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
10.4 An inscription incised on another fragment of a mutilated slab, records the gift of money, derived from taxes made by Barmmana for the feeding of the ṛsis and Ajjis (Skt. Āryikā), the monks and nuns of the Nirgrantha faith attached to the Jaina templè called GonadaBeḍangi-Jinalaya of the capital city Arasibiḍi olim Vikramapura.48 Barmana the donor was a sunka-verggade Mantara, a tax collecting officer under Barmmadevarasa, Lord of the city of Bhogavati of the Sinda family. Gunada-bedangi (handsome with virtues) was the cognomen of Akkādevi, sister of Vikramaditya-V and daughter of Daśavarma, who had Bhuvanaikamalla as his royal surname.49
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10.5 The Jaina temple at Arasibidi was an old temple of tenth century; for the maintenance of this basadi, Akkādevi made a gift of land in 1047, while she was encamped at Gokage (the modern Gokak town), which was entrusted to the abbot Nāgasena Pandita of the Hogari-gaccha in the varasenagaṇa in Müla-sangha, the chief of the local Jaina diocese.50
Because this (Neminatha) Jinalaya was connected with the Calukya dynasty and enjoyed imperial status, it continued to receive grants throughout the period of Calukya rulers. 51
11.1 The Calukya emperor Tribhuvanamalladeva favoured the mahāmaṇḍaleśvara of mandali-Thousand-naḍ along with his cognomen, Tribhuvanamalla-Ganga Permāḍideva, an ardent follower of Jainism, with all the rights as regards treasure trove and under ground stores, according to the rule of one third. 52 Nokkayya, a great minister and senior perggade of Tribhuvanamalla-Ganga Permmāḍideva, erected Jaina temple, enlarged a tank, formed paddy fields, established places for distribution of water and food; the basadi that Nokkayya built shone with the big tank like the heaven surrounded by the divine river. Nokkayya built two basadis, one at Taṭṭekere and another at Nellavatti (the modern Nyamati) in Honnali Tk, for the merit of his two sons. Nokkayya, a laic of the exalted Prabhācandra siddhantadeva of the original congregation Krāṇur-gana and Meṣapāṣāṇa-gaccha, a cohort of the Jaina friars and nuns, made grants of land (specified) for the monasteries, to the local drummers and the potterer.
48. SII. XI-ii, 179. 1085. Arasibiḍi (Bij dt, Hungund tk) p. 239; EI. xvii. pp.
121-22.
49. EI. XV. 82. 1054.
50. SII. XI-i, 80. 1047. p. 73.
51. SII. xv. 47. 1151; ibid. No. 108. 1167 p. 138ff.
52. EC. VII-i Sh. 10 Taṭṭekere. pp. 19-21.