Saravali Painnayam

SR No.: 001633
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: D S Baya
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 122
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, History, & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 6 MB

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LXX: SĀRĀVALĪ-PRAKĪRNAKA
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on this hill and king Dandavīrya of his dynasty got it restored. The third restoration was got done by by the IĪśānendra, the fourth by the Mahendra, the fifth by the Brahmendra, the sixth by the Camarendra, the seventh by Cakravarti Sagara, the eighth by the Vyantarendra, the ninth by the king Candrayaśa, the tenth by Cakradhara, the son of the sixteenth Prophet Lord Śantinātha, the eleventh by Rāmacandrajī and the twelfth by the Pandavas. Thereafter, Dhanesvarasūri has claimed that the thirteenth restoration was undertaken, in the year 105 VE, by Jādavaśāha in the presence of Vajrasvāmī. In our view, the claims of construction and restoration by Bharata to Pandavas are based on traditional belief only and their historical veracity is unverifiable. Hoever, Dhanesvarasūri's claim of the thirteenth restoration by Jādavaśāha is historically true. However, the calim regarding its 105 or 108 VE – and Vajrasvāmi's presence may not be true. According to Burgess this restoration, by Javaḍaśāha, was carried out in the year 1018 VE, as is borne out by the local archeological records. Neither the association of Jāvaḍaśāha with Vajrasvāmī is possible nor is the period mentioned for this restoration as 105 or 108 VE proper. Actually, it so appears that the year 1018 or 1085 VE was somehow erroneously mentioned as 105 or 108 VE. After Javaḍaśāha, the next restoration was undertaken in the year 1213 AD or 1156 VE by Bahada, the minister of Kumārapāla, at an expenditure of Rs. 29.7 million. This was the second restoration in the fifth ra of the present aeon (descendent time cycle or Avasarpiņī Kāla). About 150 years after this period when the Moghuls destroyed the Satrunjaya temples in the year 1369 VE (1311AD), Deśalaśāha's son Samarāśāha got it restored in the year 1371 VE (1313 AD). Siddhasenasūri who was the author of ‘Sakala Tīrtha Stotra' and possibly the guru of Śatruñjaya Mahātmya's author Dhaneśvarasūri, was present at