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 was governing the Alandenādu, Bibbarasa was the feudatory chief and the Lord of Kopanapura. Bibbarasa, obtainer of a boon from the Jaina deity Padmavatidevi, was an ornament of Alande. Caudhare Rakkasayya, an officer under Bibbarasa, "being a staunch adherent of the Jaina faith, he zealously practised its teachings. He was a lay disciple of the great teacher Bālacandra Siddhāntadeva. This teacher was a constituent of the Mülasangha, Desiga-gana, Pustaka gachcha and Piriya samudāya (senior section).79 Rakkasayya, a lay votary of the Arhanandi bettadadeva, known for fourfold charities prescribed for the Jaina house holder had an ideal spouse. Akkanabbe, consort of Rakkasayya, a jem of women, spent her days in worship, liberal grants. Sāntivarma allas Santa, a worthy son of Rakkasayya and Akkanabbe, was a lay disciple of Bāļacandradeva. Caudhare Rakkasayya and Malliyakka, his consort had caused a JinaPārsvanātha temple of stone and reading-hall where an image of Arhat Sāntināthadeva was installed. 80 They donated, in 1098-99, twelve mattars land of black soil, a garden, an oilmill and ten houses (boundary stipulated) to the Pārsvanatha temple and to the Sāntināthadeva at the pattasāle for conducting the ceremonial occasions of abhişeka, daily ablutions, aştavidhārcane, eight-fold worship, and fivadaya. aştami, the eighth day of the light half in the month of Āsvayuja, the typical Jaina festivals, and also made provision for feeding the rşis at Hadangile (the modern Hunasi-Hadagali). The inscribed tablet setup by the donor provides a long list of the pedigree of Jaina ascetics to which Bālacandra Siddhāntadeva belonged. 81
16.2 At Karjagi olim Sāyabbeya-Karanjige (Gul dt, Afazalpur tk), Pațţamahādevi-Bhāgaladevi, crown queen of Pandya-Vamsa (clan), caused an excellent Jaina temple called Ratna-traya-basadi, a temple of three jewels; Bhāgaladevi endowed it with seventy mattars of land, a garden and an oil-mill and entrusted it to Vimalacandra-Panditadeva in C.E. 1099.
17.1 An interesting non-Jaina inscription from Belur tk (Hn dt.) of Saka 1023 (C.E. 1100-01) has the usual Jaina invocatory Sloka of Srimat-parama-gambhira syādvādāmogha-lancanam, a quotation from Bhatta Akalanka-ācārya's Prämāna-Samgraha (C. 730 C.E.). 'but the last word has been changed from Jina Śāsanam to Sivasäsanam. 82
79. Desal 247. 80. KJS : Citäpura-38. 1098-99. Hunasi-Hadagall (Gul dt, citāpur tk). pp.
229-34. 81. Desai : 252-59. 82. E.C. IX (R) BI. (v BI 199). 1100-01. p. 177.