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five sons named Dalu, Chaturbhuja, Khetasi, Rai singh and Benidas, from two wives. It seems that Mala was alive in V.E. 1664, as is clear from the colophon and inscription mentined above. He is also said to have led some Sanghs. (Sangh-BharDhurandhar). Dalu also had several icons installed. He constructed the Jain temples at Dudu, Arain and Mojamabad. There is an icon of Parshwanath in the Neminath temple Amer, conscecrated in the year V.E. 1658 by him. The inscription contains the names of his wife, Durga and a son Karma chand. The Amer Museum inscription89 dated V.E. 1714 gives the name of only one son, Asakaran. Khetasi had three sons named Mohan das, Narayan das and Raj singh. The colophon of MS Samayasar dated V.E. 1697 reports that the work was copied by Joshi Aliraj for the study of Mohandas at Amer, during the reign of Mirza Raja Jai singh. Mohandas constructed a temple of Vimalnath in Amer, which is now known as Sanghi Jhuntharam's temple; It was completed between V.E. 1714 and V.E. 1716, and was consecrated by Narendra Kirti. Mohandas had three sons named Kalyan das, Bimal das and Ajit das. Sanghi Jhuntharam was a descendant of Mohandas. He was a powerful minister and later became a victim of a rival groups at the Kachhawa Court of Jaipur.
Sipa of Sirohi :
Shresthi Sipa and the members of his family constructed the famous temple named Chaturmukh Adinath Jinalaya of Sirohi between V.E. 1634 to 1731. The ancestors90 of Sipa were the residents of Vasantpur. The progenitor of this family was Sada; who had five sons named Jayavant, Shrivant, Soma, Surtan and Sipa. In V.E. 1644 three icons of Adinath installed in the three sides of the ground floor were consecrated by Hir-Vijay Suri. Other portion of the temple was enlarged later in V.E. 1721. Suratan had a son Yadava and a grandson Karma chand. The grandsons of Karma chand named Dhara, Jagga, Anand and Meghraj became renouned.
89. Edited by the Author in the Researcher Vol. XII-XIII pp. 53 to 58. 90. Abu V No. 241, 243, 250, 251/Daulat singh Lodha-Pragvat Itihas pp.
284-291/Tirthmala of Shil-Vijay.
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