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Title: Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or The central and western Rajput states of India
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Tod, James, 1782-1835 Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Rajasthan (India) -- History
Publisher: London, New York : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

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nath, the first of the twenty-four Jain pontifis: By Sri Adinath, and the twenty- (This has been so altered, remodelled, and ruined that its original form is unrecognizable (Fergusaon, Hist. Ind. Arch. ed. 1910, ii. 170).) ^ (Sunth and Lunavada in Kewa Kantha, Bombay (IGI, xvi. 209 ff.).)3 (The Jain pillar, known as Khawasan Stambha, said to mean Grandees pillar, or Kiitti JStambha, pillar of victory, was built by a Bagherwal Mahajan, or merchant, named Jija in the twelfth or thirteenth century a.d., and has recently been repaired by the Government of India. Fergusaon (Hist. Ind. Arch. ed. 1910, ii. 5J) remarks that the date assigned on the slab mentioned in the text, which is now lost, is much too early. It has been ascribed to Kumarapala of Gujarat (a.d. 1143-74). It probably belongs to the thirteenth century, and the nude figures show that it was a Digambar amonument, whereas Kumarapala was a kSvetambara. The tradition assigning it to Jija Mahajan may be correct (Erskino ii. A. 104).)
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