Jain Dharma ka Maulik Itihas Part 4

SR No.: 002074
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hastimal Maharaj
Publisher: Jain Itihas Samiti Jaipur
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 880
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & History
File Size: 16 MB

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सामान्य श्रुतधर काल खण्ड २ ] दक्षिण में जैन संघ पर ....." [ PRO Kotipi in the Anantapur District; at Nandaperur, Chippigiri, Kogali, Sogi, Bagali, Vijayanagar, Rayadurg, in the Bellary District; at Danavulapadu in Cuddappa District; at Amaravati in the Guntur District; at Masulipattam and Kalachumbarru in the Krishna District; at Srisailam in Kurnool District; in the Madras Central Museum; at Kanupartipadu, in the Nellore District; at Vallimalai in the North Arcot District; at Basrur, Koteswara; Mulki, Mudabidri, Venur, Karkala, Kadaba, in the South Kanara District; at Bhoja-puram, Lakkumavarapukota and Ramatirtham in the Vizaga pattanam District, have been discovered Jaina epigraphs.
These, for one thing, indicate the large vogue that Jainism once had in the Andhra and Karnata mandalas. The epigraph from Srisailam is interesting in that it shows the kind of persecution to which Jainism in these lands had finally to succumb, (Extermination or toleration). The epigraph in question is indeed a Shaiva one. It records in Sanskrit, "On the right and left pillars of the eastern porch of the Mukhamanda pa of the Mallikarjuna Temple, in S. 1433, Prajotpatti, Magha, badi 14, Monday, a lengthy account of the gifts made to the temple of Shreesailam by a certain Chief Linga, the son of Santa, who was evidently a Tirasaiva, one of his pious acts being the beheading of the Svetambara Jainas.” This record is important in two ways. It shows how the Shaivite opposition gathering force in the Andhra Desa against Jainism about the first quarter of the eleventh century A. D. developed into an exterminating persecution “by the first quarter of the sixteenth century A. D. and how the Svetambaras" also are represented in South Indian Jainism as a class deserving the expurgatory attention of the Shaiva fanatics.”.
सारांश यह है कि आन्ध्र-कर्णाटक में जो पुरातात्विक खोज की गई उसमें जैनों के वर्चस्व के सूचक अनेक पुरातात्विक प्रमाण उपलब्ध हुए हैं। आन्ध्र कर्णाटक में पुरातात्विक खोज का कार्य अभी चल रहा है । इस अभियान में ग्रान्ध्र कर्णाटक संभाग में आन्ध्र की अपेक्षा बहुत बड़ी संख्या में जैनों के पुरातात्विक महत्त्वपूर्ण अवशेष मिले हैं; जब कि आन्ध्र प्रदेश का पुरातात्विक खोज कार्य अभी