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222. Śakambharl:-The present name, of this famous place of antiquity is Sambhar, and it is situated in the Jaipur district of Rajasthan. We have already seen that the Cahamanas of sākambhari were good patrons of Jainism. A large Jain temple was built in this place by a merchant called Padma, an ancestor of Jinadāsa, the author of the Holireņukacarita which was written in V.S. 1608. The above-mentioned Jina temple of Śākambhari was built apparently in the 15th century ; see Mukhtar, op.cit., p. 64.
223. Säketa : -See Ayodhyā.
224. Sammeta :-This great tirtha is generally identified with the Pareshnáth hill situated in the Giridih district of Bihar. As noted in the earlier volume of the present work, a majority of the Tirthañ karas, according to the Jain tradition, breathed their last on the summit of this hill. However, no epigraph of pre-Muslim period, has been discovered from this hill, as yet, although there are early literary references to it. However, the name of this hill shows that it was surely associated with Pārsvanātha, the real founder of Jainism ; for a modern account, see Tutha Darsan, I, pp. 14ff.
225. Sangrāmapura :- This place, now known as Sängäner, is few miles from Jaipur in Rajasthan and has a beautiful Jina temple, which according to Jain (see Ancient Cities and Towns etc., p. 456), has an epigraph of the 10th century (see Appendix 65 of that work). In the later period, a number of Jain works were written in this place ; see for details, ibid., pp. 456f.
226. Sankheśvara :-This place in the Mahesāna district of Gujarat was associated with Pārsvanātha from quite early times. The KB (pp. 60, 63, 74) mentions this temple of Parsvanātha thrice and associates it with the Kharatara Acāryas like Jinacandra III and Jinakusala. According to that work, when Jinacandra III first visited it in V.S. 1352, it was known as a great tirtha. Jinaprabha in his celebrated work (p. 52) has devoted a Kalpa on it. The Digambara
