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Arbudachala]
dated in V. S. 1426 (1370 A. D.).
An inscription in the Mahāvīra temple at Bhillamāla (West of Abu ) dated in V. S. 1334 ( 1278 A. D. ) says that Mahāvīra had visited Bhillamāla.
(3) Mahendra Sūri ( of Anchalagachcha ) in his Ashtot. tarī-Tīrthamālā (verse 97), composed in V. S. 1300 (A. D. 1243 ), says that Mahāvīra had been to Arbudabhūmi.
In the twelfth or thirteenth century A. D., there were twelve villages or towns on Mount Ābu. In the maps of the Sirohī State (merged in Rājasthān after 1947 A. D.), fourteen villages were shown, they are :-S'era. Ākhī, Utaraja, Jāvāi, Oriyā, Achalagaờh, Delvādā, Govā, Sālagāma, Toraņā, Hețamaji, Masagāma and Āraņā. But of these three to four villages cannot be traced now, obvious. ly because they' are submerged in the newly developed ĀbuCamp area.
Local legends say that one Rasiyā Vālama had constructed as many as twelve different roads (pāja), on the different sides of the mountain, for reaching its top.
At present a bus-service plies between Ābu Road and Ābu Camp (on the plateau ) on a well built tar-road. The fare from Āba Road to the Abu Camp is Re. 1-1-0 for Second Class and Re. Il- or Rs. 2/- for each passenger. Special taxis are also available. Another bus service runs on a rather uneven 14 miles long metallic road between Ābu Road and Ambāji ( Ārāstira ).
1 For further references. see, Achatagadh ( Abu, Vol. II). pp. 7-8.
