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Digambar Acharya is associated with Chittor. This is also recorded in the Gurvavali of the Lat-Bagad branch of Digambars. Jinvallabh Suri initiated his Vidhi-Chaitya movement at Chittor. A long inscription4 of 78 verses was engraved here, the original stone slab of which is now lost. However, a copy there of is still preserved in the Jain Bhandars. It records that a royal grant was made by Paramar Naravarma for the maintenance of a Jain temple. The Samidheshvar temple inscriptions of V. E. 1207 (1150 A. D.), was composed by Ramkirti of Digambar sect. In V. E. 1229 (1172 A. D.) several icons were installed by the Digambar Acharyas. During the reign of Maharawals Jaitrasingh, Tejsingh and Samarsingh, Chittor was full of beautiful temples. Several Jain temples were also constructed.
The monks of the Kharatargachchha visited this site several times. In V. E. 1288 (1231 A. D.) Shresthi Ralha and Laxmidhar arranged for many festivities. The ministers of Tejsingh named Jaihan, Simandhar and Kanga were ardent followers of Jainism. Simandhar was very influential. His name is found in the copper plate of V. E. 1316 (1260 A. D.), the Ghasa inscription of V. E. 1317 (1260 A. D.) the colophon of the Shravaka Pratikraman Sutra Churni of V. E. 1317 (1261 A. D.) and in the Chittor inscription of V. E. 1323 (1266 A. D.) His sister-in-law Dhandhi got a MS Dasha-Vaikalika-Sutra Churni8 copied at Chittor in V. E. 1352 (1295 A. D.). Maharawal Tejsingh's queen Jayattal Devi was a staunch follower of Jainism. At the instance of Pradhyumna Suri
4. History of Mewar by the Author. p. 63/ Vir-Bhumi-Chittor by the Author
pp. 26-27./ It is also noticed in the introduction of the Apabhransh-Kavya
Trayi (G.O.S.). 5. E.I.II p. 52.
6. History of Mewar by the Author p. 85/Author's Paper published in Varada
Vol. IX No. 3 pp. 5-6 and Dr. Dashrath Sharma's comments on it in Varada Vol. IX No. 4.
7. Varada Vol. V. No, 2 pp. 65-66. Vol. IX No. 1 pp. 58 to 61/Ojha-Udaipur
Rajya-ka-Itihas Vol. I pp. 169-170/History of Mewar by the author p. 86. 8. Jin Vijay-Jain Pustaka-Prashasti Sangraha (SJGM) Vol. I p. 33.
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