Jainism and its ancient origins

Ordered by

Post Date
Artefacts
Article/Essays
Event
Links
New Books
Rare BOOKS
Rare Manuscripts
Rare Maps
Rare Paintings
Rare Photographs
Sculpture
Video
 28 Jun 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in South Indian Jainism
By Ramaswami Ayyangar and B. Seshagiri Rao
Published by The Vizianagaram Maharaja's College - 1922

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/2sn1GWk

Download pdf book:

http://bit.ly/2uiNYp4

Image:

Photograph from an album of 40 albumen prints by Edmu... Read More
 27 Jun 2017
Digital Rare Book :
The Gangas of Talakad
By M.V. Krishna Rao
Published by B.G. Paul & Co., Calcutta - 1936

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/2sLLC4e

Download pf book:

http://bit.ly/2rWtUrX

Though territorially a small kingdom, the Western Ganga contribution to polity, culture and literature o... Read More
 5 Sep 2016 Sculpture
Ganesha in Jainism

Udayagiri, Cave 6, detail showing Dvārapāla, Viṣṇu and Gaṇeśa in Udayagiri has probably one of the oldest datable Gaṇeśas in India (9th-10th Century).

Ganesha is worshipped by most Jainas, for whom he appears to have taken over certain functions of Kubera. Jaina connections w... Read More
 29 Jul 2016 Rare Paintings
Jain cosmological mandala: plan of Adhaidvipa; Gujarat, 19th century.

Jain cosmological mandala: plan of Adhaidvipa, or the two and a half continents where mortals dwell. In Jain cosmography the universe is divided into three kingdoms: the upper, occupied by the celestials; the middle, by the mo... Read More
 29 Jul 2016 Rare Paintings
Jambudvipa - Jain painting of the mortal realms of the universe

Painting on cotton
Deshnok, Rajasthan, dated 1844

In the Jain conception of the universe, between the heavens above and hells below is the middle world where mortals dwell, the only part of the universe from which the soul can ach... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Jaina Astronomy and Cosmology
By Prof.L.C.Jain
Published by Rajasthan Prakrit Bharti Sansthan, Jaipur - 1983

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1CWoheT

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1y3TNro

Image:
Globe or sphere (Bughola), depicting the Jaina cosmos.
Made of bronze; insc... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 New Books
Digital Rare Book:
Jaina Astronomy and Cosmology
By Prof.L.C.Jain
Published by Rajasthan Prakrit Bharti Sansthan, Jaipur - 1983

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1CWoheT

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1y3TNro

Image:
Painted cotton cloth (pata) showing Jambūdvīpa, the central continent or 'is... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Rare Paintings
Yantra of Mahavira
India, Gujarat or Rajasthan, 1425-1450 AD
Watercolor
Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Life of Mahavira
By Manak Chand Jaini
Printed at The Indian Press, Allahabad - 1908

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1NEAXbT

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1CfzYZ3

Image:
Jina Mahavira
India, Karnataka or Tamil Nadu, 850-900 AD
Sculpture
Copper alloy

Source: Los Angeles ... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Sculpture
Fragment of a temple sculpture, showing the two figures of the first and the last Jain Tīrthaṁkara, Ṛṣabhanātha (left) and Mahāvīra. As is consistent with Jain iconography, the upright and naked figures have broad sjoulders and narrow waists. The ascetic nature of Ṛṣabhanātha is suggested by his ... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Kalpa sutra and Nava Tatva: Two works illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy
By John Stevenson (1798-1858)
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London - 1818

Read Book Online:

http://bit.ly/1GkuF0v

Download pdf Book:

http://bit.ly/1G7tT8C

Image:
King Siddhartha, th... Read More
 2 Apr 2015 Sculpture
Shrine with Four Jinas (Rishabhanatha [Adinatha]), Parshvanatha, Neminatha, and Mahavira)
India, Uttar Pradesh, circa 600
Sculpture
Sandstone

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Read More
 23 Jan 2015 Sculpture
Ganesha in Jainism

Ganesha is worshipped by most Jainas, for whom he appears to have taken over certain functions of Kubera. Jaina connections with the trading community support the idea that Jainism took up the worship of Ganesha as a result of commercial connections.

The Jaina canonical liter... Read More
 7 Nov 2012 Rare Photographs
Hutheesing's Temple (Jain), Camp Road, Ahmedabad - 1880

Photograph of the Jaina temple of Seth Hathisingh at Ahmadabad in Gujarat, taken by Charles Lickfold in the 1880s, part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views. Ahmadabad spreads along the river Sabarmati and is Gujarat's capital ci... Read More
 7 Nov 2012
Hutheesing's Temple, Ahmedabad - 1875

Photograph from the Macnabb Collection of the Temple of Hathi Singh at Ahmadabad in Gujarat, India, taken by Bourne & Shepherd during the 1870s. Ahmadabad is the principal city of Gujarat in western India. The architecture of the city includes interestin... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare Paintings
Palitana - 5 May 1868

Watercolour drawing by John Frederick Lester of Palitana in Gujarat, from Album with laid down watercolours made between 1865 and 1877 in Kathiawar, Bombay, Poona, Mahabaleshwar and Savantvadi State, dated 1865-1877.

Above the plain around the town of Palitana rises Sa... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare Photographs
View of the Jain stupa as excavated, Kankali Tila, Mathura - 1889

Photograph of the Jain Stupa at Kankali Tila, Mathura, taken by Edmund William Smith c.1889. Mathura has extensive archaeological remains as it was a large and important city from the middle of the first millennium onwards. It r... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare Photographs
Jaina temple, Chittanur, Singavaram, South Arcot District - 1894

Photograph of the Jain temple at Chittamur from the 'Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Madras, 1894-95'. Chittamur is situated several kilometres east of Gingee in Tamil Nadu. This is a view from an elevated position ou... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare Paintings
JAIN COSMOLOGY is the description of the shape and functioning of the physical and metaphysical Universe (loka) and its constituents (such as living, matter, space, time etc.) according to Jainism, which includes the canonical Jain texts, commentaries and the writings of the Jain philosopher-monk... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare Photographs
Jain temple at Sonagiri near Dattia - 1880

Photograph with a view of the Jaina temples at Sonagiri near Datia in Madhya Pradesh, taken by Deen Dayal in the 1880s, part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views. The gentle hills of Sonagiri are the site of dozens of Jaina temples, the bui... Read More
 21 Jun 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Heart of Jainism
By Mrs.Sinclair Stevenson
Published by Humphrey Milford, London - 1915

INTRODUCTION

To the general public Jainism is little more than a mere name, and even students of the Religions of India have often failed to give it the attention it well may claim. T... Read More