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MONUMENTS & SCULPTURE 300 B.C. TO A.D. 300
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Jayadaman (Rudrasena, the son of Rudradaman), refering to those who had obtained kevala-fñana and conquered age shows that at least in the second century A.D. the caves were in the hands of the Jainas. The absence of any definite Buddhist symbols is significant. It would not be wrong to suppose that the Jainas had a monastic establishment near Girnar.
FIG. V. Junagadh : Bawa-Pyara's caves, entrance to Cave K. (After Burgess)
According to the Digambara tradition given by Virasenācārya, the author of the Dhavald commentary, some time after six hundred and eighty years of Mahavira's nirvana, i.e., towards the end of the first century A.D. or in the second century A.D., a great Jaina monk Acarya Dharasena taught scriptures to Puspadanta Bhūtabali in the Candraśāla cave near Girinagara (Girnar)." This is identified by Hiralal Jain with the caves of Bawa-Pyärä's Math." Virasena wrote his commentary on the sutras composed by Puspadanta and Bhutabali after studying scriptures from Dharasena. In view of the inscription
1 A.M. Ghatge in The Age of Imperial Unity, ed. R.C. Majumdar and A.D. Pusalker, Bombay, 1960, p. 418, suggests that he was Damayasada or Rudrasimha I.
Burgess, op. cit.; Sankalia, op. cit.
Tena iv Soratha-visaya-Girininayara pattana-candaguha thiena attharga-maha-nimista päranena gantha-vocchedo hohadi tti jada-bhayena pavayaṇa-vacchalena dakkhinävahäiriyāṇark mahimde millydnam leho pesido. Dhavald-Tikā.
Hiralal Jain, Bharatiya Samskrit men Jaina-Dharma kd Yoga-dana (Hindi), Bhopal, 1962, pp. 41-42, 75-76, 309-10.
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