Comprehensive History of Jainism Volume II

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

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popularly known as Tribhuvanatilaka, a biruda of Gandarā. ditya. This particular temple, it is of great interest to note, is mentioned in the colophon of Somadeva's Šabdarņavacandrikävytti461, composed in Saka 1127, during the reign of Bhoja II of this dynasty. Śāntiviramunindra has been further described in this epigraph as the ācārya of Kolbāpuratįrtha and as the disciple of Bālacandra-Vrati, the previous acārya of the above-mentioned Candraprabha Jinālaya. This Bālacandra Vrati has been eulogisedeos in the Neminatha Purāņa of Karnapärya, a minister of the Silāhāra Vijayā. ditya, the son and successor of Gandarāditya.
Next, we have the Kolhapur stone epigraph, 468 dated Śaka 1040, of the reign of Gaņdarāditya, which was found from Pārsvanātha temple of Kolhapur. The temple of Pārsvanātha, mentioned in this inscription, was actually constructed by Nimbadevarasa, a loyal feudatory of Gandarāditya at Kayadegolla (probably not far from modern Kolhapur). The epigraph actually records certain gifts to Śrutakirti Traividyadeva of the Pustakagaccha in the Desiyagana of the Mūlasangha, who officiated as the priest of the Jain temple called Rūpanārāyaṇa in Kollāpura, This particular temple of Kolhāpura was also built by Samanta Nimbadeva, according to another epigraph.** This gentleman was a devoted Jain and claims that he was the right hand man of Gandarāditya. He is said to have been favoured by Padmavati, the Sasanadevatā of Pārsvanātha. In the Terdal epigraph 466 of Gonka, dated Śaka 1045, and a Śravana Belgola epigraph, 466 Nimbadevarasa has been described as a disciple of Māghanandi Siddhāntadeva, the guru of Śrutakirti Traividyadeva, the priest of the Rūpanārāyaṇa temple. Māghanandi was actually the former priest of this temple.
We have an undated epigraph 67 of the time of Gandarā. ditya, found from the maņdapa of the shrine of Śesbāsayi in the backyard of the great Mahālakshmi temple of Kolhapur. This epigraph, which begins with a prayer to Adi-Jina (i.e.