Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL : Vol-XXXIV, No. 1 July 1999
(urvitilakam). Srivijayadeva-bhattāraka, given to severe penance, esteemed for his proficience in all the sāstras and āgamas. 22
6.5 Panca-Küta-Vasadi-Jinamandira was the foremost in the world as if to vie with both the horizon and the sky. The unequalled Jinālaya, witnessing the great festivals in which filled the hearts of all people with merit and freed them from sins, while the temple shone every day with great ceremonies of worship. The jinendrālaya, which was caused by Cattaladevi, was like a huge ship for the monks who sought to cross over the ocean of family cares of terestrial interests, and reach the island of nirvāņa (release from bondage) in its midst, filled with the gems of unequalled virtues.23 The pancabasadi olim pancaküța basadi, consists of five garbhagrihas in one complex, and all the five aarbhaarihas are in a row. with a common antarāla and a sabhämandapa. This is one of the earliest pancakūta Jaina temples in Karnataka.
6.6 The celebrated Caţtaladevi also set up, like the mast, a mānastambha, a characteristic Jaina pillar of eminence, before the Pancakūta basadi making gifts to all. Ever bestowing food, shelter, medicine and learning, Cattaladevi, the theme of praise, shines in the world of women celebraties. That Rohiņi, Ceļini, Sitä, Revată and Prabhāvati are of unspotted virtue we hear, but that she is so we see Cattaladevi. By constructing new tanks, well, basadis, temples of all the four castes (catussamaya), watershed, sacred bathing place, feeding houses (satra), grove and other well-known works of merit, Caţtaladevi gained renown. She endowed food to many lines of monks, gold to Brāhmaṇas and raiment to others, as if suggesting, 'Who else is greater in bestowing gifts?'.
6.7 For the renovation of Panca-vasadi, for the gifts of food to the community of ascetics and for the worship without let, the four princes and brothers being present, washing the feet of the pontiff Kamalabhadradeva, gave villages and lands (specified); these endowments of the king, princes and Cattaladevi, were free from all varities of taxes (list given) alson with the boundaries marked.24
6.8 Cattaladevi has been compared to a tree: Its root the king of the serpents, its stem the sky, its tip the apogee; the peaks of the silver mountain its berries, its leaves the points of the compass, its buds the constellations, the white lotus its blossom, its fruit the moon,
22. EC. VIII (BLR). Nr. 35. 1077 Hombuja (Sh. dt). 23. ibid,, Hampa Nagarjalah, 1997-A. 24. EC. Vin (old). Nr. 39. 1077. Hombuja (Sh. dt., Hosnagara tk).