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104 / The Rästrakūtas and Jainism
The Sindhūra-prakarana, the Adhyātma-Tarangini, the Syādvādāpanişat and Siddhiprada - are the other works either not extant or still hidden in bhandāras. Thus, Sõmadēvasūri was a poet, philosopher, epistemologist, pontiff, well-known in the theory of political, science, and a dialectician of considerable merit.
4.9.6. Analogus to Jinasēna, Guņabhadra, and Ajitasēna, a contemporary patriarch, Sõmadēva exerted deep and erudite influence upon the ruling monarchs. During the three productive decades between C. E. 950 and 980, Somadēva was considered as the egregious political thinker. He was to Krsna, the Rāstrakūta emperor, what Jinasēna was to Amöghavarşa-I. Thus, his influence was not confined to the courts of the lieges only. His preponderance extended from Mānyakhēta the metropolis, to Vēmulavāda in the east and to Gangavādi in the south.
4.9.6.1. According to the authentic details recorded in the Koppal inscription No. 34, discovered and edited by me, Sõmadēva lived to see both the wax and wane of the Rāstrakūta kingdom which was liquidated in C. E. 973-74. The above Sanskrit epigraph in two parts, has the following information : 1. Sõmadēva had the cognomen of vāk-kallola-payõnidhi,
kavirāja-kunjara, gadya-padya vidyadhara-cakravartti,
vādindra-kālānala, tārkika-cakravartti. 2. Nēmidēva and Mahēndradēva were his spiritual frairs. 3. He was versatile in poetics, dramaturgy, poetry,
grammar and state craft. 4. He was praised by Krsna-III and Nolambāntaka, i.e.,
Mārasimha-II (961-73/74). Sõmadēva panditadēva died on 2.10.984 Thursday at Koppaļa by the rite of sallekhanā [Nagarajaiah, Hampa: Jaina Corpus of Kopaļa inscriptions x rayed : 1999].
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