History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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304; EI. XV. 23. 1071-72; EI. VI p. 71; EI. IV p. 352; EC. VIII (BLR). Nr 35. 1077: Nagarajaiah, Hampa : 1997-A : 66-67 etc.,). Ganga Mahādevī, who had married KrsnaIII was perhaps the daughter of Revakanimmadi. It is interesting to note that the wife of Mārasimha-II, Ankabbarasi, the daughter of Dānapa alias Dānārnava (970-73), king of the Eastern Cālukyas, was also called Ganga Mahādevi, while she was governing Pullungūr[EI. XXIV. No. 12.C.E. 972 pp. 59-62]. The Revakanimmadi's commitment to serve the cause of Jainism was on par with the services of the stalwarts like her husband and children and Sankaraganda, Cāmundarāya, Rājamalladeva and Attimabbe (Nagarajaiah, Hampa: 1998-A: No. 44: pp. 117-20]. She, influenced by the misery of worldly life and the note of impermanence, took to nunlife and accomplished Samādhi marņa at Koppaļa
[ibid] Times of Butuga-II 6.6 The joint activities of Būtuga-II and his three consorts,
five sons, two daughters and their children and grand children covers a period of over one hundred years, the last glorious chapter in the long history of the Gangas. Satyvākya Būtuga was an extraordinary Srāvaka (a lay votary), wedded to the cause of spreading the glory of the religion expounded by the Jinas. Būtuga had the cognomen Jayaduttaranga Permādi, caused a Jinendramandira to be made at Annigere, and endowed the temple with gift of Mudageri, Gummangola, Ittage and Gāvarivāda villages, free from all encumbrances. Chief among the monks, Guņakirti-pandita was the donee [EI. XV. 23. 1071-72. pp. 337-48]. It is worthy of note that this gift of income of the above four villages, free of all taxes continued to be in vogue as long as the Ganga dynasty ruled this area (ibid). The purport of the above record was to register the renewal of the royal order.