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
monk śāntivira-kkuravar of Kalam, who was a disciple of Guņavira-kuravadiga). The gift was for food offerings (avi) to the deties and for feeding (soșu) one Jain ascetic. Text given and I plate.
Notes 1-14. Tiruvayirai, i. e. Aivarmalai had been a Jain hermitage in the 9th century A. D.; but at present there is only a Gaņeśa temple.
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G. S. Gai—Jalore Inscription of Chahamana Chachigadiva, V. S. 1331 (Epi. Ind. Vol. XXXIII, 1959.) Delhi, 1960.
Pp. 46-49. The inscription is engraved on a pillar in the building called Topkhana, originally a mosque built out of the materials from the local Hindu and Jain temples; at Jalore in the Jodhpur Division of Rajasthan In Nägari characters and Sanskrit language; the date-Samvat 1331 (1274 A. D.). Refers to the reign of the Maharājakula Sri Chachigadeva ruling at Javalipura. The object of the inscription is to record a grant to the God Mahāvīra in the Chamdana-Nihāra in the Jain monastery attached to the Nāņakiya-Gachcha. The occasion of the grant was the Ashțahnika festival of Asvayuja (Mirji Annarao, Jaina Dharma-Kannada, P. 572; Ind. Ant. Vol. VI, P. 26, text lines 15-17; Suc. Sat, P. 271). Mentions Dhaneśvra-sūri. Text - 31 lines.
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V. P. JOHARAPURKAR.--Veraval inscription of Chaulukya Bhima II, (Epi. Ind. Vol. XXXII, 1959. Delhi, 1960), Pp. 117-120.
Inscription was found at Prabhās Pātan (Veraval) (now in Junagadh Museum); Language Sanskrit and characters Nāgari of Ilth or 12th century A. D. Description of the City of (Anahilla) pāțaka ; ruling King Bhima II (Chaulukya-1218 to 1243 A. D.). Line of Teachers from Kunda-Kunda of Nandisangha ; Śrıkisti a prominent pontiff of the line, on whom the King conferred the title Mandalachārya. Mulavasatika temple Anahillapura. Teachers who succeeded Srikirti. Restoration of the temple of Chandraprabha at Prabhāsa at the instance of Mandalaganin Lalitakirti, verse 92 of the inscription refers to a miracle associated with the image of Chandraprabha is found in Madankirti's Šasanachatustrimśika (publisbed by the Virasevā Mandir, Delhi) in praise of various Jain holy places. Kundakunda-his traditional date Ist century B.C. ; some scholars put him in the 2nd century A.D.; his domicile was Konkoņdala in the Anantapur Dist., Andhra Pradesh (I. M. S. Vol. XLVI, Pp. 1ff). Srikirti referred to in this incription, is mentioned in Srichandra's Kathakosha. (The struggle for empire P. 427). Srutakirti, the disciple of Srikirti, said to have been honoured by King Bhoja (Parmara Bhoja. C.1010-55 A. D.) and Gāngeya (Kalachuri Gängeya. C. 1015-41 A.D.). The patrons of Śri