Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2291
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2291
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c19.2291
According to Hemacandra's *Trisaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita*,⁹⁵⁶ Vaitāḍhya mountain was four hundred miles long touching the rivers Gaṅgā and Sindhu on either side. It was given as dominion to Nami and Vinami by Dharaṇendra, the protecting deity of the first Tīrthankara, Ādinātha. Nami occupied the southern Vaitāḍhya and founded fifty cities including Jayantī and Rathanūpuracakravāla and Vinami occupied the northern Vaitāḍhya and similarly founded another fifty towns.
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- Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita — Hemacandra, Sanskrit