Jainism in Gujarat

Author(s): Chimanlal Bhailal Sheth
Publisher: Godiji Jain Temple Mumbai

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If he told & lie unconsciously, he performed penance out of repentance for the same."
When Kumarapala took the fourth row, all his queens except Bhopaladevi had died; later on, when the last queen died, the king refused to marry another, eventhough persuaded by his mon to do so."
Realizing that contentment is the key to happiness, Kumarapala, while taking the fifth anurrata, vowed not to keep more than six crore gold coins, eight crore rupees, one thousand tolas of precious jewels, two thousand pots of ghee and oil, two thousand khandis of corn, five lac horses, one thousand camels, one thousand elephants, eighty thousand cows, five hundred houses, five hundred shops, besides an army of eleven hundred elephants, five thousand chariots, eleven lac horses and eighteen las foot soldiers.“
At the time of taking the first Gunavrata or the sixth vow of & Jain laynian, Kumarapala had vowed not to stir out of the capital in the nonsoon, as there was the possibility of the destru. ction of many lives in that season."
41 Ibid, 84-5. 42 Ibid, p p. 84-5, 43 Ibid, p. 85
44 These details of Jingmandanagani are not confirmed by contemporary chroniclers.