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The Jaina Antiquary
(Vol. XIV much as it had been predicted that a male child of Dövaki, the seventh in order, would be his distroyer,-and not a daughter. He returned the female child to Dēvaki.
Krishna's killing of Putana and emissaries of Kamsa and his amorous dealings with the beautiful milkmaids of Gokula are also described in the Jaina sacred books. The Jaina account of killing Kamsa and re-installing Ugrasena as the king of Mathura is substantially similar to that in the Vedic Purānas. It is to be noticed, however, that according to the Jainas, Satyabhiima was a sister of Kamsa. She became enamoured of Krishna and was the first princess to be married to him upon the accession of Ugrasēna.
We pass by the numerous beautiful stories which the Jainas connect with the marriages of Krishna with Rukmini, Lakshana and his other wives. The addition which the Jainas make to the KrishnaStory is the account of their twenty-second Tirthamkara, Arishtaněmi, which has already been roticed.
The more important and perhaps or greater interest is the account of the great tragic battle of Indian which the Jainas give and which is not a little different from the well-known version of the Mahabharata. According to the latter. it was a great fight that took place at Kurukshira between the kourivas on the one side and the Pindavas on the other and the cause of it was the systematic attempts on the part of the Kouravas to deprive the Pändavas of their just possessions. The Jainas admit that in that great battle the Kouravas and the Pandavas fought on opposite sides but they say that it was not primarily a contest between the Kouravas and the Pandavas. Their account of the battle is as follow:-Kansa's widow, Jivadeyaśā, on the sad end of her husband went to her father, Jarāsandha, king of Magadha, who was the most powerful of the rulers of the day and instigated him against Krishna and the Yādavas. The Yādavas, led by Krishna found Dvāraka and ruled over an extensive territory. Jarūsandha marched against Krishna, He had a great army and on his side, among others, was Sisupala, king of Chedi, a sworn enemy of Krishna. The Kouravas also were on his side. Krishna and the Yādavas were similarly joined by a host of kings, among whom there were the Pandavas. The great
