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inscriptions of much earlier dates. One of them 189 is dated in V.S. 1307 and the other140, between V.S. 1300 and 1309. Another epigraph141, from Abu, supplies the date, V.S. 1311, for him. In several other epigraphs from Abu14, Jñāpacandra has been mentioned. The latest date for him148 is V.S. 1394, which shows that he was more than hundred years old, when he died, before V.S. 1396, a date supplied by another Abu epigraph 144, which mentions his disciple Munisekhara.
Several other important epigraphs from Abu are known. Two inscriptions, dated V.S. 1525, corresponding to 1468 A.D., have been discovered. One of them mentions the famous saint Lakshmisāgara of the Tapā gaccha and it also mentions Dūngarasimha, the king of Düngarapura.146 The second 146, of the same date, also mentions Lakshmisāgara and Dungarasimha, Several other epigraphs from Abu of the 15th century, mention the monks of the Tapā gaccha. The Kharatara Ācārya Jinaharsha is mentioned in an inscription 147, dated V.S. 1523, from the same place. An earlier inscription, dated V.S. 1518, refers to the celebrated king rājadhiraja Kumbhakarna alias Kumbha. It is incised on a brass image168 of Adinātha, which was fashioned at Düngarapura, which was under Raula Somadāsa, and later brought to Abu. The great Tapā gaccha monk Lakshmisāgara consecrated the image. This saint Lakshmisägara and the Düngarapura chief Somadāsa are also mentioned in a brass image of śāntinātha at Abu of the same date. 149
Dūngarapura was a centre of both the Svetāmbara and Digambara Jains in the period under review. Two fifteenthcentury Jain manuscripts were copied in the Pārsvanātha temple of this town. The first 169, dated V.S. 1480, mentions the local king Gaipāladeva or Gajapāla and the second 151, also mentions him, and is dated in V.S. 1496. A much earlier work entitled Pravāsagitikātraya of Jayānanda, written in 1370 A.D., mentions the fact, that at that time, there were five Jina temples at this town.183 The Pārsva temple of
