KANGRA AREA

The latter feature indicates that this reconstruction happened during the Muhammadan occupation. , The adjoining building, used as the shrine proper, must have been a monument of the short period during which Sansar Chand held the Kangra Fort. The clumsy shape of the spire bears ample evidence of its late date.It is a curious example of the capricious action of the earthquake, that this building was destroyed, whereas the adjoining mandapa did not show any sign of injury.

To the south of the Ambika temple there are two small Jain shrines, facing west. One of them contains merely a pedestal, which must have belonged to a Tirthankar image. In the other is placed a seated statue of Adinatha with a partly obliterated inscription dated, according to Cunningham, in Samvat 1523 (A.D. 1466) in the reign of Sansar Chand I.

In the city of Kangra the only place of any antiquity is the small temple ofIndreshvara. It is ascribed to Raja Indrachandra the first member of whose name, according to a common practice, is coupled with that of the deity-Isvara, i.e. Siva to whom the shrine is dedicated. If Cunningham was right in identifying this Indrachandra with the Indu-Chandra of Jalandhara mentioned in the Rajatarangini (VII, 150) as a contemporary of Anantadeva, of Kashmir (A.D. 1028-63), it would follow that the Indresvara temple dates from the Ilth century.

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