Medieval Jainism

SR No.: 011082
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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POPULAR SUPPORT
197 among the millions of Jaina sacred places."1 We have seen in connection with the great Jaina general Ganga Rāja that, as is related in an epigraph dated A.D. 1115, his liberality converted Gangavādi 96,000 into Kopana.The same is repeated in another stone inscription dated A.D. 1133.3 Of his grandson Eca Daņdādhipa it is also said in A.D. 1134 that he made Jaina temples in Belgoļa like those in the tirthas of Kopaņa and other places. Another record dated A.D. 1135 of the same general, while repeating the above fact, calls Kopaña an original tirtha (Kopana-ādi-tirthadalu). As is related in a record dated A.D. 1159 it was General Hulļa that, as we noted in an earlier context, granted gifts to the assembly of twenty-four Jaina sages in the great holy place of Kopana (Kopaņa mahā-tirtha).6 Gangavādi 96,000 shining like Kopana through the liberality of Ganga Rāja is again mentioned in A.D. 1184.? The wealth and sanctity of the place is further attested by a stone inscription found on the pedestal of a Jaina image in the Candranātha basti at Kopbal itself which calls it Śri-Kopaņa tirtha.S
Beļagavattinād is compared to Kopana in about A.D. 1205 because of the charitable work done by Ecaņa. The wealthy Kopana had in about A.D. 1206 a Senabova named
1. E. C. VII. Sh. 64, p. 25. 2. Ibid, II, 127, op. cit. 3. Ibid, V. Bl. 124, p. 82. 4. Ibid, V. Ch. 248, p. 229. 5. Ibid, II. 284, p. 166, text p. 172. Cf. Charlu, op. cit., p. 2. 6. E. C. II. 345, p. 148. 7. Ibid, IV. Ng. 32, p. 120. 8. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 83. See also Charlu, ibid, pp. 11-12. 9. E. C. VII. Sk, 317, p. 154.