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"जिणे सिद्धिगदे चउसदइगिसट्ठि वास परिमाणे : कालम्मि अदिक्कते उप्पण्णो एत्थ सकराओ ॥१४९६. अहवा बीरे सिद्धे सहस्सणव कम्मि सगसयब्भहिए । पणसीदिम्मिय तीरे पणमासे सकणिओ जादो ॥ १४९७ चोद्दस सहस्स सग सयतेणउदी वास काल विच्छिदे । बीरसर सिद्धी दो उप्पण्णो सगणिओ अहवा ॥ १४९८ णिव्वाणे वीरजिणे छव्वास सदेसु पंचवारिसेसं । पणमासेसु गदेसुं संजादो सगणिओ अहवा ॥ १४९९"
-तिलोयपणती. चौथा अधिकार "पंच य मासा पंचय वासा छच्चेव होंति वाससया । सगकालेण य सहिया थावे यवो तदो रासी ॥ ४१ सत्तसहस्साणवसद पंचाणउदी सपंच मासाय । अइकंता बासाणं जइया तइया स गुप्पत्ती ॥ ४३"
-~-धवला, ९.४.१.४४ The description of Shak king in 605 years and 5 months of Mahavira's era, is recorded in Harivaṁśapurāņa (60.551), Titthogāti Payaņņā, 1623), Triloksara (850) and Vichara Shreni (Merutunga) too. A manuscript preserved in Ārrah (Bihar) also mentions that after the expiry of 605 years and 5 months, i.e., 77 years and 7 months before the period of Achārārgis (683 years) the Shak King was born after Lord Mahāvīra's death.
Out of the five dates mentioned above, the last two, i.e., at the expiry of 9785 years and 14793 years, the Shak King was born, is incorporated only through the Paurāņic references of Hindus, but the first three dates are reckoned as under :
(1) After 461 years of Mahāvīra's death, (i.e., 1703 B.V.E) King Khārvela was coronated in 1243th year. Before Vikram Era and thereafter in his 10th year of rule (i.e., 470 years after the death of Mahāvīra) he started the first Shak era of Jain chronology when Prince Vāsuk was made heirapparent and the third epoch of Kalinga dynasty ended i.e., on the death of Kude pashri, the father of King Khārvela. This is the first Vikram Shak era in Jain chronology and Kbārvela is the first Shak King (Tulsi-prajña, Editorial, 17/4).
(2) Shudrak, King of Shudra dynasty, started his own Shak era after 605 years 5 months of Mahavira's death (i.e., 1703 B.V.E) in the year 1098 B.V.E. (1097 years and 7 months). This era has been mentioned in Jyotish Darpana (Anoop Sanskrit Library, Bikaner, Ms. No.4677) by Kanchu yallaryya, the famous astrologer
