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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The Raṣṭrakūtas Monarchs - B/23
mixed fortunes, with serious troubles erupting from all sides. He lost Acalapura, Kiraṇapura and Malava. Adding insult to the injury, Bhojaraja of Kanauj and Gunaga Vinayaditya of the Eastern Cālukyas had disturbed the empire. Luckily for Kṛṣṇa, he could muster timely support from the chiefs of Lāṭa, Cēdi and Vēmulavāḍa.
2.2.2. Kṛṣṇa-II exhibited a difinite leaning towards the creed of Arhats. He was a disciple of his preceptor Gunabhadradeva. Jinasēna-II, mentor of Amōghavarṣa had composed Adipuräna, first part of Mahāpurāṇa, a Jaina epic, of 20,000 stanzas, during the age of his pupil on the throne. Gunabhadra composed the last five cantos of Adipurāṇa and the entire Uttarapurāṇa, second part of Mahāpurāṇa, in the reign of his pupil. It was completed at Bankapura when Lokasēna, who had the aliases of Lōkāditya and Lōkate (Lōkaṭeyarasa), son of Bankēśa (Bankarāja/Bankarasa/ Bankeya) was governor of Bankapura. Uttarapurāṇa was consecrated on June 23 of C. E. 897, as recorded in the prasasti, colophon. It contains hundreds of stories, big and small, rotating round the pivot of 23 Tirthankaras, 11 Cakravartins, 9 Baladevas, 9 Vāsudēvas (Nārāyaṇas) and 9 prati-Vāsudēvas (Prati-Nārāyaṇas). Abridged versions of the two immortal epics of Rāmāyaṇa and Mahā-Bhārata, long narrative sotries of Jivandhara, Vāsudēva and Candanabālā, find a prominent place in Uttarapurāṇa. Lōkāditya was also incharge of Bandalike (Sk. Bāndhavanagara) which boomed into a Jaina tirtha, sacred seat, during this time.
2.2.2.1. Lokaditya, Kṛṣṇa's feudatory and son of Bankesa, founded shrines to Jina, Hari, Hara and Buddha, and a reservoir after his name, Lōkasamudra, at Lōkāpura, a town bearing his name (Bijapur Dt, Mudhō! Tk) in C. E. 890.
2.2.3. During the time of Krsna-II, Jainism flickered into greater brilliance. Mulgunda, with sanctuaries and