audiobook Hindu Kingdoms of South by Anil Saxena in History

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In twelve chapters under two Sections the treatise presents the panorama of Jaina icons in their age-long growth; often; with reference to comparable and borrowed concepts from the cognate faiths; Brahmanism and Buddhism. Though Jainism subsists in the belief in man's elevation and emancipation by himself; and therefore; has very little; or no; supernaturalism in the forms of its originators; the TTrtharikaras; yet in the ages that followed; there grew quite a large number of icons with extra-normal features by the touch of the waves of Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric Hinduism.The volume has treated this developed iconography with references to the relevant back-drop of literature. It has taken into account the early forms; the Tirthankara images; studied their pedestals and followed them in their steady growth with the yaksa-yaksinl-s ushered in as Sasanadevatas. Gradually; further; the affairs of the mundane world with responsibilities for social peace; field protection; care of children and motherhood; and others; were considered with a social outlook; and concepts of Brahmas'anti; Ksetra-pala; Harinaigamesin and others came to be formally represented with definite and codified iconography-which all are aptly dealt with through appropriate illustrations.