History of Rastrakutas of Malkhed and Jainism

SR No.: 006719
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 374
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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16/ The Rāstrakūtas and Jainism
benediction of the learned patriarchs and the benefaction of the monarch the huge task of drafting voluminous Dhavalā ('the luminary') commentary on the Satkhanda-āgama, Jaina canon in six parts, took off in the first decade of ninth century C. E. It was the first recension on the primordial text of Digambara philosophy.
1.8. Imperial preference boosted the steady overall growth of Jaina Institution. Govinda gave contribution to impeccable Arkakirti, Jaina pontiff of Yāpaniya sangha, for warding off the evil influence of Saturn from Vimalāditya of the Calukya dynasty and son of Yaśövarma. Cākirāja, adhirāja, chief-ruler of the entire Ganga-mandala was brother-in-law of Yasovarma, and thus, Vimalāditya was Cākiräja's sister's son, who was enjoying a fief of Kuningal principality. On the application of his vassal Cākirāja, the Vallabhēndra, Rāstrakūța monarch, residing in his victorious camp at Mayūrkhandi, gave the village named Jālamangalam situated within the Idagūr-visaya in C. E. 812-13. The allotment was for the Jinēndra shrine at Sāligrāma, the ornament on the western side of the Mānyapura [EC. XII (old) Gubbi. 61. C. E. 812. Kadaba plate. pp. 84 ff.).
1.8.1. Srivijaya sēnādhipati, commander-in-chief of the army of Lokatrinetra Mārasima-I (C.E. 796), a feudatory, had commissioned a lofty, grand, and imposing Jinabhavana at Manne (Sk. Mānyapura), and granted an endowment of the village Kiruvakkūr in C. E. 798, with boundaries marked [Nagarajaiah, Hampa: 1999-A:24-25]. This Jaina house of worship was also patronised by Govinda in C. E. 802. [EC. IX (old) NI. 61).
1.8.2. Manne was one of the metropolis of the Gangas and the Jaina temple had the name of Vijaya-Jinālaya. Prince Ranāvaloka Kambhadēva (Sk. Stambhadēva), governor of Gangavādi, donated the village Vadanaguppe in