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According to the Shaivite chronicles, the Madurai massacre was the massacre of around 8000 Tamil Jains by the Shaivite king Koon Pandiyan in the village of Samanatham near Madurai in India. The king, who had embraced Jainism, was re-converted to Shaivism under the influence of the Shaivite saint Sambandar. After this re-conversion, around eight thousand Jains were impaled on stakes (supposedly by their own choice ), after having lost a series of contests. The massacre is not mentioned in any Jain accounts, and there is no historical record of an actual massacre having taken place. The incident could be a Shaivite legend created to prove the superiority of the Shaivite sect over the Jains.〔 == Background == In the ancient Tamil-speaking region, the Jains had come to wield immense influence by the 7th century. There were around eight thousand Jains living in Madurai at the time. The king Koon Pandian converted to Jainism. This caused immense discomfort to his queen Mangaiarkkarasi and his minister Kulachirai Nayanar, who remained staunch Shaivites.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Temple At Thirunallar )〕 The two invited the Shaivite saint Sambandar to Madurai to check the growing influence of the Jains. According to the local Shaivite legend, the Jains set fire to the dwelling of Sambandar. But Sambandar transferred the heat to the king who started wriggling with pain. The Jains tried to cure his condition, by chanting a mantra which only aggravated the king's pain. Sambandar then chanted a mantra and sprinkled some sacred ash that not only freed the king from the burning sensation, but also cured his hunched back. The Jains were then pitched against another challenge: both Shaivite and Jain mantras should be written on the palm leaves, which would be thrown into a fire. The sect whose leaf survives would be accepted as superior. The Shaivites emerged as the winners of this challenge.〔 In a similar water-based contest (''punalvatam''), the Jain manuscripts drowned in the river, while the Saivite script came back to the shore unscathed. Jains sources believe that oil was applied on the palm leaves by Saivite thus helping leaves to float in the water.With this trick, king was influenced by the Saivites. After coming under the influence of Sambandar, the king became a Shaivite, as did several of his subjects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madurai massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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