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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THE JAIN TIRTHAS mentions its association with the famous Svetāmbara saint Aryarakshita.
53. Delavādā :--The Pārsva temple-complex of this place, situated in Junagarh district, was repaired in V.S. 1784. See Tirtha Darsan, II, pp. 414 f.
54. Devagarh :- This great centre of Digambara Jainism in the newly-created Lalitpur district of U. P., probably sprang into the limelight in the Gupta period, although the earliest Jain epigraph, from this place, is dated in the Vikrama year 919 of the reign of Pratīhāra Bhoja (sce supra, Vol. I, p. 167). In the 9th century, it was called Luaccbāgira. Afterwards, it was given the name 'Kirtigiri'. As we have already seen, this temple-complex was under the supervision of the monks of the Mula sangha and the Sarasvati gaccha (see ibid, 1, p. 167). A Candella epigraph also was discovered from this place (sce above, p. 54). As we have already said, this place is surprisingly ignored in the Jain literatura. For a fuller account of the temples of this place, see Bharat ke Digambara Jaina tirtha, I, pp. 179 ff.; and also the classic work of Klaus Brubn, The Jina Images of Deogarh, Leiden, 1969.
55. Devagiri :Devagiri or Daulatabad was also considered a Jain tirtha and the great Jinaprabha wrote a section of his Tirthakalpa at this town (see p. 44). At this place, a Jain work was copied in V.S. 1383 (see Jainapustakaprašasti. sangraha, p. 136). Śrībhushana of the Kashțhā Sangha, Nanditata gaccha composed his Pārsvanatha Purana in V.S. 1654 in the Pārsva temple of Duvagiri (see Bhațjāraka Sampradaya, No. 709). Elsewhere Devagiri has been called a mrhasthana (see ibid., No. 644).
56. Duvakula pătaka :--This tirtha is in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan and is known for its Adinātha temple, which has one of the finest icons of Ķshabhanātha of Rajasthan. It is repeatedly mentioned in the Somasaubhagyakāvya (see Tirtha Darsan, I, pp. 202 f.). The Sridharacarita of Māpikyasundara was written in V.S. 1463, at this town (see