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Dūngarapura was repaired by Sālba, the minister of Somadāsa, according to the Gurugunaratnākarakāvya168, composed in V.S. 1541, Dūngarapura was also known as Giripura and the Ādinātha temple of the Digambaras of this town was very famous. 164
Several places of Southern Rajasthan were directly connected with the activities of the Jain monks, in the period under review. We have already seen in the first volume of our work that Citrakūța was a Jain centre, even in the 8th century A.D. In the first chapter of the present work also, we discussed the popularity of Jainism at Citrakūta. It was not only a popular Svetāmbara centre, but was also equally popular with the Digambaras. The KB186, refers to the admirers of the Kbaratara Jinakusala, some of whom were the śrāvakas from Citrakūta, who at the instance of Jinakusala, participated in a conference at Patan in V.S. 1377.
The Jain Kīrtistambha (in the epigraph it is actually called mānastambha) of Citrakūļa is a Digambara monument, certainly built in the closing years of the 13th century. 150 According to a mutilated epigraph187, this stambha was started by a person called Jiju and completed by his son Pūcnasimha. It was ceremoniously consecrated by a Digambara saint called Dharmacandra, who has been described as having been honoured by king Hammira168, who, as we have already seen, was an admirer of the Jain religion. According to some, this Dharmacandra has been represented in a Digambara Pațļāvali168, as having flourished in the 13th century. The epigraph, mentioned above, further mentions the fact that Jiju also had built at Citrakūța, a temple dedicated to Candraprabha. We have already seen that there was an ancient temple of Lord Mahāvira at Citrakūţa. There were also other Jina temples in this famous fort ; but this will be discussed in the chapter on the Jain tirthas.
Mokal or Maukala of Mewar is known to have built a Jina temple through his minister Gunarāja in 1428 A.D. 160
