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to issue various commands in accordance with Jain doctrine, and to extend them in the following year, 1583. Fishing in the great lake called Dabar, evidently that at Fathpur-Sikri, was prohibited. The title of Jagadguru ol World Teacher, was conferred on the Súri, who quitted the capital in 1584, leaving śānticandra Upadhyāya behind him at court. Hiravijaya spent the rainy season of 1585 at Allahabad, designated as Abhirāmābād, and that of 1586 at Agra. During the rains of 1587 he was the guest of 'Sultan Deorah or Deodah', the chief or zemindar of Siohi, who was much attracted by the doctrine of the Suri who had attained his rank as such at Sirohi in A.D. 1538 (Saṁ. 1610). Later in the year 1587, Hiravijaya returned to Patan (Pattan) in Gujarāt. He starved himself to death in the approved Jain fashion in A.D. 1595 at the age of sixty-nine A stupa was erected to commemorate him.
The basis of this paper is the essay by 'C' entitled 'Hiravijaya Sūri, or the Jainas at the court of Akbar'. published in a number of the Jain a little known periodical printed at the Angrize Kothi, Benares City, in Vira Saṁ. 2437 - A.D. 1910, pp. 113-128. The autor of that essay was the first to make public the identification of the three Jain names in Abu-1 Fazl's lists. He makes extensive quotations from several metrical Sanskrit works, of which two are not mentioned by Guérinot in his Essai de Bibliographie Jaina, Leroux, Paris, 1906; or in the supplement to that work, entitled Notes de Bibliographic Jaina 'printed in the Journal Asiatique, Juliet æ Aout, 1909, pp 47-148.
The poems cited by 'C'are:(1) Jagadguru - Kavyam: (2) Hira-saubhagyam : by Devavimala Gani, Ed. by K.P. Parab
(Kävyamálā, No. 67), Bombay 1900, with the author's
commentry;? (3) Krpärasa-kośa:a panegyricon Akbar, composed by Sảnti (Sānti)
candra. Further information about them would be welcome. Klatt noted the following particulars concerning works
connected with Hiravijaya Súri - (4) Pattávaliof the Tapă-gachchha.
The Gurvávali of Dharmasagara-gani (Saṁvat 1629) is printed in Weber, Verz. II, pp. 997-1015. This is the orignal edition of Dh. All the
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| SR No. | 524622 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2005 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2005 |
| Total Pages | 110 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |