Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

SR No.: 002003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 414
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, History, & Religion
File Size: 19 MB

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of Mallishena Bhaţtāraka, to look after its maintenance. Desai further informs us81 that this line of Jain teachers, viz, those belonging to Mālanūra (probably a place name) is otherwise unknown.
The next important Jain epigraph 52, from this district, comes from Hunasi-Hadagali, which is eight miles to the west of the town of Gulbarga. This epigraph also belongs. to the reign of Vikramaditya VI and is dated in 1097-98 A.D. (Cālukya Vikrama year 23). The inscription (altogether 67 lines), mentions among other things, two temples of Pārsvanātha and Santinātha, which were apparently situated in the above-mentioned place. One Rakkasayya, a petty chief and the disciple of Bālacandra, who is described as 19th in the spiritual descent from Kundakunda, the famous Digambara philosopher, has been represented as the donor in the epigraph. We are further told, that he was an official under Candaladevi, one of the senior queens of Vikramāditya VI. It appears that both these two, were devoted to the cause of the Jain religion. It further appears that the list of the Jain teachers, from Kondakunda to Bālacandra, given in this epigraph, is not fully correct. 58
Next, we have a Jain epigraph 54, from Seram, a subdivisional town of Gulbarga district. This inscription, like the two previous ones, is dated in the Cālukya Vikrama year 48, corresponding to 1124 A.D., and yields the name of Tribhuvanamalla or Vikramāditya VI. It is also a fairly long epigraph (58 lines) and opens with the praise of the words of Lord Jina. The epigraph records the construction of a temple of śāntinātha by some 300 merchants of the town of Sedimba. It also discloses the name of a distinguished Jain teacher, called Prabbācandra Traividya Bhasțāraka, who is described as a man of immense learning, a disciple of Rāmacandra Traividya. Prabbācandra was associated with a Jain centre of pilgrimage, called Virapura, which is not possible for us to identify, at the present state of our