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Srimāla-mahatmya, a work of the mediaeval period; for fur. ther details, see K. C. Jain, Ancient cities etc., pp. 161 f. See also for a modern account of this ancient tirtha, Tirtha Darsan, I, pp. 294 ff. The temple of Sāntinātha, of this place, was reconsecrated by the great Hiravijaya in V.S. 1634 (sce ibid., p. 296).
38. Bhțgukaccha :This ancient port-city was associated with the Jain religion, probably from pre-Christian times. As early as the 2nd century A.D., two Buddhist monks were defeated in a debate by a Švetāmbara monk called Jinadeva, at this town. This indirectly proves the association of the place with Jainism in the early centuries of the Christian era (see also supra, Vol. I, p. 99). In several works of quite early times, including the Niryukti and Bhashya commentaries, Borgukaccha, has been recognised as a tirtha (see ibid, I, pp. 158 f.), and there are early references to the Śakunikā-vihāra of this place, which was dedicated to the Tirthankara Suvrata. As we have already noted in p. 287 of our earlier volume, the earliest datable reference to this temple, occurs in the 9th-century work of Jayasimha, entitled Dharmopadešamāla. The great Jinaprabha also in his celebrated work, the Vividhatirthakalpa (pp. 20 ff.), gives a short history of this tirtha, which like many holy centres of India, was completely destroyed by the Muslim iconoclasts. There was another temple here, called the Mūlavasati (see supra, I, p. 159). For a modern account, see Tirtha Darsan, II, pp. 498 f.
39. Biligi :--This Jain centre of the North Kanara district of Karpāțaka, was associated with the Digambara religion from the 16th century, and it appears that the Ratnatraya basadi was the earliest Jina temple of this town. It was built, according to an epigraph, of that temple, in the early 16th century (see Desai, op.cit., pp. 128 ff.).
40. Bodhan :-It is situated in the Nizamabad district of modern Andhra Pradesh. The original Jina temple, of this place, was afterwards destroyed by the Muslims, and con
