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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
BUDDHISM IN KASHMIR
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(of which one was at Parihāsapura built by king Lalitāditya and the other at Srinagar, known as the Bșhadbuddha) at the request of his favourite singer Kanaka and the śramana Kusalasri (VII. 1095-8). Tāranātha records that during his reign three distinguished teachers of Buddhism, viz., Sākyamati, Silabhadra and Yasomitra, lived in Kashmir.' Yaśomitra was a king's son and is well-known by his tikā” on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośabhāsya. The Kashmirian Harșa was a debauch and a cruel and greedy king, and his reign, as Kalhana reports, is marked by unjust exactions, and attempts at conquest of the neighbouring tribes. Vijayamalla his chief adviser rebelled against him and joined the Daradas who were then ruled by Vidyādhara Sāhi, but his attempts to humiliate Harsa were of no avail (VII. 911).
· Jayasimha (1 128-49) King Harșa was succeeded by Uccala, a descendant of Kāntirāja, another brother of Diddā the Sāhi princess. Jayamatī, queen of Uccala, erected two monasteries, one of which was in honour of her sister Sullā (VIII. 247-8). This, it is said, was completed by king Jayasimha (VIII. 3318) the illustrious ruler who succeeded Uccala. King Jayasimha patronised literary men and there was once more a revival of learning in Kashmir. He looked after the Mathas and Vihāras, the first of which that attracted his attention was the one built by his queen Ratnādevi (VIII. 2402, 2433). His chief minister Rilhana was also very pious. He showed his veneration to both Siva and Buddha and erected a monastery in memory of his deceased wife Sussalā (VIII. 2410-1). Sussalā must have been a great devotee of Buddha as she erected, on the site of the famous Cankuna-Vihāra which had been destroyed, a magnificient estab
1 Schiefner, p. 205. ż Now being edited by Dr. N. N. Law in the C. O. Series.
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