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PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA
given the life story of Rşabha. At a festival in a temple of Rşabha (which was erected by two contemporaries of the Cāhamāna prince Samarasimha in about 1185 A.D.), the drama Prabuddha-Rauhiņeya by Rāmabhadra Muni (prob. 12th cent. A.D.) was performed. It is generally seen that the life-story of Rşabha is told in the introductory section of the Rāma Epics.
Rşabhadeva has also been worshipped through the ages. A temple of Rşabhanātha was erected at Anahilavāda by a merchant prince Ninnaya by name sometime in the 8th-9th centuries A.D. In the tenth century A.D. there were many Jaina temples at Khajuraho. In Cunningham's list at No. 26, there is an ancient temple called Setnāth which is most probably from the original name of Ādinātha, 14 feet in height, at No. 27 in his list. There is yet another small ancient Jaina temple now dedicated to Ādinātha. Sometime in the 11th cent. A.D. the Jaina Vimala Sāha was appointed Governor of Abu under Bhima I of Gujarat. In 1031 A.D. Vimala Sāha built a marble temple of Adinātha at Delwara on Mount Abu. At the village of Sandhārā, near Bhanpurā, two Jain temples were dedicated to Adinātha and belonged to the Digambara community. Regular worship is carried on these two temples."
Some pieces of information on Ādinātha temple pertaining to Bengal are mentioned below :
Temples / mandirs
1. Deuli-Adinātha temple, almost dilapidated. 2. Arsha (Boran Police St.) in Purulia-Rşabha.
Status 3. Jhalda (10th cent. A.D.) with inscription. The term
Śrāvaka is used. 11. Majumdar, ibid., p. 535f.
