Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

SR No.: 002003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 414
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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was dedicated to the god Pārsvanātha. Its ancient name was Apakki and it had some other Digambara temples ; for details, see P. B. Desai, Jainism in South India etc., pp. 179 f.
6. Aghäţa :-Its present name is Ābar and it is situated near the well-known Udaipur city of Rajasthan. It was a well-known Svetāmbara centre from the 10th century A.D. The Pārsvanātha temple of this place is as old as 972 A.D. It had also a temple of Mabāvira. Several Jain manuscripts were copied at this place and it is mentioned as a tirtha in the 10th-century poem the Satyapuriya Mahavira Utsaha. For some other details on Āghāta, see K. C. Jain, op. cit., pp. 222 ff.
7. Agra :-From the days of Akbar, Agra became a centre of Jainism and by the end of the 17th century, it had as many as 48 Jina temples. This is known from a poem called Argalapura Jinavandana-Argalapura being the Jain name for Agra. Hiravijaya visited this place in V.S. 1639 during Akbar's rule. See for details, Bharat ke Digambara Jaina Tirtha, I, pp. 58 ff; and Tirtha Darsan, I, p. 131 ; and Nabar, Jain Inscriptions, I, Nos, 295, 307, 309, 310, 311, 322, 433 and 506; also ibid., II, Nos. 1442 ff.
8. Ahicchatra :-From very early times, Ahicchatra was a centre of Svetāmbara Jainism. It is identical with the present-day Ramnagar in Bareilly district of U. P (see Cunningham A.G.I, ed. S. N. Majumdar, pp. 412 ff); see also Law, H.G.A.1, pp. 63 f. Jinaprabha, the author of the Vividhatirthakalpa (p. 14) has connected this place with Pārsvanatha, and as we have already seen, in our earlier volume (supra, pp. 93ff.) Pārśva temple of this place existed as early as the second century A.D. Jinaprabha gives a very vivid account of this place and mentions at least two Jina temples of Ahicchatra and other temples, dedicated to Hindu deities like Hari, Hara, Hiranyagarbha, Caņņikā etc. There is little doubt that as the late as the days of Jinaprabha, this place used to attract Jain pilgrims. The only Digambara work of antiquity to refer to this great