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268/The Raṣṭrakūtas and Jainism
KONNUR INSCRIPTION OF AMOGHAVARŞ-I
The inscription divides itself into two parts. Lines 1 to (the word sarvvam in) 59 record a grant, professedly made by the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Amōghavarsha [I.] on a date which falls in A. D. 860. Lines 59 (from the word mithyābhāva) to 72, on the other hand, after praises of the Jaina creed and the two sages Mēghachandra-Traividya and his son Viranandin, inform us that, at the request of Huliyamarasa, the Mahaprabhu of Kolanūra, and others Viranandin had a copper charter, which they had seen, rewritten here as a stone charter. According to this statement, lines 1-59 of the inscription were copied from a copper-plate inscription; and from the dates which we possess for Viranandin and his father Meghachandra-Traividya, the time when this copy was made, and when the inscription, as we have it, was engraved, may approximately be determined to be the middle of the twelfth century A. D. From an inscription at ŚravaṇaBelgola (Roman text, p. 26, II. 3-6) we know that Mēghachandra-Traividya died on Thursday, the 2nd December A. D. 1115; and according to a notice published by Mr. Pathak, Viranandin finished the writing of his Acharasāra on a date which I find to correspond to Monday, the 25th May A. D. 1153.
The principal part of the inscription (line 1-59, the alleged copy of a copper-plate inscription) records, that - at a
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