Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.13

v2.c27.s2.13

jizya, or capitation tax, was inflicted on the head of the Hindu. Their faith also suffered much from the Jains and the various infidel (*asura*) sects which abounded. The Jains were so hostile, that Brahma manifested himself in the shape of Sankaracharya who destroyed them and their religion at Benares. In Gujarat, by their magic, they made the moon appear at Amavas.* Sankara foretold to its prince, Siddhraj,† the flood then approaching, who escaped in a boat and fled to Toda, on which occasion all the Vidyas ‡ (magicians) in that country perished.” [For a more correct version of Krishna’s legend see Growse, *Mathura*, 3rd ed. ; for Vaishnavism, R. G. Bhandarkar, “Vaisnavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems,” in *Grundriss Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde*, 1913.]