Jain Siddhant Bhaskar

SR No.: 010062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Jain, Others
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 143
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 7 MB

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gives instances of two inscriptions, from serangapatam, of 9th century, in which, the form 'Kalbappu' occurs. However, from the fact that forms the word 'belugola' occur more frequently in inscriptions up to 1196 A. D., in reference to this place, as alternatives to those of Katavapra,' it seems to me nothing improper to hold that for at least ten centuries this place has been famous in South Indian history as "Belugola thirtha." Why and when exactly it came to be further specified as Sravana" Sramana, it is not possible to determine from local antiquities. It is noted that as a Sanskrit word, 'Katavapra' means "having matted sides" The Bhadrabahu inscription shows that it was so known at the time when the Sritakavalı stopped over it. Who could have given it a Sanskrit name? There was nothing in the place at that time for any body to visit or notice it. It was only by an accident that that great sage Bhadrabāhu happened to stay away there with his single desciple Prabhachandra (Chandragupta Maurya) The inscription no doubt makes it clear that the country was abounding in Jaina centres of populous and prosperous Sravakas or Jaina laity, and they may have given it this name, but only if they had something on or about it to attract them. What 1, therefore, feel is that the Hill so came to be known only after Bhadrabahu began to settle there on the eve of his Sallēkhana (AMA) (fasting unto death) and also possibly from the residence of Prabha Chandra further on, worshipping the 'footprints' of his great guru and served by the forest deities. If the word is regarded as dest and as 'Kalbappu' or 'Kalbappar' (the form 'Kalbappira' occurs in No. 35) it may be interpreted as 'Hill Father' or 'Hill-Brahmin' Kall-Hill, +bappu< papan=Brahmin or father (+Telugu "bâbu "). The hill on which the sepulcheres of Bhadrabahu and Prabhachandra are enshrined is known as Chikka Betta=Small hill. Kal' in Canarese occures in place names in the sense of hill' or 'Betta' + Mitta or Métta (Tel.). The famous example is Orumgallu or Warrangal, the seat of a medieval andhra-karnata imperium. It must have come to be so known from the residence of these two great sages, of whom possibly Chandra Gupta or Prabhachandra, living longer than Bhadra-Bahu became more famous as "the Father on the Hill" or
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