Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH: VIKRAMĀDITYA VI AND JAINISM
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paramātma-dhyānadeva.95 Malliraḍḍi is eulogised as an ornament of the Jaina householder (Śrāvakābharana), head-jewel of the right-faith, who had accomplished charity, worship, sterling character and fasting, the four virtues.
21.3 The trading community, the officials of the mint and others in the coinage, gave several gifts to the Brahma-Jinālaya of Hiriya('senior')-Gobbūru (Raichur dt). At present this inscription is preserved in the Hyderabad Museum.96 This lithic record also contains rare impricatory verses of Jaina motif, which I have discussed elsewhere. 97 The temple is also referred to as Nagara-Jinālaya which shows that it belonged to the corporation of the local traders. Gobbūru was a freely endowed agrahāra.
21.4 A Brahma-Jinālaya of the same period but different from the above mentioned temple, constructed at Beļavatti (Hāveri dt, Hānagal tk), flourished with munificent grants.98
22.1 In the 35th year of Calukya-Vikrama-kāla, i.e., C.E. 1111, Ketavve, Bittideva, Bhujabala-Ganga-permmāḍi Bamma-gāvunda and the nal-Prabhus (country sheriffs), made a grant of land (specified) with six houses and one oil-mill to the Jinālaya. Ketavve, who caused the Jinagṛha, was a lay disciple of Municandradeva who was a pupil of Kanakanandi-Traividyādeva, a confrere of Subhacandradeva.99 Bogadeva, a senabova, a village accountant and a lay votary of Kanakanandi-Traividyadeva composed this charter. 100
22.2 When the celebrated mahāmaṇḍaleśvara TribhuvanamallaBhujabala Ganga Permmäḍideva, his crowned queen Ganga-Mahādevi and their family of four sons, were in the Mandali-Thousand in their residence of Eḍehalli, the Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara's other half Bacaladevi, an accomplished musician and dancer, made a caityālaya of Pārsvanatha, an ornament to the Mandalinaḍ. In the 37th CālukyaVikrama year, the year Nadana i.e. C.E. 1113, the mahāmaṇḍdaleśvara, his chief consort, perggade Bacaladevi, the four princes and all the
95. Ibid.,, Wg. No. 19, undated (C. 1108) Bairanipalli (Wg. dt. Janagaon tk) PP. 44-45.
96. Hyderabad Archaeological Series No. 18: A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Kannada Districts of Hyderabad State, (ed) P.B. Desai, 1958, Inscription No. 8. C.E. 1109, pp. 51-52.
97. Hampa Nagarajaiah, Candrakoḍe: 1997-B : 159-60.
98. ARSIE 1946-47. No. 216. A.D. 1100.
99. EC. VII-i, Sh. 89. 1111. Hebbaṇḍegrāma (Sh. dt) pp. 102-03. 100. ibid.