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Jain patron · restorer

Samara Shah

Active 14th century AD

Associated with a Shatrunjaya restoration in 1315 AD.

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No verified likeness
No verified likeness is used in this edition. The initials are a placeholder, not a portrait.
GujaratRestoration

A life in context

The Samararasa is the named textual witness in the published restoration chronology. We retain that distinction from a directly inspected inscription.

Beyond these sites

  • Supported the continued use of a major Jain pilgrimage site.

Life and context sources: Shatrunjay Giriraj Darshan in Sculptures and Architecture — Kanchansagarsuri, 1982.

THE WORK OF PRESERVATION

Places, actions & evidence

1315 AD · Gujarat

Renewal at Shatrunjaya: Samara Shah

Historical account

The published survey records a restoration associated with Samara Shah.

Samara Shah’s role
Restoration patron
How it happened
Patronage within a continuing Jain pilgrimage institution.
Who helped
The Jain community, religious custodians and builders.
What endured
One phase in a long history of repair and renewal.

What the evidence leaves open. The source distinguishes literary records from inscriptions; no total of rebuilt temples is inferred.

  1. Shatrunjay Giriraj Darshan in Sculptures and Architecture — Kanchansagarsuri, 1982 ↗
    Introduction: Samararasa. Review notes.

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