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[Holy dhu noted. Along with that shrine, the Musalmana army destroyed almost completely the main sanctum and the adjacent güḍhamandapa as also damaged certain other parts of the Luna Vasahi in c. 1368 V. S. (1311 A. D.). Pethada, a rich merchant, who was the son of Chandasimha, led a Samgha (group of pilgrims) on a pilgrimage to this shrine and in V. S. 1378 (1321 A. D.) carried out extensive repairs to this shrine, at his own costs, installing a newly fashioned image of Shri Neminatha in place of the mutilated original one.
Number of Images in the Lunavasahi and other Details.
The main sanctum (mulagabharo-mula-garbhagṛha) contains a beautiful black stone sculpture of the main deity Neminatha, shown with parikara, another sa-parikara Pañchatirthika Jina image, and two more figures of Tirthankaras without any parikara. (total 4 images in the sanctum).
In the guḍhamandapa is placed, on each side, a freestanding big sculpture of a Tirthankara in the standing posture (kayotsarga), like the two Kausaggiyās in the Vimala Vasahi noted above. One of them bears an inscription on the pedestal stating that a pair of Jina sculptures was installed by Maham. Dhandhala (who was a minister and) a follower of monks of the line of Nannācārya of Koranṭagaccha. According to this inscription these sculptures were originally installed in Shri Mahavira Chaitya at Mundasthala-mahātirtha in V. S. 1389 (i.e.c. 1332-33 A.D.)1
1 Abu, Vol. II, inscription no. 254. The other Kausaggiyā has no inscription on it. One more such Kausaggiya bearing the same inscription is however worshipped in a small cell on the back of this shrine, reached by a flight of steps. It is the second one installed by Dhandhala and referred to in the inscription noted above.
