Indian Antiquary Vol 23

SR No.: 032515
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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JULY, 1894.]
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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9. Note on an inscribed Statue of Parsvanatha. There is a statue of Parsvanatha, which came to my knowledge through Dr. M. Buchner, in the Ethnographical Museum in Munich. It is of bronze and is 189 millimeters in height. It belongs to a large collection brought from India by the French traveller N. LamarePicquot (born about 1785, see Nowo. Biographie Générale, t. 29, 1859, col. 65-7). The statue is, on the back, inscribed as follows:
Text. Sao 1503 varshe migha vadi 4 śukre no goshtika Ahlâ bhio (bharya) Simgârade suta Súd(Pakena bhio (bhâryâ) Sûh(Pavade sa°(sahitena) atma-śreyase sri-Parávanitha-bimbam kirioprao (karitam pratishthapitan) JA(I)rûpalliya-sri-Salibhadra-sûri-patte sri-Udayachandra-sûribhi(b) 11 śubham bhavata 11
Translation, In Samvat 1503 mâgha vadi 4 sukre (= A. D. 1447, 6th January, Friday, as Jacobi and Kielhorn have calculated) Süd (?)Aka, son of no gosht(h)ika Ahlâ and his wife Singarade, together with his (Südakn's) wife Sub(?)avade, has erected to their salvation the statue of Parávanitha. Consecrated by brf-Udayachandra-stri, successor of bri-Salibhadra-sari, of the Jirapalli(-gachchha). May there be prosperity ! . Similar Jaina inscriptions are pablished in Arch. Survey of West. India, No. XI.; J. Burgess, Lists of the Antiquarian Remains in the Bombay Pres. Bombay, 1885, p. 186. The names of the two sûris mentioned in this inscription are not known from any other sources.
The Jiraula (= Jirapalli) is called the 12th of the 84 sikhs of the Brihad-gachchha, founded by Sarvadêva-sûri (8.994), see Poona MS. of Brihad-gachchha-gurvavali, Coll, of 1873-4. No. 245, f. 15 = Decc. C. p. 66. In the MS. Gachchha-nâminukramani, Poona Coll. of 1873-4, No. 145 = Decc. C. p. 61, the Jirá ula-gachchha is the 3rd among the 84 gachchhas. Tod, Ann. of Raj. I. p. 121 has Jeeranwal. Miles, Trans. R. As. Soc. III. p. 370, has Jerawali (No. 2). Wilson, Works, I. p. 345, has Jolara. J. B. B. R. A. S. X. p. 114, has Jiranwal, No. 32.
Jirapalli-tirtha (Jára) founded Samvat 1109, see Bhandarkar, Rep. 1883-4, p. 322, 1.3 fr. b. Jirikåpalli-Pârsvanathastotra, 14 v. sansk., by Meratunga-sûri (S. 1446-71), printed in Vidhipaksha-Pratikr., Bombay, 1889, pp. 348-53. Jîrâpalli-Paráva-stavans, 15 v. sansk., by Jinaprabha-sûri (Saṁvat 1363), printed in Prakaraña-ratnakara, II. p. 268-9, beg. Jîrika-purapatim. Jirá palli-maņdana-Pärsvanathastava, Peterson, I. Rep. p. 128, n. 316. Jirapalli-sthiParsva-stuti by sri-Karpa, Peterson, III. Rep. App. p. 213, n. 34. Other stavanas Bhandarkar, Rep. 1883-4, p. 1806, n. 136, p. 187a, n. 94, p. 2436, n. 5.
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS. FROM THE PAPERS OF THE LATE A. C. BURNELL
(Continued from page 99.) BURNELL MSS. - NO. 12.
SABALA JUMADI. Original, in the Kanarese character, occupies, text and translation, leaves 143 to 148 inclusive of the Burnell MSS. Translation according to the Barnell MSS.
Translation. There is a village called Sara-Boliyar, in which there was a shed. In this shed Sarala Jumadi washed his feet in water from a pot made of bell-metal; he washed his face in water
1 A village of a thousand people, i, e., houses.