1849.] discovered on a Spur of the Satpoorah Range. 945 



For a century or two about this time both, in Malwa and Rajpootana, 

 the Jain creed appears to have been in its zenith. The temples at Woon, 

 about 50 miles distant from Bawangaj, bear date 1203, 1243, 1263. It 

 would seem almost as if the Bawangaj temple filled up the blank of 

 20 years which the Jain temples bear relatively to one another, and 

 which they may have occupied in building or completion, the workman 

 and every available assistance being given to effect it. Thus Woon 

 1203, Bawangaj 1223, and Woon 1243, ditto 1263. A prior date of 1 192 

 on a figure at Woon is the very year of Col. Todd's plate, which has 

 Lachsman Varma's sign manual, and in 1218 according to another plate 

 of Col. Todd's, Aldan Dera Achohun prince built at Hadole a temple to 

 Mahavira. Of his persuasion there is no doubt, scarcely of Jaya Varma's. 

 According to the Camarapala Charitra, his ancestor Boja was a proselyte 

 to the Jain faith, and his father, Yasovarma's grant is thus worded : 

 " The great prince acquaints thepeople, Pattalica brahmans and others," 

 making the brahmans a sect separate and distinct from the people, added 

 to which Jaya Singh of Pattun, from whom Yasovarma held in feoff, was 

 of the Anhulwarra dynasty, remarkable for their adherence to Jainism, 

 and himself in particular. It is not without some reason then we 

 surmise that the temple of Indrajit, if really built in 1223 by Rama- 

 chandra, was designed and constructed at a time when the Jain religion 

 was flourishing in the territories pertaining to Avanti. From the hon- 

 esty with which the repairs of the temple is recorded in the next in- 

 scription, Samvat 1516, we may at least assume its having been erected, 

 by Ramachandra, until we can discover prior data. 



From the specification of its being the large temple which was re- 

 paired, it is to be inferred that there were others at hand which, as I 

 have previously noted was the case, the summit of the hill being strew- 

 ed with figures in its bricks and mortar, and the frustum of one distinct 

 temple. The sovereign named in the inscription over the doorway is 



gives an inscription for Piplianagar and Bhopal on Copper plates, from which the 

 succession appears as follows : — 



1. Raja Bhoja Deva, 



2. Son, Udayaditya, 



3. Naravarma, 



4. Yasovarma, A. D. 1137, 



5. Jayavarma, a. d. 1143, 



In this list Luchsman Varma is left out, but the date of Jaya Varma's reign 

 corresponds exactly with Colonel Todd's plates. 



6. Vendhayavarma, 



7. Son, Amushyavarmj 



8. Subhatavarma, 



9. Son, Arjun. 



