Medieval Jainism

Author(s): Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House

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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM and doing reverence to him through faith in the guru, made known to him all the object of their coming. On which he, taking them by the hand, made them proficient in the art of learning, and after some days causing by his faith the goddess Padmavati to appear, obtained a boon, and gave them a sword and the whole kingdom.
The same stone inscription then continues thus :-While the munipati was looking on, Mādhava, honoured by the learned, shouting struck with all his might a stone pillar, when it (the pillar) broke with a noise of cracking ; what cannot brave men do? Seeing that energy, the munipati, making a coronet of the petals of the karaạikāra bound it on, blessing them (the two brothers) as honoured by the good, scattering grain (on them), giving them with a pleased mind the domain of all the earth, making his peacock fan a signal flag for them, and furnished them with numerous attendants, elephants, and horses.
This interesting record further informs us about the advice which Simhanandi Ācārya gave the two brothers : Having thus put them in possession of all the kingdom, he gave them the following advice—That if they failed in what they promised, if they did not approve of the Jina śāsana, if they seized the wives of others, if they ate honey or flesh, if they formed relationship with the low, if they gave not of their wealth to the needy, and if they fled from the battlefield, then, their race would go to ruin !
The extent of the kingdom thus given to them by the great Ācārya is next described in the same inscription. Having said the above, with the lofty Nandagiri as their fortress, Kuvalāla as their city, the Ninety-six Thousand as their country, the blameless Jina their Lord, Victory their companion in the battle field, the Jina mata their faith, and with ever increasing greatness, the kings Dadiga and