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379491 Hra 15-16
"चंदकंतपह-धवलियधामे, जामिणि जामे पच्छिम जाए!
Terrichtaf forçlTG HIMERA fauts façs frang!!?-- i.e. "Chandkantapah-dhavaliyadhame jamini jame pachhim jae.
Pallankavari niddagayae solah sivinain dithain sivae."
"Shivadevi dreamt sixteen dreams in the last phase of night in her glorious palace which was looking white in the light of Chandra Kant mani i.e. Jewel".
At anthor place, Swayambhu Dev depicts Kunti worshipping 'Rishabh Jin', the first Tirthankar in Jain temple with her sons, the pandavas. Swayambhu Dev speaks of Panch Mahavratas: Anu Vratas, Gun-vratas; Charitrya and Samyakatva; which are the main ideals of Jainism.
Thus, we can very safely say that Jain poets have accepted 'Mahabharat' and other Hindu Puranas for the Krishna-Katha because it was very much popular among the masses throughout the country, but used it for spreading their religious ideals and their philosophy among the common masses. In this way, the oldest epic of India, the Mahabharata has been a strong basis for the Jain poets to spell their mythological and religious thinking into poetry.
Bhagavad Gita: Adhyay-4, Shlok-7 (Gita Press, Gorakhpur) IBID: Adhyay-4, Shlok-8 Bhagavad Gita: S. Radhn Krishnan, Page 155 Vishnu Purana: Fifth Book/Third Chapter/Shloka-2 (V/III/2) IBID: Shloka-8 (V.III.8) Bhagavada Gita : S. Radhakrishnan, Page 156 “वासुदेवार्जुनौ वीरौ समवेतो महारथौ, नर नारायणौ देवौ पूर्व देवाविति श्रुतिः" (ZETT 48, 49,19) i.e. "Vasudevarjunau veerau samvetau maharathau, Nar Naryhanau devau poorvadevairiti shvutihi, "Mahabharat, (Udyogparva, 49,19)
