Doctrine of Jainas

Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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DOCTRINC OF THE JAINAS granted wherever the populace was struck hard by serious ahimsa-commandments, in other words, wherever its displeasure was not dreaded, and where, acc. to Jain rites, dcath through fasting was believed to crown one's life. For these rites some pieces of evidence are given by inscriptions. As in Candragupta and Canakya (s.a ), so the Jains scc great supporters of their religion also in Vikrama, Sālivāhana, Munja, Bhoja and others. Up to now, however, their respective reports lack authenucation by monumental or non-Jainist literary documents. Recently,
Toramāna, the prince of the Hūna who invaded India about 500), and different members of thc house of Gupta have been added to the above-mentioned list. For, acc. to the introductory verse of the Kuvalayamālākathā composed by Uddyotana Sūri in Saka 700 (=778), Torarāya (as here he is called) had as a guru the ācārya Harigupta from the Guptavamśa, a pupil of his was the poet (kar) Devagupta. If thcsc harmless reports prove true it may be said that the Jains had cxercised at least a certain influence upon Toramāna, though this influence did not extend to his son Mihiragula or-kula after he had ascended the throne, since it was Mihiragula who by his cruclty testified to him by Brahmans and Buddhists had also been hard on the Jains. We are indebted to PATHAK for having offered proof that he is identical with Kalkin (Kalki), the Indian Antichrist.
For the Svet, the case of the Kumārapāla of Gujarat (s. 1200-1229) represents a show-piece of how a prince was won for their Order. We are informed of this case in all details since BUHLER has rendered a masterly biographical representation of the originator of the conversion, the scholar Hema
1. Rép No 152 163 298
2. JINAVIJAYA Jaina-Sāhitya-Samsodhaka 3, 169 ff N. C. MEHTA JBORS 14, 28 ff
3 IA 47, 18 ff, Festschr Bhandarkar p 216 Apart from Uttarapurāna 76 comp also Mahānis 5 IV (the AUTHOR D40) and Dhaneśvara Satrumjayamahātmya 14, 203 f --Previously (IA 46, 145 ff JAYASWAL had seen in Kalkın the Yaśodharman, the conqueror of Mihiragula In a chronological treatise SHAMASASTRY Annual Rep of the Mysore Archacole Dep 1923 (p 24) asks for two Toramănas and two Mihirapulas.