Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

Author(s): Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd

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JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA
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car-festival ( Rathayatra ), made for the sake of his mother, in the presence of the bankers ( mahajanas ), and other people of the village, a religious benefaction, consisting of One viņšopaka coin, from the value of the failās, accruing to him, and two palikäs of oil, due to him from every ghanaka or oil mill. The car-festival, as we have already seen 88%, was a holy festival, of the Jains, like the Hindus and Buddhists. Another Jain epigraph 9 8 8 of the same year viz, V.S. 1200 (belonging to the reign of Rāyapāla ), has been found from the same temple. It records a gift to the temple of Mahāvira ( now known as Adinātha temple ) at Nadūladāgikā. The rāuta Rājadeva is also mentioned in this epigraph. The last Jain epigraph 334 of the reign of this king, is dated in the Vikrama year 1202, corresponding to 1146 A.D. It was also discovered from the Adinātba temple of Nadlai and contains a record of the pious deeds of Rajadeva, for the sake of the Mahāvīra temple of Nadlai.
The next ruler of this dynasty, with definite Jain Jeanings, was Ālha adeva, for whom we have two Jain copper plate grants from Nadol, bearing the date V.S. 1218, corresponding to 1161 A.D. The first copper plate 8 85 records a donation of five drammas by Alhana (called here mahāraja) to the temple of Mahāvira, belonging to Shanderaka gaccha at Naddūla Mabāstbāna, It is apparent from this inscription that Nadol was considered a great Jain tīrtha and the temple of Mahāvīra, mentioned here, still exists at Nadol.886 The second copper plate 87 of the same date i.e. V.S. 1218, records that Rājakula (king) Alhaņadeva and the kumāra (the eldest son and the crown-prince) Kelbanadeva, were pleased to give to the rājaputra Kirtipāla (the youngest son of Albana), twelve villages near Nadol. We are further told that rajaputra Kirtipāla, on his turn, after worshipping Divākara (the Sun-god) and Maheśvara (who is described as carācara guruh), granted a yearly sum of two drammas, from each of the twelve villages to the Jina Mabāvira of Naddūlāi (Nadol). This inscription shows