Jain Dharm Prakash 1957 Pustak 073 Ank 12

Author(s): Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha
Publisher: Jain Dharm Prasarak Sabha

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સિદ્ધસેન દિવાકર એ જ ક્ષપણુક
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identical with the well-known Ksapa. whom he threatened to betray he naka. This view perfectly commends went nearly mad. itself to me. There is proof enough
-Editorial Notes P. 87 that Siddhasena was a Jain Sage. Amichand was a Punjabi by race and lived in the court of Vikramaditya.
and a Sikh by religion. It is said
that he also was offered the honour That Ksapanaka was one of the nine
and appointment of a Jagat seth shortly gems of the court of Vikramaditya is
before the Nawab's attack on Calcutta. also very widely known and it remains
Anyhow he was a rival, of the desonly to prove that he was a Jain sage. cendants of the Jain Manickchand. We have instances enough in the He had for many years acted as the Pancatantra where the Jain ascetics agent of the English and he figures as are nicknamed as Ksapanaks. The an important personage in the negofollowing instances from the Avadana
tiations of the British with other
parties... Governor Drake imprisoned Kalprata will show that the Buddhits
Amichand when he suspected him of also designated rather nicknamed, the
treachery in 1756, Amichand surrenJaina ascetics as Ksapanaka. . dered without resistance, but his भगवद्भाषितं तत्तु सुभद्रेण निवेदितम् ।
brother-in-law Hazarimal and his
Jamadar made a stout resistance. श्रुत्वा क्षपणक: क्षिप्रमभूद् द्वेषविषाकुलः ॥९॥
-Editorial Notes P. 90 at aegai are at af heitri While the Jagat Seths set up Mir तदेष क्षपणश्रद्धां त्यक्ष्यति श्रमणाद्वरात् ॥१२॥ Jafar, their rival Amichand supported
Rutfkhan The British preferred मुर्खक्षपणभक्तेन तगिरा हतयोषिता ।
Mir Tafar as the more canable man त्वया त्यक्तस्वपुत्रेण किं नाम सुकृता कृतम् ।।४०॥ The Jagat Seths insisted upon the
(Jyotiskavadana) exclusion of Amichand's name from
the treaty with Mir Jafar, and Indian Research Society-Calcutta
Amichand threatented to betray the " Saratchandradas plot to the Nawab's if his name was 2 Amichand was not a Jain left out. The Jagat Seths do not
(talk with Nawab seem to have held out a like threat It is a lie could be proved against in case their request was not complied any person England, he added. he with; yet there was no certainty as
to the line of action they would adopt. would be "spit upon and never
--Editorial Notes P. or trusted " Amichand swore to this
In the circumstances Clives decided tatement by touching a brannat s upon the famous trick whereby he foot, he wondered that, when not long out-wittel the Punjabi banker. afterwards he was undeceided, or
-B. M. Malafari shamefully deceived by the white men East and West January 1907