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Khajuraho  A be image of the third Jina (see previous page). Khajuraho needs no introduction as to its location, history and architecture. Many al western visitor will go away from this rightly famous place with the incorrect view that Jainism is merely a slightly different branch of Hinduism. Is the architecture and art of the...

Kundalpur Kundalpur, thirty-five kilometres north-east of Damoh, with about sixty temples, ranging from plain, flat-roofed shrines built in the eighth/ninth century to widely scattered temples of later dates, is one of the earliest and largest places of Jaina pilgrimage in Central India Public buses run between the district city of Damoh and Kundalpur during daylight...

Ahar Some time during the 11th of the Chandella rulers of Khajuraho, who reign=11511 to 1241, developed a liking for Ahar, a rurement about ninety-five kilometres as the crow west of Khajuraho, and twenty kilo- metres to the south-east of Tikamgarh. They had the vision of beautifying this historic place of Jaina worship by building...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 

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...

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...