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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. LXXXI. The temple of Vastupāl and Tejpāl at Girnar, 1232-contains an inscription by the poet Someshwar, the author of Kirtimanmudi and priest of Virdhawal Vaghela, stating how it was built. The number of Jain temples erected on Girnar and palitana prior to the fifteenth century is extremely small, great majority built after that period in their zeal to 'restore and to beautify the temples dating from the thirteenth century or earlier, the Jains have inadvertently resorted to measures little short of Vandalism--the old tripple temple at Girnar has been painted in hideous colours, destroying the beauty of its sculptured ceilings, domes renovated externally with a coating of broken china, and the inscription slabs covered with white wash.
Pp. Lxxxii-Lxxxlv. Shatrunjaya - the hill (2,000 ft. above the level of the plains) of Palitana-covered with palatial temples-A. K. FORBES's account in his Rasmala. Influence of the Jain style on the later architecture of Gujarat.
Pp. 54 and 85. The small structure which stands on the crest of one of the two highest peaks of Idargadh is still known as Ranmal's Choki or guardroom--this was originally an elegant little Jain temple and of great antiquity which was perhaps used for military purposes by the Rajput rulers of Idar in the fourteenth and subsequent centuries. Idar is about 64 miles north-east of Ahmedabad. There are views all round the central chamber for the Tirthankaras of the Jain pantheon.
P. 61. Ahmedabad styled Shrinagar and Räjnagar in Hindu and Jain writings and inscriptions. Karnavati, like modern Ahmedabad, was also a great centre of Jain worship-Devasüri resided here ; Kumudchandra had to go to Karnavati when he went to see Devasūri. Karnavati and Ahmedabad situated on adjoining sites on the banks of the Sabarmati.
P. 66. Jain mosque of Broach on the Narhada, buiit on the site of the Jain shrines-the marble door leading from the portico into the court of the mosque is evidently bodily introduced from some Jain temples,
P. 86. The temples of the Digambar and Svetāmbar Jains on the hill both well represented in the population of the Idar town-two beautiful ancient temples on the plateau of the hill Shambhavanātha's (3rd Tirthankar) temple belongs to the Digambaras-Shāntinātha's temple of Svetāmbaras; Pilgrims passing through Idar on their way to the Jain tirtha at Kesarianāth to Udaipur, after devotion at these Jain temples on the hill of Idargarh.
P. 107. The oldest Muhammadan monument in Ahmedabad is Ahmad Shah's mosque (A.D. 1414)--most of its building materials borrowed from some Hindu or Jain temples.
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