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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
of Jainism, turned into a Hindu centre. This does not, however, indicate that Jainism was completely wiped out from either Bihar, Bengal or Orissa, in the post-Gupta period.
The Pratihāras:
Inspite of their Brahmanical affinities,200 it need not be supposed that the Kanauj Pratihāras suppressed other sects. As a matter of fact, we come across two Jaina inscriptions belonging to the period of the Pratihāras one of which is inscribed on the pillar of a Jaina temple at Deogarh in the Lalitapur subdivision of the Jhansi District of U.P. It refers to the reign of Bhoja in which a certain man called Deva, a subject of the Mahāsämanta Vishnurāma, who was a feudatory of Bhojadeva, erected a pillar in S. 784 (862 A.D.). The same place contains "the ruins of an extensive group of Jain temples..... with a large collection of naked Jaina figures."270
Besides this, there is another Jaina record belonging to the reign of Vatsarāja, dated V. S. 1013, and found at Osia (32 miles north of Jodhpur). It refers to the construction of a Jaina temple,271 From these stray epigraphs and the existence of archaeological remains, it may be said, that Jainism. did flourish under the Pratihäras of Kanauj.
Regarding the Gurjara Pratīhāras in Gujarat and Rajputana, we shall study the position of Jainism when we discuss Jainism in that region.
Candellas:
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Under the Candellas whose seat of kingdom was Jejabhukti (Bundelkhand), and who ruled from c. 9th cent. A.D., onwards,272 Jainism seems to have prospered on a large scale, for several inscriptions and magnificent temples still bear witness to it.
Several kings of this dynasty favoured the building up of Jina temples. For instance, the Khajuraho Jaina temple inscription mentions that a certain Jaina layman gave gifts to the Jinalaya in the form of a garden (vățikā). This Jaina gentleman was "held in honour by Dhangaraja."273
269. SMITH, JRAS., 1909, p. 256; Three of the kings of this dynasty are described as "worshippers of Bhagavati". The seal of Mahipala, the 10th king, bears an image of Bhagavati, even though he is said to be a devotee of the Sun.
270. CUNNINGHAM, ASI, X, pp. 100-01.
271. BHANDARKAR, D. R., ASI, WC, 1907, Sect. XI, p. 15.
272. RAY, Dyn. Hist. of N. India, Vol. II, p. 736.
273. E.I., I, pp. 135-36.
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