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
kampaņa to Rāmasena-pandita of the Śri-Müla sangha, sena-gana and Pogari gaccha, in C.E. 1077. Rāmasena-pandita, a pupil of Mahāsenabrati, was in grammar Pujyapāda, in logic Akalankadeva, in poetry Samantabhadra. The friar Mahāsenabrati was a confrere of the ascetic Gūnabhadradeva, whose lay votary Cāuņdarāya wrote the inscription.27
7.2 An inscription, written in Sanskrit and Kannada languages, records, the death (deham-vihāya-svayam) of Śrīnandi panditadeva of Sūrastha gana by the rite of sallekhanā observed for one month at Ane-sejjeya-basadi at Purikaranagara in 1077, and the death of Bhāskaranandi-Panạita, the elder confrere of the former, in 1078. Both the Jaina pontiffs were worshipped by the kings in such a way that the feet of the ascetics were shining bright with the rays of the precious stone fixed in the crown of the kings (sakala-nspati-mukuța tataghatita mani-gana-kirana masrunita).28
7.3 Another charter of the same period records the grant given to the Sāntinātha-Jina temple, constructed earlier at Hungund between C.E. 961 and 973 by Mārasimha (961-74), son of Būtuga-II (935-61), who had the cognomen of Ganga-cūņāmaņi, the head-jewel of the Ganga dynasty. The epigraph provides additional information about Mārasimha that he had caused a Sāntināthadeva temple at Hungund. In the Beļvola-300 was included Kisukādu 70 and it comprised of Hungund 30: Mārasimha was governing Gangavādi-96000, Kisukādu70, Purigere-300 and Beļvola 300.29
Śravanabelgoļa inscription clearly states that Mārasimha erected Mānastambhas and constructed Basadis at different places.30 Purigere was the capital of Puligese-300 and Annigere the residence of Beļvola300 and Hungund was an important town in Kisukādu; Mārasimha had built a Jinālaya at Purigese also.
7.4 Another epigraph of the same period, in temporal terms, twice mentions the name of Ghatāntakiya basadi which was to the north of the town Morab, and a Dānasale, a free feeding house attached to the same basadi.31 The cognomen Ghatāntaki has a special connotation in the context of Jaina pantheon; in brief, Gatāntaki is another name of Padmāvatidevī, a Jina-Śāsanadevī.32 Dānacintamani Attimabbe, who 27. EC. VII-i, Sk. 124. 1077. Balligāve (Sh. dt., SK tk) pp. 231-34. 28. SII.XX. 52. 1077-78. Lakşmeśvara. pp. 63-65. 29. El. XXXIV. 12. 972. pp. 59-62. 30. EC. 11(R) 64 (59). 975. p. 23. lines : 107-08. 31. SII. XI. XI-i, 1241. 1077. Morab (Dh. dt., Navalgund tk), pp. 143-44. 32. Hampa Nagarajaiah, 1996 : 18-19.