Life in Ancient India as Depicted in Jain Canons

SR No.: 011077
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdishchandra Jain
Publisher: New Book Company
Publication Year: 1947
Total Pages: 429
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA
fihila-a city.
Videha was one of the twenty five and a half liyan countries with Mihilā as its capital. Mihilā is included among thc ten capitals of India
Mihila was the place of birth, renunciation and salvation of the ninctcenth and the twenty first Tilthayaas 062 Mihil, was frcquently visited by Mahāvira, who is said to have passed six rainy seasons hele (sce supra, p 261) Mihilā was also visited by Ajja Mahāgırı 553
At the time of Jinaprabhasūri, Alihilä was known as Jagai + Mithilā is called Janakapuri in the Ramayana and is identified with Janakapur, a small town within the Nepal boider, north of which the Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga districts meet.556
llryaggama-acily
The city is said to have been visited by Mahāvila To the northCast of the city thcie was a garden of Candanapłyule with the shrine of at sakkha.537
It is not identified.
Motheragii-a city
Modheragā is mentioned in the Styagadanga Cūrnz Jug The city of A Lochcrakā is also mentioned in the Catur vi msalipabandha of Rajasekharasūri, it lies in Gurjaradhai ā 669
It is cighteen miles south of Patan and is situated on the left bank of the Pushmavati.560
Moka—a city
It is said that this town was visited by Mahāvira, who left for Rayagıha from here. 561
It is not identifiable.
Jloli-e kingdom
Moli was one of the sixteen janapadas mentioned in the Bhagvati Perhaps Moli and Malla may be identical.
602 AM 111.383, Uttara Ti, 9 p 139 a. 633 Tu Yir Bha 132, p 143a, Citara Ti, 3, p. 71. 564 luz, p. 32 655 ). 48,11 , also scu lahābha (III. 210). 856 C.1. G. I, p 718. 357 Tica 1, p 21. 568 p. 348. 689 9, pp. 56, 77.
Architectural Antiquity of Northern Gujerat, by Cousens and Burgess, London, 1903, p. 11 561 Bhag 3.1.