Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH : VIKRAMADITYA VI AND JAINISM
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her father Tikka belonged to Telugu country,72 rather than of the Kadamba stock. 73
15.3 "Doni in the Mundargi Pethā was a conspicuous abode of the Jaina doctrine during the period of the 11th to the 13th centuries A.D. This town whose ancient name was Dronāpura, was being administered by Lakshmi Mahādevi, the senior queen of Vikramaditya-VI, in A.D. 1097. In that year, a Jaina temple was constructed in this place by a merchant named Sovisetti who made a gift of land for its maintenance into the hands of the preceptor Cărukirti-Pandita. Besides the temple constructed by Sovisetti, a few more Jaina temples must have existed in this place."74 Sovisețți made the gift of two mattars of land and a gardan, with the boundary marked, in the presence of the sixty mahājanas of the great agrahāra Droņāpura headed by the Urodeya, chief of the place, and the several settis, the traders of the place.75 The Dāyimayya, a lay follower of Municandra-Siddhāntadeva, has authored the concerned charter of 45 lines.
15.4 A slab from Ujjili containing two epigraphs, one in the front side and the other one on the reverse, refers to the Baddi-Jinālaya in the fort of the capital city of Ujji-Volal.76 The Jaina temple named after Baddega-Amoghavarşa (936-39), the Rāştrakūta emperor as BaddiJinālaya where cenna-Pārsvadeva, the 23rd Tirthankara was the presiding-god (müla-Nayaka). An early inscription records certain grants to this Jinālaya.77
A later charter, on the very reverse of the same slab, of the period of Vikramādityadeva, registers the gift of a tank to the god Pārsvanātha of Baddi-Jinālaya by the great minister cum dandanāyaka bāhattaraniyoga-Srikarana. Bhānudevarasa with the consent of Saudhare Keśavyya-nāyaka after laving the feet of the Indrasena Panditadeva, the abbatial chief of the local diocese. 78 The gift was for the ablution, lamp, frankincense, offering of fruits, eight types of worship, white washing, renovation and repairs.
Twelfth Century: First Decade
16.1 When Candaladevi, one of the senior queens of Vikramāditya,
72. Desai 231. 73. Fleet : Bombay Gazetter, Vol. I. part-ii, p. 448. 74. Desai : 144; ARSIE 1927-28, APP-E No. 74, 1097. 75. SII. XI-ii. 140. 1096-97. pp. 169-71. 76. APGAS-il. MN. 60 and 61. 77. ibid.,, MN. 61. A.D. 966-67. Ujjili. p. 43. 78. ibid.,, MN. 60 C.E. 1097. p. 42.