Tulsi Prajna 2005 01

SR No.: 524622
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

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Poona Mss contain the revised edition, made Samvat 1648 (-A.D. 1591) by the order of Hiravijaya Süri.... Later works are - the Pattavali contained in Sarga IV of Devavimala's Hiravijay'a-caritra, see Journ. Germn. Or. Soc., vol. 47. p. 315. (Klatt and Leumann, Ind. Ant., vol. XXIII (1894), p 179).
Vijayasena Sūri and Bhanucandra Upadhyāya
We have mentioned that Hiravijaya, when starting on his long journey to court, put Vijayasena in charge of his sector congregation, and that when Hiravijaya quitted Fathpur-Sikri in 1584, Santi (Santi) candra remained at court. He composed an eulogy of the emperor, entitled Krparasa-kosa, 'Treasury of the Quality of Mercy' describing and praising all Akbar's merciful acts. This elaborate piece of flattery used to be read to Akbar, who was pleased with it. Late in 1587 when Santicandra desired to return to Gujarat, the emperor gave hims farmāns abolshing the jizya tax on nonMuslims, and prohibiting slaughter of animals to a large extent. The forbidden days were extended so as to comprise half the year.
Bhanucandra continued to reside at court. His pupil Mahāmahopadhyāya Siddhicandra composed a commentary on the latter half of the Kadambari of Bāṇa. He had the reputation of being able to do 108 things at a time, and so secured from Akbar the formal title of Khushfaham, or 'Intelligent'. From the colophon to the commentary on the Kadambari by Siddhicandra we learn, through C's quotations, that his teacher, Bhānucandra, a Mahopadhyaya, had taught Akbar 1000 names of the Sun, and had obtained from the emperor in 1593 farmāns abolishing the tax on pilgrims to the holy hill of Satrunjaya at Palitana, and directing that all the sacred places should be made over to Hiravijaya Sūri.
Vijayasena Suri was then invited to the court, which continued to reside ordinarily at Lahore until 1598. He vanquished 363 learned Brahmans in formal debates to Akbar's satisfaction and so earned the title of Sawai. He made Bhanucandra an Upadhyaya or instructor, the expenses of the ceremony, amounting to 600 rupees, being defrayed by Abu-l Fazl.8
Probably Bhanucandra continued to reside at the court until the end of the reign in 1605. However that may be, the details given above prove conclusively that Akbar's close intercourse with Jain teachers lasted for at least twenty years, from 1578 to 1597 inclusive.
A person called Shah Sauvarnika Tejapāla induced Hiravijaya in 1590 to consecrate the temple of Adisvara or Ādinātha on the Satruñjaya
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