Jain Yug 1983

SR No.: 536286
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
Publication Year: 1983
Total Pages: 576
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Yug, & India
File Size: 36 MB

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કારતક-માગશર ૧૯૮૩
the same date, is found on a stone foot-print in a temple on the Rajgir Hills being No. 260 of my volume. This mentions both the name of the gotra of the family as well as the names of Jagat Seth Fateh Chand, his son Anand Chand and his grandson Mahatap Rai with his wife Jagat Se thani Sringar Devi, the donor. There is another slightly earlier inscription (No. 86) of V. S. 1811 (1754 A. D.) It gives names of three generations. from Sabha Chand of Gokhru gotra to Muhkam Singh, ancestors of late Raja Shiva Prashad, C. S. I. of Benares. Sabha Chand is son of Rai Udai Chand of Agra, father of the first Jagat Seth Fateh Chand, taken in adoption by his maternal grandfather, Seth Manik Chand. Udai Chand married Dhan Bai the only sister of Seth Manik Chand and daughter to Shah Hiranand who first settled in Patna, I have seen his charming resi dence and Kuthi (place of business) situated on the bank of the river Ganges at Patna. His son Seth Manik Chand who removed from Patna with his adopted son, Fateh Chand, opened his firm at Dacca in V. S. 1757 (1700 A. D.) and with the change of capital finally settled at Mahimapur in Murshidabad. With the transfer of the seat of Government from Murshidabad to Calcutta, the Seths had their firm opened in Calcutta in the centre of business at Barabazar and the
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mentioned below, granted in the names of the Jagat Seths as head of the Jain Community in Bengal in connection with their sacred places, there does not exist any image or footprint on Paresnath Hills with Prakrit or Sanskrit inscription mentioning the names of any of the Jagat Seths, My research, however, has revealed the name of that religious lady, Manik Devi, in the pedestal of a silver image preserved in the family temple of the Jagat Seths at Mahimapur with the name of her husband Seth Manik Chand. This inscription is dated V.S. 1776 (1719 A. D.). It is published as No. 76 in my valume of "Jaina Inscriptions"-P. I, (p. 19). Two inscriptions Nos. 59 & 60 (Ex. E & F) bearing the same date .V. S. 1830 (1774 A. D.) are from the pedestals of two beautiful massive Jaina images of black stone, worshipped in Kirat bagh temple, about a mile north of Jiaganj in the District of Murshidabad Both of them mention names of Jagat Seth Fateh Chand of Gelsha gotra, his son Seth Anand Chand and his daughter Ajabo Bai who is married to Udai Chand, son of Kamal Nayan of Gandhi gotra. Two other Inscriptions Nos. 61 & 62 (Ex. G & H) of the same date are from footprints in the same temple, and give names of Kamal Nayan, Udai Chand and Ajobo Bai only. The next important inscription (Ex. 1). also of