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confessions, sitting on thighs, one leg being on the other, a heroic posture practiced by ascetics of higher hierarchy, breathed her lost. Even the gods celebrated Revakayye's holy death by singing and dancing, repeatedly uttering Jayajaya Nandavardha, 'victorious auspicious'. Drums and other rare instruments of paradise made the sacred sound to the rythm of the mellifluous music of Tumbura, the Gandharva and Nārada, the dēvarsi, to the tune of which the apsaras danced. Thus the kingdom of God above rejoiced the festival of the arrival of Revakayye, an āryikā, ecclesiastic, from the earth below.
7.6.3. Padmabbarasi, a celebrity of the Rāştrakūța period and wife of Ganga Gāngěya Permādi Būtuga-II (93861), Duke of Gangavādi, an ideal lady votary of Jaina order, reached Kopaņa, and amidst the applause and appreciation of all around, accepted the rite of sallēkhanā. Her preceptor Maladhāridēva, a monk of many virtues and conqueror of desires, administered the ritual. Padmabbarasi while in deep meditation died on Wednesday 3-12-973, at Koppaļa. She had founded a magnificent Jinālaya at Narēgal and endowed it with several gifts.
7.6.4. Kañcabbarasi, consort of Rājamalladēva, the Ganga king, an ornament to the glorious royal family, upheld her magnificence and lost interests in everyday worldly life, after the death of her husband. She sought relief from the burden and sorrow of existence and the cycle of births. Kañcabbarasi approached the stainless Ajitasēnamunīśvara, the patriarch of the Gangakula, listened to his religious sermon on the rewards of the virtuous life. She, on her own accord, took to penance, achieved the most coveted three jewels and easliy walked into the eternal world in the year saka 945, at Koppaļa.
7.7. Gõnambe, daughter of Ereganga of the Ganga dynasty, spouse of valiant Ajavarma and mother of Ksatriya
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