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ABSTRACT This paper examines the programme of installing icons and inscriptions by members of the Jain religious community in the fifteenth century at the site of Gopālagiri, the prominent mountain occupying central Gwalior. I look at how this project provided opportunities for Jain patrons to literally inscribe themselves into the natural, social, and sacred landscape as benefactors to the community. In this way, I look at forms of memory construction and the ways in which they are encoded in the local landscape through the archaeological and epigraphic record. An analysis of the data obtained from this project further reveals that it was mobilized by a socio-religious network consisting of merchants, monastics, scholastics, and religious clerics. In this context of patronage, I also present a case study of one of the sculptures found here and provide an updated analysis of its inscription in order to reconstruct the circumstances of its production.