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Maitraka Mahārāja Dhruvasena issued from Valabhi a grant of land, near the village Bhadreņikā in Hastavapra Āharaội. The receipients of the grants were Brāhmaṇa Bhatti and Guhabhatti, both of Bhargava gotra, and residents of Hastavapra. The Dütaka of the edict was Rudradhara, which was composed by Kikkaka and issued in the (Valabhi) year 210, Bhādrapada ba 13 (529 A.D.).—[ JBBRAS, (NS) I, 65).
Maitraka Mahārāja Dhruvasena I renewed from Valabhi a grant of land in Akrolaka to Brāhmaṇa Skanda, who had been holding it since long. It was executed by Rudradhara, composed by Kikkaka, and was issued in the ( Valabhi) year 210, Āśvayuja Va. 5 (529 A. D.). - Palitana Plates, El., XI, 112).
Kumāragupta II succeeded his father Narasimhagupta of Magadha in about 530 A.D.
Siddhasena Divākara, whose principal literary activities were confined to Gujarat was a Brāhmaṇa by birth and a Jaina by conversion. He was the author of several prakaranas, i.e., treatises, in which the subject is dealt with in a systematic and scientific form, as distinguished from the diffused or episodical treatment of events favoured by the canonical works. He wrote a well-known textbook on Logic. He headed the revolt in favour of using Sanskrit as against Prakrit, which was liked by the orthodox Sädhus moving among the illiterate, due to the intellectual upheaval which was bringing about a cultural unity in the country through Sanskrit.
Mānadeva, a pupil of Samudra Sūri, became 'Sūri' in V.S. 582.1 Owing to illness he forgot Sari-mantra. He thereupon went to Ujjayanta (mount Girnar) and practised penance. 2 Ambikādevi was pleased. She went to Simandharasvāmin and got the Süri-mantra from this Tirthankara, and gave it to Mānadeva Sūri in about 534 A.D. This mantra was thereafter named as “Ambikā-mantra ".: 1 Vide, à colophon of Surividyapatha of Bribad gaccha. JPI (pt 1, p. 446). · See, Gurvavali. (v. 40).
See, Surividya patha noted above.
From the victorious camp at Khuddavediya, Maitraka Mahārāja Dhruvasena I issued the grant of the village Pippalarunkhari to the Buddhist vihara erected by Dudda at Valabhi. The Dūtaka of the edict was Bhogika Vaikuņ. tha ; it was composed by Kikkaka, and was issued in the Valabhi year 216, Māgha vadi 3 ( 534 A.D.).-(Vala Plates, IA ; IV, 104 ff.).
Maitraka Mahārāja Dhruvasena l's copper-plate dated Valabhi S. 216 (i.6. 535 A.D.) records the gift of a village, issued to a Vihāra built by his niece (Sister's daughter ) Duddā, 'Paramopāsikā' or 'the Great Devotee of the Buddha )'. The grant was specifically made for providing Buddhist bhikṣus
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