Monk and Monarch

Author(s): Vidyavijay
Publisher: Deepchand Banthia

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names of the Sun. Moreover the poet further says that every Sunday the Emperor used to seat Bhanuchandra on a golden seat and hear from him a poem of one thousand and one names of the Sun.
Moreover in the library of His Holiness the late Vijaydharmasuri, there exists a manuscript of this very poem. It begins thus:
" FA: adicara HATATAFIUTI
कारिणे सर्वसौख्यानां प्रतापाद्भततेजसे ॥"
It ends thus :
" इति श्रीसूर्यसहस्रनामस्तोत्रं संपूर्ण ॥ अमुं श्रीसूर्यसहस्रनामस्तोत्रं प्रत्यहं प्रणमत्पृथ्वीपतिकोटीरकोटिसंघट्टितपदकमलत्रिखंडाधिपतिदिल्लीपतिपातिसाहिश्रीअकब्बरसाहिजलालदीनः प्रत्यहं श्रृणोति सोऽपि प्रतापवान् ॥ HET II FUTUTHET 11"
Moreover, in several other works like commentories of "Kadambari " and other works, Bhanuchandra is described as " FEATHTEYTT:". This definitely shows that it was Bhanuchandra who taught the names of the Sun to Akbar.
Akbar had encamped on the banks of a big lake in Kashmere. The lake was called Jayanal-Lanka, 15 because it was constructed by a king named Jaynal. There Bhanuchandra had to suffer unbearable cold without clothes. Once Akbar asked Bhanuchandra if he wanted anything. Bhanuchandra said that something heat-producing should be done, as he was unable to bear the severe cold. Akbar offered him woolen blankets; but Bhanuchandra said, "I cannot put on any such thing, and I do not need them also. But if you can abolish the pilgrim-tax levied on the Siddhachala and hand over all the rights of that place to the Jain community I would feel braced up." Akbar agreed to this and issued orders accordingly. The author of " Hirsaubhagya " poem says that first one dinar, then five mahamundikas, and then three mahamundikas, was the tax levied there.
When Akbar returned from Kashmere he came by the difficult passage of Pir Panjal. Bhanuchandra and other monks