Studies in Jaina Art

Author(s): Umakant P Shah
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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A BRIEF SURVEY OF JAINA ART IN THE NORTH
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Haribhadra sūri, commenting on above,' says that Bharata erected in honour of the Lord, a Stūpa and a temple called Simhanişadyā-āyatana, one yojana in area and three gavyūtis in height and installed therein life-size images of the twenty-four Jinas, as also images of his hundred brothers, including an image of himself and in order to protect violation from others, placed as gate-keepers, mechanical figures made of iron (lohamayan yantra-puruşan ). This he did on mt. Aştāpada (recognised generally as Kailāsa, often this Kailāsa is identified as Mt. Satruñjaya) which is the site of Rşabha's Nirvāņa. The tradition is also given by the earlier Avaśyaka Cūrņi? on the basis of the still earlier Müla-Bhāşya-gāthā on this Niryukti verse.3
The Jaina account of the creation of a Tirtharikara and the consequent collection of bone relics by Indra and other gods, including erection of stūpas on the cremation site by these gods given in the Jambůdvīpaprajñapti is noteworthy as it gives us an insight into the contemporary method of cremation and because it obtains an interesting parallel with the cremation in Buddhist accounts discussed at length by Barua, Bhārhut, Vol. III, pp. 12-22. in the Jaina
1 dvasyaka Vrtti, p. 169.
2 Avaśyaka Cūrni, pp. 223 ff. Also see, Vasudevahindi, p. 169 and Pp. 300 ff.
3 Ävaśyaka Vylti, p. 1:69. Bhāşya verse 45.
4 cf. Jambūdvipaprajñapti (Devachand Lalbhai Pustakoddhāra Fund, 1920), 2nd vaksaskāra, sutra 33, pp. 157-158:
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