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This would give only a generation and a half to the century. 
The family tradition (Bissen Vansa Vatika) says that the title 
of Malla came into use at one of the sieges of Chitore, so that 
nouncement of the world entered a Jaina monastery at Vaisali, 
his birth-place, and Jaina monasteries seem to have been in a 
flourishing condition all over Eastern India in his time. 
Parsvanatha died at Sammedagiri, the ParSvanatha Hills, near 
the Giridhi Station of the East Indian Railway. 
His father’s name was Visvasena. The Parsvanatha 
Carita does not speak of Parsva’s brothers, but that book is @ 
religious work and concerns itself but little with the history of 
the family in which he was born. We hear of the kingdom of 
the Kasi later on in the Buddhist annals. So the family must 
have been continued for several generations on the throne of 
Kasi, till the great struggle for supremacy which overthrew all 
the monarchies of Kogala and led to the establishment of the 
Gorakhpur district. Kasia in the Gorakhpur district, which 
still belongs to the Majhaulie Raj, has been identified by Dr. 
Hoernle and Mr. Pargiter with KuSsinagra, the place where 
Buddha entered Nirvana. But the Vi8vasena theory is also 
Sena Rajas of Kasi and the name Sena Kot got corrupted into 
of Majhoulie, thus showing that Visva Sen of Kasi has some 
connection with the Bissen family. It is also stated in the 
