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Jāvaḍa of Mandu
Siddhānta, i.e., the sacred books of the Jainas, to be copied for the above mentioned library, a praiseworthy enterprise indeed, at a time when there were no printed books. All this, so it is stressed, he achieved by spending large amounts of money, honestly earned by his own hands. The Vasudevahiṇḍī colophon mentions his wife Līlāde and his sons Khīmā and Karaṇa, but not Jāvaḍa, while the Bhagavati colophon names as his sons Sanghapati Khīmarāja and Sanghapati Jau, the latter being of course, an alternate form of Jāvaḍa, and even adds the name of the latter's son Nīnā.
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Inscriptions confirm that Mandaṇa ( or Māṇḍaṇa ), son of Jayata of the Śrīmālī clan, did instal Tīrthankara images, and proclaim that he had them consecrated by Jinacandra Sūri, the 57th pontiff of the Kharatara-gaccha, and as such, predecessor of Jinasamudra Suri, who was mentioned above as Jasadhira's Guru11. One inscription12, dated S. 1524, says that in that year, he installed an image of Śreyamsa ( the eleventh Jina ) at Maṇḍapa-durga. It mentions that he was of the "Thakura-gotra', but is silent about Jāvaḍa, unless 'Jhanjhaṇa' is a misreading of that name. Another inscription13, dated S. 1533, contains the name of Mandaṇa wife Līlāde and that of his son Javaḍa, and records that in that year, Māṇḍana installed the Supārsva statue (a Pañcatirthi ) on which it is inscribed. Here no place-name is given, nor is the gotra specified.
There can be no doubt that the Mandana (or Māṇḍana) and his son Javaḍa ( or Jau) of these colophons and inscriptions are the same persons as those mentioned in st. 54 of K. P.14
This concludes the scanty record about Javaḍa of the Kharatara-gaccha, who, far from following in the foot-steps of his generous and far-sighted father and his large-hearted father-in-law, has done nothing that could, to the best of our knowledge, justify the mention of his name, were it not for the confusion he has created by being mixed up15 with his illustrious namesake, Javaḍa of the Tapāgaccha, the subject of this article.
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