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Bikaner. In the Anchalgachchha temple of this town, there are three inscriptions dated V.E. 1463 (1406 A.D.) 1483 (1425 A.D.) and 1487 (1430 A D.) incised on the icons which seem to have been brought here from another place. The Neminath temple has a Mulanayak, with an inscription dated V.E. 1683 (1626 A.D.) The Sambhavanath temple, also has a Mulanayak icon with an inscription of V.E. 1534 (1477 A.D.). On a platform there is an inscription bearing the date V.E. 1708 (1651 A.D.) The temple of Ajitnath, was consecrated in V.E. 1644 (1587 A.D.). The Chintamani Parshwanath temple is an old temple, completed in V.E. 1520 (1463 A.D.). It was consecrated by Haribhadra Suri, whose icon was also set up in this temple50 in V.E. 1659 (1602 A.D.). Similarly the icons of Jindatt Suri and Jin kushal Suri of the Kharatargachchha were installed in the Chaumukha temple in the year V.E. 1661 (1604 A.D.). More than seventy inscriptions of the family of Shresthi Sipa51 are noticed from the Chaturmukha Jinalaya (Adinath) here. These are dated mostly to Phagun Budi 13 V.E. 1644 (1588 A.D.) and Jyesth Sudi 3, V.E. 1721 (1664 A. D.). The temple could not be completed in the earlier centuries and its work continued upto V.E. 1996 (1939 A.D.).
Jirawala :
Jirawala is among the more famous Jain shrines of the Abu area. The Devakulapatak52 inscription of V.E. 1491 (1434 A.D.) records a mantra "Om-Namo-Jirawalaya”. Obviously during the 15th century A.D. it was a much venerated shrine. In the Jain temple of Bhiladi (Marwar) there is a fragmentary inscription containing the words "Shri Jiraulaji.”53
According to literary sources, this temple 53A was built in V. E. 1191 (1134 A. D.). However in V. E. 1368 ( 1311 A.D.)
50. Jain Tirth Sarva Sangrah Vol. I Pt. II p. 246 to 249. 51. PRASWC 1905-6 Para No. 44/Daulat Singh Lodha-Pragvat Itihas p. 52. Maharana Kumbha by the Author p. 370 53. Daulat Singh Lodha No. 340. 53A. Shri Agarchand Nahta in his paper Jirawala Parshwanath Tirth-Sthapa.
nano-samay published in the Jain Satya-Prakash Vol. XIX P. 16 has given the date as V.E. 1109 but Lal Chand Gandhi (J.S.P. 190-192) had categorically rejected the same.
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