Jaina Temples of West Bengal

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bear a description of the remains at Deoli.
27. David McCutchion, Late Medieval Temples of Bengal, Asiatic Society Monograph No.20, Calcutta 1970, p.16.
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28. Jinanagara, an equivalent of Jinasahara, occurs in the epigraphs in the sense of a Jaina temple and Jinanigama, a similar expression, means 'a township in the possession of a Jain temple or, more probably, a Jain temple' (D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary, Delhi etc. 1966, p.135).
29. A. P. Sastri, "Ruins at Gholamara," Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Vol.V, 1919, pp.285-87. Sastri confuses the head of a Tirthankara image with that of Buddha.
30. See McCutchion, "Notes.," p. (41).
31. Hunter, "Statistical.," p. 298.
32. Archaeological Survey of India, Bengal Circle, Annual Report, p. 14.
33. Boram in the Purulia District has been referred to by P. Banerji (his p. 157) as a Jaina site. But the place has not yet yielded any Jaina antiquity.
34. Mitra, "Some Jaina.," pp. 132-34.
35. Bose, pp. 78f.
36. McCutchion, p. (33).
37. P. Banerji, p. 158.
38. For a structural analysis of some temples of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, see N. K. Bose, Cultural Anthropology and Other Essays, Calcutta 1953, pp. 240-43.
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39. Debala Mitra, Telkupi (Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 76), Delhi 1968, pp. 29-32 and PL.XIX B.
40. J. N. Banerjea in History of Bengal, Vol.I (Ed. R. C. Majumdar), p. 464; also see p. 411 for a similar comment by P. C. Bagchi.
41. Ibid., pp. 464f.
42. This term is coined by Bose (Canons of Orissan Architecture, p. 183).