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[[File:Qutb Complex Pillars.JPG|thumb|right|Jain Temple columns reused in the [[Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque]] at [[Qutb complex]]]]
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'''Nattal Sahu''' (नट्टल साहु) of Yoginipur (now [[Mehrauli]], [[Delhi]]) is the earliest known [[Agrawal Jain]] merchant-prince, who lived during the reign [[Tomara Dynasty|Tomara]] king, ''Anangapal''. His life's account is described in [[Apabhramsha]] text ''Pasanaha Cariu'' ([[Parshvanath]] Caritra) of poet '''[[Vibudh Shridhar]]''', written in Vikrama [[Samvat]] 1189 (1132 CE).<ref>Prominent Historical Jain men and Women, Dr. Jyotiprasad Jain, Bharatiya Jananapith, 1975</ref><ref name="Paramananda Jain Shastri 1966, p. 277-281">Paramananda Jain Shastri, Agrawalon ka Jain Samskrti mein Yogadan, Anekanta Oct. 1966, p. 277-281</ref><ref>An Early Attestation of the Toponym Ḍhillī, by Richard J. Cohen, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1989, p. 513-519</ref>

Nattal's father was Sahu Joja.<ref>Tirthankar Mahavir Aur Unki Acharya Parampara, Volume IV, Dr. Nemichandra Shastri, Acharya Shantisagara Chhani Granthmala, 1975</ref> He had two older brothers Raghav and Sodhal.

Nattal was the chief of the [[Jainism|Jains]] of [[Delhi]].<ref>Vaddhamana Cariu, Edited/translated by Prof. Dr. Rajaram Jain, Bharatiya Jnanapitha, New Delhi, 1975</ref> He controlled a commercial empire spread through Anga, Vanga (Bengal), Kalinga (Odisha), Karnataka, Nepal, Bhot (Tibet), Panchal, Chedi, Gauda, Thakka (Punjab), Kerala, Marahatta (Maharashtra), Bhadanaka (Bayana), Magadh, Gurjar, Sorath (Saurashtra) and [[Haryana]].<ref>Jain Dharma Ka Prachin Itihas, Vol II, Parmanand Shastri, Gajendra Publications, Delhi, 1980.</ref> He was also a minister in the court of Tomar Anangapala.

Poet [[Vibudh Shridhar]], who was also an [[Agrawal Jain]], had migrated from [[Haryana]] to Delhi. Nattala, as a patron, urged him to write the Pasanaha Cariu. Shridhara finished the composition in Vikrama Samvat 1189 (1132 CE), and thus became the first known Jain author. He describes his patron thus:<ref>The Pasnahacariu of Sridhar, An Introduction, Edition and Translation of the Forty Four Sandhis, Richard Cohen, PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsyslvania, 1979</ref>

सिरि अयरवाल कुल कमल मित्तु, <br />
सुधम्म कम्म पवियण्य-वित्तु

siri ayaravaala kula kamala mittu,

sudhamma kamma paviyaNya-vittu

Nattala Sahu had built a beautiful temple of Lord [[Rishabha (Jain tirthankar)|Adinath]]. He had the idol installed with an elaborate ceremony:

जैनं चैत्यमकारि सुन्दरतरं जैनीं प्रतिष्ठां तथा|<br />
स श्रीमान्विदितः सदैव जयतात्पृथ्वीतले नट्टलः||

jainaM chaityamakaari sundarataraM jainii.n pratishhThaa.n tathaa|<br />
sa shreemaanviditaH sadaiv jayataatpR^ithviitale naTTalaH||

It is believed that fragments of this temple were used for the Quwwat-al-Islam mosque near [[Qutab Minar]].<ref name="Paramananda Jain Shastri 1966, p. 277-281"/>

==See also==
* [[Agrawal Jain]]
* [[Apabhramsha]]
* [[Jainism]]
* [[Qutub complex]]

==References==
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{{Jainism Topics}}

[[Category:Indian merchants]]
[[Category:Hindi-language literature]]
[[Category:Businesspeople from Delhi]]
[[Category:Mehrauli]]
[[Category:Year of birth unknown]]
[[Category:Year of death unknown]]
[[Category:12th-century Indian Jains]]

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