Shauripura
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Sauripura (शौरिपुर) is situated at a distance of 75 km from Agra, 25 km from Shikohabad and 1.5 km on hilly road from Bateshvara on the banks of Yamuna river in Uttar Pradesh. It was a city where Jain Tirthankara Neminatha was born.[1]
Variants
- Sharipura शारीपुर, जिला आगरा, उ.प्र., (AS, p.895)
- Shauripura (शौरिपुर) = Bateshwar Agra (बटेसर, जिला आगरा) (AS, p.829)
- Shoripura शोरिपुर दे. Sauripur सौरीपुर (AS, p.913)
- Sauripura सौरीपुर, जिला आगरा, उ.प्र. (AS, p.998)
Mention in Pujaripali Stone Inscription of Gopaladeva
Pujaripali Stone Inscription of Gopaladeva[2] is one of a king named Gopāladeva (गोपालदेव). The object of it apparently is to record the charitable deeds of Gôpâladêva, especially the construction of the temple where it was put up. Pujaripali (पुजारीपली) is village in Sarangarh tahsil in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh.
(Verse: 38-40) - On the earth the Kirti of the brave Gôpâla shines like the autumnal moon at the famous Kedara (केदार) (L.20), Prayaga (प्रयाग) (L.20), Pushkara (पुष्कर) (L.20), Purushottama (पुरुषोत्तम) (L.20), Bhimeshvara (भीमेश्वर) (L.20), on the Narmada (नर्मदा), at the famous Gopalapura (गोपालपुर) (L.20), Varanasi (वाराणसी) (L.20), Prabhasa (प्रभास) (L.21), at the junction of the Gangâ and the sea, Varalī (वरली), the famous Vairagyamatha (वैराज्ञमठ) (L.21), the Ashtadvara (अष्टद्वार) (L.21), Shauripura (शौरिपुर) (L.21), [and) the village Peḍara (पेडरा) (L.21).
As for the geographical names mentioned in the present inscription,
- Kedara is a well-known tirtha on the Himalayas,
- Prayaga is, of course, modern Allahabad,
- Pushkara is a holy tïrtha still known by this name in Rajputana. *Putushottama may be the well-known Puri in Orissa,
- Bhimeshvara is a well-known tirtha, also called Drākshārāma (द्राक्षाराम) in the Godavari District of the Madras State.
- Narmada and the holy place Varanasi are too famous to need identification.
- Prabhâsa is identified by R B Hiralal with Pabhosi near Allahabad, but in the period to which the present inscription belongs, the latter does not seem to have been so famous. Prabhasa is more likely to be the tirtha of that name in Saurashtra.
- Shauripura (the city of Krishna) may be Dvaraka in Saurashtra.
- Gôpâlapura, as per R B Hiralal's conjecture, was founded by Gopaladeva himself is plausible, but his identification of it with the village Gopalpur near Tewar cannot be upheld, for Gôpâladëva's sway could not have extended so far in the north. It must have been situated not very far from Pujaripali. I would identify it with the Gôpâlpur which has on the right bank of the Mānd river (मांड नदी), about 10 miles north-west of Pujaripali.
- Pedarāgrāma (पेडरा ग्राम) is likely to be Pendri, 8 miles north by east of Sarangarh.
- The other places cannot be identified.
History
सौरीपुर (जिला आगरा, उ.प्र.)
सौरीपुर (AS, p.998): जिला आगरा, उ.प्र. में स्थित बटेश्वर या बटेसर का प्राचीन नाम है जो शौरिपुर का अपभ्रंश है. शौरि यादवों का नाम है. इस स्थान पर यदुवंश में जैनों के 22वें तीर्थंकर नेमिनाथ का जन्म हुआ था. जैन साहित्य में मथुरा को भी सौरीपुर कहा गया है (देखें उत्तराध्यायन). किंतु ढाल सागर नामक एक जैन ग्रंथ में ही दोनों को भिन्न बताया गया है.[3]
शारीपुर
विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर [4] ने लेख किया है ...शारीपुर (AS, p.895) अथवा शौरीपुर (AS, p.829): एक जैन धार्मिक स्थल, जो उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा ज़िले में स्थित है। आगरा के बटेसर (बटेश्वर) से एक मील की दूरी पर स्थित शारीपुर जैनों का तीर्थ है, जिसे जैन जनश्रुति के अनुसार तीर्थंकर नेमिनाथ का जन्म स्थान कहा जाता है।
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References
- ↑ Jain, Kailash Chand (1991), Lord Mahāvīra and His Times, Motilal Banarsidass Publication, p. 7, ISBN 9788120808058
- ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905. pp. 588-594
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.998
- ↑ Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.895