Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.84

c5.84

This tradition has been recorded in local inscriptions and monuments. The oldest inscription of about 600 A.D. associated "the pair (*yugma*), Bhadrabāhu along with Chandragupta *Muni*." Two inscriptions of about 900 A.D. on the Kāverī near Seringapatam describe the summit of a hill called Chandragiri as marked by the footprints of Bhadrabāhu and Chandragupta *munipati*. A Sravana Belgola inscription of 1129 mentions Bhadrabāhu '*Śrutakevalī*', and Chandragupta who acquired such merit that he was worshipped by the forest deities. Another inscription of 1163 similarly couples and describes them. A third inscription of the year 1432 speaks of Yatīndra Bhadrabāhu, and his disciple, Chandragupta, the fame of whose penance spread into other worlds.