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7.8.2. Details of the two bronze images commissioned by Bhagiyabbe : A. Mahāvīra seated on a lion pedestal with cauri bearers
on either side and a triple umbrella above. The image is 15" in height, with Pārsva and Bāhubali in the parikara. Three lined inscription on the circular pedestal states that the image was caused to be made by Bhagiyabbe,
consort of Jinavallabha. B. Mahāvīra in Kāyātsarga, 12" tall. This bronze image,
found in the Jinālaya at Kõgaļi (Bellary Dt), now in Madras Museum. One line Kannada inscription on the metal image states that a basadi was founded by Bhagiyabbe of Paittaņi (Paithana).
7.8.3. Both the bronze images are in the characters of tenth century and can be easily assigned to C. E. 950.
7.8.4. Jinavallabha, husband of Bhagiyabbe and a connoisseur in Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada had commissioned superb Tribhuvanatilaka Jinālaya to the south of Vrşabhagiri near Kurikyal village (Ap. Karimnagar Dt) in C. E. 950, with the images of 24 Tirthankaras, from Rşabha to Mahāvira, and Cakrēśvari yakşi. His family deity was Ādinātha Jina and the family deity of Bhagiyabbe was Mahāvira Jina.
7.9. Pāliyakka, a crest-jewel and a devout Jaina lady householder was the favourite consrot of king Vikrama Sāntara (895-935), a Duchy of Sāntalige-Thousand (Shimoga Dt). Vikrama was a vassal of Krsna-II, Indra-III, Amoghavarşa-II and Amoghavarşa-III, and had served four of the Rāstrakūta monarchs. Pāliyakka, daughter of the Sāntara Palace cook, had affaire d'amour, love affair with the potentate, had become a Dona, sweet-heart of Vikrama Sāntara.
7.9.1. Pāļiyakka constructed two excellent Jaina
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