Article: Candraprabha

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Candraprabha and spiritual attendants

Pictures 16 and 17 on this page show a Digambara statue of the eighth Jina, Candraprabha, and his yakṣa and yakṣī. The sculpture comes from eastern India and dates back to the tenth century.

The HereNow4U website provides text and pictures from Gerd Mevissen's lecture, 'North Bengal (Ancient Varendra): An Innovative Sub-Centre of Jaina Sculptural Art'. This was delivered on 7 March 2008 at the tenth Jaina Studies Workshop, on the theme of Jaina Art and Architecture, held at SOAS in London.

http://www.herenow4u.net/index.php?id=65026

Jinas in art – fact file

The Victoria and Albert Museum provides an illustrated summary of iconography associated with images of Jinas. The information is also available to download in a PDF. 

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/jina-fact-file/

The 24 Jinas at the 'Victorious Ones' exhibition

This page from the Rubin Museum of Art website gives brief information for each of the Jinas. The page was produced to accompany the New York museum's exhibition called 'Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection', which ran from 18 September 2009 to 15 February 2010

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http://www.rmanyc.org/images/flash/24Jinas.swf

Praise of the Jinas

This 2010 YouTube video features a rendition of a hymn to the Jinas, sung in Gujarati. A stuti is an old prayer, usually in Prakrit or Apabhraṁśa, that can be either chanted or recited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7mIWJEPpc

Shri Chandrapuri Tirth

The Jainuniversity.org website provides practical information about the pilgrimage site of Chandrapuri or  Chandravati in Uttar Pradesh. This small town is home to two temples dedicated to the eighth Jina, Candraprabha. The older one was built in 1832 by the Śvetāmbara sect while the Digambara Jains have a temple some thirty years younger. 

http://www.jainuniversity.org/tirth-places/jain-tirth-place-details.aspx?id=157

Temples at Chandrapuri

Information about the temples dedicated to Candraprabha in Chandrapuri in Uttar Pradesh is available on Jinalaya.com. The Śvetāmbara temple was built in 1832 while the Digambara temple was completed in 1856. The town is closely associated with the eighth Jina, who experienced four of his five auspicious events – pañca-kalyāṇaka – there.

http://www.jinalaya.com/india/chandrapuri.htm