Talk:Sri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir

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Year of establishment
I've changed the year of establishment from 1658 to 1656, as per Balbhadra Jain's Hindi book, which is cited in the article. The Lonely Planet travel guide mentions the year of establishment as 1658, but is a less authoritative source. The year 1656 is also mentioned by several other books Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage's Delhi (2005), so I'm going to stick with that.

Balbhadra Jain states that one of the idols in the temple dates to 1491. The Wikipedia article currently states that the idol was acquired by Agrwal Jains at a later stage, but doesn't cite a source. An article in RSS' Organiser Volume 26, titled Timur the Second (p. 41) apparently claims that the temple existed before the Mughals, based on the dates on this idol ("apparently", because I can see only snippets on Google Books). The article states that the "temple existed long before the invasion of India by the Mughal Army under Babur. This fact is revealed by the Samvat engraved under the idol of Lord Parasnath". It adds, "Shri Bashir Uddin Ahmad, in his book, Waqayat Darul Hukumat, Delhi on page 206, says that it was in 1656 that the Jain temple was constructed over the idol which some Jain soldier of the Imperial Army had kept with him in his tent. [...] In Samvat 1935 (1878 A D.) a marble temple was added to the old temple. Recently some more additions were made."

Thus, the Organiser article suggests that the original source for the '1656' bit is Bashiruddin Ahmed Dehlvi's Waqiaat-e-Darul Hukumat Delhi. But I can't find a more reliable source for this. If anyone has a better source, please update the article accordingly. utcursch &#124; talk 18:18, 13 August 2018 (UTC)