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Gujarat is dedicated to Adinātha. It was known as Unnatapura. It is mentioned in the 14th century work of Vinayavijaya, called Tirthamāla ; see also Tîrtha Darsan, II, pp. 416f.
269. Unbela :--This place in the Ujjain district of M.P., is connected with Pārsvanātha and is a Svetāmbara tirtha. It was known formerly as Torana ; some old Jain antiquities have also been discovered from this place ; see Tirtha Darsan, II, p. 502.
270. Upariyālā :This place, sacred to Adiśvara, is mentioned in the 15th-century work of Jayasāgara, called Caitya-Paripāți. It is situated in the Surendranagar district of Gujarat , see for further details, Tirtha Darsan, II, p. 442.
271. Uppina-Betgiri :- This place in the Raichur district of Karnataka, came into prominence in the 10th century, and it had a Jina temple called Jayadhira Jirālaya, which was built by a Rāsbţrakūta governor called Sankaraganda, in the 10th century; see above, p. 95 ; see also Desai, op.cite, pp. 208-09, 213, 221, 367.
272. Urjayanta :- This great tirtha in the Junagarh district of Gujarat, is also known as Raivataka and it is connected in the Jain literature with the activities of Neminātha, the 22nd Tirthankara; see supra, 1, p. 159. It is mentioned in the 6th Anga text, the Nayādhammakahão (see supra, I, p. 242). There is little doubt that the Jains considered it as a tirtha even in the pre-Christian period. The Vividhatirthakalpa gives us the vital information that as early as the 10th century, a merchant called Ratna from Kashmir had built an icon of Nemirātha on this mountain ; sce also Prabandhakosa, pp. 93ff; and Vividhatirthakalpa, pp. 7,9. The two towns of Khangāradurga and Tejalapura, dedicated respectively to Rshabha and Pārsva (Vividhatirtha. kalpa, p. 7) were near this mountain. We have already taken note of the fact that several Jains, from the 11th century, were connected with the temple-building activities on this mountain.
