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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JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA
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excellent relationship with the members of that community,878
Jainism under the Paramāras of Rajasthan :-Several branches of the Paramāra dynasty ruled in various places of Rajasthan, in the period under review. We should at first review the condition of Jainism during the rule of the Paramåras of Candrāvatī (near ABU). The first epigraphic record of this dynasty is a Jain epigraph 879, dated V.S. 1024, corresponding to 967 A.D., which is found inscribed on the pedestal of an image of Mahāvira at Varkanā in the reign of Kţşqarāja. That in the eleventh century, Candrāvati was a Jain centre, is indirectly proved by the fact that in 1038 A.D. (V.S. 1095) Dhaneśvaramuni, the pupil of Buddhisāgara and Jineśvara wrote his Kathäsurasundari at Candrāvati, 380 In later times also Jain works were written or copied at Candrāvat1.881 This place was also connected with the activities of the monks of the Kharatara gaccha. 982 We learn from the Vividhatirthakalpas 8 8 that this place was wellknown for the temple of Candraprabha. We are not sure whether this town came to be named after this Tirthařkara. The temple of Rishabha at Candrāvati has been mentioned both in the Tirthamala&* (1443 A.D.) and the KB.886 The Jhalodi inscription of Dhārāvarsha888, belonging to the Paramāra line of Candrāvati, dated V.S. 1255, mentions the Vira temple of Candrāvati.
Among the later Paramāra kings of Candrāyatı, Dhārā. varsha, who ruled from 1163 to 1219 A.D., is particularly associated with Jainism. His Jhalodi inscription, already mentioned above, opens with a prayer to Vardhamana, a temple of whom existed at that time at Candrāvati. We have at Arāsaņā (Sirohi district) another epigraph 387, which mentions the setting up of an image of Sumatinātha in the victorious reign of Sri Dhārāvarsha. A manuscript of Jñatadharmakatha988 was copied during the reign Sri Dbārāvarsha' who has been described as a feudatory (Kumarapalaladevaprasādāspada) of Kumārapāla, in the year