Temples of Kumbhariya

SR No.: 001571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky, U S Moorty
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 394
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Art
File Size: 34 MB

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The Temples in Kumbhariyā
sources literary or epigraphical—nor is there clarity in most instances on the question of the particular political state they served. They will be introduced here in chronological order.
1. Bhāņdāgārika Jindaka
Bhāndāgārika or treasurer Jindaka's name is reported from four inscriptions in the Mahāvīra temple, namely one of S.1140/A.D. 1084 (Insc. 5), and three of S.1142/A.D. 1086 (Insc. 7, 8, 9) from which it can be inferred that the members of the family were actively involved in setting up the images of Yugādideva (Jina Rsabha), Jina Sambhavanātha, Jina Abhinandana, and Jina Supārsvanātha (each one supposedly to be in an individual devakulikā or a devakulikā-khattaka). The following is the family tree that can be constructed from the inscriptional data:
(Nemi?)
Pradyumna = Sajanī
Varanadeva/Saranadeva = Pāhiņā/Pāhini
Thātika
Vanā = d. Pāru
(A.D. 1086)
Sarvvadeva (A.D. 1084)
Bhāņdāgārika Dhāndā Rājila = Jindaka = Jasavai
(Yaśomati)
d. Rambha
Jindaka had two wives, Rājila and Jasavai. From the order of the Jinas' names that can be traced from the inscriptions, it is hinted that the family may originally have set up the images of those beginning from the first (Jina Rşabha) to the seventh, Supārsvanātha, even when inscription of S.1140/A.D. 1084 (Insc. 6) is too fragmentary intended perhaps to refer to the second tīrthankara Ajitanātha?) and two more which, by inference, may have been for Padmaprabha the fifth Jina and Sumati-nātha the sixth Jina are missing. Seemingly, it is this family which initiated the programme of the installation of images in the subsidiary shrines in the Mahāvīra temple soon after A.D. 1080.
2. Mahattama Sā(Santi
An inscription of A.D. 1082 (Insc. 23) in the Sāntinātha temple mentions one Jindaka' as the father of mahattama Sā(Sā)nti. It is not clear whether this Jindaka is