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1. Inscription in ancient Prākrit and dating about 150 years before the Christian era. It recalls the gift of a inonumental arch to a temple.
II. Inscription from the commencement of the Christian era, commemorating the construction of a temple.
The first of these documents show that a Jaina temple constructed at Mathura 150 years before the Christian era ; but it would be unjust to conclude that this temple was one of the two discovered under the Kankāli Tilā.
III. A third inscription furnished the proof that it was worked at Mathura from one era previous to the Saka era. It quotes, besides, the name of a royal lady, Ayavati or Aryavati, which is to be met with again in the Jaina legends.
IV. Mention of the Vacchaliya Kula, branch of the Kodiya gana (?).
V. Menition of the Väraņa gana and of the Naţika or Nadik Kula corresponding undoubtedly to the Mālijta Kula of the "Kalpasūtra".
VI. Mention of an 'Ayyabhyista Kula' of the Vāraņa gaņa.
VII & VIII. Inscriptions relating to some statues of Tirathankaras. Concise description of some sculptures. One of these represents some Kinnaras and some Suparnas adoring a stupa..
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Calcutta. Volume 1 (1892).
XVII. The Jaina inscription in the temple of Baijnath at Krragräma. G. BÜHLER.
Two lines of inscription, in Jaina-nāgari characters on the pedestal of a statue of Mahāvira, given by two merchants, Dolhana and Alhaņa, and consecrated by Devabhadra, disciple of Abhayadeva,, of the spiritual issue of Jinavallabha, Samvat 1296.
XVIII. On the pedestal of an image of Parsvanātha, in the Kangra Bazar. G. BÜHLER.
- Mutilated inscription of eight lines, recalling the descendance of a sūri of the name of Abhayacandra. 854 A.D. (?)
XIX. Inscriptions from Khajuraho. F. KIELHORN.
3. Inscriptions from a Jaina temple of the year 1011. Eleven lines in Sanskrit and in Nägari characters. The inscription, mixed with verse and with prose, is found
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