Jain Journal 1999 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXIV, No. 1 July 1999 the brave Permmäḍideva.58 Raṭṭa chief Sena-II and Kannakaira-II, also endowed the temple with other gift of lands (boundaries specified). The Jaina preceptor Kanakaprabha siddhantadeva was the done.59
12.4 It is of socio-cultural and historical importance to note that there were two distinct Jinālayas in the very name of Vikramāditya; of the two, the one under discussion, the Vira-permmāḍideva-Jinālaya was at Saundatti, which was in the middle of the Calukya empire, and the other one was at Balligave in the extreme south of the kingdom. built by Vikramaditya himself. Incidentally, it may be noted that Saundatti (Skt. Sugandhavarti) was a nerve centre of Nirgrantha church and the nomen Saundatti itself has an etymology of Jaina origin. The place-name Saundatti is a variant of savaṇa [Pkt. Savana/Samaņa. Skt. Śramaņa' 'a Jaina monk'] datti ('endowment') which means a place given to the Jaina monk(s) as an endowment. The present temple of Yellmma, a popular local deity was the patta jinālaya, a royal Jain temple of the Raṭṭas, during the period of the Rastrakūtas, the Calukyas, and the Hoysalas.
13.1 Mahamandalesvara Pallava-Bhumipala, caused a Jinamandira to the west of the (existing) Candraprabha (tārāgaṇādhipa-prabha) Jinalaya, at Pundür (modern, Püdür), the place of his residence, in C.E. 1087,60
Pūņdūra Pallavarasa, the king of Pündür of a boon from Padmavatidevi the Jaina deity was also a lord of Kembu-kundür. As an ideal Jaina householder, his recreation was giving the four fold charities of food, shelter, medicine and religious literature. The new Jinalaya that he caused, and named after him as Pallava-Jinālaya was five storied, sarvatobhadra jinālaya which glittered like a Surendravimāna, the charriot of the lord of the gods. Pallava-Bhūpala, a diamond of kings, granted one hundred mattars of cultivable estate at Iṭṭakallu village, fifty mattars of land at Püṇḍūru, one mattar wet-land, two gardens, two oil-mills, two shops, twelve houses, one baļļa (a measurement) food grains, hundred betel leaves to each basketfull of betel leaves, two panas, 16 areca-nut for each thousand unit and one mattar paddy-field, all free of encumbrances to the Pallava-Jinālaya, 61 The charter states that with the Jaina temples, the rich endowments. the monachs, the excellent lay votaries, the Pündür looked like another
58. Fleet: JBBRAS. Vol. x. No. xxx (1874), pp. 195-98.
59. SII. XX. 62. p. 76.
60. APGAS-ill. No. 58. 1087. Mahabubnagar dt. Gadwal tk. pp. 40-41. 61. EI. xl-il (1978): pp. 81-86. 1087.