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Brahmin Jain philosoper Umāsvāti composed his Tattvarthadhigamasutra in this city. The city was also connected with the activities of the great Jain saints like Stbülbhadra, Bhadrabāhu I, Mabāgiri and Suhastin. In Jinaprabha's time, Pātajiputra was considered as sacred to Neminātha (see pp. 67, 86).
192. Pattana :-This ancient town of Gujarat, also known as Aņahilapura, now situated in the Mahesāpa district of Gujarat, was perhaps the greatest Svetāmbara centre of Gujarat, from the 8th century to the late mediaeval period. As early as V.S, 02, according to both the PC (p. 13) and the Vividhatirthakalpa (p. 51), the great Pārsva temple of this place, was built by the Căpotkața king Vanarāja and it came to be known as the Yanarāj avihāra (see also Prabhāyak acarita, p. 163). Afterwards, many other Jina temples were built, at this town. Jinaprabha (p. 51) actually mentions the great temple of Arisbțanemi of this town and he represents it as the tirtha, sacred to that Tirthankara. The KB (pp. 52, 60, 77 etc.) repeatedly mentions the śāntinātha of this place, which was apparently in existence, before 1300 A.D. (see also KB, p. 49). A temple of Mahāvira was built bere during the time of the Kharatara Jina pati in V.S. 1246, corresponding to 1188 A.D. (see KB, p. 44). Hundreds of Jain works were written at Pattana and almost all the great Jain saints and writers were, by some way or other, associated with this town, Even in the Muslim period, there were more than hundred Jina temples at this town; see Tirtha Darsan, II, pp. 350ff.
193. Pāvā :-This was, according to both the Jains and the Buddhists, the place where Lord Mahāvīra had breathed his last. The present-day Jains identify it with Pāvāpuri of the Nālandā district of Bihar. But there is little doubt, and as suggested by the evidence of the early Pāli literature, it was near Kuśinārā, the place of Buddha's death in Gorakhpur district; see in this connexion, Bharat ke Digambara Jaina tirtha, I, pp. 175ff.
