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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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R. C. MAJUMDAR-The History of Bengal. Vol. I, Hindu Period, Dacca, 1943.
P. 9. Description of the land Lādhas (Radha) in Western Bengal in the Achārānga Sūtra (1.8, 3) and one Upānga (I.A. 1891, p. 375) - Tāmalitti (Tamluk) and Kodivarisa (Bangarh).
P. 11. Ptolemy mentions Tamalites (i.e. Tamralipti).
P. 17. Hemachandra identifies Harikeli with Vanga.
P. 22. Tamralipti formed part of Vanga in the times of the Jaina Prajñ
āpanā.
P. 36. Early Jain tradition records that Mahāvīra travelled through Western Bengal, but was not warmly received.
P. 207. Some epigraphic records refer to Jain teachers of the Sena' family, settled in Karnataka. Perhaps the Senas of Bengal belonged to this Karnataka family of Jaina teachers.
P. 293. Earliest mention of Sumha (Subbhabhumi) in Āyāranga Sutta; no early Jaina record discovered in Bengal proper.
P. 294. Hiuen Tsang refers to Jaina ascetics (Watters, II, 184-91).
Pp. 409-11. Jainism in Bengal.
P. 410. A set of Jain traditions show that Jainism spread in North Bengal and in portions of lower Bengal already before the 2nd century B.C.
Erection of images of Pārsva and other Tirthankaras is spoken of in some Gupta inscriptions (C.I. I, III, 68, 259). Paharpur copper-plate of the year 159 (478-9 A.D.) testify to the existence of a Jaina Vihāra at Vața-Gohali. It was established in the 4th century A.D. at Paharpur.
P. 411. Nirgranthas formed a large sect in Northern, Southern and Eastern Bengal in the 7th century A.D. They disappeared in the subsequent period. Immigrants from Western India established Jainism in parts of North Bengal during the Mohammedan period.
P. 425. Decline of Jainism in Bengal during the 7th century A.D.
P. 426. No Jain king of Bengal is known.
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