Temples of Kumbhariya

SR No.: 001571
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky, U S Moorty
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 394
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Art
File Size: 34 MB

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Jainism in Gujarat
of high calibre, composed a dvisandhāna-mahākāvya, the Nemicaritra (A.D. 1034), which also skillfully interwove the Rşabhacaritra within its fabric. He, moreover, composed the Dānādi-prakaraña. At the invitation of Dhanapāla, he visited Dhārā and defeated the panditas of Bhoja's learned assembly in disputation. In A.D. 1062, Abhayadeva sūri, disciple of the earlier mentioned Jineśvara sūri of Candra kula, completed his famous commentaries on the three āgamas of the anga category, the Sthānānga, the Samavāyānga, and the Jñātādharmakathā in A.D. 1064 and thus he began writing his well-known nine āgamic commentaries for which he later earned the title 'Navāngavrttikāra'. He consecrated the exhumed ancient image of Pārsvanātha in Stambhanapura (Thămbhanā) in a new temple in c. A.D. 1054 or 1075 and of another Jina in the Jiņāha-vasati at Dhavalakakka (Dhoļakā), a temple built by the earlier noted dandanāyaka Jiņaha.
In Bhimadeva's successor Karnadeva's time (A.D. 1066-1095), Jainism continued its forward march on all fronts. Karnadeva had several Jaina ministers like Šāntu who built the Sāntu-vasahikā in Anahillapātaka, next Muñjāla, who built Muñjāla-vasatikā in the same city, then minister Pradyumna who embraced the order of the mendicant friars in the Harsapurīya-gaccha, who next was to be known as Hemacandrācārya. Karnadeva gave a grant to the Jaina temple at Tākovāvī (sākodi) in A.D. 1084. Cāhilla, earlier mentioned, was king's mahāsandhivigrahaka.
Abhayadeva sūri continued his work on writing the āgamic commentaries in Karnadeva's time; these were on the Vyākhyāprajñapti (A.D. 1172), the Upāsakadaśā, the Antakrddaśā, the Anuttaropapātika, the Praśnavyākarana, the Vipāka, the Aupapātika, and on the third 'pāda' of the Prajñāpanāsūtra of Arya Śyāma II (c. 3rd cent. A.D.). He also wrote a commentary on the Pañcāśaka of Haribhadra, the Şațsthānaka of his guru Jineśvara sūri, and also authored a work called the Arādhanā-kulaka. He, moreover, composed a few hymns in Prakrit and one of the most famous of all hymns, the Jayatihuana-stotra in praise of the stambhana-Pārsvanātha, in Apabhramśa. There were, in those decades, some other famous figures engaged in the creation of religious literature. For instance, Abhayadeva sūri's senior confrère Jinacandra sūri I composed the Samvegarangaśālā. And Siddhasena sūri, who had assumed a sobriquet 'Sadhārana', composed the Vilāsavatī-kathā in Apabhraíśa in A.D. 1067, besides composing several hymns including the one called the Tirthavandanā-stotra, which is perhaps the first among the extant compositions of that category. In A.D. 1069, Nami sādha of Thārāpadra-gaccha composed the Caityavandana-vrtti as also a tippana'