Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t16: Light and Fuel
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c9.t16
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Light and Fuel
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Lamps are mentioned which were lighted after sunset. Three kinds of lamps are referred to, viz., avalambana, utkampana and pañjara. The first was fastened by chains, the second had upright shafts and the third was spherical like globe.¹⁹² The lamps were lighted in the shrines of Skanda and Mukunda where sometimes the images caught fire by the upturning of the lamps by dogs or mice.¹⁹³ Torch-bearers (dīviya) were also a familiar feature of the times.¹⁹⁴ Cow-dung and wood were used as fuel.
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¹⁹² See Nayā Ṭī., 1, 42a, under marriage gifts
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¹⁹³ Brh Bhā. 2. 3465.
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¹⁹⁴ Nisī. cū., 9, p 522
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- Bṛhatkalpalaghubhāṣya — Saṅghadāsagaṇi Kṣamāśramaṇa, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit