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Shatrunjaya (Palitana) and Girnar or Revantagiri. He is described to have brought round the relations of the Brahmins who had become Jain Ascetics at Patliputra by the prowess of Devendra. He is also mentioned as having performed the Installation-Ceremony of the Banner of the Temple of Munisuvrata-Swami at Broach, at the instance of King Sata-Vahana or Shali-Vahana. This is quite probable. The said King may have been Hala of the Shali-Vahana Dynasty, the famous author of the Prakrit Gatha-Sapta-Shati. It is also narrated that Shalivahana requested King Krishna of Manakhetapura (Mannakhedapura) who was much attached to Padliptasuri to allow him to remain with the former for some time. PadliptaSuri thereupon went over to Pratishthana-pura now known as Paithan the capital of the Andhra King and composed his famous novel Tarangavati in Parkrit which became very popular. Even his rival Panchala had at last to admit the excellent qualities of the novel and the following verse in Prakrit is said to have been uttered by him on hearing of Padliptas death:
सीसं कवि न फुटं जमस्त पालितयं हरेतस्स । जस्स मुनिज्झराओ तरंगवइया नई बूढा ॥
It seems that Tarangavati was the first novel in Prakrit as distinguished from mere biography of which there was abundance even in former times. The Agama literature, and especially the Charitanuyoga therein furnishes us instances of the latter kind. There were works of the kind of "Uvaeshamala" and "Paumachariyam"; but a true novel in the sense of fiction having not the least claim to historicity, was only Tarangavati-and was the first & the best of its kind. I will hereafter refer to the other novel Malayavati. They
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