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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. LXVIII. Religious controversies between the Brahman and the Jains in the reign of Siddharaj of Gujarat (1094-1143), and also between the Digambara and Svetämbars in 1124; Kumud Chandra a Jain Acharya of Karnatak championed the cause of the Digambaras-he was supposed by Hemachandra. Digambaras defeated and expelled from the city (Prabandha-chintamani, Pp. 97-104) Siddharaj like his ancestors was a Shaiva though the Jains try to show him as a Jain; the opening verses of all the works written by Hemachandra during the reign of Siddharaj contain no special praise of Jain deities. Moreover, the order by which Siddharaj forbade the use of banners on Jain temples shows the reverse of a leaning to Jainism. Siddharaj patronised men of letters and was tolerant towards the Jains.
P. LXX. Kumärpäl (1143-74) was persecuted by Siddharaj but was helped by Hemachandra Acharya-Udayana, the great minister and general of Kumārpāl; Udayana's son Amrabhata built stone steps up the west face of Mount Girnar in Kathiawar, in A.D 1166.
P. LXXIII. Kumarpal rebuilt the temple of Somnath under the advice of Hemachandra. Inscription commemorating this restoration in 1169 A.D. the temple of Bhadrakali at Prabhas Paṭan.
P. LXXV. Career of Hemachandra the Acharya-his parents were Modh Vania and lived at Dhandhuka-Devächärya brought him to the Jain convent at Karnavati-author of many Sanskrit and Prakrit works Kumarpal converted to Jain faith by him-the royal proselyte prohibited throughout the eighteen regions of Gujrat the destruction of life in any form whatever-Hemacharya died in 1172 in his eighty fourth year.
P. LXXVIII. During the reign of Virdhaval Vaghela (the ruler of Dholka) his ministers the two brothers Vastupal and Tejpal, employed their fabulous wealth. in adorning the summits of Abu, Girnar and Shatruñjaya with magnificent temples in the thirteenth century A.D. Photo (plate) of Marble ceiling in the temple of Neminath built in 1231 by Tejpal at Abů (from the glories of Hindustan by Dr. Alfred NAVRATH).
Pp. Lxxlx-Lxxxi. The Delvada temples at Abu (4,000 feet above the platun's level) a master plece of the sculpture's art surpassing almost every other building in India in the richness and delicacy of its carving. A Kinloch FORBES on these temples-in his Rasmala, Col. James Tid's impressions in his Travel in Western India.
Plates-Jain temples in the fort of Mount Girnar near Junagadh (from Col. Tod's travels in India.
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