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Introduction
CCXXXV and not Jakkha we might infer that at the time Jakkha was not living. But it can be argued against this view that usually it is thc samgha that invites the Achāryas. Any how if the ceremony took place after the life-time of Jakkha we will have to put the building of the temple earlier, how much earlier we have no means to guess.
However that might be, we have here a tradition informing us of the existence of a human habitation known as Lakkhārāma-probably a town of mercantile importance, full threehundred years before the founding of the city which took place, according to this account as also that of the P. C., in the year V. S. 802-A. D. 746.
Whether the story of Jakkha the merchant of Kānyakubja is historical or not, the existence of Lakkhārāma prior to the founding of Aşahillapāțaka along its site as also the existence of the temple of Arishțanemi in Lakkhārāma seem to be historical. If we study the history of the capital cities of India, we will discover, in many cases, that they are not founded in altogether wild places. The places where the capital cities were founded, had, generally speaking prior to Then in the very same city there were eleven kings of Chālukka dynasty viz. Mülarāya, Chāmundarāya, Vallabharāya, Dullaharāya, Bhītnadeva, Kanna, Jayasīmhadeva, Kumārapāladeva, Ajayadeva, Bala-Mülaráya and Bhīmadeva. Then in the family of Väghelās were born the kings Lūņappasáya, Vīradhavala, Vīsaladeva, Ajjupadeva, Sárangadeva, and Kannadeva. After that the rule of Surattāras Allāvadiņa etc. prevailed in Gujjaradbaritti. That lord Aritthaņems whose door-keeper is the goddess Kohandī is even to day worshipped in the same way." p. 51.
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