadresvar in Cutch an idol was set up in Pārsvanatha Era 23.
P. 191. Poet Samaya-sunder who lived during Akbar's reign gives in a poem list of Jain centres of pilgrimage.
P. 215. King Udayin of Avanti, a Jain, built a Jain temple and placed idols in it.
P. 265. In Jain books (Antagaddasäng Part VII, Ch. 13) it is stated that thirteen queens of Bimbisära became Jain nuns.
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P. 3. The lay element in Jaina community formed an integral part of the community and received due recognition, unlike in Buddhism.
Pp. 46-51. The sign of Pärśvanatha is the serpent, that of Mehāvira the lion. Swastika-its meaning-"Tree without railing" signs-kept in a banner on wooden. horse-back in religious processions of Jains.
The wheel-one of the eight Pratihäryas-proceeds a Tirthankar wherever he goes. The "Moon"-the place of salvation (siddha bila) according to Jainism. Rshabhadev was born in Kosala. Kulind (Hastinapur?) the birth place of Santinath, the sixteenth Tirthankar.
P. 165. Chandragupta Maurya was a Jain-some Jain books claim Chaṇakya was Jain-the Parisistha Parva of Hemachandra describes Chanakya's birth.
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