Jivaraj Papriwal
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Jivaraja Paprival was the installer of as many as 100,000 Jain images in the 15th century, now found in Jain temples all over India. He was a trader in the town of Modasa believed to be in Gujarat. He
Two idols consecrated by Jivaraj Papriwal with a modern idol in the middle, Bilahri Jain Temple, Katni
Digambara
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Digambara is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Śvetāmbara. The Sanskrit word Digambara means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic practice of neither possessing n
Jivaraj Papriwal
…commissioned teams of workers to cut slabs of marble from quarries and employed armies of craftsmen to carve the images. संवत १५४८ वर्षे वैशाख सुदी ३ श्री मूलसंघे श्री जिनचन्द्रदेव साह जीवराज पपडीवाल नित्यं प्रणमंति सहर मुडासा राजा स्योसिंघ On April 12, 1491, Bhattaraka Jinachandra Deva of Mula Sangh supervised…
Idol of Mahavira at Shri Mahavir Ji Temple, depicting Digambara iconography
Image depicting Acharya Kundakunda
Jain temple painting explaining Anekantavada with Blind men and an elephant
The longest inscription at the site, and the earliest known Tamil-Brāhmī inscription. It records the gift by the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ of a monastery to the senior Jain monk Nanta-siri Kuvaṉ.