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Madhya Pradesh. There is also an old temple of śāntinātha in this place. Sumatisāgara (16th century) and Jõānasāgara (circa 1575 A.D.) have mentioned the Mahāvīra temple of this place, which does not exist now ; see Tirthavandanasangraha, p. 165; and Tirtha Darsan, II, pp. 488f. At present it is known as Māņdu.
154. Mangalapura :- This place was an important tirtha and it was sacred to Abhinandana, the 4th Tirthankara. Jinaprabha has included this tirtha in his valuable work (pp. 57f). It is apparent from his work that this tirtha existed even before 1000 A.D. It was destroyed by the Muslims, apparently in the 13th century (see Vividhati-thakalpa, p. 57) and was again rebuilt.' Jinaprabha (p. 58) further tells us that this temple once received a grant of land from Jayasimha, the king of Mālava, who was probably the Paramāra Jayasimha II, who ruled in the 3rd quarter of the 13th century (see The Struggle for Empire, p. 71). See also Tirthavandanasangrahu, pp. 162f.
155. Mān_i-Tungi :- This ancient Digambara tirtha, is situated in the Nasik district of Mahārāshtra, and is considered sacred to the first Tirthankara Alinātha. According to the Digambara tradition, this place represents the spot, where Balarāma, the elder brother of Vāsudeva, breathed his last. The earliest epigraph, from this place, is dated in V.S. 1443, corresponding to 1387 A.D. However, in much earlier Digambara works, this tirtha is mentioned by name (see Tirthayandanasangraha, pp. 147f). For some further information, on this tirtha, see Premi, op.cit., pp. 434ff. See also Tirtha Darśan, Vol. II, pp. 538f.
156. Murukojța :-_This town was apparently situated in the desert area of Marwar in Rajasthan, and is mentioned several times in the KB (pp. 8, 9, 13, 20, 23, 34, 65, 73). It is apparent from the same text that Jainism was quite popular from the early medieval period, at this town. The same source informs us that there was a temple, dedicated to the Tirthařkara Candraprabha at this town (see p. 20).
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