Book Title: Jainism in Gujarat AD 1100 to 1600
Author(s): Chimanlal Bhailal Sheth
Publisher: Vijaydevsur Sangh Gyan Samiti

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________________ If he told a lie unconsciously, he performed penance out of repentance for the same." When Kumāra pala took the fourth vow, all his queens except Bhopaladevi had died; later on, when the last queen died, the king refused to marry another, eventhough persuaded by his men to do 80.42 Realizing that contentment is the key to happiness, Kumarapala, while taking the fifth anuvrata, 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 borses, one thousand camels, one thousand elophants, eighty thousand cows, five hundred houses, five hundred shops, besides an army of eleven hundred elephants, five thousand chariots, eleven lac horses and eighteen lao foot soldiers.*3 At the time of taking the first Gunavrata or the sixth vow of a Jain layman, Kubárapāla had vowed not to stir out of the capital in the mon. soon, 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 Jinamandanagani are not confirmed by contemporary chroniolers. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com

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