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khabad district of U. P. It is claimed to be the birth-place of Vimalanātha, the 13th Tirthankara. As noted by us, in the earlier volume of the present work (supra I, p. 95), early Jain epigraphs have been discovered from this place. The author of the Vividhatīrthakalpa (p. 50) has also written on this tirtha.
125. Kāfici :-Tbis great city of Tamil Nadu was surely a stronghold of Jainism, in the post-Christian period. We have already discussed Jina-Kāñci. The great Samantabhadra was a resident of this city (see supra, I, p. 325). An eighth-century epigraph from this city, of the time of Nandivarman II, refers to an Arhat temple (see above, I, p. 212) of this city.
126. Kanyakubja : This ancient place of U. P. was associated with the activities of the great Svetāmbara acārya, Bappabhațji; see Prabhāvakacarita, pp. 80ff.
127. Kanyānayana :--This was a famous Svetambara tirtha, probably situated near Delhi. Its history can be traced from the 12th century, when an icon of Mahāvira was installed in the existing Caityālaya, of this place, in V.S. 1233 by the Kharatara ācārya Jina pati (see KB, p. 24). That work includes this tirtha in Vāgada desa (probably eastern Rajasthan); see ibid., p. 65; and pp. 66, 68, 72. The Mahāvira temple of this place was quite popular with the Kharatara acāryas. This tirtha according to the Vividhatirthakalpa was destroyed by the Muslims in V.S. 1385 and afterwards the author of this work, namely Jinaprabha, with the help of Muhammad Bin Tughluq, repaired this tirtha and, once more, installed the icon of Mahåvira in the same temple-complex of Kanyānayana (see Vividhatirthakalpa, pp. 45f).
128. Kāparaļā :-This tirtha is situated in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, and has a temple of Pārsvanātha. Its old name was Karpațahedaka. The present temple was, however, built in the early 17th century; for details, see Tirtha Darsan 1, pp. 150 ff.
