Holy Abu

SR No.: 023259
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayantvijay
Publisher: Yashovijay Jain Granthmala
Publication Year: 1954
Total Pages: 380
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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Ekatirthika (representing one Jina only) Jina images of metal-3.
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Sculpture of Shri Puṇḍarika svāmi-1. Sculpture of Shri Gautama svāmi-1. Sculpture of the goddess Ambika-1. Outside The Compound of the Pittalahara Temple:
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To the right of the main entrance to the Pittalahara temple is a small apartment reserved for Jaina devotees for taking their bath before performing worship. In front of this bath-room is a platform round a Champaka-tree, with a small cell dedicated to yaksha Māņibhadra enshrined in it. Near the cell are four Surahi stones with inscriptions on them. One inscription, much defaced, is illegible while the other three are partly deciphered. Of these, two, inscribed in V.S. 1483, refer to some endowments of lands and villages to these shrines.1 The third is an inscription of Rajadhara Devaḍā Chunda, the Chauhāņa ruler of Abu, inscribed in the year 1489. According to it, Rājadhara Devadā Chuṇḍā, Devaḍā Sānḍā, Minister Nathu and other Samantas (petty chieftains ) jointly proclaimed exemption for all times from pilgrim's-tax of visitors to the three shrines called the Vimala Vasahi, the Lūņa Vasahi and the Pittalahara temple. The proclamation was drafted by Satyaraja gani, the pupil of Somasundara suri of the Tapa gaccha. It seems that this proclamation was made at the advice of this monk or some other monk of his gaccha. The record is only partly deciphered.
1. Abu, Vol. II. Inscriptions nos. 246 and 247.
2. Abu, Vol. II. Inscription no. 248. Chunda of the Devaḍa branch of the Chauhaņas was a samanta of the Mahārāva of Sirohi and ruled ove Abu. He was the son of Devaḍā Kumbhā the son of Devaḍā Visā. For further information about Chunda and his son Dũngarasimha, see, Abu, vol. II inscriptions nos. 407, 408, 410, 411 and 462.