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priests) to compile an excellent and generally accurate account of the Svetāmbara sect, by gleaning information from the various learned men of that community, especially from Hīravijaya Sūri.'' He failed to come across any learned member of the Digambara sect, and, consequently observed that his account of the Digambara peculiarities had been written as it were in the dark." (Vide "Akbar, the Great Mogul”'; vide also the article “Jain Teachers of Akbar" in Bhandarkar Com. Vol. pp. 275& 276, by V. Smith.)
For detailed incidents of Akbar's life under the influence of Jaina Priests, the readers are invited to refer to my introduction to a Sanskrit work “Bhānucandra Gani Carita" edited by me to be shortly published as No. 15 of Singhi Jaina Granthamālā.12
References :
1. Abul Fazl says : - "With the magnanimity which becomes him and with
his wonted zeal, he continues his search for superior men, and finds a reward in the care with which he selects such as are fit for his society." (Aine Akbari, Vol. I. p. 154 Ain. 72. The manner in which his Majesty occupies his time.
"Samanis" and "Samanas'' are the corrupt Prākrit forms of the Sanskrit term “Sramaņa”. Now, the term “Sramaņa" is applicable to Jainas, as well as to Buddhist monks; but as no Buddhist monk ever visited the Court of Akbar, Badaoni must have used the terms to mean Jaina monks
only. 3. In one of the inscriptions (No. 118) Epi Indica Vol. II, Ch. 6) Buhler
misread 714 for HIY and then stated that Hīravijaya belonged to the Sāfa race. This wrong statement was quoted by V. Smith in his article, “The Jain Teachers of Akbar'' Bhand. Com. Vol. p. 273. THis mistake should, however, be corrected. Hīravijaya Sūri was an Osvāl Baniā before he
became a Jaina Sādhu. 4. Vide verses 273 and 274 of the 14th of the Chapter of “Hira-Saubhāgya
Mahākāvya". श्रीमत्यपर्युषणादिना रविमिताः सर्वे रवेर्वासराः सोफीयानदिना अपीददिवसाः संक्रान्तिघस्राः पुनः। मासः स्वीयजने दिनाश्च मिहिरस्यान्येऽपि भूमीन्दुनाः forgetohet ta falfent: plu4404144: 11 213 || तेन नवरोजदिवसास्तनुजजनू रजबमासदिवसाश्च । farem 3991f HFEGI: Hetaliata a tall 214 ||
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