Jaina Bibliography Part 1

SR No.: 016035
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 1070
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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Articles.
Protection by Aśoka.
Cave temples.
Cave temples.
Jain temples architecture in Kanara,
Indo-Aryan style.
Muhammadan. Architecture.
Pañchatantra.
Buddhism & Jainism.
JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Accounts.
which the two finest date from A. D. 1032 and 1231, carry to its highest perfection the Indian genius for the invention of graceful patterns and their application to the decora tion of masonry.
The Jains and other sects were protected by Asoka, and they raised shrines and cons tructed cave temples and monastic abodes for their devotee.
In the Barabar hills, a group of caves dedicated to the Ajivikas, a naked sect, similar to the Jains description given.
All the earliest caves are not of Buddhist origin; certain of the excavations at Junăgarh are almost certainly Jain. Orissa caves, most of them Jain.
Jain temples and tombs at Mudbidri in South Kanara-like Nepal chaityas and Chinese towers. Description.
The Jain style of architecture in Western India, a development or variety of the IndoAryan order and was used all over Rajputănă, Malwa and Gujarat.
Their first mosques were constructed of the materials of Hindu and Jain temples. Dilwar Khan mosque, the oldest in Mandu (1405) constructed of materials taken from Hindu or Jain shrines.
The two forms of the Northern recension of the Panchatantra show secondary Jain influence, probably brought to bear on it during the period A. D. 950 to 1300.
Both in their main outlines are based on the Sankhya system; their fundamental doctrines. These two pessimistic religions are altogether so similar that the Jains were looked upon as a Buddhist sect. But researches prov. ed that founders of both religions were contemporaries.