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Tejahpala iti kṣithdra-sacivaḥ samkhojvalābhiḥ śilāśrenibhih sphurad-imdu-kuṁda-ruciram Nemiprabhor mahdiram uccatr-mandapam agrato Jina-var-äväsa-dviparcasatam tat-pārsveşu balānakaṁ ca purato niṣpādayāmāsivān||
INSCRIPTIONS
We learn from another inscription' that the Neminatha-mahātīrtha of this temple-complex was built by the minister Tejaḥpala in the Vikrama year 1257 (A.D. 1200-01), and other inscriptions reveal that he was responsible for the construction of a number of subshrines and niches in that temple. According to a third inscription, in the Vikrama year 1293 (A.D. 1236-37) a number of subshrines, niches and idols were added to the Luna-vasahikā. The same record informs us of similar additions made to the Jaina temples at Satrunjaya, Jāvälipura, Taranagarh, Anahillapura, Vījāpura, Lāțapalli, Prahlādanapura, Nagapura and Arbudacala itself.
Again, an inscription" at Jalor informs us that the Kuvara-vihāra, built in the Vikrama year 1221 (A.D. 1164) by Caulukya Kumārapāla, was renovated in the Vikrama year 1242 (A.D. 1185) by Cahamana Samarasimha, that in the Vikrama year 1256 (A.D. 1199) a golden flagstaff was installed on the mulaSikhara and that in the Vikrama year 1262 (A.D. 1205) a golden kalasa was installed in the madhya-mandapa.
While referring to the temples by such synonymous terms as caitya, vasati, harmya, mandira, veśma, vihāra, bhuvana, präsāda, and sthāna, these inscriptions provide useful and reliable data, mostly dated, on the construction and renovation of shrines or subshrines either singly (deva-kulikā, caturmukha-deva-kulikä, älaya-rupa-deva-kulikā, mahā-tirtha, tīrtha, dehari) or in groups (deva-kulika-dvayam, deva-kulika-trayam, etc.), in some cases highlighting their architectural features (bimba-danda-kalaś-ädi-sahitā deva-kulikā). Quite a number of these records give information on the repairs carried out to these temples either in full or in part (vihāra-jirṇoddhāra, tīrtha-samuddhāra, tirthoddhāra, caitya-jirnoddhāra, etc.). The construction of hundreds of niches, either singly (khattaka) or in groups (khattaka-dvayam, etc.) is alluded to in a number of these inscriptions. Most of the inscriptions, however, pertain to the making, installation and consecration of images, either singly (pratima,
1 Ibid., no. 260. Ibid., no. 352.
* Jaina Inscriptions, collected and compiled by Puran Chand Nahar, part I, Calcutta, 1918,
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