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

Page 127

JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA
117
and Pogale gaccha. His guru Padmascna became the chief priest of this newly-constructed temple.
Jain Epigraphs from Chikmagalur district :- The district of Chikmagalur has yielded a good number of Jain epigraphs of different periods, The earliest inscription, of our period, comes from Angadi in Mudigere taluk. A number of memorial epigraphs of the 10th and the 11th century have been noticed in this place. The earliest one207 is assigned to circa 990 A.D. This records the death of one Vimalacandra Pandita, belonging to Dravida Sangha, Kondakunda anvaya and Pustaka gaccha. The next one is also a memorial tablet 208, which records the death of one Vajrapāni, belonging to the same Sangha and gana. This monk has been described here as the guru of the king Rājamalla of Gangavādi, who is generally identified with the first Hoysala king Sāla. According to yet another memorial tablet from Angadiace, this Vajrapāni belonged to Sūrastha gana. This particular epigraph is dated in 1054 A.D., and refers to the reign of Hoysala (Poysala) Vinayāditya, one of the earliest kings of that illustrious dynasty. The epigraph also refers to a Jain temple of the place called Sosavura basadi and the gift, given to that temple by Jākiyabbe, the lady disciple of Vajra pāņi. Sosavüra is probably a corruption of Sasakapura210, the oldest name of Angadi, Another memorial tablet 211, from the same place, dated Śaka 984, corresponding to 1062 A.D., mentions śāntideva, who has been described there as the guru of Hoysala Vinayāditya. Another epigraph*19 mentions the erection of a new Jain temple at the same place, in the later part of Saka 984, corresponding to 1063 A.D., by the son of a master-architect called Mānika Poysalacāri. Guñasena Pandita of Mullura was made the new superintendent of this temple. The epigraph 218, dated 1164 A.D., from Angadi mentions a gift by Vijaya Narasimba, the Hoysala king (1152-1173) for the basadi, built by a merchant at Sosavūra (also spelt soseyūra). Another Jain epigraph 21%, from this place, dated 1172 A.D., yields the