Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH: VIKRAMADITYA VI AND JAINISM
Oramgallu, a town under the control of Melarasa at the time of grant. A Päga (hāga) the fourth part of a pana out of the grants, was to be paid to Boya-Padda, a temple sweeper. Incidentally, it may be noted that Beta had constructed ten temples, houses for gods, of his Jaina faith. 120 The gift was for the daily worship, incense, lights and oblations in the temple and for the food, and clothing of the priest.
28.1 A badly damaged epigraph registers a gift of land to the worship of Jinendra in the Jinālaya, free of all imposts with the boundaries marked; other details of the donor and donee are completely obliterated. 121
29.1 An inscription, on the Candragiri of Śravanabelagola, records the grant of the village Parama by Gangarāja alias Ganga-camūpati, one of the greatest generals of the army of the Hoysalas, to his guru Subhacandra-Siddhantadeva, after washing his feet, for the maintenance of a Jinālaya constructed by his mother Pocabbe and his wife Laksmi. It also states that Gangaraya, the great minister and daṇḍanayaka, renovated all the basadis of Gangavaḍi and the enclosure built around Gommaṭadeva of Gangavādi. 122 The historical value of this inscription is enhanced by the fact that it has recorded an unusual incident of the army of Vikramaditya-VI which was made to flee from the camp at Kannegāla, not withstanding the attack of the general Gangaraja. Pleased at this, Hoysala Viṣṇuvardhana requested the general, to ask anything which he would grant; the result was that the general asked for neither kingdom nor wealth, but, intent on the worship of Arhat, only asked for the imperishable gift of the village Parama and in turn granted the same to provide for worship in the Jaina temples so lovingly erected by his mother. 123
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31.1 An inscription from Lakkundi registers gift of the dasavanda, one-tenth (Skt. daśabandha) income from the smithy of the god Bharatesvara, made by Ketoja and Ganga, to the god." 124
31.1 The Sankaraseṭṭi basadi as Piriya-Kaḍambūru, built earlier, continued to be popular; a grant of twelve mattars of land and a tank was made over to the god Parissadeva olim Pārsvadeva, mūlanayaka of this temple in A.D. 1119.125
120. IAP. Wg. 22. 1117. Annakonda pp. 55-60.
121. SII. XI-ii. 166. 1117. Jakkali (Gadag Dt, Ron tk) p. 213.
122. EC II(R). 82 (73). 1118. SB (Hn dt Cn tk) pp. 64-65.
123. ibid., p. 65. lines: 20-29.
124. SII. XI-ii. 193. 1118. Lakkui, p. 250.
125. APGES No. 6: IAP : Wg. 26. 1119. Pedda-Kadumuru, pp. 71-72.