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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 165. 20 Tirthankaras attained Nirvāṇa on the Samet-Sikhara Pärsvanātha Hill. The name Burdawan in W. Bengal which was included in Uttara Rādha division was derived from Vardhamāna Mahävira, its ancient name being Vardhamāna-bhuktin Rādha.
Pundravardhana, now ruins of Mahasthanagarh, in the Bogra district. Kotivarsha, name of a Vishaya in Gupta Times; now a part of Faridapur District, (E. Pakistan). Taralipta a famous port of Sumha country.
Pundranagara was the fort of Jainism in the centuries before the birth of Christ-evident from the story of Sumagadha, daughter of Anathapindika, found in the Sumagadhāvadāna in the Bodhi-Sattāvadāna-Kalpalata and the tradition recorded in the Divyāvadāna, that Asoke put to death Nigantha ascetics (Cowell Div. P. 427). Hieun Tsang mentions their existence at Pundranagar (Vol. II, P. 184).
P. 166. Pahārpur Copper plate of 159 G.E.-a Mathura inscription of the Year 62, mentions a monk of Rārā (Rādhā).
P. 167. According to R.D. BANERJEE, “the Zone of influence extended from the Southern bank of the Ganges and Western Bank of the Bhagirathi right upto the northern frontier of the jungle country, where wild Gonds live and which is the province of Gondawana proper (Eastern India School of Medieval Sculpture).
P. 167. Bahulara Bankura Dist. brick temple, image of Pārsvanātha. In the extreme south eastern corner of the Bankura Dist.--Pārsvanātha. Also at Daulb. hirra.
P. 168. Dulmi or Dyapur Dulmi is a village 50 miles from Purulia. Deoli another village, about 12 miles from Dulmi, contained Jain temples, sculptureArvanātha. A mile and a half north of Deoli is Suissa, there is a Digambara image of Pārsvanātha. At Pakvirra, 23 miles south-west of Purulia--are fragments of Jain figures, the biggest being of Padma-prabha, Rishabhanātha and a Pratimasarvato-bhadrika-Mahāvir, Sāntinātha, Rishabh, and Kunthunātha. Ambika as Agnila
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N. VENKATARAMANAYYA- The Eastern Calukyas of Vengi. Madras, 1950.
P. 4. Pampa's Vikramärjuna throws some light on certain aspects of the E. Cālukya history. . Pp. 63-64. Ayyana Mahādevi, Queen of Visnuvardhana I, (Kubja-Vişnuvardhana-624-642 A D.) and mother of Jayasimha Vallabha I and Indrabhattā.
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