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verted into a mosque. A teacher called Municandra Siddhāntadeva, has been mentioned in a damaged Jain epi. graph of the time of the Western Cāluk ya emperor Vikramāditya VI. This epigraph also mentions a Jina temple of this place ; see Hyderabad Archaeological series, No. 7; see also Desai, op.cit., pp. 102-03. However, at present, there is practically no trace of Jainism at this place.
41. Campā :--This celebrated city of ancient India was intimately connected with the activities of the early Jain saints, including Lord Mahavira. The extensive ruins of this city are lying scattered near the modern town of Bhagalpur in Bihar. The 12th Tirthankara Vāsu pūjya, according to the Jain canonical texts, was born in this city and also breathed his last here. Lord Mabāvira also spent 3 years of his missionary life in Campā (sce supra, Vol. I, p. 24). His meeting with Ajātaśatru also took place in this city (sce ibid., p. 247). Jina prabha in his celebrated work the Vividhatırthakalpa (pp. 65 f.), gives a brief yet authentic history of this town. It was here that the greatest and most original work on Jain philosophy, namely the Dasavaikalika, was composed by the Brahmin Sayyambhava. The preBuddhist shrine, dedicated to yaksha Purnabhadra, existed according to the Aupapātika (sce supra, Vol. I, p. 247) and the Vaishpava Harivansa (critical edition, I, 23. 34) in this city. This lovely city was afterwards destroyed, according to Jinaprabha, by the Bengal Sultan Shams-Ud-din in V.S. 1360, an information, which is not otherwise available. From quite early times, the Vāsupūjya temple of this place, was recognised as a celebrated shrine throughout India. Several Jina literary texts from the early period mention the Vāsupūjya temple-complex of this city. Jinasena II, the author of the Harivarsa (22.1 ff.), describes this temple-complex. He also refers (19.115) to the manastambha of this great temple.
42. Candrapuri :—This is, according to the Jain tradi. tion, the birth-place of the 8th Tirthankara Candraprabha.
