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became so great that its name superseded that of the country, 

 and in the 5th and 7th centuries the Chinese travellers called the 

 country of Ahga by the name of Campa (Chenpo), and 

 Campa was rightly designated as the capital of Eastern India 

 Campa continued to be the capital of the new province of 

 Ahga under the Magadha king after its conquest by Bimbisara 

 The governors resided at Campa, Bimbisara being its first 



governor. 



Mahavira, after he became a Kevalin, passed three rainy 

 seasons at Campa and its suburhs, and made many converts 

 to his faith. It became a stronghold of the Jaina religion. 

 Campapurl is held very sacred by the Jainas as Basupujya, 

 their twelfth Tirthankara, lived and died at this place. A 

 beautiful temple at Nathnagar, which is a Mahalla or quarter 

 of Campanagar, marks the site of his birth and consecration. 

 The temple is said to have been built by a chief of Jaipur ' 

 named Sungri Sri Dhata and his wife Sungviri Sri Surjai in the 

 Yudhisthira era i'559.* Basupujya was the son of Basupujya 

 and Jaya, and his symbol is the buffalo. His name is men- 

 tioned in an inscription of the 12th century discovered at Ajmir. 8 

 In Campa existed a temple called Caitya Punnabhadda where 

 Mahavira resided and where Sudharman, one of the eleven 

 disciples of Mahavira, who succeeded him as head of the Jaina 

 hierarchy after his death, recited the Uvasagadasao, the 

 seventh Ahga of the Jainas, when he visited the town while it 

 was governed by Kunika or Ajatasatru.* This temple is men- 

 tioned in the Ubbai Sutta 5 as Punyalabdha Caitya (•• Punyalat- 

 va Ceyiya"). Basupujya's temple belongs to the Digamvara 

 sect. There is another temple at Campa which belongs to the 

 fevetamvara sect. The Caitya which existed outside of Campa 

 was called Ahgamandira Ceiya. 9 



Buddha made frequent excursions to Campa, 7 and resided 



on the bank of the Gaggara lake, which was excavated by 



*r^? , ( .' a S^ ar ^- On its bank were groves of Campaka trees 



(Mtcheha Champaka) under which wandering mendicants 



Jaipur is situated in the sub-division of Banka in the district of 

 Bnagalpur (Martin's East. Ind., ii, 60). Prabhava, who succeeded 

 Jambu_ as the head of the Jaina Sect, was the fourth patriarch from 

 Jiahavira and was the younger son of Vindhya, king of Jaipur (Jam- 

 bu8vami-Charita). ' 6 



2 Major Franckhn : Site of Ancient Palibothra, 10, 17, where the 

 inscription is given. 



» J.A.S.B.. 1838, p. 5. 



* Dr. Hoernle: Uvasagadasao, chs. 1, 2, where the temple is men- 

 tioned as «5*«,j ^ - ; Sthaviravali. 



Col Lib 1 ? ln ASB- ; see al *° J natadharmasutrapathu (MS. in Cal. Sans. 



s Rockhill ; Buddha, 154. 

 ' Ibid. 70. 



