2. The period of the Indo-greek rule (c. 185 B.C. – 78 A.D.)

After the break-up of the Mauryan Empire (c. 185 B. C.) Gujarat seems to have passed under the power of Indo-Greek kings such as Apollodotus and Menandar, whose coins were in use at Barygaza or Bharukaccha upto the time of the Periplus. This period has not left remains of any temples but the Jain traditions have preserved an account of the 1 Chronology of Gujarat p. 29. 2. Junagadha Rock Inscription of Rudradamana: Antiquities of Kaccha and Kathiawada p. 128. 3. Sankalia H. D. Archaeology of Gujarat p. 49. 4. Chronology of Gujarat p. 41.

72 The Structural Temples of Gujarat construction of certain temples which may be ascribed to this period on the bases of the chronological references contained therein. According to the Jain tradtion. Venivatsaraja a contemporary of the famous Jain monk Arya Khaputacarya (the beginning of the 1 st Cent. A. D ) 6 was formerly a Buddhist and got built a temple dedicated to the Buddhist goddess Taradevi in a city known as Taraura (SK. Tarapura)." Arya Khaputacarya, then converted the said Venivastaraja to Jain faith and the temple of Taradevi was converted into the temple dedicated to Siddhayika, a Jain goddess 8 There was a temple dedicated to Munisuvrata known as Sakunika-vihara at Bharukaccha in the time of Arya Khaputacarya." Padaliptasuri flourished probably, in the early centuries of the Vikram Era.1º Nagarjuna, his desciple, built the city known as Padaliptapura (Palitana) and erected a Jain temple on Satrunjya consecrating the images of Mahavira and Padaliptasuri therein 11 Nagarjuna also consecrated the image of Parsvanatha at Stambhanaka 12 (Thamana) which naturally implies the existence of a Jain temple there.