Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

SR No.: 002003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 414
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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COMPREHENSIVB HISTORY OF JAINISM
maņdapa by Yaśovira and other devout members of the goşthi. Yašovira is further described as a paramaśrävaka (line 5), which shows that he was a devout Jain. The second epigraph, also from Jalor, 348 actually contains four different dates. This particular epigraph has been noted by us in connexion with Kumārapāla, who had originally built the temple of Pārsvanātha on Kāñcanagiri (Suvarnagiri near Jalor) in the Vikrama year 1221. In the year V.S. 1242, we are told, this temple was rebuilt by Yaśovīra (son of Pāsu and therefore different from Yaśovira of the earlier Jalor epigraph of V.S. 1239), in accordance with the orders (adesena) of mahārāja Samarasimha. This directly shows that Samarasimha, like his fatber Kirtipāla, was sincere patron of Jainism. There are two other dates (viz. V.S. 1256 ad 1268) in this inscription, which speak of some other pious activities in this temple-complex. It should, however, not be supposed that Samarasimha was a Jain by religion. That he was a devout Hindu and a follower of the orthodox religion, is proved by the famous Sundba hill inscription, 348 which mentions the fact that he had weighed himself against gold during the Soma festival.
The successor of Samarasińha was Udayasimha. For his reign, we have no Jain inscription, but one dated Jain manuscript. This work is dated in V.S. 1306 (1243 A.D.) of the mahārāj akula Udayasimha, 880 Jinadatta wrote bis Vivek avilasa during the reign of Udayasimba.881 That Udayasimba was a very good admirer of the Śvetāmbara religion is now fully proved by the evidence of the Kharataragaccha-bshadgurrāvali,388 We are told that in the year V.S. 1310, the Kharatara Ācārya Jineśvara II consecrated, in the presence of Udayasimba at Jāvālipura, several images of the Jinas and other great Jain saints, including those of his predecessors like Jinadatta and others. In V.S. 1314 also, Jineśvara II was honoured by Udayasimha,863 The name of this king also occurs in the Puratanapratandhasang aha384, where, we are told, that his