History of Rastrakutas of Malkhed and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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The Rāstrakūtas Monarchs - B/25
Sravanabelagola, had recorded an incident of historical import, which took place in the court of the Rāstrakūta king Krsna-II. Paravādimalla, Jaina patriarch was skilled in many chains of arguments, and eloquent among the learned, 'doubtless a god’ When asked for his name by the emperor Krsnarāja, Paravādimalla gave out to the king the following derivation of his name: 'the position other than the one taken up is para, the other. Those who maintain it are paravādinah, maintainers of the other. He who wrestles with them is Paravādimalla, the wrestler with the maintainers of other. This name, good men say, is my name'. While commenting on this, B. A. Saletore remarks - "We do not know what reward the astounded monarch gave this remarkable Jaina teacher. This ruler, it may be noted in passing, has been identified with Kșsņa-II" [Saletore : 39).
2.2.4.1. King Prithvivarma son of Merada of SaunadattiRatta house and a collateral branch, constructed a Jinālaya at Saundatti, his metropolis (Belgaum Dt), at the instance of Mullabhattāraka, pupil of Guņakirti, Patriarch of Mailāpa-tirtha, a cohort of Yāpaniya samgha in C. E. 875-76 [SII. XX. No. 13]. Saundatti Rattas, governors of high rank, after the fall of the Rāstrakūtas, shifted their allegiance to the Cālukyas of Kalyana. Nālgāvuņdi Jakkiyabbe, a zealot lady votary (śrāvikā/upāsaki), who was made to supplant Sattara-Nāgārjunayya, her deceased husband, as the chief of Nāgarakhanda fief, courted ritual death by abstinence from all kinds of food. [EC. VII-i (BLR) Sk. 213, C. E. 918] in the Jaina basadi at Balligāve (Shimoga Dt), a major Jaina centre of the time. Krsna's sāmantas of cikka-Māgadi (Shimoga Dt, Shikaripura Tk) also were fervent followers of Jainism.
2.2.6. Vikrama Sāntara alias Vikramāditya [895-935] of Sāntara dynasty, had emerged as a powerful feudatory of Krsna in the south. He founded a magnificent Jaina shrine