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and the following two days, and the last by Muzaffar II in 1530 A.D., who committed the sacriledge of converting the temple into a mosque. The present temple was built under the direct supervision of the late lamented Sara dāra Vallabh abhai Patela, the great leader of Independence Movement and the then Deputy Prime-Minister of India, and the consecration ceremony was performed by the late lamented Dr. Rajendra Prasāda, the first President of India,
in May 1950. 30.21; 31.2. Vide 9219, Athart. - lit. : 'the hermitage of the foreigner'. The fabulous
(?) hut specially prepared on the bank of the lake Phū geläu for Kūmārīrāņā ka, the fabulous king of Kid ima n kodin a gara who is stated here to have dwelt there and spent his after-life in
practising penance. 27.19. -- the holy place of pilgrimage situated in Nepāla
in the outer ranges of the Himalayas, sacred to Paś up atinătha, one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Siva. 27.8.
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--the temple of Pārsva nātha, the 23rd Tirthan. kara of the Jainas, situated at Pāțaņa. It is stated to have been built by the Cāpotkața or Cāvadā king Vana rāja who established the city of Pāțāņa or Aņ a hilla pura and ruled there from 746 A.D. to 805 A.D. As the name suggests the image was brought from Pañcā sara, the seat of his ancestors till the defeat and death of his brave father Jayasekhara or Jay aśikhari. Pañ cās a ra is at present a village near Rādha na pura in North Gujarāta on the border of the Desert of Kaccha in the Vadiyāra or Vadhiyā ra tract. 22.18; 23.2.
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-- modern Pāț a ņa in North Gujarāta on the
bank of the river Sarasvati, sixty miles north of Ahmedaba d. Vana rāja, the founder of the Capotka ţa or Cāvadā dynasty
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