Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.473

v3.c43.t1.473

Near the dam of the Or-sagar, there was a vast number of funeral memorials, termed Nisia,² of the Jain priesthood. One is dated “the 3rd of Magh, S. 1066 (A.D. 1010), on which day Srimant Deo, Chela, or disciple, of Acharya Srimana Dewa, left this world.” The bust of the Acharya, or doctor, is in a studious posture, the book lying open upon the Thuni or cross, which forms a reading-desk, often the only sign of the nisia to mark a Jain place of sepulture.