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before the death of Buddha (800 Papa). According to Dr. Hoernle, Mahavira was born in 599 B.C., and he died in 527 B.O. at the age of seventy-two (Jainism and Buddhism). Mahậvira had a daughter named Anojjå or Priyadarsana by his wife Yagoda (Jacobi's Jaina" útras in SBE., XXII, p. 193; Dr. Bühler's Indian Sect of the Jainas, pp. 25-29). Nigranthi Jhátiputra or Jõâtaputra or Nataputta, one of the celebrated sages who lived at Rajagriha at the time of Buddha, has been identified with Mahavira of the Jainas; he also resided at Sråvasti when Buddha lived there (see also Mahavagga, VI, 31). Hence Buddhism and Jainism were two contemporary systems. Mahavira wandered more than 12 years in Lâda in Vajjabhumi and Subhabhumi, the Rådha of to-day in Bengal. In the thirteenth year of his wandering life, he attained Jinahood and taught the Nigrantha doctrines, a modification of the religion of Pårå venâtha (Bahler's Indian Sect of the Jainas, p. 26). The Nigranthas are mentioned in a pillar edict of Asoka issued in the 29th year of his reign. During the famine which lasted for twelve years in the reign of Chandragupta, king of Magadha, Bhadrabahu, who was then at the head of the Jaina Community, emigrated into Karnata (or Canarese) country with a portion of the people, and Sthûlabhadra became the head of the portion that remained in Magadha. At the council held at Pataliputre towards the end of the famine, the Jains books consisting of eleven Angas and fourteen Púrvas (which latter are collectively called the twelfth Anga) were collected. All the Jainas wore no clothes before, but during the famine, the Pataliputra Jainas commenced wearing clothes. Hence Bhadrabâhu's followers after their return refused to hold fellowship with them and to acknowledge the Sacred Books collected by them, that is the Augas and the Parvas. The final separation between the two sects as Svetâmvara and Digamvara took place in 79 or 82 A.D. At a council held at Ballabhî in Gujarât under the presidency of Devarddhi, the sacred books were again settled ; this took place in 154 A.D. (Hoernle's Jainism and Buddhism). Kundapura-Same as Kundagam.. . Kundilyapura Same as Kundinapura. Kudinapura The ancient capital of Vidarbha. Dowson identifies it with Kundapura,
about forty miles east of Amaravati (Dowson's Classical Dic., 4th ed., p. 171 and Wilson's Mdlas and Madhara, Act I). It existed at the time of Bhavabhûti (Málati Madhava, Aot I). Devalavård, eleven miles south of Wartora, on the river Wardha (Vidarbha) in the district of Chanda in the Central Provinces, is traditionally known as the ancient Kundinapura (Cunningham's Archaeological Survey Report, IX, p. 133). A fair is held here every year near the temple of Rukmiņi. Ancient Kundinapura is said to have extended from the river Wardha to Amaravati (Amraoti) where the identical temple of Bhavanf, from which she was carried away by Krishna, is still said to exist. Kundinapura was the birth-place of Rukmini, the consort of Krishna. It has been identified with Kondåvir in Berar (Dr. Führer's Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions). Kundinapura was also called Vidarbhapura (Harivomša, II; Mbl., Vana, ch. 73). It appears, however, that Vidarbhapura or Kundinapura was on the site of Bedar (see Bidarbba.) Rukmiņi was formerly married by Krishna, after she was carried away from Bidarbhs. at Madhavapur, forty miles to the north-west of Prabhåss or Somanatha (Archduatema). The Anarghardghavam, (Act VII, 101) places Kandinanagara in Maharashtra which,
saya, included Bidarbha. Kuninda Same as Kullada-deda. It is the Kauninda of Brihat-Samhitd, ch. XIV, v. 30.
