Jaina Bibliography Part 1

SR No.: 016035
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 1070
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. 780.
On the accession of Someśvara I, about 1042 A. D. the Cholas burnt Pulikesa Nagar (Lakshmeśvar in Dharwar District) and destroyed its ancient Jain temples.
P. 783.
An inscription at Annigere in Dharwar states that the wicked Chola (Räjādhiräja), penetrated the Belgoļa country and burnt the Jain temples erected there by the Ganga king Ganga-Permadi, but yielded his head to the Chālukya king Someśvara in battle, (FLEET. Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, 441).
P. 784.
The Santara kings acknowledged Someśvara's suzerainty; Vira Santara built many Jain temples. His wife Chagala Devi also dedicated a Basadi in her own name.
P. 785.
In a record dated in 1055 A. D. is mentioned a fifth by a Jain teacher to a basti built by Durvinita at Kogali. Durvinita possibly a Ganga king. Someśvara at first a Jain by religion, later a Saivite. He honoured Swami, a Jain teacher, with the title of Sabda Chaturmukha (Sra. Bel. 67 dated in 1129 A. D.).
E. P. 789.
P. 794.
Someśvara's viceroy Mahāsāmanta-Udayādity was tolerate to the Jain faith (Shikarpur, 221).
P. 795.
He obtained a grant for a Jain basadi at Baligami (in 1075).
P. 796.
Lakshmana an important functionary at the court of Someśvara II; His minister and chief treasurer was śāntinätha, who was a Jain and a most distinguished poet, author of Sukumāra-charite; his title Sarasvatimukha-mukura; he pursuaded Lakhmana to build Sāntinātha basadi at Baligrama. Someśvara II was a Saiva; during his period, the Kālamukha ascetics eclipsed to some extent the Jains.
P. 818.
Mahāmandalesvara Joyimmarasa, a feudatory of Vikramāditya was a Jain by faith and was entitled Pesāngagaruda (inscription found at Konakondla, Gooty Taluk, Anantapur); his wife Navikabbe, built a Jain temple called Chatta-Jinālaya, at Kondakundaya-tīrtha (modern Konakondla) in the 6th year of Vikramāditya's reign (about 1081 A, D.). He had charge of the whole of