History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c24.s8.17

v2.c24.s8.17

From the form of several letters in an inscription, found near these ruins, General Cunningham was inclined to believe that this temple may belong to the 6th or 7th century of our era; and from finding a Buddhist statue and a short Buddhist inscription near them, he was at first inclined to assign them to that religion. Later he made excavations on the site and found some eleven figures apparently Digambara Jaina, and two distinctively Vaishnava. Hence he concluded that it must have been a Jaina temple.³ The plan, too, of the building, so far as it can be made out, is unlike anything we know that is Buddhist, but very similar to many that certainly are Jaina.⁴