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[ 255 mentions a detailed account of the Digambar Jain Acharyas of Mulasangha Balatkargana of the tradition of Kunda-Kundacharya. It mentions the names of Keshavachandra, Abhaya kirti, Vasanta kirti, Vishal kirti, Subha kirti and Dharmachandra. It consists of the account of the erection of Manastambha (Kirtistambha) at Chittor. The name of Punya singh is also available in it. It consists 25 lines and 29 verses.
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The Mahavir Prasad Prashastio of Chittor dated V.E.1495 mentions that some Shresthi Kumarapal constructed the Jain Kirti Stambha at Chittor. It seems that originally the construction was done by Digambar Shresthi Jija and Punyasingh but its renovation was done by Shvetambar Shresthi Kumarapal in 15th century A.D. During the invasion of Alauddin Khilji in 1303 A.D., when a good number of temples of Chittor, namely Kumbhashyam, Samiddheshvar, Nilakantha, Kalikamata, Shringara-Chanvari and others were demolished, a conjuncture can be hazarded that some part of this Kirtistambha was also demolished during the above invasion. It was, therefore, subsequently repaired.
6. Muni Kantisagar? had published an inscription of Nanda
ganva (Maharastra State) of V.E. 1541 (1484 A.D.) incised on a pedestal of an image. On the basis of this inscription he attempted to prove that the Kirtistambha of Chittor was completed during the 15th century. But the inscription does not contain such information. It mentions that Punya singh constructed the Kirtistambha and one of his descendents, later installed the said image. A similar8 inscription,
6. Journal Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society Vol. XXIII p. 41/D. R.
Bhandarkar published this inscription on the basis of a manuscript copied in VE 1508 (1451 A.D) at Dolatabad. He could not collect any fragment of this inscription. Fortunately a big fragment of it lying in the Nilakanth temple at Chittor, was noticed by the Author in Varada. One more frag.
ment was also collected by the Archaeological Survey of India recently. 7. Muni Kanti Sagar-The Khoj-ki-Pagadandiya (Varanasi 1958) pp. 121-22, 8. Anekant (oct) 1968,
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