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4.5.6.2. Hermit Gunabhadra had mastered, grammar, poetics, the doctrine of non-absolutism and was an fait, well informed. Jinasēna had fulfulled his teacher Virasēna's nonexecuted Jaya-Dhavalā Tika. Gunabhadra also accomplished his apostle Jinasēna's half measured Mahāpurāṇa composition. De'facto, infact, it was destined that Gunabhadra should achieve the goal, before the final glory of the Rāṣṭrakūta empire comes to an end. Anchorite Virasēna had embarked Dhavala-Tikā during the reign of Govinda-III, and finished it in the time of Amōghavarsa, Govinda's son. Mahāpurāṇa was initiated in the epoch of Amōghavarṣa and terminated during the period of Kṛṣṇa-II, son of Amōghavarṣa. Thus, somehow, a combination of father and son, and teacher and pupil running parallel can be noted.
4.5.6.3. Adept Jinasēna almost completed Adipurāṇa, first part of Mahāpurāṇa. When he could not continue any further, at the age of 95, Jinasēna knew that his end was drawing near. He asked his diligent and intelligent pupils to describe a withered tree standing before them. One of them described the arid tree- 'suskam kāṣṭam tiṣṭhatyagre. Jinasēna, unimpressed with the unimagi- native pedantry, asked Gunabhadra to describe the parched tree. Guṇabhadra characterized: Nirasa taruriha vilasati puratah!. Convinced with his imaginative power to handle the epic theme, Jinasēna entrusted Gunabhadra the work of completing Uttarapurana. Gunabhadra justified Jinasēna's choice, by efficiently handling the vast theme.
4.5.6.4. Bankāpura, a moderate town in Shiggaon taluka of Dharwar Dt, was a fief given to conscientious Bankesa, grandee of Banavasi, by Amōghavarṣa. Lōkāditya, son of Bankesa, was made the governor of Bankāpura, by Kṛṣṇa-II, son of Amōghavarṣa. The Rāṣṭrakūtas had ameliorated Bankāpura into a majestic Jaina nucleus.
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