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Vāgata Samgha. Mahāsena, the author of the Pradyumnacaritakavya" belonged to this samgha.
A few other Jaina inscriptions of Rajasthan prior to AD 1000 are also known. G.H. Ojha in his monumental work on the history of Rajputana has referred to a damaged, fragmentary inscription of the time of Guhila king Allața, who reigned in the mid-tenth century AD. This Jaina inscription was discovered from Ahar near Udaipur, a place still known for its Jaina shrines. For the reign of Śaktikumāra, another Guhila prince, who reigned in the last quarter of the tenth century, we have two undated Jaina inscriptions also from Ahar.
Ojha also refers to a number of other Jaina inscriptions found from different old Jaina temples of Rajasthan." The efflorescence of Jainism in Rajasthan is also evident from an intimate study of the Vividhatirthakalpa of Jinaprabha who refers to a number of Jaina centres of pilgrimage, quite a number of which were situated in Rajasthan. I should particularly mention Satyapura, which according to Jinaprabha, was first attacked by the Muslims under Mahmūd of Ghazni in the Vikrama year 1081 corresponding to AD 1024. The temple, according to Jinaprabha, was built even before the destruction of Valabhi in vs 845. Satyapura, which Jinaprabha places in Marumandala is the modern Sanchor in Jalor district and is near the Gujarat border. The temple of Satyapura was dedicated to Mahāvīra and is also mentioned in a later inscription found from Sanchor.35
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The famous Chitor or Citrakūta, which was the native town of the celebrated Jaina savant Haribhadra, who probably flourished a years before Udyotanasūri,36 in the mid-eighth century AD, was another well-known Jaina centre of pilgrimage. Even today Chitor has remains of old Jaina temples. He belonged to the Vidyadhara kūla and was the disciple of Jinadatta. His literary activities will be discussed in a later chapter. Another Jaina savant Elācārya was also probably a native of Citrakūța and was a contemporary of Haribhadra.38 A few years ago a fragmentary Digambara Jaina inscription was discovered from Chitor.39
Let us now turn our attention to the condition of the Jaina religion from AD 600 to 1000 in Gujarat. We have already seen that Gujarat was connected with the activities of Jaina monks from the Mauryan period and by AD 600, it was firmly entrenched in Gujarat and numerous cities and villages of this state could boast of splen
