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
19.1 Dhāraladevi, queen consort of Tribhuvanamalladeva, jinapūjālate, a creeper of the worship of Jina, endowed paddy-field under the tank (specified) and she delivered it by pouring water on the gift, in order to make it irrevocable, to the three recipients-Babbideva, the mahāpradhāna, Dhurimayya, the Śrikarana danḍanayaka and Bhogimayya alias Bhogadeva daṇḍanāyaka. The gift was intended to facilitate the acts of observing religious obligation and to perform meritorious austerity in the local Jaina temple.90 With this gift of Dhāraladevi, three of the queen consorts of the emperor VikramadityaVI, have openly extended their devotion to Jainism, the other two queens being Jakaladevi91 and Candaladevi.92
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20.1 When Tribhuvanamalla was ruling from Manyakere under his orders, one third of the endowment given earlier to the Cenince basadi, a Jain temple at Tāṇḍipāmulamka in Kalavaceḍu-40, was deviated to the god Someśvara.93 This is an (unusual) example of readjusting the gifts given earlier. The fact of taking away 1/3 of the grant of the Jaina temple need not be interpreted as a case of king's disrespect or unfavourable attitude to the faith, because there are many more instances of his undiminishing support to the spread of Anekāntamata.
Second Decade
21.1 An epigraph, on a stone set up near the ruined Jaina temple outside the village, registers the installation of the Jaina image and the gifts of a mango grove, twenty mattars of karamba (uncultivated) land and other lands for the repairs of the Jinālaya, feeding of the ascetics; the donars are Biramaraddi, the dandanayaka of the capital Bhuvanagiri, two karanams the village accountants of Bekkallu. Biramaradḍi belonged to vitți-vamsa olim biṭṭa-kula of the raddi-clan. Punniraddi of Nanganuru and Raviraḍdi of Vellamapaṭala also granted some gifts to the above Jinālaya.94
21.2 Another charter of the same period and from the same place as above, records that Malliraḍdi of viṭṭi-kula and the lord of the Bekkallu, granted land (specified) for the worship of manditadeva Jina, feeding of the Jaina friars and nuns; the donee was Gunasena
90. ARSIE 1960-61. No. B-521. 1106; STS: 1995: pp. 104-06. 91. KJS: 1996: pp. 115-18.
92. ibid.,, Citāpur 38, pp. 229-34 and SII. IX-i. 221. pp. 224-25. 93. ARIE 1961-62. B-65. 1107.
94. IAP. Wg. No. 18. 1108. Bairanipalli, pp. 40-44.