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Arvind Kumar Singh
The inscription for the first time tells that there existed a gaccha named after Pañcāsara, and it was an emanation of the famous Nāgemdra kula. It is likely that, even the first foundation of the Pancāsara Pārsvanātha belonged to the abbot of the Nāgemdra kula, the temple built by Vanarāja Căpotkața (c. A. D. 818-900).
Notes and References 1. Prācina Jaina Lekha Samgraha, pt. 2, pravarttak Sri Kāmtivijaya Jaina
Itihāsamālā, Vol. VI, Bhavanagara, 1921, p. 321. 2. The temple was dedicated to Jana Pārsvanātha and founded by Vanarāja
Cāpotkata in the last two decades of the 9th cent. A. D. Image is said to have been more ancient and was brought to Aņhillapattana from Pancāsara, the ancestral town of Vanarāja. According to Prof. M. A. Dhaky, the vilāsamandapa is identical with the rangamandapa, aha hall common in the medieval Jaina temple ensembles. There are several instances of adding such halls in the medieval times to the earlier foundations.
For detail see here Prof. M. A. Dhaky's paper “The Nāgendra-gaccha". 5. Punyavijaya Sūri (ed.), Singhi Jaina Series, Number 32, Bombay, 1961,
pp. 62-64.
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