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200/The Raṣṭrakūtas and Jainism
7.4.9. Jains never encouraged fanaticism, did not pick up quarrel. They extended helping hand to other faiths and showed equal respect to all sects. Women enjoyed more freedom of speech, worship and education. They were not barred from entering the life of recluse. They were not tonsured, in their widowed life. Intercaste marriage was not infrequent, though not encouraged. Sati was never encouraged. Women votaries taking to veil was a step preferable to functional widowhood. Jains were the earliest to approve of mendicacy for women and to open their ranks in the monkhood to the female relatives of iniates. There were many Jaina nuns during the Rāṣṭrakūṭa period. Jaina Women
7.5. Jaina women had occupied prominent and key position during this eon. Marriage alliances between the Rāṣṭrakūṭa royal family and the Gangas was common. Candrōbalabbe, daughter of Amōghavarṣa-I was married to Būtuga-I. Rēvakanimmaḍi alias Cāgaveḍangi daughter of Baddega Amōghavarṣa-III, was a consort of Būtuga-II. Marula, eldest son of Bütuga-II, had married the daughter of Kṛṣṇa-III. A daughter of Marula, son of Būtuga-II was the spouse of the son of Kṛṣṇna-III, and Indra-IV was born out of this union.
7.5.1. Like the personal names of the monarchs (Govindarasa, Kannara) and princes, personal names of the queens and princesses also clearely betray the features of Kannada language. Rēvakanimmadi was a popular nomen of the Rāṣṭrakūta princesses. One of the daughters Baddega Amōghavarsa, of Indra-III, (who had married Arikēsari-II and who also had an alias of Lōkāmbikā) had the name of Revakanimmadi. The suffix-immadi is a Kannada word, a free morpheme, meaning 'the scond'.
7.5.2. Similar feminine personal names existed in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dynasty even earlier. One of the queens of
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