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wal of the grant the year of the original grant of Ganga chief Sivamāra II Saigota has been written by mistake as Saka 261 whereas it must have been same date between Saka 700 and 740 when that Ganga ruler is known to have lived.
6. A stone inscription (now in the Hyderabad Museum) of the reign of king Jayasimha II of the later Chālukya dynasty of Kalyāni and dated in Saka 949 Prabhava A. D. 1027 mentions Somala Devi, a hitherto unknown daughter of that monarch, a devoted Jain who when encamping at Pulipodaru made a grant to a basadi (Jain establishment) of Piriya Mosaugi (modern Maski) which was probably her capital.
7. An inscription dated Samvat 1116 (A.D. 1059-60) inscribed on the lower part of a Jaina image found at Jantoli in the Ajmer District,
8. An inscription from Punduru (in the Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh) of the later Chālukya monarch Tribhuvanamalla (Vikramaditya VI) registers endowments of land, a garden and certain incomes to the god Parshvadeva by Mahamandaleshvara Jattarasa of Punduru in the 12th year (1087 A D.).
9. A three-line inscription on a marble image of Tirthankara Pārshvanatha giving the date samvat 1150 (A. D. 1093).
10. An inscription engraved on the pedestal of an image of Tirthankara Pārshvanatha found in Bhojpur (district Raisen of Madhya Pradesh), records the setting up of two images by one Chillana, son of Rama and grandson of Nemichandra in the reign of Naravarman (C. 1097-1111 A. D.), the Paramāra king of Malwa.
11. The inscription on the pedestal of the image of Ranchodaji in a temple at this image at Dholka (district Ahmedabad in Gujarat State) show that this image was installed in y, s. 1266 (A.D. 1209). The original inscription--a large prasasti composed by the well-known Shvetâmbara Jain poet Rāmachandra Sūri who is known to have died in 1174, records the construction of a Jaina monastery called the Udayana Vihāra by the minister Vagdahata, apparently in the memory of his father, Udayana, who was the chief minister of the Chālukya monarch Jayasimha Siddarāja (c. 1094-1144 A. D.). The date of the original inscription appears to be about 1150 A. D.
12. A three line inscription on the pedestal of a seated headless image of the 8th Tirthankara, Chandraprabha bearing the date Samvat 1209 (A. D. 1152-53). The image was acquired by the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer.
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