Comprehensive History Of Jainism

SR No.: 022803
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Aseem Kumar Chatterjee
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 28 MB

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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF JAINISM
Dāmakirti, and the object was to enhance their mother's merit. A copperplate inscription, dated in the thirty-fourth year of this king, found from Chitradurga district (Karnataka), records a grant of land to a Jaina temple.
It should here be remembered that Ravivarman did not favour the Jainas alone; other religious sects were also well-treated by him. This is testified to by his inscriptions found in various different places. 137 Ravivarman ruled in the closing years of the fifth and the first quarter of the sixth century AD. 138
The Jainas also enjoyed patronage during the rule of Harivarman who, unlike his father Ravivarman, was not a very strong king. We have two dated Halsi grants of his reign. The first is dated in the fourth year of his reign.139 It records that at Uccaśộngi, the king on the advice of his uncle (pitvya) Sivaratha, gave the grant of a village to an arhat temple of Palāśikā, which was built by one Mrgesa, the son of senāpati Simha. On behalf of the temple, the grant was received by Candrakṣānta, who is described as the head of a Kūrcaka Samgha named after Vārișeņācārya. It thus appears that a particular member of Kūrcaka sect called Vārişeņācārya established, before this date, a particular samgha, which was named after him. We have already taken note of these Kūrcakas, who are mentioned in an inscription of the time of Mrgesavarman. The village Vasuntavātaka, which was given as grant, was situated at Kanduravisaya. The inscription ends with a verse addressed to Vardhamāna.
The second Halsi grant 10 of Harivarman's reign is dated in his fifth regnal year. It is interesting that Palāśikā is described here as the capital (adhisthāna) of this king. We are told that the king, being requested by Sendraka chief Bhānusakti, gave the grant of a village called Marade for a Jaina caityālaya of Palāśikā which was the property of Šramana Samgha called Aharisţi under Acārya Dharmanandin. The Sendrakas were obviously the feudatories of the Kadambas. Harivarman however, before the end of his reign, became a Saiva. 141
Another branch of the Kadamba dynasty, who ruled in the southern part of the original Kadamba dominion, also patronized the Jainas. We have a grant, 112 of the time of Krsnavarman I (475–85), the brother of śāntivarman, issued from Triparvata (probably Halebid). By this grant a piece of land at a place called Siddhakedāra, which was in Triparvata division, was granted to Yāpaniya Samgha by Yuvarāja Devavarman for the maintenance, worship, and repair