Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

Author(s): Aseem Kumar Chaterjee
Publisher: Firma KLM Pvt Ltd

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him and his predecessor Devapāla in bis works. His work Jinayajñakalfa was completed in V.S. 1285, during the reign of Devapāla,417 His three other important works viz. Trishashtismrti, *48 Sāgāradharmāmsta*4' and Anagāradharmamộta450 were completed during the reign of Jaitugideva in the Vikrama years 1292, 1296 and 1300 respectively at the same town viz. Nalakacchapura and the same shrine. Another Paramāra king viz. Jayavarman II (1256-60 A.D.), is mentioned in a Jain epigraph,61 found at Modi near Indore.
Jainism, however, was never popular in the Kalacuri kingdom. It is true that in the Kathākoša*B2 of Śrīcandra, one of his spiritual predecessors viz. Srutakirti, has been described as having been honoured by Gängeya, the great Kalacuri monarcb, who ruled in the first few decades of the eleventh century. But no other Kalacuri king is known to have patronised this particular religion. Saivism was the state religion 69 in the Kalacuri kingdom, We have only one Kalacuri Jain epigraph 464, found from Bahuriband in Jabalpur district. This inscription, which is incised on a colossal statue of śāntinātha, records that during the victorious reign of Gayākarņadeva (middle of the 12th century),486 one Mahābhoja, the son of Sādhu Sarvadhara, who had been favoured by the illustrious Māghanandin, the crest-jewel of logicians (tarkatärkikacūdāmaņi), erected the temple of śāntinātha. The image of śāntinātha was consecrated by acārya Subhadra, who belonged to the line of the Deśi gana in the ämnāya of the Candrakara*66 ācārya.
Jainism in Maharashtra : The epigraphic evidence at our disposal, suggests that Jainism was popular in Kolhapur region of Maharashtra in the period under review. The first Jain epigraph * 67 belongs to the reign of Ballāla (11001108 A.D.). It is incised on an image of Pārsvanātha, found from the Jain temple of Honnur, two miles to the South-West of Kagal in Kolhapur district. The characters are of the old Kannada alphabet and we learn from the epigraph that