Some Early Jaina Temples in Western India

SR No.: 250310
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky
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Language: English
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SOME EARLY JAINA TEMPLES IN WESTERN INDIA: 297
In addition, he founded a shrine sacred to Jina Santinātha at Sāyaṇavāḍapura. Minister Vägbhatta, son of Udayana, replaced the old. temple of Adinatha on Satruñjaya by a new edifice between 1155 and 1157. He also extended Udayanavihāra at Dholka in 1167. His brother Amrabhatta replaced the antiquated Sakuni caitya at Bhṛgukaccha (Bharuch, Broach) by a magnificent new shrine in 1166.
Excelling all, were the constructional works by the two illustrious brothers, Vastupala and Tejapala, the former being the Prime Minister to the Vaghela Regent Viradhavala. A statesman of extraordinary ability, Vastupala was an equally great literary figure and perhaps a still greater devotee of Jainism. Put together, the religious edifices founded by the two brothers go upward of fifty, a figure that would put to shame any emperor in the Middle Ages in India. Chief among these. were the Indramandapa and six other shrines in front of the great temple of Adinatha on Satruñjaya by Vastupala, the Vastupälavihara (1231) and temple to Pärávanatha on Mt. Girnar, temple sacred to Adinatha at Dholka, and Aṣṭāpada Prāsāda at Prabhasa. Tejapala founded Nandiśvaradvipa caitya on Satruñjaya as well as in Karnavati, a temple to Neminatha at Dholka, on Mt. Girnar, as well as in Dilwara on Mt. Abu (1232), and to Adinatha at Prabhasa. He also founded. Asarājavihāra at Aphilapäțaka in memory of his father and one temple. each at Darbhavati (Dabhoi) and Stambhatirtha to commemorate the name of his mother Kumāradevi.
The late Vaghela times were, by comparison, less lustrous. A few works by the notables of this age, Jagaduśå of Bhadravat! and Pethada of Mandavgarh, seem to be of some consequence. Jagadu founded temples at Dhanka (Dhank), Vardhamana, and Satruñjaya. Pethada's constructional activities were centered at Prabhāsa, Dhavalakakka, Salakṣaṇapura (Shankhalpur), and Satruñjaya.
The recorded instances of foundations by ministers and other dignitaries in Rajasthan are relatively fewer when compared to what we know from Gujarat. The monuments erected between the eighth and the tenth centuries, that is to say when Pratihāras, Cahamānas and Guhilas were supreme, are more numerous in Rajasthan than in Gujarat. By eleventh century, the power of the Guhilas waned against the prowess of the Paramaras of Dhārā; and the Paramāras of Abu and Cahamânas of Sakambhari and Naddula progressively lost ground against the imperial policy of the Solankis of Gujarat. Gujarat rose to heights in mid-eleventh century, all the more in the twelfth century when, under the aegis of Siddharaja and Kumarapala, it acquired the