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162/The Raṣṭrakūtas and Jainism
started his brilliant career as a protege of the Gangas, is dedicated to C'Rāya. Paraśurāmacarite is a quasi-historical poem, based on the life and achievements of Raya who had the biruda of Samara Parasurama.
5.6.5.9. C'Raya has also commissioned a magnificent Jaina temple on Candragiri hills at Sravanabelagola. On the top of that temple Jinadēvaṇa, son of Raya, has built a small shrine dedicated to Jina Pārsva.
Kumudēndu and Siribhuvalaya
5.7. Undoubtedly Siribhuvalaya is a remarkable work attributed to Kumudēndu. Ever since the work was discovered in 1950 by Yellappa Sastry an eminent scholar, Siribhuvalaya took the literary world by storm. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India was, like many other scholars, fascinated by the very conception of the work. Yellappa Sastry was invited to the Rastrapati-Bhavan and considering the work to be a veritable compendium of Indian culture the whole text was micro-filmed.
5.7.1. It is worthwhile examining the nature of Siribhuvalaya, 'the resplendent earth'. It is conceived in mathematical tables, assigning the numbers 1 to 64, each corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. This ankākṣara mathematical table method claims that the work can be read in 718 languages. Further it is said that, siribhūvalaya includes 363 philosophical systems, 64 kalās, i.e., all arts and science. Further it states that the work contains six lakh (6,00,000) verses, in which case, it is six times bigger than the size of Mahabharata and Mahāpurāṇa.
5.7.2. Kumudēndu, author of the Siribhuvalaya is identified with Kumudēndu, a disciple of Virasēna (C. E. 816), a confrere of Jinasēna and a contemporary of Amōghavarṣa-I, the Raṣṭrakūṭa monarch. To substantiate the above surmise, scholars quote that Siribhuvalaya
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