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setting up the image ) was performed by Gnānachandrasūri,23 The inscriptions at the foot of many images in the cells near the principal temple show that many of them were set up about this time. In the Gudbamandapa, we see, even to-day, the statues of Gosala and Gunadevi, the "grand-father and grand-mother of Vijada respectively and of Mahanasimha and Minaladevi, the parents of Laligasimha. These statues were set up in the year V.S. 1378 ( A. D. 1322 ) when the 'pratistba’ of the temple was performed.24
Tejabpala's temple was repaired by Pethada Sanghavi, sou of Chandasimha in V. S. 1378 (A. D. 1321-2) when he had come on a pilgrimage to Mt. Abn, with the Jain congregation.25
There was a famine in Gujarata in the V. years 1376-77. So Bhima gave away large sums of money in charity. This Bhima was probably Bhimashah who erected Bhimasimhaprasad on Mt. Abu. a 6
In V. S. 1394 (A. D. 1337-1338 ), Mantri Bhāvāka, son of Mantri Jagasimba and grand
(23) Prachina Jaina Lekha Sangraha, II, No. 132 (24) Ibid, No. 132 (25) Jayantavijaya, Abu, p. 92
(26) Desai, Jain Sahityano Itihasa, p. 429 Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
