________________ JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA Suhastin was a Svetambara is also evident from the fact that the Digambara Pattavalies, or genealogies of teachers, do not mention him. We are further informed that when Aryamabagiri saw that Samprati was converted by Suhastin, he withdrew himself to Dasarnabhadra, seeing that "all his hopes of winning the monks to lives of sterner asceticism" were at an end. Thus the Svetambara rule triumphed at the court of Samprati. Here ends the importance of Magadha as seen in the light of Jaina history. With the end of the Mauryas and the consequent beginning of the Sungas Kalinga becomes the centre of our history With the fall of the sovereign power in Magadha Kalmga more or less succeeds in taking its place. Magadha learned to her cost what the powerful Kalinga meant in the time of Kharavela. Fortunately enough, though for a very short time, it also plays an equally important part in the history of the Jaina church. That after Samprata the Mauryas did not survive long is certain, and whatever survival they must have had seems to be highly shadowy and positively degrading-that the last of them, as seen before and as we shall see in the next chapter, was grievously murdered by his own commander-in-chief. However at present we need not enter into the why and where fore of the fall of the powerful Mauryas. Suffice it to say that the reconquest of Kalinga by the Maurya Asoka was a great landmark in the history of Magadha and of India. It completed the unification of non-Tamil India under the hegemony of Magadha. It marked the close of that career of conquest and aggrandisement which was ushered mn by Bimbisara's annexation of Ange. It opened a new era--an era of peace, of social progress, of religious propaganda and at the same time of political stagnation and, perhaps, of military inefficiency, durmg which the martial spirit of imperial Magadha had died out for want of exercise. The era of Digvijaya was over, the era of Dharmavijaya had begun, and this finally resulted in the disappearance of the Maurya sovereignty over the Magadhan Empire. 1 CJ Hoernle, IA, , PP 57-58, and Klatt, toid, 1, p 251 * Stevenson (rs), op cit,p 74 Cf Barodio, History and Literature of Jainism, P 16 146