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BHANDARKAR, D. R.-Jain Inconography (continued from the Arch. Sur. Rep. for 1905-06, p. 149 ; IA, xl, 1911, Pp. 125-130 & 153-161).
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GOPINATHA RAO, T. A.-Elements of Hindu Iconography. Vol. 1, 2 parts, Madras, 1914.
Pp. 220-221. All over India the images of the twenty-four Tirthankaras of the Jains are found in the attitude of a Dhyani Buddha. The Jain images are completely, divested of clothing and are stark naked ; though they may sometimes have ringlets of hair on the head, there are not enough of it for a knot. The Srivatsa mark is, according to the Brihat-Samhita, required to be shown in the figures of the Jain Tirthankaras.
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SASTRI, H. Krishna ----South Indian Images of Gods and Gondesses. Madras, 1916,
P. 2n. Use of the caverns wiih rock-out beds in the Madras and Tinnevelly districts as temples in a much later period either by Buddhists or Jains,
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