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chadnazzar (circa 1140 B.C.), which he had discovered in Kathiawar, in the Times of India ( weekly ) of 19th March, 1935. According to his decipherment, this document revealed that the said king Nebuchadnazzar wbo was also the lord of Revāpagar ( in Kathiawar ) and who belonged to Su.( sumer ) Tribe has come to the place ( Dvārakā ) of the Yadurāja. He has built a temple and paid homage and made the grant perpetual in favour of Lord Nemi the paramount deity of Mt. Raivata”. 1 Prof. Prana Natha himself says, "The inscription is of great historical value. It may go a long way in proving the antiquity of Jaina religion since the name of Nemi appears in the inscription".
This important document, however, proves that the worship of Lord Neminātha, the 22nd Jaina Tirthankara, was already well established in the post Mabābhārata days, even before the advent of Pārsva and Mabāvīra. And there should now remain no doubt as to the historicity of Lord Aristanerni and to the existence of Jainism long before Pārsvadātha (9th century B. C.).
Aristanemi was the son of king Samudravijaya of Sauripura ( near Agra ), who was an uncle of Lord Kršna. But when all the Yaduvařśls under Krsna migrated to Dyārakā on the western coast, Neminātha also came along with him. Kțsņa negotiated his cousin's marriage with Rājulamati, the daughter of the Rājā of Junagarh. But Neminātha, taking compassion on the animals which were to
1 J.A., XIV, I, p. 3; J.S.B. XIV, 1, p. 21, The “Jain -- 35, 1, p. 2.
2 'The description of Neminātha given in this grant is identical with that of the Vedic hymns, and leaves no doubt to his being identical with the Jaina Tirthankara of that name --Virodha Paribār p. 63-64.
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