Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs

SR No.: 011025
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P B Desai
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 495
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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JAINA EPIGRAPHS: PART II
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65 'harti devasvam putra-pantrakaṁ [27] Śasanam - idāvud = elliya sasanamar-ittar-eke salisuven-an-i-sasanaman emba pātakan - āsakalam Rauravakke
66 galagalan iligum [28] Priyadimd = int = idan eyde kava pur(ru)shamgayum mahā-śrīyum akkum idam kayada patakaṁge palavum tirtthamgalo!
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67 Varanasiyoluya(!=ē)ļ-kōji(ți) munimdraram pasugalaṁ Vēdadhyaram komda mikkayasam pordugum=emdu sär(r)idapud – i-saiļ-āksharam brāji(dhatri )yol @ [ 29 *]
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ABSTRAKT OF CONTENTS
Verse 1, Invocation to the commandment of Lord Jina.
Verse 2. In the midst of the lake which are the oceans, rests the earth like a lotus. The mountain Mandara resembles its pericarp. To the south of the Mandara lies the illustrious Bharatakshētra.
Lines 3-6. Genealogical account of the Chalukya sovereigns, who ruled successively in the Bharatakshetra, from Tailapa (II) to Tribhuvanamalla (Vikramaditya VI)."
Lines 6-10. May the Chalukya Rama (i. e., Vikramaditya VI) protect the earth in peace and prosperity for a long time.
Hail! The illustrious monarch, Tribhuvanamalla, who is an ornament of the Chalukya race, bears the titles, Samastabhuvanãśraya ( Asylum of the Entire Earth), etc., and equals Nahusha, Prithu and Bhagiratha in his career, has brought the expansive earth under his sway.
Lines 10-15. Hail! His senior queen Chandaladevi, who is a personification as it were of the Goddess of Fortune (Lakshmi), the very Goddess of Learning (Sarasvati) in human form, the veritable Queen of Fairies (Vidyadhari) in the art of dancing, skilled in all lores, a liberal donor to the needy and the helpless as well as to the bards and the entertainers, is administering several important villages in the province of Alande Thousand, which were alienated for her own use.
Lines 16-19. Their subordinate Mahamandalēśvara Bibbarasa who bears the epithets, Kopaṇapuravaradhiśvara (Supreme lord of the eminent town of Kopana), Alandeveḍanga (Ornament of Alande), Padmavati-devilabdhavaraprasada (who had won the favour of a boon from the goddess Padmavati), etc., is exercising unrivalled authority over his tract of Sixty (Villages) amongst the One Hundred and Twenty of Gonka in the Alande province.
1 This and the following two lines were not quite legible on the stone; but I have ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- reconstructed them here fully as they are familiar and of common occurrence.
2 For the genealogical account see p. 211 above. 33