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 KPIGRAPHS: PART 1
279 titles, Samastabhuvanāśraya (Asylum of the Entire Earth), etc., is having his victorious reign with ever increasing prosperity.
Verse 7. Renownd in the realm was the mighty-armed Kālidāsa, the crest-jewel among the commanders of the forces and the chastiser of the leaders of the hostile hordes.
Verse 8. His son-in-law is the illustrious general Bhima, the ocean of all virtues.
Verse 9. How can I adequately describe the gallantry of the Vipras of Sëờimba, formidable in war, who protect the uprooted souls coming from the four quarters by offering thein asylum, like the god Vishņu protecting the three worlds along with the god Sankara by accommodating them in his belly, when the surging ocean overflowing its bounds engulfs this earth at the time of the deluge ?
Lines 33-41. May they live for ever-the Three Hundred Mahājans of Sēdiunba, who possess the virtues of self-restraint, self-discipline, study of scriptures, meditation, concentration, silence, performance of religious exercises, chanting the holy syllables and tranquillity of mind; who never go back on their words uttered once; who perform the exorcising ritual by throwing oblations in the sacred fire for breaking open the doors of the city-gates of Kāñchipura; who are a conflagration to the forest of opposing clans; who entice the deity Jvālini of golden ear-rings; who excel in all the lores; who have crossed the ocean of four Vedas; who are the terrestrial gods skilled in the sixty-four arts; who are diligent in worshipping the ceremonial sacred fire, the Brāhmaṇas and the preceptors; whose reputation is brilliant like the autumnal moon; and who are incarnations of the god Vishņu as it were.
Lines 42-52. Hail ! In the 12th regnal year of the illustrious sovereign Bhūlākawalladēva of the Chālukya family and the cyclic year Pingala, on the full-moon day of Māgha, Thursday, the Great Minister and Senior Commander, Kālimayya's son-in-law, the Great and Formidable General Bhimarasa, in conjunction with all the Mahājanas, made a gift of 45 mattaras of cultivable land and a garden for performing the daily eight-fold worship, for conducting special rituals on such ceremonial occasions as Jivadayāshtamī, Nandiśvara-ashtamī, Samkramana and eclipses, etc. and for the preservation and maintenance of repairs in the temple of the god Adi-Bhattāraka in the southern quarter of the illustrious Sēdimba.
Lines 52-61. And again, under the leadership of the Mabājanas, the Nana Dēsis of the two-fold categories and the Association of Mummuridanda, functioning through their local representatives made a gift of certain shares in the incomes derived from the toll duties on various commodities such as