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father-in-law and son-in-law. This Mrigavati on hearing of the sudden death of her Lord and the aggression of Chandapradyota being detached from existence by the religious exhortation of Lord Mahavira, became a nun and later secured Omniscience,
Udayana by the union of Prabhavati had a son, Abhichi. Trishla in Jain literature has been styled Videhdinna (the princess of Videhas ).
Buddhist Literature informs that Shrenik (Bimbisar) had a son named Konik (Ajatshatru) by his marriage with Videhputri. So these are historical facts. It is also borne out that Vaishali was the metropolis of Videhas.
Thus, the different rulers were inter-related with bonds of marriage, still their policy of mutual enmity of aggression and warfare had persisted. A number of occasions for warfare occured due to multifold causes. There were various strifes viz between Shatānik and Dadhivahan, between Shatanik on one hand and later his queen Mrīgavati; and Prady ota on the other hand with a favourable cerimenation between Shrenik and Pradyota. Udayana the son of Shatanik being fettered by Pradyota and his abotment, between Udayana of Vitabhaynagar and Chandapradyota, between Chetak and Kunik and the eventual desolation of Vaishali, Much has been said above with regard to events barring the first and the last. Let us say something here
about these two events.
Lord Mahavira having renounced the world after thirty years as a layman, and before he attained to Omniscience had travelled from place to place. After the lapse of first six years, and in the last years of the second six he came to Kaushambi on the 11th of the black half of Posh month. (557 B. C.) Shatānik ruled over the place then He had Mrigâvati (the daughter of Chétak, King of Vaishali) as his queen. He had Sugupta as his chief minister. By the time Lord Mahavira in his ascetic austerities had
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