History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Mallavalli in the district of Tagare, to the Caityālaya of Tolļagrāma. Manalimane-odeyon, a holy person with right knowledge and faith in the order of Jina (samyagdarśana-viśuddha), also granted rent free plot of ground. śāntisena Abbegaļu, a nun, and Perbbali also presented some more endowments to this Jaina temple [1WG : No.
71: pp. 253-55). 4.7.4 King Duggamāra (C.E. 788), son of Sripurusa, faithfully
followed his worthy father's religious temperament and erected a shrine named after him - 'Duggamāra basadi' at Hebbalaguppe (My dt/Hg tk) and Nārāyaṇa Peruncattan was the architect of this temple (MAR 1932. No. 58.9th cent). Narasigere Appor, evidently the chief of that village, granted six khandugas of dry land and the inhabitants of the villages Aramandamegālu, Agokemoge and Oddipadi-joined with Goyindamma in a gift of six khandugas of wet land [EC. III (R) Hg. 63. 9th cent. p.
468]. Srivijaya - A Great Refuge 5.1 Srivijaya Senādhipati, a commander of the army of
Lokatrinetra Marasimha-I (C. E. 796), was an ardent devotee of Jina. He had built basadis at a number of places - villages, towns, on the bank of river, on mountains, in islands and near the tank: grāme pure nadi-tire-girau dvipe sarontike pravartaya tsuakritya-bhāmayonekam Vastim prabhuhu II [EC. 1x (BLR) NL. 60. C.E. 798. Manne Copper plates (Ba dt/N1 tk) pp. 48-49]. Srivijaya had commissioned a lofty, grand and imposing Jinabhavana at Manne (Mānyanagara). King Mārasimha-1 also was pleased to permit the illustrious Srivijaya to grant an endowment of the village Kiruvakkūr (1WG: No. 49: C.E. 798: pp. 190-205] with boundaries marked. This basadi was also patronised by the Rāştrakūta king Govinda-III [EC. IX. NI. 61