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Inscriptions
107
As for symbolic representations including pattas, several references are there which are tabulated below:
Object
Date
Placement
Insc. No.
Asvapratibodha
A.D. 1282 ?
Neminātha temple
114
Aśvāvabodha-samalikā-vihāra-patta
A.D. 1282
Aștāpada tīrtha with Samavasarana
A.D. 1210
In a special devakulikā, śāntinātha temple
Astāpada tīrtha
A.D. 1310
Neminātha temple
126
Kalyāṇatraya
A.D. 1287
118
Kalyāṇatraya
Undated
119
Kalyāṇatraya
A.D. 1288
120
Nandiśvara patta
A.D. 1267
In the khattaka of the mukhamandapa, Neminātha temple
100
Sammetaśikhara tīrtha
A.D. 1289
Neminātha temple
122
Sattarisayabimba (Saptatiśatabimba)
A.D. 1254
Sattarīsayayantraka (Saptatiśatayantraka)
A.D. 1254
Saptatiśata tīrtha
A.D. 1254
122
Annotations
1. See Śrī. Ārāsaņa Tirtha apara nāma Śrī. Kumbhāriyājī Tīrtha, Śrī Yaśovijaya Jaina
Granthamāļā, Bhāvnagar 1961. For discussion and identification cf., “Vasantagadha-ni Västu-racanão ane Hrşikeśa-nun
Vaisnavāyatana," (Guj.), Svādhyāya, Vol. 7, No. 3, V.S. 2026 (A.D. 1970), pp. 248-256. 3. See Madhusudan Dhāñki and Harisankar Prabhāśankar Šāstrī, "Ārāsaņa-nā be Jaina pratimā
lekho-nī višeşa vācanā," (Guj.), Svādhyāya, Vol. 8, No. 2, V.S. 2027 (A.D. 1971), pp. 189-198. See in this Chapter the relevant inscriptions which are several in number and which give the hagiology of the many pontiffs involved in the Neminātha temple in consecrating the images, pattas etcetera.
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