Jain Journal 1986 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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the inscriptions found on an image proves that it was set up by Vikramaditya Varagunan, the Ayi Jaina king of the 9th century who was an independent ruler of Kanyakumari and Jainism flourished in his territories. There were more than six hundred temples in Kanyakumari in his time. The foot print of Siddhas known as Siddha-padam found on the Vivekananda rock proves that it was a hermitage of Jain ascetics according to epigraphists and scholars.
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Goddess Kannaki enforced the Cosmic Law,-the law of karma-instantly on the spot of the crime and punished the offenders who were responsible for beheading an innocent man to suffer a cruel death. The offender's crime may be direct or indirect but no one can escape from the law of punishment instantly or at a later time. The goddess Kannaki punished the perpetrators of the crime herself not because the victim was her husband but he was an innocent man not liable under the manmade law of beheading for the offence of theft. The ways of God or the law of Kannaki rendering justice to an innocent person condemned to death and who faced death to obey the law of the land are indeed mysterious and cannot be understood by ordinary persons unless they are intellectuals of a high order and also philosophers who can solve the mystery of the law of karma to a certain extent but the saints and sages are fully aware of its implications and the various ways of applying the Cosmic Law of all sentient life. Mahavira has interpreted the law of karma in about eightyfour ways in his karma philosophy. Bharat, that is India is a land of wonders and the wonder of wonders is the Jaina goddess Kannaki, the graceful and mighty Mother or Amma Kodungallur Bhagavati of Kerala.