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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epigrapha 25 from this place, is dated in the Saka year 991, corresponding to 1069 A.D. It mentions the fact that during the reign of Vinayāditya, a new temple was built by triat king at Mattavūra and some gift was registered on that occasion. We are told that at first the Jain shrine was situated on a hill outside Mattavūra village ; afterwards at the request of a merchant called Mānikasetti, the king ordered the constructton of a new basadi in the village itself. This once more proves that this Hoysala king was a very sincere patron of the religion of the Jinas. The other epigraphs 26, from this place, dated 1116, 1120 and 143 A D., respectively are all inscribed on memorial tablets.
We have an important Jain ep graph?” from Hantûru in Mudigere taluk of Chikmagalur district, which is dated in the Śakı year 1052, corresponding to 1130 A.D. The reigning king was Vishnuvardhana (1106-56). The epigraph praises his daughter Hariyabbarasi, who was a converted Jain and wh se guru was Gandavimuka Siddhāntadeva, the disciple o Māghanandi Siddhāntadeva, belonging to Mūlasangha, Kundakundānvaya, Desigaṇa and Pustakagaccha. We are told that the princess Hariyabbarasi reconstructed the famous Jain temple at Hantiyūra (modern Hantūru) and also granted some gift for the temple, which was entrusted to Gandavimukta Siddhāntadeva, The epigraph further shows that the princess Hariyabbarasi had the gifted land freed from all kinds of taxes, from the Hoysala king. This also indirectly shows the soft attitude of the Hoysalas towards the Jain religion.
An epigraph 298 from Sindigere of this district, dated Śaka 1060, corresponding to 1133 A.D., of the time of Hoysala Vishnuvardhana (which mentions Tribhuvanamalla alias Someśvara III as his overlord) records some grant for Sindangere basadi by Vishpuvardhana. It also praises bis dandanāyaka Bharata, who was a great Jain. The epigraph (which is not complete) also mentions Kulacandra of Kundakunda anvaya, his disciple Māghanandi and the latter's