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 December, 1873.] SATRUfiJAYA HILL. 355 ascending the hill he obtained the victory (jaya) over his enemy (Satru)—sin.” * * Tod, professing to have extracted it from the Mdhdtmya also, gives the following legend: “ In distant ages S u k h a Raja ruled in Palitana. By the aid of magic, his younger brother assumed his appearance and took possession of the 'royal cushion. The dispossessed prince wandered about the forests, and during twelve years daily ‘poured fresh water from the stream on the image of Sidmith,’ who, pleased with his devotion, gave him victory (jaya) over his foe (satru), and in gratitude he enshrined the god upon the mount, hence called Satrunjay a. The hill must therefore have been originally dedicated to Siva, one of whose chief epithets isSidnatha, as lord of the ascetics,—a title never given, I believe, to Adinatha, the first of the Jainas. ”f Y i m a 1 a d r i,—height of * purification; P u n- darika-parvata, or Hill of Pundarika, the principal disciple of Rishabhanatha; Siddhikshetra, Siddhadri, and Sid- dhabhfibhri t,—Hill of the Holy land ; Sura S ai 1 a, Rock of the gods ; Pnnya* rasi,—bestower of virtue ; Muktigeha, place of beatitude; Mahatirtha, the great place of pilgrimage ; Sarva K a m a d a, real¬ izing all desires; Prithvipitha, the crown of the earth ; and Patalamfila, having its foundation in the lower regions. J “Whatever purity,” says the Mdhdtmya, “ may be acquired by prayers, penances, vows, charity, and study, in other artificial txrthas, cities, groves, hills, &c., tenfold more is ac¬ quired in Jaina txrthas, a hundred-fold more at the chaityas of the Jambu-tree, a thousand-fold more at the everlasting Dhdtald-trce, at the lovely chaitya of Pushkaradvipa, at the mountain An j ana. Yet ten-fold more still is obtained at the Nandisvara, K u nda- la d r i, Manushottaraparvata. § In proportion, ten thousand times more at the Vaibhara,|| Sametadri, Vaitadhya, Merfi, Raivata,^[ and Ashtapada.* t Travels iff Western India, pp. 277, 278. X To these the M&hAtmya adds M a h A b a 1 a, Sriy ah- p a d a, Parvatendra, 8 ubh adr a,D ridha$akti, Akarmaka, Sasvata, Pushpadanta, Mahi padma, Prabhohpada, Kail Asa, and Kshiti- mandanamandana (I. 831—884). § Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 222 ; Asiat. Res. vol. IX. p. 320; Wilson, Visfvnu Par Ana, p. 200. Infinitely more, however, is already obtained by the mere sight of S a t r u n j a y a. Last, it cannot be told how much is acquired by devot¬ ing oneself to the worship of it.” + Elsewhere the author exclaims, “ I have heard, 0 ye gods! from the mouth of Srimat Simandhara Svami, when once I went to the K s h e t r a Mahavideha: Any, and ever so great a sinner, by worshipping Sri Satrunjaya, is absolved from sin and becomes a partaker of perfection.” From Palitana to the foot of the hill there is a very straight and level stretch of broad clean road, lined on either side with banian or bar trees, and other species of the ficus tribe. It has at intervals Jcundas and bdvlis, reservoirs and wells, of pure water, excavated by Jaina votaries. At the foot of the hill the ascent begins with a wide flight of steps, guarded on either side by a statue of an elephant. At this place there are many little canopies or cells, a foot and a half to three feet square, open only in front, and each having in its floor a marble slab carved with the representation, in bas-relief ’ of the soles of two feet (charana)—very flat ones —and generally with the toes all of one length. A little behind where the ball of the great toe ought to be, there is a diamond-shaped mark, divided into four smaller figures by two cross- lines, from the end of one of which a waved line is drawn to the front of the foot. Round the edges of the slab thero is usually an inscription in Devaniigari characters. These cells are numer¬ ous all the way up the hill, and a large group of them is found on the south-west corner of it, behind the temple of Adis vara Bhaga- vana:—they are the temples erected by poorer Sravakas or Jainas, who—unable to afford the expense of a complete temple, with its hall and sanctuary enshrining a marble murti or image— manifest their devotion to their creed by erecting these miniature temples over the charana of their Jinas or Arhats. The hill is in many places excessively steep, capital of M a g a d h a or 8. BihAr. On the top of it and other neighbouring hills there are Jaina temples, and the cave occupied by the great B u d d h a is still to be seen in one of the hills. See before, vol. I. p. 70. Mount G i r n A r a. p. 805.—The same as Kail Asa:—Hemachandra. Alhi- dhdrui ChintAmani, 1028. + Satrunjaya MAh At. 1.341-846; Weber, pp. 22 and 60,61.
 * 1) Weber, uber das Qatr. M&hAt. p. 17.
 * One of the bills surrounding Rfijagpha, the ancient
 * Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 208; Asiat. Res. vol.IX.