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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JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA
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Jina temple, named after the Hoysala king called Vishnuvardhana Jinālaya in the capital Dorasamudra. His guru Sripāla Traividyadeva was a great logician of those days. and the gifts, recorded in this epigraph, were given to him. The epigraph proves that the king Vishduvardhana himself, was also associated with this gift.
Mugulār in Hassan taluk was a great seat of Jainism in the 12th century. The earliest epigraph*40, from this place, records the death of Väsupūjya, who as we learn from another epigraph 247, fron this place, belonged to the spiritual lineage of Śrīpāla Traiydy adeva, who has been mentioned in the Belur epigraph, referred to above. The Mugulura epigraph$48 of 1147 A D., of the reign of Vishņuvardhana, records the fact that at Muguļi (the old name of this place), a mercbant, called Govinda, built a Jina temple. His guru was Vāsupūjya II of the same spiritual line. We are further told that the father of this Govinda had built another Jina temple at Dorosamudra. The gift for th temple built by Govinda, was given to Vasupujya II.
An epigraph**from Muttatti, in the same Hassan taluk, assigned to 1120 A.D., informs us that Vinayāditya, a general of Vishnuvardhana, built a Jina temple at this place, and gave it the name of Hoysala Jinālaya. The gift for the temple was given to Prabbácandra Siddhāntadeva, ho was the disciple of Meghacandra, belonging to Pustaka gaccha and Kundakunda anraya af Desi gani and Mulasaigha.
Let us now turn our attention to the epigraphs, of the capital Dorasamudra, now known as Halebid. The earliest epigraph from this place, are two small, mutilated inscriptions 250, which have been assigned to the 11th century. One of them yields the name 'Puņisa Jinalaya' and another refers to a Päráva icon. However, the most important epigraph"51, of this place, is that dated in 1133 A.D., of the time of the famous Hoysala king Vishņuvardhana. The epigraph mentions both Gangarāja, the famius Jain general (dandanāyaka) and his equally illustrious son, the general