Jain Siddhant Bhaskar

SR No.: 529551
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Siddhant Bhavan
Publisher: Jain Siddhant Bhavan
Total Pages: 417
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Siddhant Bhaskar, & India
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JAINA ANTIQUARY.
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"Rāma, Rāma, Brêmêtti" exclaimed Kalkuda, Many have seen and examined my work; many have been satisfied with it. You were born but yesterday, and are only just grown up, still you have found out a mistake in my work: If the king heard of this. he would tie me to an elephent's leg and beat me with horse-whips. He would dishonour me, and then what would be the use of my life? So saying Kalkuda put down his tools and took out a knife from his girdle and cut his own throat. Thus did he kill himself.
"Father, although you are dead....I will not leave your tools," said the son.... And he worked at Belgola better than his father had done. He built the seven temples; he established a Brahma (?) etc.
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Bairana-suda (Bairāsu Wodeya ?) King of Karkal, heard the news, sent for him, and told him to work in his kingdom..... He made a basti with a thousand pillars, 120 images, a dancing room, a lodging for dancing-girls, etc.
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"Go to a rock on dry land and make a Gummatasāmi there," said the king. He made the Gummatasami. He made a pillar called Banta Kamba, a pillar of Maharnavami. He made a garden inside the temple.
"You people, bring fifty cocoanuts in a basket, and betel-nut on a fan; call together the 5,000 people of Karkal, and raise the Gummatasami," he said. But they could not do it.
"Very well," sail Kalkuda (the younger), and he put the left hand under the Gummata and raised it, and placed it on a base, and then he set the Gummata upright.'
This interesting legend makes it clear that the Jainas employed Brahmanical architects and sculptors as well. In the sequel we are told that the King of Karkal said, "I will not let Kalkuda, who has worked in my kingdom, work in another country;" and he cut off his left arm and right leg. In spite of this, however, Kalkuda
2. This is evidently a reference to the Brahma-deva Pillar, or Manastambha on the Chandragiri Hill, which is a beautiful work of art. Cf. Ep Car. II Introd., p. 24.