________________
nature of the government the great festivals at Śravanabelagola and other places were stopped.42 It is reported about the king of Bijapur that he was a friend and ally of the Jaina queen Bhairavadevi of Gerossapa.43
It is a fact that the greatest number of Jaina temples were demolished and innumerable images were destroyed during the Mohamedan invasions, but it is equally true that the greatest number of the Jaina temples and images were constructed and sanctified during this period. It is strange to note that in Vikrama Samvat 1533 and 1548 one devout Jaina by name Jivarāj Papariwat got thousands of Jina images consecrated and sent them to every temple in India. 44 These images are found almost in all the Digambara Jaina temples even to-day.
Thus the outline of the situation and condition of the Jainas during the Mohamedan Rule proves to be a promising field of research for the scholars.
Refrences: 1. Oxford Students History of India, p. 97. 2. Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. XVIII, p 116. 3. Der Jainismus, p. 65 4. Elliot, History of India, Voll, pp. 147-158
Elliot, ibid., pp. 158-161 6. That "the Jainas used the term (401) prior to the Buddhists is also conclusively
proved by the fact that the latter (Buddhist) styled themselves 'SåkyputtiyaSramanas' as distinguished from the already existing Niggantha Sramanas." Buddhist Indiap 143. Hence the term Sramaņa is rightly applicable to the Jainas. A1-Badaoni has mentioned also the Jain ascetics by the term Sramana when he wrote that they along with Brahmanas had great access to Akbar the
great (Lowe, Al-Badaoni II, p. 264.) 7. Jinavijaya, Vijnapati - Triveni (Bhavnagar), Introduction 8. Elliot, loc, cit, p. 97. 9. Taking of meat and fish had never been prohibited among the Brahmans and
Buddhists. See my Hindi book na heroit 316 1 (Delhi) 10. Elliot, loc, Cit, p. 6. 11. Indian Antiquery, Vol. XXI, p. 361 - "The wife of Muhammad Ghori disired to
see the chief of the Digambaras." 12. Elliot, loc, cit., pt. III, p. 205 (Tarikh-i-Firozshåhi).
TAHTUTI HARI - AFE, 2005
-
87
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
