Indian Antiquary Vol 18

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 49

FEBRUARY, 1889.]
GUDIGERE JAIN INSCRIPTION.
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(sishshinti, 1 9) was Ashtôpavâsiganti (1. 10), or Ashtopavâsi-Kanti (1. 29), "who delighted in the duty of maintaining the religion of Jinêndra." And this latter person obtained from 'Srinandipandita a namasya-grant of seven mattars of land (1. 11), and applied it, under the protection of the Twelve Gavundus or village-headmen of the village of) Dhvajatataka (1. 12), for the worship of Pârsva-Jinêsvara, and for providing food for people versed in the sacred writings.
The inscription then introduces the Sénabộva Singanna (1. 13), Singa (1. 14), or Singayya (1. 22), whose god was the Arhat, and whose Guru or teacher was 'Srinandipandita (1. 13); who was a very moon in causing the increase of the ocean of the Jain religion (1. 15); who was a very bee at the water-lilies which were the feet of the ascetic Sirişandi (1. 17); and who was the Sénabova or village-accountant of 'Srinandi (1. 18).
It then proceeds to record that, at the trahe or afrahe of the Anala samvatsara, which was the sake year 998 (expired) (1. 19), 'Srinandipandita, shewing the charter to Kaladiya-Nayimmarasa (1. 22), acquired possession of the western fields, in the lands of Gudigere, which, on the authority of a copper-charter, were under the control of the Jain temple called Ånêsejjeya-basadi (1. 21) which Kunkumamahadevi, the younger sister of the glorious Chalukya Chakravartin Vijayadityavallabha (1. 20), had formerly caused to lo built at Purigere; and gave, out of those fields, to his pupil (gudda) Singayya (1. 22), as & sarvanamasya-grant, fifteen mattars of land (1. 23), which Singayya allotted (1. 24) for the purpose of providing food for the saints at Gudigere, making it the duty of the king, the Pandits, the Twelve Gávundus, and all pious persons (1.25), to see that the proceeds of the land were applied only for that purpose, and were not diverted to any other religion or any other object, and to continue the grant as long as the moon, the sun, the ocean, and the earth might endare (1. 27).
The boundaries of this land were : - On the east, the cultarable land of Bandigåvanda (1.28); on the south, the road to the village of) Pullurgar; on the west, the culturable lands of the basadi, and of Nakayya; and on the north, the joint-fields (pasugeya polam) of the Gavundus. And the boundaries of the seven mattars of land, granted, as stated in lines 10-11 above, to Ashtôpavasi-Kanti, are here specified (1. 30) as being, on the east, the culturable land of the village of) Bangagéri (1. 30); on the south, the culturable land of the village. chaitydaya ; on the west, the culturable land of the Pergade Prabhakarayya; and on the north, the road to Pullungar. Thus there were given two paryaya-allotments of twenty-one muttars of land (1. 31).
Also, in the same western fields, 'Srinandipaņdita gave, as rent-free land (umbali), one hundred and eleven mattars to the Twelve Gávundas (1. 36); fifteen mattars to Rudrayga (1. 37), son of the Pergade Prabhakarayya ; fifteen mattars to the Sénabówa Habbanna (1. 38); seven mattars to Makiyara-Kavanna ; four mattars and six hundred kammas to Kantiyara Nakayya (1. 39); and twenty mattars, as a sarvanamasya-grant, to the god BhuvanaikamallaSântinathadeva (1. 40), i.e. to a Jain temple or image of "Såntingtha that had been built or set up by the Western Chalakya king Sômêsvara II., who had the biruda of Bhuvanaikamalla.
The inscription ends with two of the customary benedictive and imprecatory Sanskrit verses, in lines 40 to 42.
Of the places mentioned in this inscription, in addition to Gudigere itself, which is spoken of under the names of Gudigere and Dhvajatataka, the latter being the Sanskțit translation of the Kanarese name,Pullumgür is the modern Hulgur, in the Dharwad District, six miles south-west of Gudigere. And Purigore is one of the ancient names of the modern Lakshmeshwar, in the Miraj State, about six miles east of Gudigere. Bangagéri, which cannot now be recognised in the map, must have been an ancient hamlet of Gudigere, or of Lakshmêshwar.
As regards the date of this inscription, we have, in line 19, the details of Saka-Samvat 998; and, coupled with this, of the Anala samvatsara, which, as by the southern luni-solar system it was coincident with 'Saka-Samvat 999 current, shews that the given 'Saka year is to