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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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BANERJE, Rakhal Das, New Brahmi Inscriptions of the Scythian Period (EI, X, 1909-10, Pp. 106-121) (with illustrations).
(1) Inscription on a coping-stone. (2) Inscribed Digambara Jain image, the year 9 (Kushāņa era). (3) Inscribed Jain image, the year 12, excavated from a Digambara Jain temple at Rāmnagar. (4) Inscribed image of Sambhavanātha, the year 48. Jain images of the Scythian period cannot pe identified unless the names are mentioned in their inscriptions. Distinctive symbols were assigned to the Jains at a much later period. (5) Inscribed Jain image, the year 58. (6) Inscription on a Jain image from Mathura, the year 71. (7) Inscribed Chālurmukha from Rāmnagar, the year 74. (8) Inscribed image from Mathura, the year 80. (9) Inscribed bas-relief from Mathura, the year 99, this is an image of Pārsvanātha with a seven-hooded snake on the head.
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SASTRI, H. Krishna. Danavulapadu Pillar Inscription of Srivijaya. (EI. X, 190910, Pp. 147-153).
Engraved on the three faces of one of the Jain pillars at Danavulapadu, Cuddapah district. Records that general Srivijaya voluntarily resigned this world and took Samnyäsa in order to attain eternal bliss. In the second part of the inscription is an invocatory clause proclaiming glory to the prosperous doctrine of the Jina. King Nirpatunga also called Atisayadhavala and Amoghavarşa, identical with the Rāstraküța Amoghavarşa I (A. D. 814-5 to 877-8)-Srivijaya mentioned in the Sravana Begoļa epitaph of Mallisena, was one of the Jain teachers of great learning, a successor to Hemasena and a contemporary of an unspecified Ganga king.
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FLEET, J. F. The Hathi-Gumpha Inscription. (JRAS, 1910, Pp. 824-828).
P. 825. The inscription is a Jain record, in somewhat imperfectly spelt Prākrit, beginning with the formula Namo Arahantanam namo sava-sidhana. It contains a brief account of the career of Khāravela from his birth to the 13th year of his reign.
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BHANDARKAR, D. R. The Chahamanas of Marwar. (EI. xi, 1911-12, Pp. 25-79).
Pp. 30-31. Inscriptions noted : (4) Savadi (Samipati) stone inscription of Kațukarāja ; Chahamana v. s. 1172 mentions Shanderaka gachchha. (6) Sevadi