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146 Ambikā
temple dedicated to Ambika at Kāshrada (Kāśindra), near Karṇāvati (Ahmedabad) in Gujarat. (The temple was founded between A.D. 1225 and 1235.) The 24th deva-kulika in the Lūņa Vasahi complex (Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, 2nd quarter of the 13th century A.D.) also enshrines a large cult image of Ambika, which possibly suggests that this deva-kulika was dedicated to Ambikā. An independent shrine dedicated to Dharma-devī (Ambikā), the Yakṣi of Neminatha, is situated to the south of the Vardhamana temple at Tirupparuttikkuṇram.8
1. The most important images and temples were in Mathura, Urjayantagiri (Mt. Girnar), Hastinapura, Ahicchatră and Pratiṣṭhānpura.
2. The list is mainly based on the information kindly supplied by Prof. M.A. Dhaky.
3. गृहीत - चक्राप्रतिचक्र देवता तथोर्जयन्तालय-सिंह-वाहिनी ।
शिवाय यस्मिन्निह सन्निधीयते क्व तत्र विघ्नाः प्रभवन्ति शासने । ।
Hari-vaṁśa-purāṇa, 66. 44.
4. Jaina Tirtha Sarva Samgraha (Ed. Ambalal Premchand Shah), Vol I, Ahmedabad, 1943, p. 128.
5. Ibid., p. 128.
6. श्री-अम्बिका - महादेव्या ऊर्जयन्ताचलोपरि । प्रासादः कारितः प्रौढः सामलेन सु-भावतः । ।
Jaina Tirtha Sarva Samgraha, Vol. 1, Pt. I, pp. 128-29.
7. The figure of Ambika is a later replacement but the parikara is original. 8. Ramachandran, T.N., op. cit., p. 20.
