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HAMPANA: STATUS OF WOMEN IN JAINISM IN KARNATAKA
105 loyalty of Nāgārjuna, gave the grade of Nāgāvundike to Jakkiyabbe, spouse of the deceased.
When Jakkiyabbe was holding the office of Nālgāvuņda, Nandavura Kaliga was holding the office of Perggade to Kodangeyūr-seventy and the three hundred granted Avutavūr to Jakkiyabbe as promised. Jakkiyabbe, in giving away the dues of the Nālgāvunda in Avutaūr to Jakkiyabbe an account of the Nāgarakhanda-seventy, granted four mattal of rice-land, in Jakkili for the temple.
Jakkiyabbe had possessed the best prabhusakti, skill in ability for good government, jinendra-śāsana-bhakte, faithful to the Nirgrantha creed. She was rejoicing in her beauty. She was protecting well the principality of Nāgarakhanda-70, though a woman. She was known for her heroic bravery.
When everything was going on well in her favour, bodily disease having made inroads, Jakkiyabbe decided that the joy of every day worldly life was vapid. She responded to the code of conduct prescribed in the Jaina scripture for the lay votaries that one should face the inevitable death with all willingness. She had niḥ-pratikāra-rujā, a terminal illness from which death was imminant, one of the four situations in which sallekhanā can be performed. Hence Jakkiyabbe allowed no time to relax or waste; she sent words for her priyātmaje, dear daughter. Making over to her daughter all the legitimate property she owned, Jakkiyabbe freed herself from the entanglement of the chain of desire. She abdicated everything, left her home, reached the Bandaņike, a pilgrimage centre of Jainism. She entered the temple with fixed devotion, approached the pontiff and prayed to administer her the vow of sallekhanā. She performed the vow and abandoned her mortals in meditation in the year A.D. 918.
It so happened that the office of the Nāl-gāvundike chief of a district, of Nāgarakhanda-seventy, the district comprising seventy towns, was continued to be held by the members of the Jakkiyabbe family for another four generations uninterrupted. Sattara-Nāgārjuna's great grand son was named after him as Sattara-Nāgārjunayya. Sattara was the family name, sattaras were genealogically related to the Sāntaras of Sāntalige-thousand, also a Jain dynasty. SattaraNāgāriunavya was ruling Nagarakhanda-seventy during the reign of Jayasimha (1015-42), the Kalyāņa Cālukya emperor. Manneya Nāgavarma, son of Sattara-Nāgārjunayya, while fighting the enemy was severely wounded on the battlefield and gained the world of gods. The genealogy of Jakkiyabbe continued to maintain the status of the dynasty.
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