• pg.202 : Literary tradition of Western India, which also recognises Samprati as the immediate successor of Asoka, eulogizes him as an eminent patron of Jainism, who founded Jain monasteries even in non-aryan countries. Almost all ancient Jain temples or monuments of unknown origin are ascribed by the popular voice to Samprati, who is, in fact, regarded as a Jain Asoka. One author describes him as being the sovereign of all India ( lord of Bharata with its three continents ), holding court at Pataliputra.^[1]
• pg.458 : Samprati, a grandson of Asoka, is said to have been converted by Suhastin, and to have sent many missionaries to preach Jainism in the Peninsula, where his creed undoubtedly secured such wide acceptance that Mr. Rice is justified in affirming that during the first millennium of the Christian era Jainism may be regarded as having been predominant religion of Mysore.^[2]

Smith, Vincent Arthur; Edwardes, S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) (1924). The early history of India : from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan conquest, including the invasion of Alexander the Great. Robarts - University of Toronto. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

• pg.306 : In Pataliputra flourished the great king Samprati, son of Kunala, lord of Bharata, with its three continents, the great Arhanta who established viharas for Sramanas even in non-Aryan countries.” Dr. Smith shows good grounds for believing that the dominions of Samprati included Avanti and Western India.^[3]

Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1832). Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Missouri Botanical Garden. Calcutta : Asiatic Society

• pg.58 : Vincent Smith had strong reasons to believe that Samprati’s dominions included Avanti and Western India.’* But, as Raychaudhiiri points out, the Jaina writers represent him ‘as runling over Pataliputra as well as Ujjayini’. The tradition recorded by Jinaprabhasuri, however, describes Samprati as an emperor of India whose capital, like that of Asoka, was Patliputra. The hypothesis that Asoka was succeeded by his two grandsons, Dasaratha and Samprati, the first in respect of his eastern and by the second in that of his western dominions is ‘little more than a guess’ even on Vincent Smith’s frank admission.^[4]

Beni Madhab Barua (1946). Asoka And His Inscriptionns

• pg.512 : Samprati is mentioned in the Jain tradition as a convert of their patriaich Suhastin. Jaloka is celebrated in the history of Kashmir, as a great propagator of Shaivism and for a time a persecutor of the Buddhists.^[5]

The Cambridge History Of India Vol.I by E. J. Rapson.

• pg.115 : Samprati showed his zeal by causing Jaina temples to be erected over the whole of Jambudvipa. During Suhastin’s stay at Ujjaini, and under his guidance, splendid religious festivals and processions in honor of the arhat (worthy one) were celebrated, and great was the devotion manifested by the king and his subjects on this occasion. The example and advice of Samprati induced his vassals to embrace and patronize his creed, so that not only in his kingdom but also in adjacent countries the monks could practice their religion.^[6]

An archaeological history of religions of Indian Asia by Jack Finegan.

• pg.219 : Samprati had missionaries sent out, doubtless of the Svetambara persuasion, as far as to south India: “In order to extend the sphere of their activities to uncivilized countries, Samprati sent there messengers disguised as Jaina monks. They described to the people the kind of food and other requisites which monks may accept as alms, enjoining them to give such things instead of the usual tax to the revenue collector who would visit them from time to time. Of course these revenue collectors were to be Jaina monks. Having thus prepared the way for them, he induced the superior to send monks to those countries, for they would find it in no way impossible to live there. Accordingly missionaries were sent to the Andhras and Dramilas, who found everything as the king had told. Thus the uncivilized nations were brought under the influence of Jainism.^[7]

The Archeology of World Religions by Jack Finegan.

• pg.130 The new doctrine, however, gained royal support from Anoka's grandson Samprati, under whom, as we saw, the first Svetambara mission was sent to the South. Thus, from very early times, both these schools of Jaina thought found representation in the South; but by far the most overwhelming epigraphic and archaeological evidence in the South is of the Digambara sect .^[8]