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Bengal.
A Hoysala king abjured Jainism for the Vişnuism.
(Caves on the Khandagiri & Udayagiri hills, long believed to be Buddhist but now thought to be mostly Jain; Khäravela inscription-165 B. C.)
(With the exception of the Sonbhandar cave at Rajgir, dating from the 3rd century A. D., these are the only Jain remains with any claim to antiquity. South Bihar---the ancient Magadha, the birthplace of Jainism & Buddhism).
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Residence of a very great number of Jaina
merchants. A magnificent temple. Vol. II-contd. (Vol. VIII). Bettadpur.
In the 10th century, a Jaina prince entered
in the sect of the Lingāyats. Betul Dist.
At Muktägiri - modern Jain temples. Annual Jain fair.
Interesting Jain ternple. Ruins of temples created towards 1125 A. D. by the merchant (Jagadeva Sah) Jagadusha; celebrated place of pilgrimage in the 12th & 13th centuries ; Jain images were destroyed, at the end of the 17th Cent. by the Mussalmans.
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Bhagalpur.
352 (24, 29,
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In the neighbourhood of the town (at Champānagar) are found two remarkable sancturies belonging to the Oswals, and one of which was built at the end of the 18th century. Jains 723 ).
Bhatkal.
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At the beginning of the 18th cent. this town counted several Jain temples. (Chandranātheśvarabasti. Jain princess Channabhaira Devi (1950).
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Bhavanagar,
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