Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.644

c19.644

It was also known as Dasannapura. It is said that a *srāvikā* was given in marriage to a heretic, who used to insult her. As a result of this, it is stated that the eyes of the heretic were plucked off by some divine power. But the *srāvikā* was faithful to her husband, so she stood in meditation and asked for the eyes of her lord to be given back. Thereupon the eyes of the heretic were replaced by the eyes of an immediately killed ram (*eḍaga*). Then the people began to call the heretic by the name of Eḍakaccha (having the eyes of a ram) and since then Dasannapura came to be known as Elakacchapura.²¹³