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Neal Asher describes humans possessed by hostile "Jain" technology as "abhuman figures" in his science fiction novel Polity Agent.
Abigail R. Jain is an Indian Television actress best known for her lead role in TV series Humse Hai Liife and also for her supporting roles in in the Hindi television drama Kya Dill Mein Hai as Kakoon and as Madhu in Sajan Ghar Jaana Hai.
The inscriptions give the names of 32 separate Jain communities that had built these temples, including Golapurva, Parwar, Khandelwal, Golalare, Jaiswal etc.
The ED, Delhi, arrested Jain from his Carmichael Road residence in Mumbai after 18 months in various courts.
The Baba Dharam Dass is worshiped as ancestor by all Jains from the village of Pasrur in Sialkot District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Starting in 1121, Hemachandra was involved in the construction of the Jain temple at Taranga.
According to a legend mentioned in Jain texts, her husband Chandragupta's Guru and advisor Chanakya used to feed the emperor with small doses of poison to build his immunity against possible poisoning attempts by enemies.
The idea was conceived by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, president of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, at a Hindu-Jain Temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1987.
Eri Naam Prem is a 2006 romantic Bengali film directed by Sujit Guha and produced by Naresh Kumar Jain under the banner of Eskay Movies.
Born in Fu Zhou, Fu Jain, China, he was the chief engineer of the Burma Road.
Population wise Guda Endla village is dominated by Meenas, Meghwal, Chaudhary and Jain castes.
Among the honours he received were a doctorate from the University of Calcutta where he had gone in the winter of 1913-14 to lecture on poetics, while the Jain community conferred the title Jain Darshan Divakar — Sun of the Jain doctrine — upon him.
The Jain Tirthankara Parshva is said to have attained Kaivalya at Ahichhatra.
Hum Pyar Tumhi Se Kar Baithe is a 2002 Indian Bollywood film directed by Mohan Singh Rathor and produced by Ratan Jain.
It is produced by Ravi Jain & Karan Bali and stars Sharry Maan, Rannvijay Singh, Mandy Takhar, Gulzar Chahal, Miss Pooja Vinaypal Buttar, Gunjan Walia and Prabhleen Sandhu, the film also has a song titled 'Khalaara' by Yo Yo Honey Singh.
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948 was a memorable event in Dr. Jain's life.
Since then, this emblem is used in almost all of the Jain magazines, on wedding cards, on Jain festival cards (for Kshamavani, Diwali, etc.), and in magazines with links to events related to Jain society.
The JAINA Ratna award is distinct from the 26 Jain Ratna awards given by the Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the occasion of Lord Mahavira's 2600th birth anniversary celebrations.
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma (जैन धर्म), is a religion and philosophy
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Jain Irrigation Systems (often known as Jain Irrigation, JISL, or simply Jains) is a canonical of a multinational organization based in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
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List of Jains, a list of people who follow the Jain Dharma religion
The film has five songs sung by Debojit Saha (of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa fame), Pamela Jain, Reshma, and Krishna Daulatani.
Rai Sahib Karam Chand Jain was the first Legal Advisor of the War & Supply Department of India and Special Police Establishment (SPE), which later developed into the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
According to a Saivite legend, after his re-conversion, he ordered a massacre of 8000 Jains in Samanatham.
Kundakunda (also Kundkund) is a celebrated Jain Acharya, Jain scholar monk, 2nd century CE, composer of spiritual classics such as: Samayasara, Niyamasara, Panchastikayasara, Pravachansara, Atthapahuda and Barasanuvekkha.
In November 2013 the Centre appointed former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Ajit Prakash Shah as the New chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India in place of D.K Jain who has taken over as president National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Shah will have a three-year tenure and has been saddled with a wide terms of reference including one to examine existing laws from the gender equality perspective and suggest necessary amendments.
Theravada Buddhist tradition has long held that the Pāli language was synonymous with the ancient Magadha language; and indeed, there are many remarkable analogies between Pāli and an old form of Magadhi Prakrit known as Ardhamagadhi ("Half Magadhi"), which is preserved in ancient Jain texts.
Acharya Mahashraman (born 13 May 1962) is the eleventh Acharya, supreme head of Jain Swetembar Terapanth group.
The Jain poet Devachandra (1770–1841), a native of Kankagiri, was in the court of Krishnaraja III and authored three noted works: Pujyapada Charite, a poem on the life of the Jain saint Pujyapada in sangatya metre; Ramakathavatara, the poet's Jain version of the Hindu epic Ramayana in champu metre; and Rajavalikathe (1838), a biographical account of the Mysore royal family, some earlier poets, and stories of religious importance.
In 1656, Shah Jahan's son Murad Baksh (the then Governor of Gujarat) granted the village of Palitana to the prominent Jain merchant Shantidas Jhaveri.
Jain worked as a design assistant in some of the prestigious European fashion houses Fritzi, San Francisco and later worked with leading couturiers Jacqueline De Brey in San Francisco and Ulrich Engler in London.
Kallidai has worked on various community projects with the Muslim Council of Britain, the Catholic Bishops Conference, Churches Together in England and Wales, the Church of England, Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Office of the Chief Rabbi, the Network of Sikh Organisations, Sikhs in England, National Spiritual Assembly of Baha'is in UK, Network of Buddhist Organisations, Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe and the Jain Samaj Europe.
Auletta, Ken: “Citizens Jain - Why India's Newspaper Industry is Thriving“.
Jain temples ornamenting the landscapes of Rajasthan and Gujarat (including those at Mount Abu, Palitana and Osian) bear testimony to the support extended by Rajput rulers to the Jain tradition.
After a gap of about nearly two thousand years following composition of Tattvartha Sutra by Acharya Umasvati this was the first text to be recognized by all Jain sects.
It further defines and catalogues the main substances of the Jain religion from a different perspective than the Sthananga Sutra.
It is said that Samprati built thousands of Jain Temples in India, many of which are still in use, such as the Jain temples at Viramgam and Palitana (Gujarat), Agar Malwa (Ujjain).
Other contemporary inter-disciplinary environmentalists include Wendell Berry, a farmer, poet, and academic living in Kentucky, who fights for small farms and criticizes agri-business; and Satish Kumar, a former Jain monk and founder of Schumacher College, a center for ecological studies.
The long lost Jain community in eastern India is named Sarak, recalling its jain background.
The 1904 St. Louis Jain temple is a historic structure that was constructed for the 1904 St. Louis World’s fairs, termed "Louisiana Purchase Exposition".
Some scholars believe that Jain philosophy must have entered South India some time in 6th century B.C. Literary sources and inscription state that Bhadrabahu came over to Shravanabelagola with a 12000-strong retinue of Jain sages when north India found it hard to negotiate with the 12 year long famine in the reign of Chandragupta Maurya.
Taran Panth, also a Digambar Jain sect, should not be confused with Terapanth
The Tiloya Panatti is a Prakrit work in the Jain Shauraseni dialect and has been composed primarily in the Arya metre.
Dr. Jain is also a reviewer for the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, the flagship journal of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS).
His exposure of the 1990s Jain Hawala scandal led him to use a public interest petition to apply pressure on the Central Bureau of Investigation.
It stars Arya Babbar, Yuvraj Hans (son of Hans Raj Hans), Harish Verma, Jividha Ashta, Kajal Jain, Jenny Ghottra in lead roles and directed by Anurag Singh.