Temple of Satrunjaya

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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the proud elephants, he raised the lofty and fauftless pillar of his victory,-bright as Kailasa in the north and a source of happiness to the mind of the all-knowing (the Arhantas).
The Emperor Akbar, of bright intelligence and Lord of the Earth, to please the persevering and bold Hira Vijaya, the prince of Suris, with witnesses, etc. confirmed the farmān which he had previously granted. This faultless farmān was proclaimed in all directions: and that cows, bulls, buffaloes, male and female, should never be killed, that all property of those dying should be remitted, and that none should be made slaves, - were all granted for the gratification of his people by Akbar, the Lord of the Earth, the tree of whose mind drank from the clouds of the accomplishments (of the Suri). Honoured by the son of Coli Begam (Akbar), the Lord of the Earth, virtuous, full of glory, and distinguished by the best qualities, as garlands deck the necks of lotus-eyed maidens (so) he continually adorns the great land of Gurjara, full of the joys of paradise.87
In the reign of Shah Jahan another grant was made under the seal of his second son Murad Bakhsh, the Governor of Gujarat, by which the hill and surrounding district was given in perpetual inām to Satidas Javheri, a Sravaka and jeweller to the Court. It runs thus:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
[On the Seal]
Murad Bakhsh son of Shahab-ud-din Muhammad Sahib Kiran Sani Sahib Jahan; the Victorious Emperor. 1049
The present and future accounts of the Sarkar of Sorath, exalted by royal favours and hopeful (for distinction) are to know that, whereas at this time the best of the grandees-Satidas the Jeweller, has represented among those standing in the place of assembly which resembles paradise, that at the village of Palitana one of the dependencies of the above mentioned Sarkar, there is a place of worship belonging to Hindus that is called Setrunji, and that the poeple of surrounding districts come there on pilgrimage: the order of the highly dignified, the possessor of exalted rank, has been graciously issued to the effect that the above mentioned village, has been granted from the beginning of the season of Karif
87 See the Sanskrit copy in the Jour. Bomb. Br. R. As. Soc., Vol. I, pp. 96-99. The
translation in the same volume (pp. 59-63) not being satisfactory, I have been kindly favoured with the version here given by Dr. Bhau Daji, to whom I am also indebted for the use of books not accessible elsewhere in Bombay, and for revising the orthography of the proper names, as well as for information acknowledged elsewhere.