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जैन अभिलेखों का वैशिष्टय : 31 completely forgotten by the people and its construction came to be ascribed to the gods”. - जैन आर्ट एण्ड आर्किटेक्चर (सम्पा० अमलानन्द घोष, भारतीय ज्ञानपीठ, नई दिल्ली, १९७४) एपिग्राफिया इण्डिका, भाग द्वितीय, पृ० १९५ "It is highly significant that, unlike most of the early Jaina devotees mentioned in the Mathura insciptions, this person was a kshatriya nobleman. Like Kharvela of Kaliga, he was a voliant soldier, but his martial zeal did not prevent him from falling in love with a religious system in which Non-violence is not cowardice and the example of gotiputra shows that a person believing in non violence could, for the sake of his mother land, convrnt himself into a much sterner stuff". - काम्प्रेहेसिव हिस्ट्री आफ जैनिज्म (ए०के० चटर्जी, फर्मा के एल०एम० लिमिटेड, कलकत्ता, १९८४) भाग प्रथम, पृ०५० उद्धृत संदर्भ सं० २३८, हिस्ट्री ऑफ जैनिज्म विथ स्पेशल रिफरेंस, टू मथुरा (वी०के० शर्मा, डी०के० प्रिंट वर्ल्ड, नई दिल्ली, २००१) पृ० १४९ एपिग्रेफिया इण्डिका, भाग-नवम्, पृ०६६-७०
जैन रिलिजन एण्ड रायल डायनिस्टीज ऑफ नार्थ इण्डिया, भाग-प्रथम, पृ० ६९-७० इण्डियन एण्टिक्वेरी, भाग ५८, पृ० २२९; जैन शिलालेख संग्रह, भाग-चतुर्थ,
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पृ० १
From the paleographic point of view, the sign of e.g. in viraya is worthy of note. Its form is unique and it seems to belong to a period anterior to that of the inscriptions of Ashok. Infact such a form is neither found in the inscriptions of Ashok nor in the inscriptiions of later period." वही पृ० २२९
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