Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH : VIKRAMĀDITYA VI AND JAINISM
or bhojaka over Puligere-300 (tri-ŝataka). The five-hundred members headed by Santisețți alias Santanņa and Bammi-setți made a gift of land, after purchasing it from the Brāhmaṇas, with the money which had accumulated with interest, granted formerly to taļara Nāgavarman, a subordinate of Vāvaṇanṛpati, to Lakkanasetti, father of Santiseṭṭi. for the benifit of drawing water by picotta (eta) from the well called Rāṭaṇada-bāvi. Indranandi-bratisa, the chief prophet at that time, was the guru of Śāntiseṭṭi. Neminātha, elder brother of Santiseṭṭi, to the merit of his grand father, donated certain land (specified) to the maintenance of picotta for the public. 45
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10.1 Mahamandalesvara Beta-II alias Betarasa, the third in the line of the Kakatiya rulers so far known, granted land and money to the Jaina temple, while Tribhuvanamalla was ruling the flourishing kingdom, the basadi called Vira-kamala-Jinālaya was constructed by Medarasa of Ugravāḍi viṣaya and Polavāsa (Polasa) country mahamandalesvara.44 Meḍarasa possessed the qualities of MadhavaVarma who had eight thousand elephants (aştau-danti sahaŝrāņi), ten crores of horses (daŝa-koṭyantu-vājinām), and endless crowds of footsoldiers.
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10.2 Beta-II. lord of Anumakondapura, entitled for the five sounds, a mahā-mand-lesvara and a feudal subordinate, made the following gifts: the tank Mannanakere in the village of manmaddi, a small field of forty mattars to the south of it, 120 mattars of bilvoļa, the tank of Śri Ravicandra-Pandita, flower garden Vittalakere, to the west of the basadi, ten mattars of black land to the south of it, forty house-sites. twelve simgava-gadyāṇam, payable to the caitra-pavitra festival of Jogusiddhesvara.45 Meḍarasa alias Meḍarāja of Rāṣṭrakūṭa dynasty also made gift of land in his territory to Kadaļālaya-basadi.4 46
10.3 Mahāmaṇḍalešvara Āhavamalla-Permānaḍi donated cultivable lands to Kīrtivilāsa-Šānti-jinālaya; for the maintenance of the temple, for feeding the congregation of Jaina friars, wet land of two mattars below the tank and outside the fort of Candrakote, was made over ritualistically by pouring water on the gift and thus delivered it to the recipient Kamaladevasiddhanta, after washing his feet.47
43. SII. XX. 55. A.D. 1082. Laksmesvara. pp. 67-69.
44. EA. I. 10. 1082. Bāṇājipet (AP: Wg dt. Narasampețe tk) pp. III-17.
45. IAP :Wg dt. No. 14. 1082. pp. 26-30,
46. EI. I. 9. 1082. Hanumakonda. p. 256.
47. APGAS-iii. Medak-3. No. 39, 1084. Alladurgam (AP: Medak dt) pp. 45-46.