Structural Temples of Gujarat

SR No.: 006728
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kantilal F Sompura
Publisher: Gujarat University Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 868
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 31 MB

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The Structural Temples of Gujarat construction of certain temples which may be ascribed to this period on the bases of the chronological references contained therein. According to the Jain tradtion. Venivatsarāja a contemporary of the famous Jain monk Ārya Khapuțācārya (the beginning of the 1st Cent. A. D )6 was formerly a Buddhist and got built a temple dedicated to the Buddhist goddess Tārādevi in a city known as Tārāura (SK. Tārāpura).? Ārya Khapuțācārya, then converted the said Venivastarāja to Jain faith and the temple of Tarādevi was converted into the temple dedicated to Siddhāyikā, a Jain goddess 8
There was a temple dedicated to Munisuvrata known as Sakunikā-vihāra at Bharukaccha in the time of Ārya Khapuțācārya.9
Pădaliptasüri flourished probably, in the early centuries of the Vikram Era.10 Nāgāriuna, his desciple, built the city known as Padaliptapura (Palitana) and erected a Jain temple on Satrunjya consecrating the images of Mahāvira and Padaliptasūri therein 17 Nāgarjuna also consecrated the image of Pārsvanatha at Stambhanaka 12 (Thamana) which naturally implies the existence of a Jain temple there. (iii) The Period of the Kșatrapa Rule ( 78 A. D.-c. 400 A. D.)
About the end of the 1st cent. A. D., the Kuşāna Emperor Kaniska I seems to have extended his power over central and western India. Bhūmaka is the earliest known Ksatrapa in 5 Kumārpāla pratibodha of Somaprabhācarya (composed in V. S. 1241) (1145 A. D.) (G. O. S.) Int. p. iii. 6. PC. V. w 143-146; JSSI p. 99; JASG. p. 60. 7. This city is identifed with Taranga : vide JTSS Vol I pt.l. p. 146. 8. Kumārapāla pratibodha : Ārya Khapuțācārya Kathā, p. 442-443. 9. The said temple was restored by minister Ambada, the son of Minister Udayana in V. S. 1221-22. (Vividha Tirtha Kalpa pp. 20-22) 10. Nirvāṇakalikā, Int. p. 16. 11. Prabhāvaka carita ( revised in 1277 A.D.), Pādaliptacaritam vv. 247-306 12. Stambhanaka Tirthotpatti Prabandha.