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Now the one Jain of importance to 'visit' Lahore about 1592 was Jinachandra who received the title of 'Yugapradhan'. It was to Mantri Karamchand that the Jaina places were made over and not to Siddichandra.33 Smith errs again in saying that the temple of Adiswara at Satrunjaya was consecrated by Hiravijaya in 1590.34
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Vide Itihask Jain Kavya Sangraha by Agarchand and Bhanwarlal Nahta. Akbarshahisringaradharpana by Padmasundara, MS of Anup Sanskrit Library, Bikaner, dated V.S. 1626 (1569 A.D.) Mr. Dasrath Sharma has fixed the date of the work as about 1560 A.D.
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This corroborates the view of Abul Fazl that Akbar even during the years when he did not take much interest in the affairs of the kingdom, till 1560, he was showing the religious bent of mind which later became one of his most pronounced characteristics. A further corroboration is to be found in the saying of Akbar: "On the completion of my twentieth year (1562) I experienced an internal bitterness, and from the lack of spiritual provision for my last journey my soul was seized with exceeding sorrow. - Ain III p.
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According to Pattavali Vide "Anekant", Ed. in Hindi, Vol. IV, p. 470 ff. Ibid: Also Bhanuchandracharita Ed. By Mohanlal Dilichand Desai p. 12. Bhanuchandracharita p. 14 Itihasik Jain Kavya Sangraha p. 140 ff.
Sureshwar and Samrat p. 105
Ibid p. 110
Bhanuchandracharita p. 9
Hirasaubhagya Kavya, Ch. 14, Verses 91 ff.
The farman was made in six copies and sent to six different parts of the Empire - Vide Krpa Rasa Kosa, Introduction, p. 19 also farman, Bhanuchandracharita, Appendix 1, p. 77.
Perhaps only on certain days. Bhanuchandracharita, Introduction P. 7 Hirasaubhagya Kavya, Chapter 14, Lines 199 ff quoted in Krpa Rasa Kosa. Mr. Roychaudhury says, "We do not hear much of the Jains after the death of Hiravijaya Suri in 1592. (Din-i-Illahi p. 162). He seems to have been curiously ignorant of the fact that important Jains lived in the court of Akbar till the very end and continued to reside in the time of Jahangir. Bhanuchandra and Siddichandra remained near Akbar till his death and later.
Sureshwar and Samrat p. 140.
Hirasaubhagya Kavya 14th Ch. Lines 273 ff.: Badaoni (Blochmann) p. 321 (1583 A.D.). Seems only to have been meant for Surat sarkar as inferred from later farman, Bhanuchandracharita. Introduction-Appendix p. 82.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अंक 125-126
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