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Structural Temples of the Caulukyan Period Saindhavi temple on Mt. Abu
Mention of the Saindhavi goddess is found in the Dvyāśrya 151 by Hemacandra. It narrates that this goddess was worshipped on a grand scale on Mt. Abu. The temple does not exist at present.
Tradition represents Kumārapala as a great builder of Jain temples.
From the Dvyāśrya however, we learn of two other temples built by Kumārapāla; one, which was called Kumāravihāra was erected at Anahilapāțaka, while the other stood at Devapattana. 152 In a passage in the Mahāvīracarita mention is made of a big Jain temple erected by Kumārapala near his palacel53 which was probable identical with Kumāravihāra mentioned in Dy. In a passage in Mahāvīra Carita, it is stated that every village was adorned with Jain caitya by Kumārapāla. 154 This probably means that he had erected a large number of small public edifices which apparently were not important enough to give separate names, and besides these built a great temple-the Kumāravihāra at the capital which Hemacandra describes in detail in DV.
Of the other chronicles, the Prabhāvaka Carita, speaks first of all, of the Kumāravjhāra at AŘhilpāțaka, 155 and then it is stated that the King ordered to be erected thirty two temples (Vihāras) as penance for the sins of his teeth, 156 he also erected an image of Neminātha in the temple of his father
151. DV. XVI, 54. There are sacred sites or shrines dedicated this goddess at several places in Gujarat as for instance at Patan, Karvan, Broach, etc. 152. DV. XXI. v. 93-100. 153. Mahāvīrcarita v. 91. 154. lbid v. 75. 155. Prabhavaka carita XXII, vv 603-609 156. lbid v. 701
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