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Jain patron · restorer

Tejpal Soni

Active 16th century AD

Named in Shatrunjaya’s inscription-based restoration chronology for 1594 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

Tejpal Soni belongs to a later phase of renewal at the complex. He is not conflated here with other, better-known Jain patrons called Tejpal.

Beyond these sites

  • Contributed to the continuing renewal of Shatrunjaya.

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

THE WORK OF PRESERVATION

Places, actions & evidence

1594 AD · Gujarat

Renewal at Shatrunjaya: Tejpal Soni

Historical account

The published survey records a restoration associated with Tejpal Soni.

Tejpal Soni’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: contemporary restoration inscriptions. Review notes.

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