Tulsi Prajna 2004 07

SR No.: 524620
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 114
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 5 MB

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Adiswara on the hills of Satrunjaya was consecrated to Hiravijaya." Smith writes "consecrated by Hiravijaya" - Smith is wrong in the date. Hirasaubhagya Kavya quoted in Suresh and Samrat (p. 259 ff) says that Tejpal Soni had repaired an old temple of Rishbadev called Nandivardhan, at Satrunjaya, in 1649 S.V.(1592) Hiravijaya was invited to consecrate it. At the same time the Suri also consecrated another new temple which had been prepared by others. It was with reference to this visit that Bhanuchandra had a farman granted exempting the Suri and his followers from taxes. This farman dated V.S. 1649 (1592) (Krpa Rasa Kosa p. 25) was received by the Suri at Radhanpur in March-April 1593 A.D. The incident is narrated in Bhanuchandracharita, Chapter III, lines 48-71. Akbar and Bhanuchandra were then at Kashmir. The Emperor started for Kashmir in Aug. 1592 and came back in the winter of the same year. The date therefore given by Smith for the visit of Suri., viz., 1590 is erroneous and Mr. Roychoudhury has followed him into the error. The date of the composition of Hemavijaya at the Satrunjaya hills, viz., 1593 was the year when the Suri visited the place and consecrated the temple. Smith also errs with reference to the date of the Suri's death (Mr. Roychoudhury follows him here also), which he puts down as 1592. The correct date is 1595 (S.V. 1652) as stated in the inscription quoted by Smith himself in Bhandarkar Commemoration Vol. II, p. 272-3. Still in his Akbar he states that ''In 1592 Hiravijaya Suri starved himself to death." The date given in the inscription No. 4 Vijayasena Suri, ''Latest date S.V. 1650" obviously refers to the return of Vijayasena Suri to Gujarat from the imperial capital with the farman forbidding the slaughter of cows, bulls, buffalowcows, etc. Smith erroneously construed the date to be the date for the whole inscription. This explains the fact that the inscription refers to the death of Hiravijaya as taking place in S.V. 1652, a fact which could not have been recorded if the whole inscription had been done in S.V. 1650.
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