History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

Page 74

Royal Patronage Continues.../31
nut grove and a rice field of the dimension of sowing of four kolaga of paddy. Both the gifts were located on the west of the village Tumbola [1WG: No. 107: pp. 327-33]. These gifts were evidently for the upkeep of the charities and for feeding monks and nuns of the Jaina order. Royal Patronage Continues
Rācamalla-II to Nitimärga-II
6.1 A charter from Kyātanahalli (MD dt/Pp tk) registers a gift of rice and ghee by the Ganga king Satyavākya Permanadi who had his first name as Racamalla-II, and Ereyapparasa (886-920), alias Eṛeganga, son of BūtugaI to the kella basadi built by Căgipermāḍialias Nitimārga Ereyanga (843-70). The Ganga king was a patron of Śramana sangha and a pillar for the doctrine of qualified assertion (syadvāda). The donee was Komarasenabhaṭāra [EC. VI (R) pp. 16. 9th-10th cent. p. 114]. This Kellabasadi and Kellipusur cedia [MAR 1925. pp. 90-92 7th-8th cent.] are not one and the same. Komarasenabhaṭāra can be identified with the famous ascetic (yati) of the same name mentioned by Camundaraya in his prose work Triṣaşti-Lakṣana Mahāpurāṇa (C.E. 978). He was the ponitffical head of the Mulugunda matha and he went to Koppala where he attained Samādhi maraṇa [Nagarajaiah, hampa: 1998-A : 2].
6.2 Nitimarga-I, who had his first name as Ereyanga (84370) and his elder son Rājamalla-II, inspired by their emperor Nṛpatunga, evinced keen interest in Jainism and fine arts [Shik Ali; 140].
6.3 Nitimarga-II (886-920) who also had Eṛeganga and Ereyappa (crown-prince) as his first name, was a seasoned political thinker [EC. IV (R) Ch. 354. 906. Kerehalli (Ch. dt)]. He granted, free of all hindrances, two villages Biliyur and Pannirppalli in Beddoregare, to Satyavākya