Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
Palitana, or ‘the abode of the Pali’ [?], is the name of the town at
the foot of the sacred mount Satrunjaya (signifying ‘victorious over
the foe’), on which the Jain temples are sacred to Buddhiswara, or the
‘Lord of the Buddhists’ [?]. I have little doubt that the name of
Palitana is derived from the pastoral (_pali_) Scythic invaders
bringing the Buddhist faith in their train—a faith which appears to me
not indigenous to India [?]. Palestine, which, with the whole of Syria
and Egypt, was ruled by the Hyksos or Shepherd kings, who for a season
expelled the old Coptic race, may have had a similar import to the
_Palitana_ founded by the Indo-Scythic Pali. The Author visited all
these sacred mounts. [The Author describes Pālitāna in _WI_, 274 ff.;
see also _BG_, viii. 603 f. All this confusion between Buddhists and
Jains and the suggested derivation, in which the Author unfortunately
relied on Wilford (_Asiatic Researches_, iii. 72 ff., viii. 321), are
out of date.]
Footnote 4.19.44:
[The Kīrtti-Stambha, erected by a merchant named Jīja in the twelfth
century A.D., and dedicated to Ādināth, the first Jain Tīrthakara
(Fergusson, _Hist. Indian Architecture_, ii. 57 ff.; Erskine ii. A.
104).]
Footnote 4.19.45:
[Buddhism and Jainism are again confused. For Buddhist remains in
Rājputāna see _IGI_, xxi. 103.]
Footnote 4.19.46:
See Appendix to this Part [p. 645].
Footnote 4.19.47:
See Appendix to this part [p. 645].
Footnote 4.19.48:
See Appendix to this article [p. 646].
Footnote 4.19.49:
[This is the Pachusan, the four months of Jain retreat, the Vassa or
Vassavāsa of the Buddhists. It was held in the rainy season, during
which travelling was forbidden, in order to avoid injury to the insect
life which abounds at this time (_BG_, ix. Part i. 113 f.; Kern,
_Manual of Indian Buddhism_, 80 f.).]
Footnote 4.19.50:
Dwarka is at the point called Jagat Khunt, of the Saurashtra
peninsula. _Ka_ is the mark of the genitive case [?]: _Dwarkanath_
would be the ‘gate of the god’ [‘Lord of Dvārakā’].
Footnote 4.19.51:
Fifty-seven descents are given, both in their sacred and profane
genealogies, from Krishna to the princes supposed to have been
contemporary with Vikramaditya. The Yadu Bhatti or Shama Bhatti (the
Ahsham Bhatti of Abu-l Fazl) [_Āīn_, ii. 339], draw their pedigree
from Krishna or Yadunath, as do the Jarejas of Cutch.
Footnote 4.19.52:
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