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This Subhaṭapala was given the name of Sri Jinaprabha on initiation and ultimately became Śrī Jinaprabhasūri. Srī Jinasimhasūri appointed him as his successor at Kidhiwāṇā in 1341. He performed the Sadhanā of Sri Padmavatīdevī some time after his initiation, as directed by his Guru, and Sri Padmavati appeared before him and promised to attend whenever invoked. Once Sri Jinaprabhasūri inquired of Sri Padmavati the place where he would rise and attain fame and was told that it would be at Delhi. He thereupon went to Delhi and met Sultan Mahomed Tughlaq on or about Poşa Sud 2nd 1385 and impressed upon him the truth of the Jain doctrine, and its basic principle of Ahimsa. He made the Sultan restore to the Jains the famous idol of Sri Mahāvīra of Kannāṇaya (modern Kannāņā which is four miles from Dadri in Jind State. * It is said to be in Vāgada near Āsikā i. e. Hāņsī) which was temporarily removed to a temple in Malik Tajdin Sarai in Delhi and subsequently to the temple at Sultan-Sarai. It was Śrī Jinadevasūri, the learned pupil of Sri Jinaprabhasūri, who had secured the grant of the Sarai named after the Sultan for the habitation of the Jains. The Sultan also got a temple and an Upāśraya-monastery built therein at his own expense.
Sri Jinaprabhasūri obtained through his influence with the Sultan Firmāns for the protection of the sacred shrines (Tirthas) of Satrunjaya, Girnar and Falodhi. He similarly secured protection of the Jain temples at Devagiri alias Daulatābād built by the minister
+That Śri Jinaprabhasuri was constantly helped by Sri Padmavati is a fact mentioned in lyrical poems composed in his praise some of which werewritten when he was actually living. See also V. 5 of his own hymn (p. 129 Appendix to Vidhiprapă): सिरिसूरिजिणप्पभत्तिष्भरे, सुताणिहि मंनिउ विविह परे ।
परमावर सानिधि सयल जए चिरु नंदउ देहिगु संघवए ॥ "
See also V. 13 in the colophon of Vidhiprapa p. 120
INTRODUCTION
"जीए पसायाउ नरा सुकईसरसत्थव लहा हुंति ।
सा सरसई य पउमावई य मे दिन्तु सुयरिद्धिम् ॥"
According to Pt. L. B. Gandhi it is modern Cannanore in the South.
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