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maintain that these books were his own composition, while others say they 
were merely translated by him from the scriptures of the Buddhists; the 
majority, however, allow that they were brought as stated. They are said 
to be commentaries on the Jaina scriptures. 
The most ancient Jaina temples I have seen (those on Abi and at 
Chandravati) are stated by the inscriptions on them to have been built 
between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries of the Samvat era, or between 
Samvat 1100 and 1400. 
In the Patavali | have before quoted, it is related that Jaina temples were 
first built (during the spiritual government of the Tappa A’/cuAryas May- 
TanG Sdrt or MAn Deva Sért) in the year 882, after Virar or MauAvira, 
or 412 from VicramApitya: this is allowed by the majority of the Jainas ; 
however, some say they existed before that period, but were very un- 
common. 
From these facts, which are stated in most of the Patdvalis I have seen, 
some inferences may be drawn as to the origin of the Jaina religion in this 
part of the country. 
The only historical works I have been able to discover relative to persons 
or events, prior to the period of the last Tir? hancara, MAwAvira (2,300 
years ago) are the legends of their other T%r?’hancaras, the Bala-dévas, 
Vasu-dévas, Prati Vasu-dévas, and their saints. 
The Patavalis give what may be considered a tolerably correct account of 
the succession of their high priests from ManAvira to the present time ; 
these were the same in all sects to Prapydrana-stri the twentieth or 
twenty-first A’cuAryA ; who is supposed to have lived about seven hundred 
years after Manavira’s deification, and consequently about two hundred 
and thirty after VicramApitya. At this time the schisms among the Jainas 
became numerous, and they have ever since kept lists of their A’/cuAryas 
separately. 
The following is a description of some of the Jaina temples and éérd’hs in 
Gujerat from the Mirdti Ahmadi: 
Sravaca Temp.es in Guserat. 
These, like the temples of the Hindiis, are to be found in most of’ the 
towns and villages of Gujerat. The chief are, 
Ist. Satrunjaya. This is near Pali-t’hanna, a town depending on Sircar 
