Fresh Reading and Interpretation of Pancasara Parsvanatha Temple

Author(s): Arvindkumar Singh
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Arvind Kumar Singh
The inscription for the first time tells that there existed a gaccha named after Pañcāsara, and it was an emanation of the famous Nägemṁdra kula. It is likely that, even the first foundation of the Pañcāsara Pāršvanatha belonged to the abbot of the Nagendra kula, the temple built by Vanaräja Capotkata (c. A. D. 818-900).
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Notes and References
Prācīna Jaina Lekha Samgraha, pt. 2, pravarttak Śri Kämtivijaya Jaina Itihāsamālā, Vol. VI, Bhavanagara, 1921, p. 321.
2. The temple was dedicated to Jana Parsvanatha and founded by Vanarāja Capotkata in the last two decades of the 9th cent. A. D. Image is said to have been more ancient and was brought to Anhillapattana from Pañcasara, the ancestral town of Vanaraja.
3. According to Prof. M. A. Dhaky, the viläsamandapa is identical with the rangamandapa, aha hall common in the medieval Jaina temple ensembles. There are several instances of adding such halls in the medieval times to the earlier foundations.
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For detail see here Prof. M. A. Dhaky's paper "The Nagendra-gaccha". 5. Punyavijaya Suri (ed.), Singhi Jaina Series, Number 32, Bombay, 1961, pp. 62-64.