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 the service and maintenance of the same basadi Joyimayyarasa, a mahāmandalesvara made a grant of thirty mattars of land, a flower garden an oil-mill and eight house-sites, 39 Incidentally, it may be noted that this place is recognised as the birth place of the renowned Jaina apostle Kondakunda ācārya, author of several Prakrit works. There are two Kondakunde villages, the smaller one is called KişiyaKondakunde.
A record of the same year registers the death of Pami-gāvundi, wife of Nāga-gāvunda of Hebbāgri, a lay disciple of Narendrasenabhattāraka (SII. XV. 623. 1081. Sorațür (Gadag dt) p. 404). The Jaina ascetic Narendrasena also figures in another inscription (SII. XX. 53. 1081, Lakşmeśvar. p. 66), the details of which need an in extenso discussion.
9,1 A record refers itself, in prose and verse, to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla Vikramāditya-VI; His younger brother Jayasimhadeva-III, the yuvarāja, the heir-apparant, was at the time governing the 'two Three-Hundreds', namely Beļvola and Puligere, and the Banavāse-12.000, the Sāntalige-Thousand and the Kandūr
housand, 40 One of his subordinate barons, the mahāsāmantādhipat Esemayya (Erakapa, Erega-are his other aliases), a high minister, steward of the royal house-hold and general, was administering the Puligere-300, Dona, younger brother of Eremayya, also held high office in the government. Doņa assaigned a grant for the Jaina cult in Purikara olim Puligere, the modern Lakşmeśvar in Gadag dist. Dona, the donor, entrusted the grants to the trusteeship of Narendrasena-II, the then pontiffical head of the Jaina Matha at Puligere. NarendrasenaII was the senior disciple of Nayasena Sūri, who in turn was the senior disciple of Narendrasena-I, of the senagaña, a cohort of the friars and nuns in the Mūla-Sangha.
9.2 The charter further introduces a distinguished family of pious Jains, with the details of over five generations. Of the last members of this vast pedigree, Adinātha, śānti and Pārsva also made some grants to the Jaina monastery of Puligere, which continued to be a flourishing ('entre of Jaina settlement during the period of Vikki.41
9.3 Jayakesinrpa of Sagara olim Mañalera family, a feudatory and lord of the capital city Purikara (Puligere), the best of towns (puravara), and a famous Jaina settlement42, was governing as a rāştrika 39. Sxx. IX-1 150. 1081, Konakondla (AP : Anantapur dt. Gooty tk) pp. 131-33. 40. EI. XVI. 9-B. 108. Lakşmesvara, pp. 58-66. 41. SII. XX. 53. 1081. 42. Hampa Nagarajalah. Śãsanagaļalli Eradu Vamsagaļu : 1995 : 58-61.