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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disciples of the monk Gandavimukta, wbo has already been mentioned in connexion with the religious activities of other persons in the Hoysala kingdom. Another epigraph 810, from this place, dated Śaka 1089, corresponding to 1167 A,D, indirectly proves that this place was not only a Jain tīrtha, bu it had educational institutes, where the students, interested in Jainism, were given lessons. It further shows that the temples of this place, remained under the control of the monks of Mülasangha, Desiya gana, Pustaka gaccha and Kondakunda anvaya. There is also a reference to Hanasoge, which was a great Jain centre, as we will see afterwards, in this chapter.
From Sukadare in Nagamangala taluk, we bave a Jain epigraph 811, which is assigned to 11 OAD, of the tim of Visbņuvardhana and which mentions Jakkisetti, a great Jain merchant. According to this epigraph, Jakkisețți constructed a Jina temple, at his village Sukadare and also a tank. His guru was Ajitasena of Drāvida Sangha. The gift was entrusted to the monk Da äpäladeya. Another updated epigraph 813, but assigned to 125 A.D., was discovered from Hosahollu in Krishnaraja pet i aluk, of this district. It records that during the rule of Vishnuvardhana, Nolabi Sejți, donated a village, a tank, a dānaśālā and various other things for the Trikuța-Jinālaya, constructed by Dembikabbe to his guru, the well-known Subhacandradeva, the guru of so many illustrious personalities of the 12th-century Karnatak. We have already seen that this Subbacandra was the disciple of Kukkuţāsana Maladbārideva,
Another epigraph 818, of the reign of Vishnuvardhana, dated 1131 A.D., discovered tro Abalwādi in Mandya taluk, records the construction of a Jina temple, by a Jain layman, called Mallinātha, who was a lay disciple of the monks of the Mūlasargha, Desiya gana and Pustaka gaccha. From Kasalageri in Nagamangala taluk, we have an interesting epigraph 314, dated Saka 1064, corresponding to 142 A.D., of the reign of Vishnuvardhana. It records the construction