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According to the Prabandha writer, Samara Shah was appointed as the Suba of Telang desa where he set free many prisoners and obliged many chieftains. He adorned Urangalpura with Jain temples, invited many Jain families to settle there and won name, fame and glory as a suba??. This account of Kakkasūri, though unconfirmed is not unreliable, because he was a 'Guru' and contemporary of Samara Shah.
About V. S. 1369 ( A. D. 1312–13 ), the temples of Vimala Shah and Tejabpala on Mt. Abu were destroyed by the Muslims. When the Jains came to know of this, they undertook the work of repairing the temples. The Vimalavasabi was repaired by Vijada, son of Dhanasimba of Mandor, his five brothers, Laligasimha and Laligasimha's two brothers. Thus the whole temple of Vimala Shah was repaired by nine persons. The “ Pratistha " (or the ceremony of Siddhasūri's Death in V. S. 1376 (A. D. 1320.) This seems to be evidently a mistake because Kutbuddin who died in A. D. 1210 was not & contemporary of Samara Shab. The king who invited Samara Shah to Delhi was Gyasuddin Tughlak whose dates A. D. 1820-25 show that he was a contemporary of Samara Shah.
(82) Jain Aitikäsika Gurjar Kavya Sanchaya, Appendis, P.p. 163-4. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
