Jain Journal 1999 01

SR No.: 520133
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 42
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXIII, No. 3 January 1999
and nuns were beheaded, the holy places of worship were spoiled. It was a struggle of ascetic unarmed, persona of ancient provenance, against the armed militants. Jakkalāmbā, a woman of the world conceived her vexation. Jakkalāmbā after introversion preferred an honourable death to unholy life. She approached her religious teacher in the Ratna-traya-basadi, who, upon her request, administered the vow of sallekhanā properly thinning out the passions and the body.
Jakkale had her life, character and 22 titles composed in poetry, such as to gain the approval of the learned; having it inscribed before hand so as to reach all points of the compass, saying-'I will now take it to the heaven and have it inscribed among the gods', the mahā-sati Jakkale ascended the suarga.
This excellent charter written in Kannada script contains in all 111 lines, composed both in Kannada and Sanskrit languages; lines from number 30 to 53 and 78 to 84 are in Sanskrit and the rest are in Kannada. This nisidhi, a post mortem memorial stone in honour of Jakkale, is a piece of good poem containing ten verses in Mattebhavikridita and campaka-māla metres, gives a graphic description of her devotion to god, dedication to her faith and the tranquility at the time of her death.
Jakkalāmbā had dispelled mithyatva, incorrect view of reality by consuming Jina-Väkyāmrta' the ambrosia of the teachings of the spiritual victor, her mind had the stamp of darśana-samsuddhata, the true spiritual insight; she knew that the profane does not belong to her, she made her heart a lotus seat to install the Jina - thus Jakkambikä discarded the transmigratic human body of karmic matter and her eternal soul smoothly reached the samavasarana, the holy assembly of the Arhat, to worship the victorious.
Jakkave, through imbibing the nector of Jina's teaching, the divine voice (divya-dhvani), having given up the false impressions of the mind, and being filled with desire to attain to the purity set forth in the doctrine. Having given up all, saying-'not so much as a grain is mine', and thinking on her god, came to a decision. Thus placing herself at the lotus feet of Jina, fixing her eyes on the tip of her nose, and listening to the words of the agama, scripture, the canonical literature with ears and eyes having completed sanyāsana, by the rite of samādhi, ritual death by fasting, Jakkale attained to the company of heaven.
Repeating the same description as above, recorded in the Sanskrit verse, the epigraphist puts it more graphically in the Kannada verse: while deeply immersed in meditation, Jakkāmbikā fixed her vision on