History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Candanandibhatāra, follower of Guñanandibhatāra, who belonged to the Desigagana and Kondakunda Anvaya [IWG:No. 17: pp. 61-65). The villages are stated to have been granted by the minister of Akālavarşa PrithviVallabha, who had commissioned the temple having obtained them by grant from Avinita Mahādhirāja (EC. 1 (R). 1 (1).C.E. 466. Madkeri. pp. 1-2]. Another charter describes Avinita Ganga as bearing the foot-print of the supreme Jina, fixed as a rock of mount Meru on his heart
[EC. VII-i (BLR). Sh. 4. 1121-22. pp. 4-9). 4.5 During his generally peaceful and prosperous reign,
Avinita paved the avenue to the increasing influence of Nirgranthamata in the Gangavādi-96000 kingdom. Responding to the kings inclination, the prosperous mercantile guilds and individual well-to-do merchants endowed
the basadis with liberal grants in cash and kind. Durvinita - A Benedictory 4.5.1 King Durvinita (529-79), son of Avinita, was a far greater
benefactor of Jainism. Like all his predecessors including his father, Durvinita was behind Jainism and contributed a lot to the spread of Jainism in the Ganga territory. Kogali, shining like an emperor of capital cities, was a main town in Koga?i-500 sub-division of the Noļambavādi32000 province, and was a Jaina centre (SII. XI-i. 22. 897. ibid. 317; 13th cent.). Kogaļi was considered a 'tirtha', a holy pilgrimage centre with many basadis [ibid; IX-i. Nos. 189 to 196]. Durvinita had Commissioned a Sarvatobhadra Jinālaya in mid 6th century, the earliest of its kind in Karnataka, consisting of quadruple images, i.e., a group of four Jinas, either standing or seated back to back (ibid; 346. 1173. ibid., 347. 1220; QJMS. Vol XXXVI. pp. 126-33]. Later in 11th century, during the reign of Trailokyamalla Ahavamalla who had SomeśvaraI as his first name (1042-68), Indrakirti munindra, chief abbot of the diocese of Kogali tirtha, renovated the above