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Kannada Literature / 165
samyaktva ratnākaram, a sentence from the above Kurikyala or Gangādharam inscription composed by Jinavallabha, approves the fact that he had the biruda of samyaktva-ratnākarai.e., an ocean of Right-faith, a requisite of a Jaina householder. He was a 'tribhāsākavi', poet of three languages - Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada. Jinavallabha was the first Telugu Jaina poet who has composed three stanzas of poetic merit in Telugu language. He has also assisted Malliya Rēcana to author Kavijanāsrayamu', a Telugu work on prosody. Jinavallabha had the epithets of Vācakābharaṇa and Vāgvadhūvallabha.
5.8.6. Bhāgiyabbe, consort of Jinavallabha had set up a metal Caturvimsatipatta image of a Jina and founded a Jinālaya named after her. Two of the bronze images of Jina, caused to be made by Bhagiyabbe in C. E. 950, are now in Nahar Museum, Calcutta and Government Museum, Madras. Bhagiyabbe, born in a Kannada speaking family of Paithaņa (now in Maharāștra), was a devotee of Mahāvira. Both the bronze images of Mahāvira contain inscriptions in Kannada characters [Nahar, Purnachandra, and Ghosh, eds : 1917; Murthy, A. V. Narasimha : 1990 : 219-21). Paithana was nearer to Bõdhana and Lembulapāțaka, metropolis of the state, where Pampa and Jinavallabha were housed. Similarly, Pandarangavalli, where Jinavallabha had his early education under his preceptor Jayanandi Bhatāra, was nearer to Lembulapāțaka and Bödhana. Those places were recognised cultural centres of the greater Karņātaka of the Rāstrakūta period.
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