History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2022 History (Shift-II)
Jinaprabhasuri, in his Vividhatirthakalpa, includes a section on which holy city?
AKanchipuram
BVaranasi
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DAyodhya
Correct answer: (C) Mathura — It is a section on Mathura, so the answer is Mathura.
Explanation
★It is a section on Mathura, so the answer is Mathura.
★Jinaprabhasuri in his Vividhatirthakalpa includes a section on the holy city of Mathura.
★The building of the Jaina stupa at Mathura has a legend associated with it, mentioned by Jinaprabhasuri in this fourteenth-century text.
★He says that two monks came to Mathura and a goddess constructed a replica of the stupa made of gold and jewels.
★Thus the stupa is called the Devanirmita stupa.
★The Vividhatirthakalpa contains sixty sections on the holy cities of Jainism.
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