Temples of Kumbhariya

Author(s): M A Dhaky, U S Moorty
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Kumbhariyā and Contemporary Writings
which the book's pp. 10-29 are devoted to the description of the Kumbhāriyā site and its temples. He also refers to Bhandarkar's Report, but largely records his own observations which are fairly useful. No illustrations, however, are included. 10. Muni Jayantavijaya next published some of the Kumbhāriyā inscriptions recorded by him while visiting the Jaina temples in the sites around Mt. Abu. His important book containing these data was entitled Arbudācala Pradakşiņā Jaina-lekhasandoha (Abu Pt. 5) with an introduction and translation in Gujarātī. It was published in Śrī Yasovijaya Jaina Granthamālā, Bhāvnagar V.S. 2005 (A.D. 1949), where the inscriptions numbered 3-41 from Kumbhāriyā temples appear on pp. 2-15 (trans. on pp. 3-15). Some of these are also found in the earlier publication of Muni Jinavijaya (1921).
11. Muni Nyāyavijaya (Tripuțī group), published his Jaina Tirtho-no Itihāsa (Guj.) in Śrī Cāritrasmāraka Granthamālā, No. 38, Amdāvād 1949, pp. 297-301. It is an uncritical and not a particularly well-organized work but devotes its pp. 291-301 to Kumbhāriyā. A few details that figure there may be compared with those given in other publications. 12. Pt. Ambālāl Premchand Shah's useful compendium, the Jaina Tirtha Sarva Sangraha (Guj.), I.2, was published from Amdāvād in 1953. Here, on pp. 283-287, he dwells on the Kumbhāriyā temples, using earlier published sources, adding as he also did a few observations of his own.
13. Pt. Ambālāl Premchand Shah's Rāņakapura-ni Pañcatirthi published in Śrī Yasovijaya Jaina Granthamālā, Bhāvnagar V.S. 2012 (A.D. 1956), has a limited bearing on Kumbhāriya in that it includes Poet Khīmā's Caityaparipāți as well as “Rāņigapura-caityaparipātī-stavana' of Pt. Meha (c. mid 15th cent. A.D.) which incidentally refers to the Vimala's foundation of Jina Rsabha IĀdinātha temple in Ārāsaņa. 14. Triputi Mahārāja, in their Jaina Paramparā-no Itihāsa, Pt. 2 (Guj.), Śrī Cāritrasmāraka Granthamālā, No. 54, Amdāvād 1960, have spared the book's pp. 298-300 for the Ārāsana-tīrtha but fail to add new information.
15. A more useful work published in Gujarātī is Sri Arāsana Tirtha apara nāma Śrī Kumbhāriyāji Tirtha, by Muni Viśālavijaya published in Śrī Yaśovijaya Jaina Granthamāļā, Bhāvnagar 1961. The book is based on the impressions recorded during Muniji's two visits to Kumbhāriya, one in 1931 with his guru Muni Jayantavijaya, and the second in 1951. For this book Pt. A.P. Shah coördinated