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Bactrians or the Hindu kings fighting amongst themselves, or the Mahomedan invaders creating great loss to person, property, and to prosperity The Mahomeden invaders, massacred thousands of innocent Hindus; they destroyed magnificent temples of the Hindus, and broke their idols of dezties, they burnt to ashes the dwelling -places of a cetics and killed a large number of them; they violated the morality of thousands of innocent Hindu girls; they carried away thousands of Hindus as slaves; they drove away thousands of useful animals to do their cultivation and they plundered large amount of wealth at the point of sword.
In addition to this, there were severe famines lasting for several years in many parts of North India There was great scarcity of food grains. People died in thousands. Ācāryas and Sädhus could not get their alms They had to go without food for days together. They made up their mind to leave the country and they went to Mālwa, Rajputânā, Gujerat and Saurastra. They could not return to North India for a n'imber of years. There being none to advise them in their religious matters, the influence of Jainism over them was lost and they went over to Brāhmanism or to an other sect such as Saivism, Vaishqavisn etc As a result, during the time of Sriman Bappa Bhatti Sūri (V S 890) the total population of the Jains was reduced to six or seven crores. It was reduced to five crores during the time of Paramārbat King Kumāra-pāla and Jagatgaru Kali Kala Sarvujnā Ātârya Hémacandråcārya Suriji (V. S. 1229) The Jaina population was further reduced to four crores during the time of Mantriśvara Vastupāla and his brother Tejapāla.
Then under the predominating influence of Vaišnava kings, Rāmánujacarya and Vallabhācārya, converted numerous Jains to their individual faiths. The Jaina population during the time of Jagad Guru Sri Hira Vijaya Suriji was further reduced to two crores Altnough Ācārya Maharaja Śrî Hira Vijaya Sūriji and Ācārya Śri Vijaya Sèna Sūriji were very respectfully received by
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