Petroglyph depicting a two rows of seated Buddhas
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Title:
Petroglyph depicting a two rows of seated Buddhas
Series Title:
Jaina Heritage in Pakistan = پاکستان میں جین مت
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One of three rocks belonging to Jainism, Gilgit-Baltistan
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One of three petroglyphs belonging to Jainism, Gilgit-Baltistan
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This project was carried out in collaboration by principal investigator Dr Peter Flügel of the Centre of Jaina Studies (SOAS) with a research team of the Nusrat Jahan College (NJC) in Rabwah coordinated by Dr Mirza Naseer Ahmad, comprisng Mr Muzaffar Ahmad (research officer ), Mr Asif Mahmood Rana (photographs and data collections), Mr Naeem Ahmad (maps), Mrs Tahira Siddiqa (maps), Mr Abdul Khaliq (design), Mr Umar Hanan (editing), with additional help of local historians of Jainism in North India, Ravinder Jain and Purushottam Jain.
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The work was sponsored through a generous gift of Baron Dilip Mehta of Antwerp. Key contributors were PI Dr Peter Flügel (SOAS), Dr Mirza Naseer Ahmad (NJC), coordinator of work in Pakistan, and RO Mr Muzaffar Ahmad, who analysed data from published sources in Urdu and English and from museums in Pakistan and planned the field research. Fieldwork was conducted and written up by Asif Rana, and maps were produced by Naeem Ahmad and Tahira Siddiqa (all NJC). Ravinder Jain of Maler Kotla and Purushottam Jain of Mandi Gobindgarh in India provided invaluable background information about locations of Jaina sites in Pakistan, based on prior research (Jain & Jain 1974) and communications from Sādhvī Svarṇakāntā (1929-2001) (born in Lahore), Dr Sādhvī Arcanā (family from Rawalpindi), Mahindra Kumar Jain (Co-researcher of the late Hiralal Duggar in Panch Kula), and others, and from Iqbal Qaisar in Lahore, who conducted independent research on the same subject. See Qaisar (2018). Valuable information was also supplied by Noel Q. King (1922-2009) of Corralitos in California (born in Taxila), who in 2003 researched the Jain temples and institutions in Pakistan but had his notes stolen on a train, and Raj Kumar Jain (born in Jhelum), stalwart of the Śvetāmbara refugee community in Delhi. They were interviewed by PI on 8.6.2005 and 23.2.2017 respectively. Further interviews were conducted with informants in Meerut, Jaipur, Bikaner, etc.
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Credits: Dr Peter Flügel (principal investigator and lead collaborator), Dr Tahira Saeed, Deputy Director (BPS-18) National Archives of Pakistan, Islamabad (co-investigator), Dr Mirza Naseer Ahmad, Deputy Director Nazarat Taleem and HoD Earth Sciences Department, Nusrat Jahan College (NJC) (collaborator and project manager), Mr Muzaffar Ahmad (NJC) (research officer), Mr Asif Mahmood Rana (NJC) (photographs and data collection), Mr Naeem Ahmad, Mrs Tahira Siddiqa (all NJC) (maps), Mr Abdul Khaliq (NJC) (designing), Mr Umar Hanan (NJC) (editing), Mr Ahtesham Aziz Chaudhary, Research Officer at Lahore Museum (collaborator), Mr Ravinder Jain, Maler Kotla (collaborator), Mr Purushottam Jain, Mandi Gobindgarh (collaborator), Dr Sādhvī Arcanā (collaborator).
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For more information about Jaina Heritage in Pakistan, see: Flügel, Peter and Ahmad, Muzaffar (2018) 'An Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan.' Jaina Studies - Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, 13. pp. 26-32. (article last referenced online at https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25638/)
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Photograph dated 2018
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Geo-references here are approximate

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Nusrat Jahan College, Rabwah
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SOAS University of London
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