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twice been restored previous to Sudarśana, viz., by the pre-historical emperors Padma ( i.e., Śrī Rāma ) and Harişeņa. After the restoration effected by Sudarśana, it is related to have been renewed by the Śrāvaka King Samprati, Asoka's grand-son, who, according to Jaina belief, never tired of building and restoring temples of the Tīrtharkaras, nor of installing their images, though there are historians who doubt his existence. Then followed a restoration effected, on Siddhasena's advice, by the great Vikramāditya, who, in the essential aspects, shares Samprati's fate. The subsequently reported events indicate that the poet indeed refers to the ‘Samvatsarapravartaka' of 56 A.D., though in reality, Siddhasena was not contemporary with the latter, but with some Gupta-Vikramāditya27.
The sacred place fell then into the hands of the Bauddhas, from whom Ācārya Khapuța wrangled it back 484 years after the Vīra-Nirvāṇa, i.e., 14 years previous to the Vikrama Saṁvat. In the Vīra-Nirvāṇa Saṁvat 845, i.e., 375 V.S., the 'Turuşkas', having destroyed Valabhĩ, tried to take Broach, but were repulsed by the intervention of the divine incarnation of Sudarśana. In the ViraNirvāņa year 884, i.e., 414 V.S., the influence of the Bauddhas, who had again gained preponderence there, was paralysed by the Jaina ascetic Mallavādin, whose identity is not clearly established.
The temple is also related to have been restored by King “Sātavāhana', and the subsequent consecration to have been performed by the well-known Jainācarya Pādalipta Sūri, who is credited with the authorship of several works preserved up till now. A monograph on Padalipta Sūri contained in the same 'Prabhāvaka-carita' which relates that event28, is however, so seriously marred by chronological improbabilities, that his date is still a subject of discussion. The fact that Āryarakṣita, who is assumed to have died in V.S. 127, mentions Pādalipta as the author of 'Taramgavai' in his Anuyogadvāra-Sūtra, makes it appear that Pādalipta Sūri must have flourished before that date, so that those inconsistencies would dissolve themselves into mere anachronisms, due perhaps to the
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