320 .-'■•. •'•■• ■■ -.' SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS 



of a Saiva character, appear under the patronage of a new ruler, the son of Teja 

 SiNH. Thenceforward, the two religions divided the occupancy of the place 

 for some time: a number of Jaina grants being dated in a.d. 1322, whilst the 

 temple of Achaleswara was repaired in 1321, and in 1338, one of Vasishtha erect- 

 ed : in the latter, a disposition decidedly hostile to the Jains is manifested. The 

 Jain religion, in fact, was probably falling rather into disfavour, as we have no more 

 grants for a century, whilst those of the Saiva persuasion continue till a.d. 1412. 



The sway of a prince, named Kumbha Kerna, seems again to have turned 

 the balance in favour of the worshippers of Jina, and from a. d. 14<12 to a. d. 

 1577j we have only one inscription, No. XXX. of a Saiva character, relating to 

 Vasishtha, whilst those of the Jaina description, are numerous throughout this 

 interval. They continue frequent, indeed, to the middle of the lyth century, 

 and occur as latf as the middle of the 18th (or a. t>. 175^). It is not impossible 

 there are Jain monuments even more recent, amongst the many pavilions, the 

 character of which is not explained : of late, however, the ascendancy of the ^S^^V^ 

 religion seems to have been recovered, and inscriptions of that class date as re- 

 cently as A. D. 1821, commemorating grants made by Seo Sink, Raja of Sir olii. 



^ The political relations of the mountain Arhuda will, perhaps, be considered 

 of greater interest. It was evidently, for a long period, a dependancy of the 

 kingdom of Guzerat, and the city of Anihilla, which we learn from Abulfazlf 

 was the original name of Patten, the ancient capital of that kingdom. Under 

 them, it was immediately subject to the governors and feudatory chiefs of 

 Chandrd'vati, but, subsequently, was transferred to another family, the rulers 



» of Meda, ov Medapdta : in more recent times, it appears to have fallen into the 

 hands of the Rajas of >S?ro A/. 



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 The inscriptions present us with several different dynasties of some im- 

 portance I these are the CJiauluhya family, or sovereign house of Guzerat ; 



