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prince was a contemporary of Hemacandra and Kumārapäla.
201. Pratishthāna :This ancient town is now known by the name Paithan, which is situated in the Aurangābād district of Mahārāsbţra. According to the Śvetāmbara tradition, as early as the time of the Sātavāhana king Hāla, Jainism gained a firm foothold at this town. Jinaprabha has written three separte kalpas on this tirtha, which was considered, sacred to Muni Suyrata (see Vividhatirtha. kalpa, Nos, 23, 33 and 34). We further learn from that work (p. 47) that. the saint Kālakācārya visited this town, 993 years after the Nirvāṇa of Lord Mabăvira. At present, the Digambaras have appropriated this tirtha ; see Bharat ke Digambara Jaina tirtha, IV, pp. 274 ff.
202. Prayāga :--This ancient Hindu tirtha is also mentioned in the Jain literature, as a sacred place of the Jains. The Vividhatirthakalpa makes this place a tirtha, associated with Śitalanātha, the 10th Tīrthankara. The Digambaras also have now a few temples at this place ; see Tirthavandanasangraha, pp. 160 f.
203. Pūli :- This ancient place, now known as Hüli, is situated in the Belgaum district of Karnataka, and had a well-known temple-complex, called Mānikyatirtha basadi ; see above, pp. 100 f.; it was apparently a sacred place of the Jains. There were several Jina temples, at this place, and an epigraph of the 11th century, refers to the monks of the Yāpaniya sangba and PuppāgavỊksbamüla gana ; see for some more details, Desai, op cit., pp. 117 f.
204. Pundravardhana :-This was a great Jain centre in pre-Christian times, as there was a separate sakha of the Śv etāmbara Jains, called the Pundravardhaniyā. At the time of Hiuen-tsang's visit (in the 7th century), there were numerous Digambara Jains at this town (see Watters Y-C, II, p. 184). Strangely enough, after that, we do not get any reference to the Jains in any work of literature or any epi. graph. The Vividhatirthakalpa (p. 86) mentions the Vira
