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Jai Jinendra! (Sanskrit:जय जिनेन्द्रJaya Jinēndra) (started in 7th CE) is a common greeting used by theJains. The phrase means "Honor to the SupremeJinas (Tirthankaras)"[1]
The reverential greeting is a combination of twoSanskrit words:Jai andJinendra
A slab on the outer east side wall of theJain Meguti temple is inscribed in Sanskrit language and Old Kannada script. It is dated to 634 CE, and is a poem by Jain poetRavikirti. He was in the court of kingPulakeshin II. This inscription opens with the words "Jai Jina" the equivalent of "Jai Jinendra" salutation in Sanskrit. The inscription is a panegyric by the Jain poet wildly praising his patron Pulakesin II.[4]
The first verse reads:-
"Victorious is the holy Jina ─ he who is exempt from old age, death and birth ─ in the sea of whose knowledge the whole world is comprised like an island. And next, long victorious is the immeasurable, wide ocean of the Chalukya family, which is the birth-place of jewels of men that are ornaments of the diadem of the earth."
This 7th-century greeting remains a tradition among contemporary era Jains as "Jai Jinendra".[5]
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