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Royal personage State or capital
Remarks
APPENDIX 8
ROYAL DEVOTEES OF BHAGAVAN MAHAVIRA Note - The available note about the rulers who followed, worshipped or remained devoted to him is presented here. Besides there were numerous princes, princesses, queens etc. who were also initiated but their names are not noted here.
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Royal personage State or capital Remarks
Adinashatru Apratihata Arjuna Alakakha Udayana 7 Udrayana (Udayana) Kanakadhvaja Karakandu Kunika
Hastishirsha Saughandhika Sughosha Varanasi-Kashi | initiated Kaushambi Sindhu Sauvira initiated
Pradeshi Setavya
Shramano(Setambika) pasaka
initiated Prasannachandra Potanpur Priyachandra Kanakapur Bala
Mahapur Mahachandra Saranjani Mahabala
Purimatal Mitra
Vanijya Gram Mitranandi Saketapur Vasavadatta Vijayapur Vijaya
Polaspur Vijaya
Mrig(a) gram Vijayamitra Vardhamanpur Virakrishna Virpur
initiated Mitra Virayasha
initiated Vaishramana Rohitaka Datta Shatanika Kaushambi Shankha
Mathura Shiva-Rajarshi Hastinapura Shaurika-Datta Shaurikapur Shreedama Mathura Shrenikah
Magadha Sala
Prishtha Champa initiated Mahasala
Prishtha Champa initiated Siddhartha Patalishanda Seya
Amalakalpa initiated Sanjaya
Kampilapur initiated Hastipala
Apapapuri initiated
Tetalipura Kanchanapura Magadha
Pratyeka Buddha Shramanopasaka (Shravaka)
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Gagali
Prishtha Champa Ujjaini
Chandapradyota"
initiated Shramanopasaka
Chetaka Jitashatru Datta Dadhivahana Dasharnabhadra Dwimukha's
Vaishali Nine cities Champa Nagari Champa - initiated Dasharnapura initiated Kampilya Pratyeka
Buddha
• Besides, nine Mallakis and nine Lichchhavis of Kashi and
Koshala regions and who were appointed as the advisers of the State of Vaishali. In all eighteen over and above virangaya* Aineyaka etc.
Dhanavaha Nami Rajarshi
Rishabhapur Mithila
Pratyeka Buddha Pratyeka Buddha
Naggati
• The princes mentioned against numbers 2, 3, 11, 14, 19, 26,
27, 32 and 36 were initiated by Bhagavan Mahavira.
Nandivardhana Punyapala
Kshatriyakunda
• No details are given as the exact location of every city is
not available.
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37. The Jain, Bauddha and Vedic traditions look upon this king as their follo
wer. He is referred to in Bhagavati Sutra and Vipaka Sutra in the Jain Agamas (scriptures) and in the story - literature and also in Bauddha scriptures-Dhammapada - Atthakatha and Samukta Nikaya. This is the
same Udayana associated with the story of Vasavadatta. 38. This was the king of Sauvira (Sindhu) with the beautiful capital of vitta
bhayapattana in western India. His true name is Udrayana and is mentioned in Ava. Niryu. Uttara Nemi, commentary and Upa. Mala Bauddha text mentions him as Rudrayana However he is popularly known among the Jains as Udayana (Rajarshi-a-royal sage) Bhagavan Mahavira toured from
eastern India to the western India to initiate him. 39. The original name is Kunika, The Bauddha tradition recognises him as
Ajatashatru and Konika. Another name appearing in Avashyaka Churni (a commentary) is Ashoka Chandra. He is konika, the son of Shrenika and
ruler of Magadha. #0. The scriptures employ the word Shramanopasaka (those who serve the
ascetics) for Shravakas, the householder followers of Jainism. 41. The original name was Pradyota. 42. There have been many rulers named Jitashatru. The name has been noted
at times as a proper noun and at times as an adjective. However, nine kings bearing this very name are noted as devotees of Bhagavan Mahavira. Samyukta and Majzim Nikaya refer to Prasenajit, the ruler of Koshala. Historians believe him to be one of those kings known as Jitashatru (meaning the conqueror of the enemies). Prasenajit who is mentioned in Ja in traditions (Tri-sha was the father of Shrenik who was the follower of the religious
discipline of Parshvanatha 43. The original name is Jaya'
41 Shrenika has also been referred to as Bhambhasara, Bhimbhasara and
Bimbisara. The later Sanskrit and Prakrit authors have accepted the word Bhambhasar while Bauddha texts refer to him as Bimbisara
The Jain as well as Bauddhist texts consider Shrenika, konika, Udrayana and Udayana as the followers of their own faiths, The Bauddha texts include Buddhacharita, Vinayapitaka, Digha Maizim Nikaya etc. while the Jain Agama texts include Sthananga, Dashashrutaskandha.
Uvaval, Anuttaropapatika, Gnatadharmakatha etc. 45. See Thananga Sutra-621.
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