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the multitude of hi8 virtues, and obtained one edict (pluramana) forbidding the slaughter of animals during eight days in Asladha, and second protecting the fish in the Gulf of Oambay (Stambhatirtha Samudra), as well as the title “the most virtuous, glorious pontiff of the age " Sattamasriyu gapradhanu) Further at the command of the emperor, he orossed by magic (?) the fire rirers of the Punjab on the twelfth lunar day of the bright half of Magha, ( Vikrama ) Samvat 1652 He was attended by Jinasımba on whom he had conferred the dignitv of "acharya in the presence of the emperor Akbar "-an extract from the inscription of Vadipur-Parsvanatha at Pattana dated Vik Sam 1652. (See Ep Ind , I, 321)
JINASINHA-SURI.
(E) Klatts article on Jinasinha-suri in his Specimen of a Jaina onomasticon runs thus –“ Jinasınha sun, the 62 (Other MSS 65 or 66 ) suri of the Vrihat-Kharatra gnchchha, between Jinachandra suri and Jinaraja suri, son of Saba Champası of the Ganadhara Chopada gotra and Chaturangadevi (another M8. Champalade ), born at Khetasaragrama s, 615 margoirsba sudi purnimasyam, Mulanaman Mansinha , Diksha at Vikaner 9 1623 Bargacırshu Vadı 5, Vachakapada at Jesalmeru S 1640 magh: sudi 5, Acharyapada at Lahore S 1649 phalguna sudi 2 Vikaneravastarya-inantri Karmachandrikrita-mahotsavana , susi-pada at Venatata 51670 poga radı 13, died at Medita $ 1674 pausa vadı 13 Ind. Ant XI, 250 A Weber II, 1052 "
DEATH OF AKBAR
(F) The Jaida poet Banarasidasa, who was a contemporary of Akbar, tells us that the emperor died in Kartik Vik Sam. 1662 and graplucally describes the effect of panic that spread among the masses on thedemise of the Grent Mughal in the following Hindi verses -
घर घर दर दर दिये कपाट । हटवानी नहिं बैठे हाट । हँहवाई गाढी कहुं और । नकद माल निरभरमी ठौर ।। भले वस्त्र अरु भूषन भरो। ते सब गाढ़े धरती तले ॥
