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177 the king, and a traitor to the creed." The deed was signed by all merchants, and it included their sign-manual-Śri Gommaţa.1
Piety sometimes was combined with learning. There were two brothers named Māci Sețți and Kāli Sețţi in the reign of king Ballâļa I. The elder Māci seçți was learned in logic and grammar, able in commentating, supremely wise in all the sayings of the scriptures, and celebrated for devoting his wealth to works of piety. His equal in liberality was his younger brother Kāli šețţi. For the Nakhara Jinalaya of Belgoļa they granted lands (specified) together with customs dues in A.D. 1078, and to these the settis of the locality added further grants of land. 2
The good feeling that existed between the followers of the Jina dharma and those who belonged to the other religions which must have been apparent to the reader from the preceding pages, is further borne out by the following instances of devout Jainas helping the benevolent work of Brahmans. Padmoja, who is described as "the frontal ornament of sculptors, a bee at the lotus feet of the Sarasvati gana, and a worshipper of the feet of Jina", was the official who advertised the grant of land for a satra (alms house) made by Divākara Sarvātithya, the chief of the Brahmans of the agrahāra of Isavura in Hosavūr in A.D. 1080.3 About the same year Biņeya Bammu Seçți built and endowed a Jinālaya in Sikārpura, and erected a satta for the thousand Brahmans of an agrahāra the name of which is effaced in the record.4
1. E. C. II, 336, p. 144. 2. Ibid., XII, Tp. 101, pp. 61-62. 3. Ibid, VII. Sk. 293, p. 149. 4. Ibid, Sk. 8, p. 39.
| SR No. | 011082 |
| Book Title | Medieval Jainism |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Bhasker Anand Saletore |
| Publisher | Karnataka Publishing House |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 448 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 27 MB |