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Jina Parsva and his Temples in Inscriptions: Southern India (Karnataka)
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District) with an inscription on its side.3 There are a few more sculptures in the area, without being associated with inscriptions. They can be assigned to c. tenth century on stylistic grounds. However, further investigations are needed in that regard.
A Kannada inscription from Kargudari 5 (Dharwar District), belonging to the reign of Jagadekamalla of the Kalyāṇa-Cālukya dynasty, refers to the construction of the temple of Vijaya-Pārsva-jinendra, by maha-vaḍḍavyavahāri Kalliseṭṭi, at Karegudure (the findspot of the record) and states that the setți made over a number of grants to the temple for the purpose of worship and offerings to the deity and for the foodofferings to the preceptors dwelling therein, (Karigudureyo! tamma māḍisida VijayaPārsva-jineṁdran-amga-bhoga, ramga-bhogakam-alliya riṣiyar-āhāra-dānakkam). The grants were made on the occasion of the sankramaņa, as sarvabādḥā-parihāra. The record is dated Prabhava, Pushya bahula, pāḍiva, Monday, Dakshiṇāyanasankramana (A.D. 10276). Jagadekamalla referred to in the inscription, very probably was Jayasimha II (Jagadekamalla I).
The inscription next in time belongs to the reign of Trailokyamalla (Someśvara I) of the Kalyāṇa-Calukya dynasty. The inscription, except for the part of its grant portion (including boundary details), is in Sanskrit language. The script is Kannada. It mentions the king as Trailokyamalla-deva, whose epithets are given as follows:
Samasta-bhuvanāśraya-śrī-prithvi-vallabha-mahā-rājādhirāja-parameśvara
parama-bhaṭṭāraka-satyāśraya-kula-tilaka-Calukyābbarana. The record is dated Śaka 976, Jaya, Vaiśākha, Amāvāsya, Somavāra, Sürya-grahaṇa, which corresponds to A.D 1054 May 9, f.d.t. 26. Trailokyamalla's queen is mentioned as Ketaladevi, who is stated to be administering over the agrabāra Ponnavāḍa on the date of the record. Her feudatory Cāṁkirāja of Vāṇasa-vaṁśa, is referred to as the pāda-kamalabhramara of yogirāṭ Mahāsena-muni and also as paripurna-cāru-vidyānidhi. The inscription further states that he caused the construction of the Jinendra-geha and installed the images of the deities, Pārśvanātha, Śāntinātha, and Supārsvanatha. The basadi was known as 'Bhuvana-bhumbhuka'.
The three shrines of this trikūṭa basadi were in this order: Śāntinātha's shrine was in the middle, flanked by those of Pārsvanatha and Supārśvanatha (ParamaSänti-jinendra-geham-dvayonugata-Pārsva-Supārsva-vāsam). It is further stated that the image of Pārsvanatha together with the 'great serpent' was got sculptured (mahānāgam-racitam Parsvadaivatam) by Jinavarma who is referred to as the chatra of Mahasena-muni. The basadi is further described as 'Tribhuvanatilaka'. The grants were made on account of the surya-grahana for the food-offerings to the rṣis (ascetics) and the jiyas (preceptors) as sarvanamasya by the emperor Trailokamalla himself,
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