Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.195

c11.195

But the person in question may have suffered for his political views or conduct. Jain tradition avers that towards the end of his life he became a convert to the religion of the Tīrthaṅkaras after the rival teachers had been discomfited in a synod¹. It is also affirmed that when Magadha was confronted with a famine of twelve years Chandragupta abdicated in favour of a son named Siṃhasena and retired to Śravaṇa-Belgola in Mysore with the Saint (*Śruta-kevalin*) Bhadrabāhu. There he starved himself to death in the Jaina fashion². Several inscriptions in Mysore dating from about 900 A.D. refer to the pair (*yugma*) Bhadrabāhu and Chandragupta³.