Karkanda Chariu

SR No.: 034918
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kankamar Muni
Publisher: Karanja Jain Publication
Publication Year: 1934
Total Pages: 364
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 33 MB

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(38) to an inscription, by Vijayarıma the eldest son of Rājā Candrabhäna." So far it was very encouraging, for Āsāpuri might be our Asõiya and Vijayarima may be the same as Vijayapāla. But the note went on to mention yet another two inscriptions of the same king dated in samvat 1744 and 1721 which showed that this Vijayarāma could never be the Same as our Vijayapāla, who, as we have seen, must have lived prior to Samvat 1558. In the same work, however, I found another reference which definitely connected the locality with Jainism. We are told that in the temple of Baijnath there is placed, in one corner, a stone with a Jaina inscription. This I found published in Epigraphia Indica Vol. I page 118. The first part of it runs thus:
ओं० संवत् १२९६ वर्षे फाल्गुण वदि ५ रवी कीरग्रामे ब्रह्मक्षत्रगोत्रोत्पन्न व्यय. मानू पुत्राभ्यां व्य. दोल्हण आल्हणाभ्यां स्वकारित श्री महावीरदेवचैत्ये श्री महावीरजिनमूलविवं आत्मश्रेयोर्थ कारितं
This means that in samvat 1296 =1240 A. D. two merchants Dolhana and Albana, sons of merchant Mānu of Brahma-kshatra Gotra built a temple at Kiragrāma and installed therein the image of Mahavira. Kiragrāma is in the Kangra district of the Punjab where the Baijnath temple exists. The names of the two merchants mentioned here are similar to those of the three sons of the minister who patronised our poet. But such names are freequent amongst the Rajputs. This was all and nothing further could be discovered about the locality.
The names of the kings, and more particularly, those of the minister's sons, suggested to me Rajputana as a possibly hopeful field. Looking into the 'Andals and antiquities of Rajputāna' by James Tod' I found mention of Asi a fortress which was assigned to Anuraj by his father Bisaldeo who reigned about A. D, 1064 a8 the ruler of Bundi State. It was, most probably, this very Asi which was mentioned by Alberuni when he says " Marching from Kanoj towards the South-west, you come to Asi eighteen parsakhas from Kanoj. "2 Āsi, I thought, inay do for Asiya. The son of Anuraj was Ishatpal which showed that the kings of this dynasty did bear names ending in Pāle, and in the Caulan genealogy we find two names Knp Rao and Vijayaraj which resemble our Kanna and Vijavāla. The latter i. e. Vijayaraj is said to bave been the adopted successor to Prithiraj3 and they appear to have lived about 1100 or 1200 A. D. But, firstly, there is no direct connection between Kan Rae and Vijayaraj as would be necessary if they were to be accepted as
1. Oxford 1920, p. 1461. 2. Each farsakla being equal to four miles or one kuroh (kroglia ). Alberuni's ludia rol.
I Trubner's Cr. S. p. 202. 8. It is also said by James Tod that his naine was on the pillar at Lellii. (?)