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According to von Glasenapp, Jain businessmen and Jainism thrived during this period, and they used their financial success during the British Raj to rebuild Jain temples. For example, the Dharmanatha temple was built in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) in 1848. [ 136 ]
The Telugu portion is the oldest Telugu Kanda Padya. They are one of the important historical evidences, submitted to the Centre, for securing classic language status to Telugu. [7] [8] [9] The inscription also mentions the construction of Tribhuvanatilaka Basadi by Jinavallabha. [10] The top of the hill was used by Jain monks for meditation. [11]
Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, [1] is an Indian religion.Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, who lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha, whom historians date to the ...
[4] [8] Jain chronology places Rishabhanatha in historical terms, as someone who lived millions of years ago. [6] [9] [24] He is believed to have been born 10 224 years ago and lived for a span of 8,400,000 purva (592.704 × 10 18 years). [1] [2] His height is described in the Jain texts to be 500 bows (1312 ells), or about 4920 feet/1500 ...
Kavijanasrayam, also referred to as KavijanaaSrayam [1] Kavijanaasrayamu [2] [3] [4] and Kavijanaashrayam, [5] a Jain Literature, [5] [6] is considered by scholars to be the earliest work detailing Telugu prosody, [7] [1] [8] that is, how the basic rhythm of verses in Telugu poetry is structured.
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It still serves as the standard synthesis of source material for the early history of Jainism. [8] The appendix to this work, the Pariśiṣṭaparvan or Sthavirāvalīcarita, [19] contains accounts of the ācārya tradition starting from Jambūsvāmī. [8] It has been translated into English as The Lives of the Jain Elders. [20]
Mahapurana (महापुराण) or Trishashthilkshana Mahapurana is a major Jain text [1] composed largely by Acharya Jinasena during the rule of Rashtrakuta ruler Amoghavarsha and completed by his pupil Gunabhadra in the 9th century CE. Mahapurana consists of two parts.