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HAMPANA : STATUS OF WOMEN IN JAINISM IN KARNATAKA
115 Vardhamāna-basadi, Pārsvanātha-basadi and half a dozen completely ruined basadis speak of the past glory. The best of all temples is the caturmukha-basadi, a magnificent piece of art and architecture. Built on a terrace of 20' high, in the star shape, in the centre of the above temple are the grand images of four Tirthankaras seated back to back in paryankāsana posture. The basadi has doors on all the four sides. Rāņi Cenna-bhairādevi-Amma was a liberal patron of architecture.
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A kingdom which was an important Jaina settlement, after the fall of the queen mahāmandalesvari Cennabhairādevī-Amma, wore a look of deserted capital, and the ruins are the mute witness of the glory that is no more. Sources: 1. Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. VII-I (BLR) Śikāripura No.
219, A.D. 918 p. 298. 2. Ibid. Śikāripura 220. A.D. 1015 p. 299. 3. Hampa Nagarajaiah, :Sāntararu-ondu Adhyana : 1997:
pp. 11-15. 4. Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. II (R) 172 (139), undated,
pp. 116-17. Ibid., No. 64 (59). A.D. 975. p. 22.
EC. Vol. VIII (BLR) Nagara, No. 145, A.D. 1077. 4. Hampa Nagarajaiah, :Sāntararu-ondu Adhyana : 1997
App. 337-46. 5. Hampa Nagarajalah, : Kavivara-kāmadhenu : 1996:
pp. 78-81. 6. Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol.VII, Part-1 (old), Śikaripura
No. 196, C.E. 1212. Cikkamāgadi (shimonga dt/sk. tk)
pages. 283-84. 7. Srimati Kamala Hampana, -Jakkālambā-(article) in
Sammilana, (ed) M.A. Jayacandra, 1994. 8. Bhojaraja Ba. Patil: Nāgarakhanda-70, Ondu Adhyana:
1995: 215-17. 9. Karnatak Inscriptions, Vol. II, Part-1, No. 15, A.D. 1545;
ibid, No. 8, C.E. 1530; ibid, No. 12, A.D. 1542; ibid No.
13, 1542. 10. ARSIE 1929-30, Inscription Nos. 540 and 542, A.D.
1559. 11. K.V. Ramesh, : A History of South Kanara; 1970;
pp. 229-30. 12. Bhattasuri: Gerusoppe (Nagara Bastikeri) Jaina Vāstu
Mattu Mūrtiśilpa: 1996.
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