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 Punnireddi, established a Jina-temple and a Trikūța-basadi at Vrekallu (Bekkallu). This Jina shrine was a combination of twenty-one shrines. Mallireḍdi endowed the basadi with gifts.
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14.2 Gomarasa, a māṇḍalika, constructed a Jina-gṛha and endowed it with a grant of paddy field, a flower garden, an-oil-mill, which was entrusted to his preceptor Candrasena-ācārya.68
14.3 A record of the reign of Tribhuvanamalla highly eulogies Gopanandi-Panditadeva of Kondakunda anvaya, Mula-Samgha, Desigagana and registers a grant of Racanahalla, a brook and the Belgola12, by mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Tribhuvanamalla Ereyanga-Poyasala for the repairs of the basadis of Kabbappu-tirtha, i.e., Sravanabelagola, for worship, gifts of food, dancing girls and attendants.69
15.1 Jakaladevi, beloved queen of Vikramaditya-VI, and daughter of Tikka, renowned for her attainments in fine arts, was in charge of the administration of the village Ingulige olim Ingalagi (Gulbarga dt. Citapur tk). She was a zealous follower of Jainism. "One day, a sculptor, having secured an audience with the queen, was exhibiting an image of the god Mahu-Manikya. At that moment, the king happened to come there. Moved by her unflinching devotion, he exhorted her to purchase the image from the artist and enshrine it in her estate village. Accordingly, she erected a decent temple and installed the image there in. This typical anecdote, simple as it is, bears profound significance. For it reveals, in conjunction with other similar instances, the psychological background for the mighty faith of Jainism that wielded powerful influence over the rank and file of the people of Karnāṭaka during this period."70
15.2 The queen Jākaladevi accorded an endowment of land in C.E. 1094, for the maintenance of the Jinageha that she caused so affectiontely at Ingunige, with the approval of the king and made over, with due ceremony of laving the feet, into the hands of IndrasenaBhaṭṭāraka who was to look after its management. She gifted 21 mattars of land, free of all imposts, a garden, a paddy field (all boundaries specified).71 It is suggested that the queen Jakaladevi and
67. IAP: Wg. 20 C. 1090 (undated). Bekkallu (AP: Wg dt. Janagaon tk) pp. 45-50.
68. APGRE 1965. B-257. 1093. Kolanupaka-Kollipake (AP: Ng dt) p. 53. 69. EC. II(R) 568 (V cn 148). 1094. Hale-Belgola (Hn dt, cn tk), pp. 349-51. 70. P.B. Desai, 1957: 230.
71. KJS: 1996: 115-118.