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Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy for 1957-58. Delhi, 1961.
P. 9. Among the collections from Jalor No. 497 records the construction of Śri-Kuvaravihara by Chaulukya Kumarapala in v.s. 1221, its renovation in v.s. 1242 at the instance of Chāhamana Samarasimha of Songira, the construction of a torana for the god Mahavira and the hoisting of the flag on a staff made of gold in v.s. 1256 at the behest of the royal family, and the setting up of the golden cupola in the newly built central hall for dramatic performance on the dipotsava-dina in v. s. 1268 (cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. XI, Pp. 54-55). The renovation of the temple by Samarasimha within two decades after its foundation probably indicates that this Vihara built by Kumarapala was affected by the invasion of Mu'izz-ud-din Muhammad Ghuri who is said to have plundered Nädol (The Struggle for Empire, p. 87).
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No. 495. From the same place, dated v.s. 1331 and belonging to the time of Mahārājakula Chächigadeva, refers to the Chandana-vihara pertaining to the Jaina monastery attached to the Naṇakiya-gachchha to which 150 drammas were endowed by certain persons for the worship of the god Mahavira during the ashlahnika festival. The inscription refering to the said festival is dated the eleventh tithi of the bright half of Asauja (Asvina). According to Mirji ANNARAO's Jaina Dharma, p. 572, the festival is usually celebrated in the months of Ashadha, Kärttika and Phalguna. The Halsi plates of Kadamba Ravivarman (Ind. Ant., Vol. VI, P. 26), where we find the earliest epigraphaphical reference to this festival, state that the king ordained this festival to be celebrated in the month of Karttika. The epigraph is published in Ep, Ind. Vol. XXXIII, Pp. 46-49.
P. 10. Among the miscellaneous epigraphs of the year's collection, the following are noteworthy. Eight lebel inscriptions (Nos. 212-218) in archaic Chalukyan characters attributable to the 7th century A.D.. engarved on the pillars in the Jaina temple close to the meguti temple at Aihole in the Bijapur District of Mysore state, gave names such as Ananda-sthavira, Mahendra, Bina-amman and Maureyan, and may be compared with similar level records both from this place (A. R. Ep., 1928-29, Nos. E. 1-31) and from Badāmi (ibid., Nos. E 101131: 1927-28, Nos. E-93-238).
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