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सिन्धु-सौबीर-सौराष्ट्र-महाराष्ट्रस्तथान्तराः । देशाः पश्चिमदिक्स्था ये शारदापीठ-सत्कृताः ।।
-HOTF119, . 80. A decree (āgñāpatra ) from it was respected by society as implicitly as the command of the king.
Mahāṣāmanta Candrāditya, who ruled over Harsapura (Harsol) Vişaya under the supremacy of Paramarājādhiraja Kakka II, issued a grant of land to a Brāhmaṇa of Kāśyapa gotra, who was an emigrant of Sānand. The land was situated at Hilohila ( Hilol in Ahmedabad District.)-(H. G. Shastri, Hilol Plates, Buddhi-Parkāśa', XCIX, 294 ff.).
Revenue records were carefully preserved in the Râșțrakūţa administration, as well as during the Maitraka regime. A renewal of a grant of land by king Dhruvasena II in 639 A.D. is recorded; because the previous grant issued by Droņazimha had been in abeyance during the intervening period.
Dhruva I of the Gujarat Rāştrakūța branch had alienated a village named Trenna in favour of a Brāhmaṇa. This grant was renewed by his grandson Dhruva II when he ascended the throne. When Gujarat Branch came to an end by the annexation of its dominions by the Mālkhed house, a descendant of the previous donees is seen approaching Indra III to get his title confirmed by the new administration.-(EI, IX, p. 24).
According to a Jaina tradition, Hammira, a ruler of Gajjana (Gazni) destroyed the city of Valabhi in V.S. 845 ( 789 A.D.)-(Vividhatirthakalpa-XVII, p. 29). A number of Jaina idols etc. were removed from Valabhi to Bhinnamāla.-(SHJL, P. 146).
In Modherā which is six to seven gavyutas from Päțan, (Vide JTSS-Vol. I, pt. I, p. 71 ), there was a Jaina temple of Vijayadeva described in Jiva Jivābhigama (JPI-pt. I, p. 522 ). Jinaprabha has referred to Modherä as a modern tirtha' of Lord Mahāvira in Vividha-tirtha-kalpa.-(IX, p. 19).
According to Prabhāvakacarita (srriga XI) Bappabhatti Sūri (born V. S. 800, died V.S. 895 ) used to daily visit this tirtha, where at the age of six, he came across Siddhasena Sūri of Modha 'Gaccha. This Sūri had come there only a day earlier, from Pädala, four miles to the east of 'Sankheśvara tirtha.-(Ibid, p. 525).
The Gurjara-Pratihāra king Mihira Bhoja, king of Gopagiri (Gwalior), respected as Gurus, Govinda Sūri and Nanna Sūri, the spiritual brothers of Bappabhațți Sūri.-(JPI, Pt. I, p. 534).
Nanna Sûri had composed a drama, narrating the life of Emperor Bharata; and he, along with Govinda Sūri as chief author, staged this drama in the presence of King Ama ( Nāgāvaloka or Nägäbhata II).
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