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LVIII : SĀRĀVALİ-PRAKĪRNAKA
AD, it gives a very detailed and comprehensive description of all the Jaina places of pilgrimage in the eastern, western, northern, central and southern India of its time. It also mentions some sites of Digambara Jaina places of pilgrimage in the southern part of India. It can be considered as one of the most important work on the holy places of pilgrimage of the Svetāmbara tradition. From the descriptions contained in this work, it appears that the author had himself undertaken pilgrimages to all these places. It is a work composed in three languages i.e. Prākrta, Samiskrta and Apabhrmśa. The places that have found a mention in this work are - Ahicchatră, Amarakunda (Hānamakonda, Andhra Pradeśa), Antariksa-Pārsvanātha, Apāpā (Pāvā), Arbuda (Abu), Aśvāvabodha (Bhadauch), Astāpada (Kailāśa), Avantideśastha Abhinandana-deva, Ayodhyā, Campā, Dhimpurī, Harikarikhīnagar, Hastināpur, · Kalikunda, Kāmpilya, Kaušāmbi, Kokāvasati, Kotisilā, Ladada, Mithila, Nẵsikyapur (Nẵsika), Pitaliputra, Phalavrddhipārsyanātha (Phalaudhi), Pratisthānapatana (Paithana), Raivatakagiri, Ratnavāhapur, Śrāvastī, Śtruñjaya, Satyapur (Sāñcor), Stambhanaka, tirtha, Vaibhāragiri (Rājagiri), Vārānasi, etc.
Even after this work many a Tīrthamālā and Caitya Paripāti has been written in the Svetāmbara tradition that throw light on the subject of pilgrimage. These have been written in Apabhramiśa of the later period and in the ancient Marugurjara language. The number of these works exceeds a hundred and they have been written in periods ranging from the 11'" to the 17th or 18th centuries AD. Some of these works are on certain single places of pilgrimage only and there are some that mention more or all the places of pilgrimage.
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