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nandas (413-322 BC) and the emperor Chandragupta Maurya (322-298 B.C.) of the Maurya dynasty. In this context, it is also proposed that Jainism was on a similar path slandered by Emperor Ashoka before it was changed to Buddhism. He also helped to spread Jainism in Kashmir. Ashoka's nephew, Emperor Samprati was on a similar path, extended his help to Jainism (Ghosh, 1974, p. 69).
South India
Jainism reaches south India at Shravanbelagola 300 BC due to drought in Bihar region for the long time. The sangh moved to south under the leadership of Acharya Bhudrabahu. The sovereign Chandragupta Maurya was part of the sangh. Jainism also made an "obligation concerning the realization and gigantic during the Vijayanagar Empire (1336-1565 C.E.) (Ghosh, 1974, p. 92).
West India
The improvement of the Jains from the eastern part to the western part of India did not produce any vulnerability at some time in the third century BC. Taking after the diminution of the influence of Jain in the Maurya Empire. Some ideas of the relic of Jainism in the West India by the way in which Lord Neminath, the twenty-second Tirthankar of the Jain had attended the salvation on Mount Girnar in the Junagarh area of Gujarat in the second millennium BC. "In addition, ancient academic statements claim that Lord Sri Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankar, had gone to the place of Marathavada and Maharastra in the middle of his religious journey to various parts of India". The main group of religious seriousness Jain met in Vallabhi and expressly expressed the Jain law.
Maharashtra from the third century onwards, "the decision arrangements equipped Satavahanas of Paithans, Chalukyas of Kalyan, Rastrakutas of Malakhed, Yadava of Devagiri and Silaharas of Kolhapur and Konkan increased their praise praised to a huge extent to the Jain religion". Jains in Maharastra claim to have four essential Siddhakshetras (places where Tirthankars or blessed individuals in particular, to have nirvana) in Gajapantha (Nasik District), Magitungi (Khamdesh District), Kunthalagiri (Osmanabad District) and Muktagiri (Amraoti District) (Ghosh, 1974, p. 85).
