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CHAPTER X JAINA SHRINES AT ACHALAGADH (1) The Chaumukha Shrine.
During the reign of King Jagamāla,? a Samghav merchant, Sahasā by name and belonging to the community of Prāgvāța (Guj. Porvāda) Baniās, built here the famous chaumukha Jaina shrine and installed a very heavy big metal sculpture of Rşabhanātha as the mūlanāyaka. The image faces the main northern entrance of the shrine, which being a Chaumukha shrine, has three other sculptures on the remaining sides.
1 Mahārāv Jagmāla, the son of Mahārāv Lakhā of Sirohi came to the throne in V. S. 1540 and ruled for forty years. He had six brothers called, Hamira, Udā, Shankara, Prithvirāja, Mändana and Råneräv and a sister Champa-Kumāri who was married to King Rāyamalla of Mevād. Maharāv Jagamāla had five queens one of whom was Anandibāl, a daughter of Mahārāņa Rayamalla of Mevād (possibly by another wife). Jagamāla was of an affectionate and generous nature and treated his brothers well. He had three sons, Akhayarāja, Mehājala and Dedā, and one daughter called Padmāvats who became a Queen of Mahārāv Gângă of Jodhpur. Akhayarāja I, the eldest prince, succeeded Jagamāla to the throne.
3 Samghavi Sahasā was of Visā Porvāda subcaste and belonged to the Sarahadiā gotra. According to the “ Tirthamālā" of Shilavijaya (and the evidence supplied in the Jaina Gurjara Kavio (Gujarāti) Vol. II, by M. D. Desai), he was a native of Māņdavagadh in Mālvā. He was generous, pious and brave, and was made a chief minister by Gyāsadin, the ruler of Mālvā, Inspite of pressing state duties, he spared time for religious practice, and activities. His father Sāliga, a pious Jaina, also built a Jaina shrine at the village of Vamshavāla (?).
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