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Jina Pārsva and his Temples in Inscriptions
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recording the gift of a tank to Pārsvanātha of the same temple, Baddi-Jinālaya, by dandanāyaka Bhānudevarasa, an officer of the then reigning Kalyāņa-Cāļukya king Vikramaditya VI. This gift was also received by Indrasena-pandita, the ācārya of the temple.
The fact that the name of the ācārya of the Pārsvanātha temple was the same in A.D. 966-67 and in a.d. 1097 can be explained away in two ways; either that the abbatial ācāryas of that temple were hereditarily called Indrasēna-panditas or that the earlier grant of A.D. 966-67 had to be renewed in A.D. 1097 and was received on behalf of the deity by the then ācārya. In any case, it is clear that Baddi-Jinālaya enjoyed the patronatge of the royalty in sufficient measure for at least a century and a half. Taking it for granted that I will be allowed to break the time-barrier of the fifth to the 11th century marginally, I will refer here to the Govindapuram (Warangal District) Kannada inscription of A.D. 1122. According to this inscription, Nāgarāja, the minister of Gundarāja, constructed a temple for Pārsva-Jineśvara:
Ratn-ambõdhi-viyac-chaśānka-gata
Sāk-ābde Plave vatsare rājat-Phālguna-māsa-nirmmala-tritīyā
Sauri-vāre vare! lagne Pārsva-Jineśvarasya bhavan
ārādhya-pratistām śubham udyad-bhakti-vidhāna-pūrvvam-akarot
śrī-Nāgadēva-prabhuḥ II With the permission of Mēdarāja, the elder brother of Gundarāja, he also gifted four tanks to the temples:
tad-dēvasya nivēdya-dīpa-vara-pūj
ārtham gan-ambonidhih Toppa-śrēsthi-brihat-tațāka-puratas
sāmbram taţākam muda PārốY-ägra-tri-tataka-samyutam-adặc
chri-Nāgadevo vibhuḥ śri-Meda-kşitipāla-sammata-paras
candr-ärkka-tāram śubham II
A guild of horse-dealers chimed in with grants of cloth pieces (cirnna) at the rate of two per horse for the worship of Pārsvanātha:
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