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some task, because the writing on the rock in several places has been more or less effaced. 30
The Vidhicaitya Movement
The Jangla Jaina inscription of V.E. 1176 shows the spread of the Vidhicaitya movement, so eagerly sponsored by many Jaina Ācāryas of the period, to such remote regions of Rajputana as the south of Bikaner,31 The inscription records the setting up of an image of Santipatha in a Vidhicaitya at Jangalakapa, now known as Jangala, a village twenty-four miles to the south of Bikaner. The Ajayapur Jaina inscription of V.B. 11768 also seems to be the outcome of that very widespread movement of the consecration of the Vidhlcaityas Ajayapura seems to be merely another name of Jångalaküpa'.88
30 Kielhorn, "Bijoli Rock Inscription: The Uttama-sikhara-Purana", JRAS, 1906,
p. 700 and p. 701. 31 Dasharath Sharma, "The Jangalu Inscription of V.E. 1176", The Jaina Antiquary,
Vol. IV, No. 2, Sept. 1938, p. 63. 32 Dasharath Sharma, "Another Jaina Inscription of V. E. 1176", The Jatna Anti:
quary, Vol. V. No. 1, June 1939. p. 27, 33 Ibid.
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