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
32.1 An inscription from Aiholle introduces a certain Keśvayaseṭṭi, son of Jempäryya, and Jetiyakka as a 'son' i.e., obedient of the FiveHundred svamins, the respectfull elders of the Ayyavole-Aihole [Ayya (cf. Skt. Ārya. Pali. Ayya) + Polal ('a city')-, a prominent city]. Kesavayya constructed a paṭṭa-sale (hall) of wood for the merit of his mother Jātikavve, who had become a nun, a basadi to the eastern side for the merit of his wife Saviyakka, another basadi on the western side for his own self, caused a well and installed the image of Lokapāla, and endowed house-sites and and oil-mills for the worship of the deities. 126
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33.1 A religio-historical important document comes from the charter of Kalluru-guḍda of C.E. 1121-22, which has gloriously recorded the genealogy of the Ganga dynasty and of a pedigree of Jaina pontiff of Mula-Sangha, Krānūr-gaṇa. 127 The celebrated Barmmadeva who had the family surname of Bhujabala-Ganga Permmāḍideva, made the Arhat-Parsva Jinālaya, which his great forefathers had established, the chief of all the basadis hitherto existing or in future to be established in Eḍatore-Seventy of the Mandali-Thousand, giving it the name of Paṭṭada-basadi, the crown-basadi and endowed it with certain lands (specified). His four sons also made a grant of certain lands at different places (specified). Finally, mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Nanniya-GangaPermmāḍideva, with all the titles of the Gangas, lay disciple of Prabhācandra-Siddhāntadeva caused the Paṭṭada-tirthada basadi, which his grand father had erected to be constructed of stone.
33.2 Again in C.E. 1121-22, he erected for the promotion of his Jaina faith, the Kurali and other basadis, altogether twenty five caityalayas, made grants of lands and the customs dues of Basadiyahalli, a village of Jain temple. Nanniya-Ganga-Permmāḍideva and his Paṭṭa-mahādevi, the crown-queen Kañcala-Devi, having made a vow to the goddess Padmavatidevi, obtained Hermmäḍideva and granted a tribute of five Pana from the villages of the nāḍ, the principality, that he governed to continue as long as sun, moon and stars. 128
34.1 When Bammagāvunda and Cila-gāvuṇḍa were administering Kāgenele-Twelve, the headquarters Kāgenele was glittering with a cluster of Jain temples (Jina-geha-samkulam), 129
34.2 Sobhana-gaunḍa, a resort for the splendour of KāgeneleTwelve, situated in Byāsapura (Bāsūr)-140 division, a Kampana, who
126. SII. XI-ii. 169. 1119. Aihole (Bij dt, Hungund tk) pp. 216-17.
127. EC. VII-i, Sh. 4 1121-11, pp. 10-15.
128. ibid., p. 15, lines: 88-93.
129. SI. XVIII. 117. 1121. Kāginele (Hire-Kerur tk) p. 138.