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king also gave a grant of land for the purpose of worship and maintenance of the temple, as also for the oil for the lamps and for anointing the bodies of holy men. It thus shows that the Jainas had mustered strength due to royal patronage and were in a flourishing condition. Haihayas of Tripurī:
Inspite of the predominance of Hindu monuments under the Haihayas who ruled in the U.P. and C.P. from about the beginning of the 9th cent. A.D., to about the first quarter of the thirteenth century,289 widespread Jaina remains in these regions show that along with Brāhmanism with its various cults, Jainism was also in existence. Images of Jaina Śāsanadevīs, Tirthankaras and other Jaina sculptures found at Sahagpur, Jura, Jubblepore, and Bahuriband290 are a sufficient testimony to the Jaina affinities of at least a section of a people in this region under the rule of the Haihayas.
Faramāras of Gujarāt, Mälwa and Rājputānā:
As in the case of the Haihayas, so also among the Paramāras, there were several kings who were the devotees of Siva. Inspite of this, however, we have a number of epigraphical and literary evidences which goes to prove that the kings of this dynasty indirectly patronised Jainism during their rule in Mālwā and Rajputānā between the 9th and the 14th cent. A.D.
For instance, the Kalyan (Nasik Distt., Bombay) plates of Yaśovarman,291 give an eulogy of the Paramāra king Bhojadeva (c. 1010-55 A.D.), during whose reign the former got a town called Selluka from the latter. Now in the village called Muktāpali in the Audrahädi-vişaya, the Sāmanta the illustrious Rāņaka Amma of the Ganga family, being convinced of the Jina dharma through the preachings of the Svetāmbara Ācārya Ammedeva, gave some land at Mahişabuddhikā, the holy tirtha of Kālakāleśvara (10 mls. from Kaļvan, Nasik Distt.). Along with this, the local commercial community granted the income of fourteen shops, two oil mills and flower-gardens to the temple of the Jina in the Svetapada country (equivalent to the northern portion of Nasik Distt.). The temple was dedicated to Munisuvrata.
From this, it seems that especially the trading and the inidddle classes had an affinity for Jainism and that some members of it had sought the goodwill of the Paramāra Bhojadeva also.
289. RAY, op. cit., Vol. ii, pp. 816-17. 290. See Mem, of Arch. Sur. of Ind., No. 23 (1931), by R. D. BANERJI. 291. E.I., XIX, pp. 69-75.
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