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P. 334. Mahāvīra, on becoming Kevalin, passed three rainy seasons at Champā and its suburbs, and made many converts. Champā'a stronghold of Jainism. Chámpāpuri is held very sacred by the Jains as Vāsupujya, the 12th Tirthankara, lived and died here. A temple at Náthnagar marks the site of his birth and consecration. Väsupujya was the son of Vasupujya and Jaya, and his symbol is the buffalo. In Champă existed a temple called Chaitva Punnabhadda where Mahavīra resided and where Sudharmaņa, one of the Mahavira's disciples recited the Uvāsagadasão. Vāsupujya's temple belongs to the Digambara sect-At Champă another temple of the Svetāmbaras.
P. 336. The Ubbãi Sütta, a Jain work, professes to give a description of Champā at the time of Kuņika or Ajātaśatru. The Champaka-Śreșthi-Kathă, another Jain work, contains enumerations of the castes and trades of the town.
Pp. 336-337. Svayambhava, the fifth Patriarch of the Jain church who succeedled Prabhava, lived at Champā where he composed for his Son Manaka the Dasavaikälika Sutra containing in ten lectures all the essence of the sacred doctrines of Jainism in the 4th cent. B.C.
266 RICE, L. The Hoysalla King Bitti-Deva l'işnuvardhena. (JRAS, 1915, p. 527-531).
P. 530. Under the influence of Rāmānuja, who demolished 720 Jain temples, Bitti-Deva exchanged his Jain religion for that of Vişņu. His first queen was Śäntala Devi, a strenuous Jain.
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PATHAK, K. B. The Nyāsakāra and the Jaina sākatāyana. (IA, xliv, 1915, p. 275-279 ; xlı, 1916, p. 25-27). Information about the Jain grammarian.
268 JAYASWAL, K. P. The saišunaka and Maurya chronology and the date of Buddha's Nirvīņa. (JBORS, i, 1915, pp. 67-116).
P. 101. Jain chronology.
