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in Broach (Bharuch) district of Gujarat, came into the limelight only during the days of the great Hiravijaya, in the 16th century. It has the temples of both Pārśva and Mabāvira, and also an interesting image of Hīravijaya himself ; see in this connexion, the long and interesting epigraph, (No. 450 in Jinavijaya's Prācîn Lekha Sangraha, Vol. II) dated 1587 A.D. The icon of Pārśva was consecrated by Vijayasenasūri, the most important disciple of Hiravijaya. The Digambaras also had a temple, dedicated to Adinātha, at this place (see Bhațjāraka Sampradāya, No. 484).
73. Gayā :-JBānasāgara, the Digambara writer, who flourished in the 16th century (see Bhattāraka Sampradāya, p. 295), in his Saryatirthavandana associates Gayā (of Magadha) with Akalařka, and mentions that the latter had erected the temples of Sambhava, Nemi and Supārsva at that town ; (see Tirthavandanasangraha, pp. 77, 138.
74. Gerasoppe :This place in North Kanara (Uttar Kannad) district of Karņāțaka, was associated with Jainism, at least from Śaka 1300, corresponding to 1378 A.D., the date of the earliest dated Jain epigraph from this town (see J.ŚL S., IV, No, 397). The epigraphs, found from this town, disclose the existence of severai Jain temples, the earliest of which was probably the temple of Anantanātha, which was built by a rich woman, called Rāmakka (see M.A.R., 1928, p. 97 ; J.S.L.S., IV, No. 400), before 1392 A.D. Others epigraphs refer to the temples of Pārsvanātha (1421 A.D.), Neminātha (15th century), Vardhamāna etc. of that town. According to a somewhat later epigraph (1560 A.D.J.S.L.S., No. 674), the Anantanātha temple was actually built by Rāmakka's husband Yojana Setti. The same epigraph also mentions the temple of Neminātha of Gerasoppe. We learn from that epigraph that another name of Gerasoppe was Kshemapura (for further details, see Saletore, Mediaeval Jainism, pp. 340 ff.). Visvabhūshana of the Balātkāra gaña, who flourished in the 3rd quarter of the 17th century, has mentioned the temple of Pārśva (called by
