Jain Journal 1972 04

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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APRIL, 1972
Coming to the Ksatrapas, we find that Nahapana was a patron of Buddhism over and above the rest of the faiths. The Jaina literary tradition speaks of a certain king Muranda of Paitthana whose headache was cured by Padaliptasuri. But we have no definite corroborating evidence to show whether Padalipta with the help of this king spread Jainism in the Deccan.
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Regarding the state of Jainism or even its existence under the Abhiras and Traikutakas, the successors of the Satavahanas, we have practically no evidence. Coming to the Vakatakas, we find they were Brahmanical rather than Jainas. It is only when we come to the Calukyas and their successors that we can have a more clear picture of Jainism both in the Deccan and the Karnataka than we could have in the reign of previous dynasties. Under the western Calukyas of Badami, we have both epigraphical and archaeological evidence to prove that Jainism was in a flourishing condition in the Deccan in the early medieval period. (c. 500-950 A.D.)
The following Jaina records of the Badami Calukyas are known :
(1) Altem Copper-plates, Kolhapur State, refers to Samiyara, a feudatory of Pulakesin, who built a Jina temple in S. 411 in Alaktakanagara with the permission of Pulakesin and granted lands to it.
(2) Aihole Inscription, Bijapur District, dated S. 556, refers to the poet Ravikirti whose patron was Pulakesi Satyasraya, who built a Jina temple.
(3) Lakshmeshvar Inscriptions, Dharwar District, undated. A certain king of the Sendra family granted land to Sankha-Jinendra.
(4) Lakshmeshwar Inscription (ii), dated S. 610, mentions Vijayaditya who gave a village to his father's priest who belonged to Deva gana of the Mula sangha, for the benefit of the temple of Sankha Jinendra at Pulikara.
(5) Adur Inscription, Dharwar District, undated of the reign of Kirtivarman II. Grant of land by an unnamed chief to a jinālaya.
(6) Adur Inscription (ii), of the reign of Kirtivarman I, refers to the grant of rice land to the Jinendra temple. The priest Prabhacandra acquired this grant.