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SATRUSJAYA HILL.

DECEMBER, 1873.]

ascending the hill he obtained the victory (jaya) over his enemy (stru)—sin.” “ Tod, professing to have extracted it from the Māhātmya also, gives

the following legend: “In distant ages Su k h a Rāja ruled in Pālitānā. By the aid of magic, his younger brother assumed his appearance

Infinitely more, however, is already obtained

by the mere sight of Satru fijaya. 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, O ye gods' from the mouth of Srim at Sim and h a ra

and took possession of the royal cushion. The

S v a mi, when once I went to the Ks he tra

dispossessed prince wandered about the forests, and during twelve years daily ‘poured fresh

Mahā vide h a . Any, and ever so great a sinner, by worshipping Sri Satru iijaya, is absolved from sin and becomes a partaker of

water from the stream on the image of Sidnāth,’

who, pleased with his devotion, gave him victory (jaya) over his foe (Satru), and in gratitude

perfection.”

he enshrined the god upon the mount, hence

From Pål it à n à to the foot of the hill there is a very straight and level stretch of broad clean

called Satru iijaya. The hill must therefore

road, lined on either side with banian or bar

have been originally dedicated to Siva, one of

trees, and other species of the ficus tribe.

whose chief epithets is Sid n fi th a, as lord of

has at intervals kundus and bávlis, reservoirs

the ascetics, a title never given, I believe, to

and wells, of pure water, excavated by Jaina

A din à tha, the first of the Jainas.”t

Vim alá dri, height of purification; Pun

d a ri ka-par v at a, or Hill of Pund a rika, the principal disciple of R is ha bh an à tha; Siddhiks he tra, Siddh á dri, and Sid -

d h a b h (, b hr it, Hill of the Holy land; Sura Sail a, Rock of the gods; Punya rá ši,-bestower of virtue; Muktige ha,

place of beatitude; Mahā tirth a, the great place of pilgrimage; Sarva Kâ m a da, real izing all desires; Prith v i pi th a, the crown of the earth ; and Pātālam ūl a, having its foundation in the lower regions.:

“Whatever purity,” says the Māhātmya, “may be acquired by prayers, penances, vows,

charity, and study, in other artificial tirthas, cities, groves, hills, &c., tenfold more is ac quired in Jaina tirthas, a hundred-fold more at the chaityas of the Jambit-tree, a thousand-fold more at the everlasting Dhātaki-tree, at the

votares.

It

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 ine is drawn to the front of the foot.

Round the

edges of the slab there is usually an inscription in Devanāgari 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 Adi Ś v ar a Bhaga v ina:-they are the temples erected by poorer

lovely chaitya of Pushkar a d vipa, at the

Sravakas or Jainas, who—unable to afford the

mountain Anja na.

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 charant of

Yet ten-fold more still

is obtained at the N and i Ś v a ra, Kund a

là dri, Mā n us hott a rap a rva ta. § In

proportion, ten thousand times more at the V aib h a ra, Sam et à dri, Vă it ā dhya, Mer (, Rai vata," and A s h t a pad a.”

• Weber, iber das Qatr. Mihá'. p. 17.

+ Travels in Western India, pp. 277,278. † To these the Māhātmya adds Mahā bala, Sriyah p a da, Parva ten dra, Subh a dra, D rid has a kti, A karm a ka, S as vata, Push pad a n ta, Mahā

pad ma, Prabh oh pad a, Kailāsa, and Kshiti

their Jinas or Arhats.

The hill is in many places excessively steep, | One of the hills surrounding R & jagriha, the ancient capital of Magadha or S. Bihār. On the top of it and other neighbouring hills there are Jaina temples, and the

cave occupied by the great Buddha is still to be seen in one of the hills.

See before, vol. I. p. 70.

• I Mount G i r n a ra.
• Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 208; Asiat. Res. vol. IX.

m and an a m and an a (I. 331-334).

p. 305.—The same as Kai láš a 3–Hemachandra, Abhi

§ Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 222; Asiat. Res, vol. IX. p. 320; Wilson, Vishnu Purāma, p. 200.

ºlhána Chintámani, 1028.

+ satruñjaya Māhāt. I.341-346; Weber, pp.22 and 60,61.