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TULSI-PRAJNA built by the viceroy of sultan Alaudin Khilji. Many inscribed stones are lying in the State Museums, Udaipur and chittor and in the office of Archaeological Survey of India, Chittor. Inscriptions from the Jain temples of Jalore, which are now fixed in the walls of Topakhapa mosque of that place, have also survived and are only the remnants of massive temples. The Mughal forces devastated several temples of Godawar, Sirohi, Mewar and other places. The inscriptions of Ranakpur, Nadlaio, Barakana10 and other places. evince that the temples were renovated and new icons were installed
er settlement was reached between the rulers of Mewar and the Mughal Emperor in 1615 A D. The Mughal forces also carried out depredations in the Sirohi area taking away with them more thar 1000 Jain bronzes. These were later handed over to Maharaja o. Bikaner and are now preserved in the Chintamani temple of Bikaner.
In the earlier times, the plan of a Jain temple was quite simple. However, after the 10th century A.D. additional structures : the Trika-Mandap, Ranga-Mandap, Devakulikas and others were also added to Shvetambar Jain temples. It also became a fashion to decorate the temple elaborately through fine architectural designs and attractive tracery works. Thus the temples had become too ambitious for a single financer to be able to bear the cost of construction and maintenance (e g. Ranakpur). The works of renovations, additions to the temple, construction of Devakulikas, Mandaps, Stambhas, Chatuskikās and others were therefore, shared by several persons.
It is interesting to note that there was no uniform way of recor. ding these details in the inscriptions. Some times the big Prashastis were composed to record the minor works undertaken by individuals. Major renovation and additions to the Vimal-Vasati were carried out in V.E. 1206 by Prithvipal. But he had recorded his deeds in a fragmentary inscription having a single verse 11 Similarly the major renovation of Lunig12 Vasati done by Pethadkumar is also mentioned in a small epigraph. In this way, we can say that no standard draft recording the renovations and additions to temples etc. was popular,
Inscriptions of the Icons :
The inscriptions engraved on the pedestals of the icons, shilapattas etc. mostly have the following points in the draft. (1) The inscription is opened by giving some religious marks like
Shri or Hrim. (2) The date is generally recored either in the boginning or at the
cad.
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