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became a nun (Avassaya Sutra, pp. 223-25; cf. Kalpasútra, Subodhika-tikā, sutra 118, pp. 106-7). Mrgavati who was married to king Satānīka of Kausāmbi was also known as a princess of Videha (cf. Ibid., p. 223). Śiva was married to Candapradyota of Ujjayini (cf. Ibid., p. 677). King Udayana was married to Vasavadatta (Ibid., p. 674; cf. Triṣastisalākā, parva X, pp. 142-45). Vasuladatta, the daughter of Pradyota of Avanti, became the wife or one of the three wives of king Udena of Kosambi (Ibid., p. 674). Jyestha was married to Nandivardhana, brother of Lord Mahavira and ruler of Kundagrāma (Ibid., p. 677). Sujyestha joined the Order of Mahavira's disciples (Ibid., p. 685). Mahāvīra during his wanderings as a monk visited Kāśī (Ibid., p. 221; cf. Kalpasutra, Subodhika-țikā, p. 106). Ajataśatru of Magadha not only humbled Kosala and permanently annexed Kāśī but also absorbed the state of Vaiśālī (Ibid., p. 684). Magadha and Avanti were brought face to face with each other (Ibid., p. 690; cf. Parisistaparvan, canto 6, v. 191). Udayin was a devout Jain. Nanda, the son of a courtesan by a barber, was a king of Magadha. He ascended the throne 60 years after the nirvana of Mahavīra (Ibid., p. 690). The Nanda dynasty had a line of Jain ministers beginning with Kalpaka who was made to accept the ministership (Ibid., pp. 691-92). With the help of this minister, Nanda uprooted all the reigning Ksatriya dynastics (Ibid., p. 693). The minister of the ninth Nanda was Sakaṭāla who had two sons. After the death of Sakaṭāla, Nanda offered the ministership to his elder son Sthulabhadra, but he refused this office. According to the Jain tradition Candragupta was the son of a daughter of the chief of the village of rearers of the king's peacocks (mayūrapoṣaka) (cf. Ibid., pp. 433-34). After the defeat of king Nanda, his treasures were divided by Candragupta and Parvata between themselves (Ibid., p. 435). Canakya was a native of Canaka, a village of Golla district. (Ibid., p. 433). Bindusara, the son and successor of Candragupta, was also guided by his father's minister Caṇakya. (Ibid., p. 184).
SOME JAINA CANONICAL SUTRAS
