Jain art, the Glossary
Jain art refers to religious works of art associated with Jainism.[1]
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163 relations: Abhisheka, Acharya, Ahimsa in Jainism, Akota, Akota Bronzes, Aluara bronzes, Ambika (Jainism), Archaeological Survey of India, Archaeology of Ayodhya, Arihant (Jainism), Art of Mathura, Ashtamangala, Asigarh Fort, At attention, Śvetāmbara, Badami cave temples, Bahubali, Bawangaja, Bhavacakra, Brill Publishers, Bronze, Centaur, Chalukya dynasty, Chanderi, Chatra (umbrella), Chausa hoard, Chavundaraya, Chennai, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Chitharal Jain Monuments and Bhagavati Temple, Cleveland Museum of Art, Deccan Herald, Dharmachakra, Dhvaja, Digambara, Dilwara Temples, Dravyasamgraha, Ellora Caves, Encyclopædia Britannica, Endless knot, Fleur-de-lis, Fly-whisk, Ganadhara, Gommateshwara statue, Government Museum, Mathura, Gujarat, Gupta Empire, Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty, Hand fan, Hansi hoard, ... Expand index (113 more) »
Abhisheka
Abhisheka is a religious rite or method of prayer in which a devotee pours a liquid offering on an image or murti of a deity.
Acharya
In Indian religions and society, an acharya (Sanskrit: आचार्य, IAST:; Pali: ācariya) is a religious teacher in Hinduism and Buddhism and a spiritual guide to Hindus and Buddhists.
Ahimsa in Jainism
In Jainism, ahiṃsā (alternatively spelled 'ahinsā', Sanskrit: अहिंसा IAST:, Pāli) is a fundamental principle forming the cornerstone of its ethics and doctrine.
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Akota
Akota is an urban area in the western side of Vadodara City, in the state of Gujarat, in India.
Akota Bronzes
The Akota Bronzes represent a rare and important set of 68 Jain images, dating to between the 6th and 12th centuries AD, which were found in the vicinity of Akota near Baroda in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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Aluara bronzes
The Aluara Bronzes or Aluara Hoard represent a rare and important set of Jain images found in Aluara near Dhanbad region of Bihar, in Eastern India.
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Ambika (Jainism)
In Jainism, Ambika (अम्बिका, "Mother") or Ambika Devi (अम्बिका देवी "the Goddess-Mother") is the yakshini "dedicated attendant deity" or "protector goddess" of the 22nd Tirthankara, Neminatha.
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Archaeological Survey of India
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country.
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Archaeology of Ayodhya
The archaeology of Ayodhya concerns the excavations and findings in the Indian city of Ayodhya in the state of Uttar Pradesh, much of which surrounds the Babri Mosque location.
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Arihant (Jainism)
Arihant (italic, lit) is a jiva (soul) who has conquered inner passions such as attachment, anger, pride and greed.
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Art of Mathura
The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd century BCE, which centered on the city of Mathura, in central northern India, during a period in which Buddhism, Jainism together with Hinduism flourished in India.
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Ashtamangala
The Ashtamangala is a sacred suite of Eight Auspicious Signs featured in a number of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.
Asigarh Fort
Asigarh Fort, also called Hansi Fort, is located on the eastern bank of Amti lake in Hansi city of Haryana, India, about 135 km from Delhi on NH9.
At attention
The position of at attention, or standing at attention, is a military posture which involves the following general postures.
Śvetāmbara
The Śvetāmbara (also spelled Shwetambara, Shvetambara, Svetambara or Swetambara) is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara.
Badami cave temples
The Badami cave temples are a complex of Budhist,Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India.
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Bahubali
Bahubali was the son of Rishabhanatha (the first tirthankara of Jainism) and the brother of the chakravartin Bharata.
Bawangaja
Bawangaja (meaning 52 yards) is a famous Jain pilgrim center in the Barwani district of southwestern Madhya Pradesh in India.
Bhavacakra
The bhavachakra (Sanskrit: भवचक्र; Pāli: bhavacakka; Tibetan: སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ, Wylie: srid pa'i 'khor lo) or wheel of life is a visual teaching aid and meditation tool symbolically representing saṃsāra (or cyclic existence).
Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Centaur
A centaur (kéntauros), occasionally hippocentaur, also called Ixionidae, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse that was said to live in the mountains of Thessaly.
Chalukya dynasty
The Chalukya dynasty was a Classical Indian dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.
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Chanderi
Chanderi, is a town of historical importance in Ashoknagar District of the state Madhya Pradesh in India.
Chatra (umbrella)
The chatra (from छत्र, meaning "umbrella") is an auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
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Chausa hoard
This was the first known bronze hoard discovered in the Gangetic valley and consists of a set of 18 Jain bronzes.
Chavundaraya
Cāmuṇḍarāya or Chavundaraya (Kannada Cāmuṇḍarāya, Cāvuṇḍarāya, 940–989) was an Indian Jain ruler.
Chennai
Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, (CSMVS) formerly named the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is a museum in Mumbai (Bombay) which documents the history of India from prehistoric to modern times.
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Chitharal Jain Monuments and Bhagavati Temple
The Chitharal Jain Monuments and Bhagavati Temple, also known as Chitharal Malai Kovil (literally "Temple on the Hill"), Chitaral Cave Temple or Bhagavati Temple, are located near Chitharal village in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald is an Indian English language daily newspaper published from the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Dharmachakra
The dharmachakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्र, dhammacakka) or wheel of dharma is a symbol used in the Dharmic religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.
Dhvaja
Dhvaja refers to the Sanskrit word for a banner or a flag.
Digambara
Digambara ("sky-clad") is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Śvetāmbara (white-clad).
Dilwara Temples
The Dilwara Temples or Delvada Temples are a group of Śvētāmbara Jain temples located about kilometres from the Mount Abu settlement in Sirohi District, Rajasthan's only hill station.
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Dravyasamgraha
(Devnagari: द्रव्यसंग्रह) (Compendium of substances) is a 10th-century Jain text in Jain Sauraseni Prakrit by Acharya Nemicandra belonging to the Digambara Jain tradition.
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Ellora Caves
The Ellora Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India (now renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district).
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Endless knot
Endless knot in a Burmese Pali manuscript The endless knot or eternal knot is a symbolic knot and one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols.
Fleur-de-lis
The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean and respectively).
Fly-whisk
A fly-whisk (or fly-swish) is a tool that is used to swat flies.
Ganadhara
In Jainism, the term Ganadhara is used to refer the chief disciple of a Tirthankara.
Gommateshwara statue
The Gommateshwara statue is a high monolithic statue on Vindhyagiri Hill in the town of Shravanbelagola in the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Government Museum, Mathura
Government Museum, Mathura, commonly referred to as Mathura museum, is an archaeological museum in Mathura city of Uttar Pradesh state in India.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty
The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj and the Imperial Pratiharas, was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled parts of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.
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Hand fan
A handheld fan, or simply hand fan, is a broad, flat surface that is waved back-and-forth to create an airflow.
Hansi hoard
The Hansi hoard was discovered accidentally by children looking for a ball, when they discovered one of the images on January 19, 1982.
Harsha
Harshavardhana (IAST Harṣa-vardhana; 4 June 590–647 CE) was the emperor of Kannauj and ruled northern India from 606 to 647 CE.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Hoysala Kingdom
The Hoysala Kingdom was a Kannadiga power originating from the Indian subcontinent that ruled most of what is now Karnataka between the 10th and the 14th centuries.
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Iconography
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.
Indian art
Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk.
Indian rock-cut architecture
Indian rock-cut architecture is more various and found in greater abundance in that country than any other form of rock-cut architecture around the world.
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Indra
Indra (इन्द्र) is the king of the devas and Svarga in Hinduism.
Indus Valley Civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
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Jain flag
The flag of Jainism has five colours: White, Red, Yellow, Green and Black.
Jain house temple
A house temple (Ghar Derasar or Griha Chaityalaya) is a private Jain shrine that is placed within a personal residence.
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Jain symbols
Jain symbols are symbols based on the Jain philosophy.
Jain temple
A Jain temple, Derasar (Gujarati: દેરાસર) or Basadi (Kannada: ಬಸದಿ) is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism.
Jain temples of Deogarh
The Jain Temple complex is group of 31 Jain temples located at Deogarh in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh built around 8th to 17th century CE.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jivantasvami
Jivantasvami images represent the Jain Tirthankara Mahavira (and in some cases other Tirthankaras) as a prince, with a crown and ornaments.
Kahaum pillar
Kahaum pillar is an structure located in Khukhundoo in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Kalasha
A kalasha, also called Pūrṇa-Kalaśa, Pūrṇa-Kumbha, Pūrṇa-Ghaṭa, also called ghat or ghot or kumbh (कलश, Telugu: కలశము Kannada: ಕಳಶ literally "pitcher, pot"), is a metal (brass, copper, silver or gold) pot with a large base and small mouth.
Kalpa Sūtra
The Kalpa Sūtra (कल्पसूत्र) is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira.
Kanakagiri Jain tirth
Kanakagiri Jain tirth kshetra also known as Kanakadri and Hemantha Desha is situated at about 3 km from Maleyuru, Chamarajanagar district, 53 km from the Mysore city and 182 km from Bengaluru.
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Kankali Tila
Kankali Tila (also Kankali mound or Jaini mound) is a mound located at Mathura in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa
The Kankali Tila tablet of Sodasa, also called the Iryavati stone tablet,Cultural Contours of India: Dr.
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Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Kayotsarga
Kayotsarga (काउस्सग्ग) is a yogic posture which is an important part of the Jain meditation.
Kharavela
Kharavela (also transliterated Khārabēḷa) was a monarch of Kalinga in present-day Odisha, India, who ruled during the second or first century BCE.
Kirti Stambha
Kirti Stambha is a 12th-century tower situated at Chittor Fort in Chittorgarh town of Rajasthan, India.
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Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century.
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List of Jain inscriptions
List of Jain inscriptions.
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Lock of hair
A lock of hair is a piece or pieces of human hair that are usually bunched or tied together in some way.
Lodhurva Jain temple
Lodhurva Jain temple is a Jain temple in the Lodhruva village of Jaisalmer district in Rajasthan.
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Lohanipur torso
The Lohanipur torso is a damaged statue of polished sandstone, dated to the 3rd century BCE ~ 2nd century CE, found in Lohanipur village, a central Division of Patna, ancient Pataliputra, Bihar, India.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.
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Lotus position
Lotus position or Padmasana (translit) is a cross-legged sitting meditation pose from ancient India, in which each foot is placed on the opposite thigh.
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Mahamastakabhisheka
The Mahamastakabhisheka ("Grand Consecration") refers to the abhiṣeka (anointment) of the Jain idols when held on a large scale.
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Mahameghavahana dynasty
The Mahameghavahana dynasty (2nd or 1st century BC to early 4th century CE) was an ancient ruling dynasty of Kalinga after the decline of the Maurya Empire.
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Maharaja of Mysore
The maharaja of Mysore was the king and principal ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and briefly of Mysore State in the Indian Dominion roughly between the mid- to late-1300s and 1950.
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Mahavira
Mahavira (Devanagari: महावीर), also known as Vardhamana (Devanagari: वर्धमान), the 24th Tirthankara (Supreme Teacher) of Jainism.
Mahavira Jain temple, Osian
The Mahavira Jain temple is built in Osian of Jodhpur District, Rajasthan.
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Maitraka dynasty
The Maitraka dynasty ruled western India from approximately 475 to approximately 776 CE from their capital at Vallabhi.
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Manastambha
A manastambha (Sanskrit for 'column of honour') is a pillar that is often constructed in front of Jain temples or large Jain statues.
Mangi-Tungi
Mangi-Tungi is a prominent twin-pinnacled peak and Digambar Jain Pilgrimage Site, located near Tahrabad about 125 km from Nashik, Maharashtra, India.
Mathura
Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Māru-Gurjara architecture
Māru-Gurjara architecture or Solaṅkī style, is the style of West Indian temple architecture that originated in Gujarat and Rajasthan from the 11th to 13th centuries, under the Chaulukya dynasty (also called Solaṅkī dynasty).
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mirror
A mirror, also known as a looking glass, is an object that reflects an image.
Monumental sculpture
The term monumental sculpture is often used in art history and criticism, but not always consistently.
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Moodabidri
Moodbidri (Mūḍubidire; also called Mudbidri, Moodbidre and Bedra) is a town and taluk in Dakshina Kannada district.
Motilal Banarsidass
Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House (MLBD) is an Indian academic publishing house, founded in Delhi, India in 1903.
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Mount Abu
Mount Abu is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in the Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Naigamesha
Naigamesha (नैगमेष), also known as Harinegameshi, is a goat-headed or deer-headed deity, associated with children.
Namokar Mantra
The Ṇamōkāra mantra or Navkar Mantra is the most significant mantra in Jainism, and one of the oldest mantras in continuous practice.
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Nandavarta
The Nandavarta or Nandyavarta is one of the eight auspicious symbols of Jainism for the Śvetāmbara sect.
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.
Nemichandra
Nemichandra (fl. c. 975), also known by his epithet Siddhanta Chakravarty, was a Jain acharya from present-day India.
North India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is an Art Museum located in Pasadena, California.
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Outlook (Indian magazine)
Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.
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Pañca-Parameṣṭhi
The in Jainism is a fivefold hierarchy of religious authorities worthy of veneration.
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Palitana temples
The Palitana temples, often known only as Palitana, are a large complex of Jain temples located on Shatrunjaya hills near Palitana in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India.
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Panch Kalyanaka
Panch Kalyanaka (pan̄ca kalyāṇaka, "Five Auspicious Events") are the five chief auspicious events that occur in the life of tirthankara in Jainism.
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Parasparopagraho Jivanam
Parasparopagraho Jīvānām (Sanskrit: परस्परोपग्रहो जीवानाम्) is a Jain aphorism from the Tattvārtha Sūtra.
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Parshvanatha
Parshvanatha (पार्श्वनाथः), or and Pārasanātha, was the 23rd of 24 Tirthankaras (supreme preacher of dharma) of Jainism.
Parsvanatha ayagapata
The Pārśvanātha āyāgapaṭa, is a large stone slab discovered in Kankali (area of Mathura) which has an image of Parshvanatha, dating back to reign Sodasa, of Indo-Scythian Northern Satrap, the ruler Sodasa in Mathura.
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Pataini temple
The Pataini temple or Pataini devi temple is a 5th century Jain temple constructed during the reign of the Gupta Empire and located near the town of Unchehara in Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Patna Museum
Patna Museum is the state museum of the Indian state of Bihar.
Pelican Books
Pelican Books is a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books founded by Allen Lane and V. K. Krishna Menon.
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Place of worship
A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.
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Rajasthan
Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.
Ranakpur Jain temple
Ranakpur Jain temple or Chaturmukha Dharana Vihara is a Śvētāmbara Jain temple at Ranakpur dedicated to Tirthankara Rishabhanatha.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Rishabhanatha
Rishabhanatha (Devanagari: ऋषभनाथ), also Rishabhadeva (Devanagari: ऋषभदेव), Rishabha (Devanagari: ऋषभ) or Ikshvaku (Devanagari: इक्ष्वाकु, Ikṣvāku), is the first tirthankara (Supreme preacher) of Jainism.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Saavira Kambada Basadi
Saavira Kambada Temple or Tribhuvana Tilaka Cūḍāmaṇi), is a basadi or Jain temple noted for its 1000 pillars in Moodabidri, Karnataka, India. The temple is also known as "Chandranatha Temple" since it honours the tirthankara Chandraprabha, whose eight-foot idol is worshipped in the shrine.
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Shikhara
Shikhara (IAST), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India, and also often used in Jain temples.
Shikharji
Shikharji, also known as Sammet or Sammed Shikharji, is one of the Holiest pilgrimage sites for Jains, in Giridih district, Jharkhand.
Shravanabelagola
Shravanabelagola (pronunciation) is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is from Bengaluru.
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Shrivatsa
The Shrivatsa (Sanskrit: श्रीवत्स; IAST: Śrīvatsa) is an ancient symbol, considered auspicious in Hinduism and other Indian religious traditions.
Shunga Empire
The Shunga dynasty (IAST) was the Fifth ruling dynasty of Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 73 BCE.
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Siddha
Siddha (Sanskrit: सिद्ध; "perfected one") is a term that is used widely in Indian religions and culture.
Siddhachal Caves
Siddhachal Caves are Jain cave monuments and statues carved into the rock face inside the Urvashi valley of the Gwalior Fort in northern Madhya Pradesh, India.
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South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
Statue of Ahimsa
The Statue of Ahimsa is located at Mangi-Tungi, in Nashik, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Stupa
In Buddhism, a stupa (lit) is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (such as śarīra – typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.
SUNY Press
The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.
Suparshvanatha
Suparshvanatha (सुपार्श्वनाथ), also known as Suparśva, was the seventh Jain Tīrthankara of the present age (avasarpini).
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Swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Tilaka
In Hinduism, the tilaka (तिलक), colloquially known as a tika, is a mark worn usually on the forehead, at the point of the ''ajna chakra'' (third eye or spiritual eye) and sometimes other parts of the body such as the neck, hand, chest, or the arm.
Tirth Pat
Tirth Pat or Patta is a religious map and topographical rendering used in Śvētāmbara Jainism religion for representing places of pilgrimage (Tirtha).
Tirtha (Jainism)
In Jainism, a tīrtha (तीर्थ "ford, a shallow part of a body of water that may be easily crossed") is used to refer both to pilgrimage sites as well as to the four sections of the sangha.
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Tirthankara
In Jainism, a Tirthankara is a saviour and supreme spiritual teacher of the dharma (righteous path).
Triratna
The Triratna (ti-ratana or; tri-ratna or) is a Buddhist symbol, thought to visually represent the Three Jewels of Buddhism (the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha).
Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves
Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves, formerly called Kattaka caves or Cuttack caves, are partly natural and partly artificial caves of archaeological, historical and religious importance near the city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, India.
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Unchehara
Unchehara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Satna district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Upadhyay
Upadhyay is a surname.
Vadodara
Vadodara, also known as Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Vallabhi
Vallabhi (or Valabhi or Valabhipur) is an ancient city located in the Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, near Bhavnagar in western India.
Vasantgarh hoard
In 1956, 240 Jain bronze idols were discovered dating back to early medieval to medieval period.
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Vasudeva I
Vāsudeva I (Kushano Bactrian: Βαζοδηο Bazodeo; Middle Brahmi: 𑀯𑀸𑀲𑀼𑀤𑁂𑀯;, Chinese: 波調 Bodiao; fl. 200 CE) was a Kushan emperor, last of the "Great Kushans." Named inscriptions dating from year 64 to 98 of Kanishka's era suggest his reign extended from at least 191 to 232 CE.
Vatsaraja
Vatsaraja (780–800) or Vatsraja was an Emperor of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in Northern India.
Vedic Sanskrit
Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family.
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Vijayanagara
Vijayanagara was a city at the modern location of Hampi, in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Vindhyagiri Hill
Vindhyagiri is one of the two hills in Shravanabelagola in the Indian state of Karnataka.
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Votive offering
A votive offering or votive deposit is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for religious purposes.
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Wadiyar dynasty
The Wadiyar dynasty, also referred to as the Wadiyars of Mysore, is a late-medieval Indian royal family of former maharajas of Mysore from the Urs clan originally based in Mysore city.
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Western Ganga dynasty
Western Ganga was an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India which lasted from about 350 to 1000 CE.
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Yaksha
The Yakshas (यक्ष,, i) are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness.
Yakshini
Yakshinis or Yakshis (यक्षिणी,, Yakkhiṇī or Yakkhī) are a class of female nature spirits in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious mythologies that are different from Devas and Asuras and Gandharvas or Apsaras.
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_art
Also known as Jain paintings.
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