The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.96

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¹ Burnouf, *Introd.*, 2nd ed., p. 384; Schiefner, *Tāranāth*, p. 287. ‘The name of Samprati is well known from Ajmēr to Saurāshtra, and his era is given in a valuable chronogrammatic catalogue in an ancient Jain manuscript from the temple of Nadol, at 202 of the Virat Samvat. He is mentioned both traditionally and by books as the great supporter of the Jain faith, and the remains of temples dedicated to Māhāvīra, erected by this prince, yet exist at Ajmēr, Kumbhalmēr, and Girnār’ (Tod, *Annals, &c.*, Oxford Univ. Press, 1920, vol. i, p. 290). The fortress of Jahāgpur, situated about 96 miles NE. of Udaipur and the same distance SSE. from Ajmēr, which guarded an important pass between Bundi and Mewār, is believed to have been founded by him. It was rebuilt by Rānā Kumbher in the fifteenth century. The tradition is supported by the existence of ancient Jain temples (*Rājputāna Gazetteer*, Simla, 1880, iii, 52). See also Forbes, *Rāsmālā*, 1856, i, p. 7. An inscription, dated 1686 v.E. = A.D. 1622, on a Jain temple at Nāḍlai in the Jodhpur State, Rājputāna, records the traditional belief that the original edifice had been built by Samprati (*Prog. Rep. A. S. W. I.*, 1909–10, p. 41).