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THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE SOUL 5 the title of the chief merchant of India.' Under Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlak (A.D. 1320-1325) he became an influential personality in the Imperial court and enjoyed the king's confidence. It was through his intervention that Vira-Balla, the king of Pandudesha was liberated and sent back to his kingdom. In A.D. 1321, the king sent his eldest son Ulugh Khan with an army against Warangal and Tellingana. The prince:whose acquaintance with Samara had ripened into deep friendship took him with him and after the conquest, when time came to arrange for the government of the country, appointed him as governor of Tellingana. On this occasion Samara gave another proof of his kindly and philanthropic nature by purchasing the freedom of his 1,100,000 fellow human beings who had been taken as prisoners by the victorious army. As governor, he took his residence at Warangal where he built a magnificent Jaina temple. Under him, the trade of the country made such a rapid progress that many merchants from outside made Telingana their home. He proved himself such a just and sympathetic administrator that he was actually adored by his people who characterised his rule as Rama-rajya.
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Mr. Mani Lal Vadi Lal, has, in the Jaina Gazette for August 1927, raised some objections to my answer published in the January issue. He says that my answer, in the effort at elucidation, rather creates more confusion by the contradictory assertions it contains. But my answer when looked at from different points of view, contains no contradictory assertions. The wedlock of Soul and matter, when reviewed from Samanya standpoint, is of course from eternity, but when reviewed from Vishesh standpoint, it certainly is not so and I never admitted it to be so. Or I might put it thus :-any particular bondage in itself is non-eternal, but the succession or the series of the bondages in the past is eternal, just as any particular birth of a Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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