Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH: VIKRAMADITYA VI AND JAINISM
Kopana olim Koppala, an eminent holy pilgrimage centre for the Jains.62 Pūṇḍūra Pallavarasa the mahamaṇḍalesvara, made over these gifts to Kanakasena-bhaṭṭāraka, his religious preceptor, after washing the
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13.2 While Tribhuvanamalla, the eldest of the Pāṇḍava, the very Yudhisthira in truth, respledent with infinite lustre, as being a sun in valour and his auspicious reign was current, the monks of the Balätkäragana lineage of the original Jaina sect, was exceedingly lustrous in Kuhuṇḍi-nādu. Some of the Jaina temples were constructed while he was young and a mahāmaṇḍaleśa.
Among such early caityalayas one was at Saundatti, the other at Pratikantha Singha's place. Nidhiyama-gämunda, the chief of the Hilleyaru race, having had built in Kondanüru, a centre of the Balātkāra-gana saints, a beautiful shrine of Jina as being the crestJewel of the lovely woman on the earth. Nidhiga alias Nidhiyama joyfully set apart a portion never to be interfered with and gave free from all oppossing claims, in the circle of Kündi olim Kuhundi and in the field of Hindadhi (the present Hindwaḍi in Belagaum) which was in his own manya lands, two mattars of cultivated lands, twelve houses, one oil-mill and one garden; on the same day. i.e. in 1087, the fortunate mahāmaṇḍalesvara king Kanna alias Kannakaira-II came to do worship at the Jina shrine, laved the feet of Śridharadeva, gave (lands) for the angabhoga and rangabhoga of the god, for repairing whatever might become broken or torn or worn-out through the ages. Jayakarṇa, the beloved son of the fortunate emperor, and Nidhiyama-gāmuṇḍa gave free of all opposing claims to the Jain temple, lands and houses.64
13.3 The Thousand of the big-village (mahāgrāma) Piriya-Keṛeyūr (modern Hire-Kerür), were virtuous and like the royal swan in the lakes of Arhanta philosophy and other philosophies.65
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13.4 An inscription from Besür (Sh. dt, Sägar tk) of 1089 states that Jaina seats were undisturbed.66
14.1 A Telugu inscription from Bekkallu states that Raviraḍdi of the fourth-caste (caturtha-kula) was a pious Jaina. He had a son by name Camdireḍdi whose friend was Punnireḍdi. Mallireddi, son of
62. Hampa Nagarajalah. Koppaļa-Šāsanagaļu : 1998: "Intro". 63. APGAS-II. Mahabubnagar-58, p. 41.
64. Fleet: JBBRAS, Vol. x-xxx. No. 8. 1087-88 and 1121, pp. 287-92. 65. KI. iv 32. 1088. Bāļambiḍu. pp. 71-73.
66. EC. VIII. Sagara. 103. 1089. Besür (Sh. dt. Sägara tk).