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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 30 Shrine of Pārsvanātha at Pattam-one of the oldest and finest, is now used as a dwelling.
P. 34. The Jain masjid at Verāval (a short distance from Somanātha Pattan) constructed of materials from a Jain temple in A, d. 1331.
Pp. 50-51. Thān-half way between Wadhwān and Rājkot--on the two small Jaina temples upon a detached portion of the hill to the south-east of the Surya temple (Plate XLVIII) and a small unfinished. shrine upon a hillock between them and the village; a seated Jina with a single umbrella over him; image of Ambāji seated upon a tiger, with a child upon her lap a favourite goddess with the Jains and Brahmins--her chief seat is among hills in Mahikantha; another in Vimala Shah's temple on Mt. Abü; a colossal image of her in the Jain cave-temple, the Indra Sabhā at Elura, where she is called Indrāni. Possibly image in the great Gadarmal temple, at Pathāri in central India intended for her Temples to goddesses, as a rule, face the North.
Pp. 55-56. Wadhwān---the town walls and their bastions contain sculptured fragments-in the north-east bastion, outside, is built a colossal head of a Jina, which is called "Dodar". Amog old fragment built into the later walls on east side of the town, are portions of a Digambara Jain temple. The Old name of Wadhwān was Vardhamāna. There is a modern shrine of Mahāvira Swāmi along the river bank.
P. 58. Sejakpur, about 6 miles to the south-east of Dolia railway station, on the western outskirts of the village, about 100 yards to the south of the Navalakha temple, is a ruined Jain temple of considerable merit (Pl. Lxlv & Lxvlll). Its original consisted of a shrine, an inner closed mandapa, and an outer open one, a richly sculptured niche.
Pp. 69-70. Miāni near the coast in the north-west corner of the Porbandar state-in the villge on the hill is a Jaina temple entirely deserted, over the shrine and the doorways are mutilated Jaina images.
Pp. 73-85. Satruñjaya-an isolated hill, about a mile to the south of Palitana, covered with hundred of temples- a sacred city in mid-air (Pl. XCII-CVI); two thousand feet above the plains with two peaks, sacred to Adinatha--fully described. There is nothing dated earlier than the twelfth century A. D. ; between that and the fifteenth century there are many dated inscriptions; of the sixteenth threre are but three, which form the easlier part of the seventeenth to the present time they abound in undertaken succession. The Muhammadan kings of Gujarat did a deal of mischief amongst the temples of both the Hindus and Jains. In A. D. 1414, Ahmad Shah, deputed Taj-ul-Mulk to destroy all idolatrous temples in Gujarat and, again, in
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