Book Title: Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II
Author(s): Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd

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________________ JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA epigraph 108, of the time of Yādava Kțsbņa, mentions the same Ananta Tirthankara temple, 108 Jain Epigraphs from Belgaum district : This particular district has yielded quite a good number of Jain inscriptions of the period under review. One of the earliest epigraphs 110 comes from Kalbbävi, which, however, gives a wrong and impossible date viz. Saka 261. The epigraph is actually written in the characters of the 11th century. This epigraph mentions a Ganga chief called Mabāmaņďaleśvara Saigațţa Ganga Permândi alias Sivamāra (described as the feudatory of one Amoghavarsha). This Ganga chief has been further described as being favoured by the Jain goddess Padmāvati and has been given titles, which prove his great devotion for the Arhats. The epigraph records the construction of a Jain temple (basadi) by this chief, and the gift of a village, called Kumudavāda (modern Kalbhāvi), which was entrusted into the hands of Devakirti, the disciple of Subhakārti, who was the disciple of Jinacandra. This Jinacandra was, in his turn, a disciple of Nāgacandra, and the latter's guru was Gunakirtideva, belonging to Mailāpa anvaya and Kåreya gana, which was a section of the Yapanlya Sangha 111 Next, we have two Jain inscriptions from Saundatti, belonging to the 11th century. We have already taken note of an earlier epigraph from this place in the first volume112, of the present work. The first epigraph113, is undated, but it belongs to the reign of Someśvara II (1068-1076) and discloses the names of two Jain munis viz., Ravicandra and Arhanandi, belonging to the Kāņợura gaņa. The second epigraph 116, is fortunately dated and belongs to the 21st year of the Vikrama Cālukya era, corresponding to 1069 A.D. It mentions the reigning king Tribhuvanamalla, alias Vikramāditya V). The inscription proves that all the Rațța kings, from the very beginning, were converted Jains. The present inscription mentions Mahamandalesvara Kārtavirya II, the feudatory of Vikramāditya VI and his grant for the Jain temple of Sugandhavarti, erected by Kālasena

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