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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28/The Raṣṭrakūṭas and Jainism
Aryanandi of Jambukhandi-gana, a cohort of the Jaina friars and nuns, was the donee of a grant of fifty nivartanas of land. This donation had the official consent of Gojja (Gojjiga/ Govinda), in the year C. E. 923. Evidently Govinda-IV, as prince, was placed in charge of the Gōkāk sub-division [Karnatak Historical Review, vol. I-ii. pp. 43 ff.].
2.4.1. Govindaraja, according to Dandapura charter had the epithet of Prabutavarṣa [IA. XII. P. 223], where as Kalasapura [Gadag Dt] epigraph refers to him with the title of Suvarnavarṣa [IA. vol. XII. p. 250. C. E. 933]. His daughter was married to Būtuga-II, scion of the Ganga dynasty, and a victor of many battles, who actively assisted his overlords for over a period of three decades.
2.4.2. Recently, in the period of 1998-99, I had the fortune of discovering Jaina mounuments of Govinda's period at Kalasapura, which flourished as a seat of Jaina faith. Either a trikūta-Jinālaya, triple shrine with a manastambha, characteristic Jaina pillar, mounted with a caturmukha votive, or three independent basadis existed at Kalasapura, built around C. E. 930.
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2.4.3. A Jaina shrine was commissioned during the reign of Baddega Amōghavarṣa and was named after him as Baddega Jinālaya, in the town of Ujjivolal, the modern Ujjili [AP.: Mahbubnagar Dt]. The mulanāyaka, presiding deity of the sanctuary was Cenna-Pārśvadēva and renewed grants were made to the temple in saka 888, corresponding to C. E. 966-67 [APGAS. No. 6.; I AP-Warangal No. 26. pp. 71 ff.]. The donee was Indrasena Panditācārya.
2.5. In the political feud, with the might and wisdom of the two faithful feudatories, Būtuga-II of Gangavāḍi and Arikēsari-II of Vēmulavāḍa, the aged Baddega Amoghavarṣa-III (934-36) was brought back from his fatherin law's court in Cedi country, and was formally throned. In a reciprocative move, Amoghavarṣa extended support to