Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c7.s1.t3.1

c7.s1.t3.1

The whole problem of succession was complicated by ambitions, jealousies and the practice of renunciation.¹² The *Vivāgasuya* refers to prince Nandivaddhana of Mathurā, who wanted to take the life of his father and rule over the kingdom. But he was detected and was executed.¹³ Similarly, the prince Kūniya of Rāyagaha put his father into prison and was consecrated on the throne.¹⁴ Sometimes the king, out of fear, banished the unruly prince and asked him to live in another place. The *Āvasyaka Cūṇi* refers to the prince Seṇiya, who, being afraid of his father, fled away to Bennāyaḍa and lived there with a merchant.¹⁵ Then the princes Mūladeva and Agadadatta of Ujjenī and Sankhapura respectively are said to have been banished by their fathers.¹⁶