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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bharatagama, a crest Jewel in dancing, a Sarasvati in singing. A Brahaspati in discrimination, a Vacaspati in ready wit etc. on account of her religious toleration she is praised as 'the cause of the elevation of the four samayas (creeds) and a jewel of protection to all faiths.
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Sunil Chandra RAY-The Gupta Phase at Nalanda. (Ind. Hist. Cong. 17th Ses. Ahmedabad), 1954.
P. 78. Nālandă an outlying part of the city of Rajagṛha; Mahavira spent here not less than fourteen rainy seasons (Sutrakṛtänga and Kalpasitra).
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Dasharatha SHARMA-New light on Alauddin Khilji's achievements from a Jain Book of 1336 A.D. (Ind. Hist. Con. 17th Sess. Ahemdabad, 1954.
P. 240. The main topic of the Nabhinandana-Jinodhara-prabhandha, is the installation of the image of the Jaina Tirthankara, Adinatha by a Jain officer. Incidentally it mentions the chief achievements of Alauddin Khilji, the Sultan responsible for the destruction of Jain images in Gujarat. A study of it is necessary for writing the social, economic and religious and political history of the period.
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Sudhakar CHATTOPADHYAYA-The Date of Pusyamitra Sunga. (Ind. Hist. Cong. 17th Sess, Ahmedabad), 1954.
Pp. 102-3. Häthigumphä inscription-Khâravela contemporary of Satakarni, the third king of the Satavahana line. Date of Khäravela: Hathigumphä scripts. more developed than Besnagar inscription of Heliodorus; sculptures of Mancapur caves posterior to Bharhuta's; reference to a canal excavated three hundred years before a Nanda king: Khāravela's time later half of the first century B.C. His fifth regnal year 24 B.C.
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BUDDHA PRAKASH-Historical Characters in the Mudraraksasa of Visakhadatta. (Ind. Hist. Cong. 17th Ses., Ahmedabad), 1954.
127. The Mudräräksas refers to a relative of Chandra Gupta Maurya, named Mahārāja Balagupta or Beladevagupta; identified with Balabhadra Maurya. connected with the third schism of the Jaina Church in 214 A.V.
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