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tions from this temple-complex have also been discovered ; see Jinavijaya, Pracin Jainalekha-sangraha, II, Nos, 307 ff. One inscription (No. 308) mentions the celabrated Hiravijaya, who visited it during the time of Emperor Akbar. For a very useful account of this tirtha, see the Avalokana in Gujarati of Jinavijaya in Vol. II of his great work on Jain epigraphs, pp. 185 ff ; for a modern appreciation, see Tirtha Darsan, I, pp. 210 ff.
215. Ranastambhapura :-This place in the Sawai Mādhopur district of Rajasthan, was associated with Jiinism, during the days of Pșthvīrāja I of the Cāhamana dynasty, who ruled in the first quarter of the 12th century. Siddhasenasūri, who lived in the 12th century, includes this place in the list of holy Jain tirthas (see G.O.S. 76, pp. 312 and 316). See also Jain, Ancient cities etc., p. 330. Afterwards, in the Mughal period, a temple of Mallinātha was built in this fort (see ibid., p. 335). Several Jain works were also written in this place.
216. Ratnapuri :—This place in the Faizabad district of U.P., according to the early Svetāmbara tradition, was the birth-place of Dharmanātha, the 15th Tirthankara. There are a few Svetāmbara and Digambara temples in this place ; however no early inscription or even sculture (of the preMuslim period) is available, at present, from this place. Jinaprabha, describes it as situated near Ayodhyā (p. 86) and devotes a kalpa on this tirtha, which he himself never visited. He calls it by the name Ratnavābapura and des. cribes it as situated on the Gharghara river.
217. Rāyabāg :--This place, in the Belgaum district of Karnataka, was once a iourishing Jain centre under the Ratta kings. A few epigraphs have been discovered from the local Adinātha temple of this place ; see J.S.L.S., III, Nos, 3/4, 446; IV. Nos. 128, 317, 492-93. The earliest epigraph is dated 1041 A.D.
218. Reshandīgiri :--This place in the Chatarpur district of M. P., in dedicated to Pārsvanatha and there is also
