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Year
Name of the Acharya who consecrated
the image
Location
i) V.E. 1498
Somsundar Suri
ii) V.E. 1507
Ratnashekhar Suri
iii)
V.E. 1508
-do
All the sides of the ground floor. Western side of the first storey. Northern side of the first storey. Eastern side of the first storey. All the sides of the second storey.
iv) V.E. 1509
--do
V) V.E. 1509
-do
The Som Saubhagya Kavya contains a detailed account of the festivities arranged at the time of the consecration ceremony. It seems that the consecration celebrations were prematurely held before completion of the temple because Somsundar Suri, who was to consecrate the temple, was getting very old. The poet Meh, who composed the Ranakpur-Stavan in V.E. 1499, bas provided us with many details of the temples of this place.
The temple faces all the four quarters. It is surrounded by Derakulikas all around and has four corner temples. The corner temples were completed in V. E. 1508,1507, 1511 and 1516 as is apparent from tbe inscriptions incised on their Mulanayak icons. In front55 of sanctum doors, there are beautiful Mandaps known as Ranga Mandap, Meghnad Mandap and Nal Mandap. The western Meghnad Mandap is markedly superior to other Mandaps. According to an inscription of V.E. 1611 (1554 A.D.), the eastern gate 58 and the Meghnad Mandap were added to the temple by the Pragvat family of Kheta and a Nayak of Usmanpur (Ahmedabad).
55. M. A. Dhaky's paper published in the Western Indian Art 1965-66. 56. Jin Vijay No. 308/In Jain Satya Prakash Vol. XVIII pp. 92-93 and
Yatindra Vihar II p. 56, the date of this inscription was given as V. E. 1651. But this date does not seem to be correct.
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