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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Manbhum
Year 1904.
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Jain antiquities.
The district contains a certain number of Jaina temples of the 14th or of the 15th century.
Statues of Adinatha, of Parivanatha and of Mahavira.
Temple in ruin. Two gigantic statues of Tirthankaras and other small images.
Temple and images.
Temples and statues, of which one with some particular characters representing probably Parivanatha.
One does not find any trace of Jainism in the village of Besarh which represents the ancient town of Vaisali. It was however in a suburb of this town, Kollage, today Kolhua, that Mahavira was born.
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Report of the Archaeological Survey, Bengal Circle, 1903-Calcutta, 1903.
P. 7. Champänagar, Bhagalpur district, sacred to the Jains. Antique statues of Adinatha and Mahavira in the Jain temple in the locality. Extinction of Jainism in Eastern India for many centuries that followed. Inscriptions of Sam. 1525 and S. 1881.
P. 8. The Jahngira hill Sultanganj resorted to as a place of worship by the Hindus, the Buddhists and the Jains alike. Carvings of Santinatha.
Parasnäth hill, Hazaribagh district, bears footprints of padukas of various Jain Tirthankaras, consecrated on the 9th Feb. L. 1769 (N. s.).
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