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INTRODUCTION
This Subhatapāla was given the name of Sri Jinaprabha on initiation and ultimately became Sri Jinaprabhasūri. Sri Jinasimhasūri appointed him as his successor at Kidhiwāņā in 1341. He performed the Sadhanā of Sri Padmāvatīdevī some time after his initiation, as directed by his Guru, and Sri Padmavati appeared before him and promised to attend whenever invoked. + Once Sri Jinaprabhasūri inquired of Sri Padmāvati the place where he would rise and attain fame and was told that it would be at Delhi. He thereupon went to Delhi and met Sultan Mahomed Tughlaq on or about Poşa Sud 2nd 1385 and impressed upon him the truth of theJain doctrine, and its basic principle of Ahimsā. He made the Sultan restore to the Jains the famous idol of Sri Mahāvīra of Kannāņaya (modern Kannāņā which is four miles from Dadri in Jind State. * It is said to be in Vágada near Asikā i. e. Hānsī) which was temporarily removed to a temple in Malik Tājdin Sarāi in Delhi and subsequently to the temple at Sultan-Sarãi. It was Sri Jinadevasūri, the learned pupil of Sri Jinaprabhasūri, who had secured the grant of the Sarāi named after the Sultan for the habitation of the Jains. The Sultan also got a temple and an Upāśraya-monastery built therein at his own expense.
Sri Jinaprabhasūri obtained through his influence with the Sultan Firmāns for the protection of the sacred shrines (Tirthas) of Satrunjaya, Girnār and Falodhi. He similarly secured protection of the Jain temples at Devagiri alias Daulatābād built by the minister
+ That Sri Jinaprabhasūri was constantly helped by Sri Padmavati is a fact mentioned in lyrical poems composed in his praise some of which werewritten when he was actu. ally living. See also V. 5 of his own hymn (p. 129 Appendix to Vidhiprapa):
सिरिसूरिजिणप्पहभत्तिब्भरे, सुताणिहि मंनिउ विविह परे।
पउमावइ सानिधि सयल जए चिरु नंदउ देहिगु संघवए॥" See also V. 13 in the colophon of Vidhiprapā p. 120
"जीए पसायाउ नरा सुकईसरसत्थवल्लहा हुँति ।
सा सरसई य पउमावई य मे दिन्तु सुयरिद्धिम् ॥" * According to Pt.L. B. Gandhi it is modern Cannanore in the South.
| SR No. | 006540 |
| Book Title | Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar |
| Publisher | Sarabhai Manilal Nawab |
| Publication Year | 1944 |
| Total Pages | 635 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_English & Culture |
| File Size | 18 MB |