Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH : VIKRAMĀDITYA VI AND JAINISM
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caused 1501 Jaina temples also had the biruda Ghatāntaki and some of the temples, she built were named after her as the Ghatāntakibasadi.33 Attimabbe had built a Ghațāntaki-basadi at Morab is mentioned in another inscription.34
7.5 An inscription on the slab below a tamarind tree, to the southwest of the village, records that Baladeva, chief of the generals (dandanāthagaņi) of (Trailokyamalla-Vira-Noļamba-Pallava-Permmāļi) Jayasimhadeva, the heir apparent and younger brother of the emperor, was a devout Jaina; Jinanātha was Baladeva's lord and god, the celebrated Mäghaņandi-bratipati his precepter and obtainer of a boon from the goddess Padmāvati. With these and all other titles, the great minister and dandanāyaka Bāladevayya was ruling and in the enjoyment of Banavase-12000, the 18 agrahāras. 35
8.1 A much mutilated lithic record of this period, which refers to the reign of Tribhuvanamalladeva, registers certain grants of land to the temple, after laving the feet of the donee, Bāļacandradeva of Desiga gana Postaka-gaccha, a cohort of Jaina friars and nuns.36 The village Hire-singana-gutti was included in the Karividi (the modern Karadi) Thirty sub-division. The pontiff Bāļacandradeva may be the same ascetic, identical with the preceptor of Nāgacandra (1044-1100), the court-poet of Vikramaditya and an author of two Jaina classics, Mallinātha-purāņa and Rāmacandra-caritam olim PampaRāmāyaṇam 37
8.2 The distinguished Jaina laic of charitable disposition, BineyaBammisetti built and endowed (land specified) an Adi-Brahma-Jinālaya olim Brahma-Jinālaya and constructed a satra, a building where food and alms are given away to mendicants; there was an additional akştrima jinendrāgāra and bhojana-sāle, a feeding-house at Isūr, the same place;38 the thousand-Brāhmaṇas of the agrahāra also gifted land to the Jinālayas (the other details of the chater are effaced).
8.3 Nāļikabbe, a pious lady votary erected Cațța Jinālaya in memory of her (departed) husband at Kondakundeya-tīrtha and for
33. SII. XI-i, 52. 1007, SII. xv. 128. 1174. pp. 161-63, EC. 111(R) 146.
1337. p. 266, SII. xi-i. 177. 1125 pp. 232-33, SII. XV. 629. 13th cent. p.
405 etc. 34. SII. XV. 530. 1059, pp. 359-60. 35. EC. VII-i, Sk. 297. 1080, pp. 345-46. 36. SII. XI-ii. 209 C. 1080, Hire-singanagutti (Bij dt, Hungund tk) pp. 262-63. 37. Hampa Nagarajaiah, Nāgacandra-Itivịtta (1989) 1992. 38. EC. VII-i. Sk. 8. 1080. p. 124-26.