2023

41. Papora

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

Papora Papora (also Papoura), five kilometres south of Tikam garh, is another popular destination for Digambara pilgrims. During late me dieval time it was a site of vigorous temple building. By combining old and new cle- ments a rather pleasing type of temple emerged . The tower, retaining its conical shape, now rested upon a...

40. chanderi

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

chanderi Chanderi, district Guna in Madhya Pradesh, thirty-seven kilometres west of Lalitpur (see map p.100) and renowned for the Chanderi Handloom Saris manufactured by a Jaina family enterprise, is an inviting town to visit. The fort on the hill lies in ruins but the approximately five hundred year old Jaina temple is kept in good...

अक्षय तृतीया पर्व की महिमा

April 17, 2023jambudweep

भव्यात्माओं! भगवान ऋषभदेव का जब छह माह का योग पूर्ण हो गया तब वे यतियों-मुनियों की आहार विधि बतलाने के उद्देश्य से शरीर की स्थिति के लिये निर्दोष आहार हेतु निकल पड़े। महामेरू भगवान ऋषभदेव ईर्यापथ से गमन कर रहे हैं, अनेकों ग्राम नगर शहर आदि में पहुँच रहे हैं। उन्हें देखकर मुनियों की चर्या…

39. Vidisha

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

Vidisha Vidisha, situated on the River Betwa and about 100 km south of Deogarh, was one of the first places at which images of Jinas were worshipped. The earliest of them were cut in the walls of the two Jaina caves of Udaygiri, 5 km to the north-east of Vidisha. The first structural temples no...

अक्षय तृतीया पर्व का महत्त्व

April 17, 2023jambudweep

ब्राह्मी-माताजी वंदामि! आज मैं आपसे अक्षयतृतीया पर्व के विषय मे जानना चाहती हूं। युगप्रवर्तक भगवान आदिनाथ को हुए करोड़ों-करोड़ों साल व्यतीत हो गए किन्तु क्या कारण है कि उनके प्रथम आहार दिवस अक्षयतृतीया को आज भी संपूर्ण भारतवासी विशेष पर्व के रूप में मनाते चले आ रहे हैं ? माताजी-तुमने बहुत ही अच्छा प्रश्न किया।…

38. The Jaina Art Of Gwalior And Deogarh

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

The Jaina Art Of Gwalior And Deogarh Klaus Bruhn Three seasons in a hospitable Indian village and the support of a co-operative Jaina community are remembered to this day, and I am grateful to KURT TITZE for an oppor tunity to return to a subject which I studied almost forty years ago as a young...

37. Central India

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36. Ramtek

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

Ramtek Digambara Jaina nuns returning from their morning walk to the Ramtek Shantinatha Temple, their temporary abode (see pages 14, 15). The temple, situated at the western foot of a mountain range sacred to the Hindu god Rama, was built in the eleventh/twelfth century. (The fort and the Rama temples on top of the hill...

35. A King Tomorrow An Ascetic

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

A King Tomorrow An Ascetic Scenes from a Digambara diksha (initiation) at a New Delhi suburb in February 1992. On the first day, the candidate to monkhood, a successful 60-year-old founder-owner of a construction enterprise, was led in a procession through the streets of his fashionable neighbourhood. For this occasion he was dressed like a...

34. Karanja

April 17, 2023jambudweepJainism- A Non Voilent Religion

Karanja Karanja: Balatkara Gana Mandir. A sample of the superb wood-carvings to be marvelled at in this seldom mentioned temple. Its other treasures -- icons in both stone and metal - are of an equally high standard. Karanja, a town of around $1,000 inhabitants of which c.4500 are Jainas, is another place in Maharashtra State...

Year: 2023