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Period & Date.
908 A. D.
910 A. D.
915 A. D.
917 A. D.
The Jaina Chronology
Events.
355
Vik: Sam. 964. Yasóbhadra-Sari of the Samdera gachcha found a Jaina temple at Nadalai (Marwar)
Ref. JSCH., XI, No. 7-9, PP. 415-16.
705+200=905 after the death of Vikram. Rise of the Mathura Samgha under Ramasena at Mathura according to Devasena.
Dandanay ka Śrivijaya, also known as Arivingoja and Anupamakavi, probably flourished about this period. In the Danavulapad pillar inscription, he is described as a subordinate to King Indra (or Narendra), who is identified with the Rastrakuta Nityavarsa-Indra III (A. D. 915, 916-7). Like the famous Ganga general Chamunḍaraya or Chavunḍaraya, who served the western Ganga sovereigns Marasimha II and Rachamalla II and largely patronised Jaina literature and religion, Srivijaya was unsurpassed in the military art as in the literary, patronised Jainism and resigned the world in the end, as a pious Jaina, in order to seek salvation. Ref: Ep. Ind. X, 149-50.
Vik Sam. 973. King Vidagdharāja Rastrakuta flourished. Through the advice of his spiritual preceptor Vasudevasûri, he built a Jaina temple at Hastikunḍiká (Hathaṇḍi). The prince had himself weighed against gold, of which two-third were alloted to the Jina, and the remainder to the Jaina preceptor. He made some further donations in favour of