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pre-Gupta Jain images, from this place, proves that it was a Jain sacred place in earlier days; see for details, supra, I, pp. 92f. Jinaprabha in his celebrated work (pp. 70-71), mentions the fact that in his time (early 14th century), this city was known as Mahețha and the village of this name, is still known (see Cunningham, A.G.I, revised ed. p. 469). The Sambhava temple was still standing at the time of Jinaprabha, who gives us the interesting information that it was destroyed by Ala-Ud-din's general Habbasa, who came to this place from Bahraich; see for a modern account, Tirtha Darsan, I, pp. 112-13. See for an interesting Digambara story in connexion with this city, Harisheṇa, Bṛhatkathakosa, story No. 156 (Upadhye's ed., pp. 348-349).
239. Śripura-This place is identical with Sirpur in the Akola district of Maharashtra. The Parśvanatha temple of this place, was known even to Jinaprabha (pp. 102f), who wrote a Kalpa on this tîrtha. The Digambara Madanakirti, who flourished in the 12th century, has mentioned this tirtha in his Sasanacatustrimsika (verse No. 3); see also Tirtha andanasangraha, pp. 179f; and Bharat ke Digambara Jaina tirtha, IV, pp. 288ff. The Svetämbara Silavijaya, writing in the 17th century, has also mentioned it; see Premi, op. cit., p. 454.
240. Srirangapattana :-This place near Mysore town had temples of Rshabha, Pārsva and Mahāvīra during Silavijaya's time; see Premi, op.cit, p. 459; and Tirthavandanasangraha, pp. 180-181.
241. Stambhapura :-This great tirtha, now known as Cambay, was undoubtedly one of the greatest Svetambara tirthas, of the mediaeval period, in Gujarat. The earliest reference to this place, as noted by Altekar (A Hist. of Important Towns in Gujarat, I.A., Supplement, p. 47) is found in the Kavi grant of Rashtrakūṭa Govinda III, dated Śaka 749. However, this place came to be associated with Jainism, according to the author of the Vividhatirthakalpa, from the days of Abhayadeva, the famous author of the nine Anga
