Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH: VIKRAMADITYA VI AND JAINISM
obtained from the Calukya emperor of Kuntala, i.e. Vikramaditya-VI, a royal honour of holding white umbrella (Candra-Kode).Sobhanagaunda and his spouse Mallikavve were lay votaries of Jainism. Mallikavve is described as the moon to the ocean of Jina-dharmma. The later successors of this family liberally donated land, areca-nut garden and money to the worship of Saiva god Angajesvara. 130
35.1 A charter states that Madhava-cakravartin acquired by the mercy of the Jaina goddes Yakṣeśvari, eight thousand elephants, ten crore horses and innumerable infantry. In the line of that king was born Guṇḍarāja. Nāgarāja, minister of Gundaraja had Jaina hermits as his preceptors, who belonged to Krāṇurgana Meṣapāṣāṇa-gaccha. Nāgarāja alias Nāgadeva installed the image of Pārsva-jineśvara, built a caityalaya and endowed it with some tanks, with the permission of Meḍarāja, elder brother of Gunḍarāja. 131
35.2 Meḍarāja and Guṇḍarāja brothers made grant of land for the merit of their father; horse traders also made a gift of land and one pair of china silk cloth per each horse to the god. The merchants of the place Sanagaram who belonged to Vajikula also made several grants. There were two Jinälayas at Govindapuram; the Pārsvajineśvara image was installed in the temple which was already in existence and, in addition to that, another temple was caused. The genealogy of Jaina pontiffs also confirms the prominence of the place as a Jaina seat. A chronological list of the spiritual descendants like Bālacandra, Meghacandra-bhaṭṭāraka, his disciple MeghacandraSiddhantadeva, clearely confirms the existence of a Jaina-Matha, a monastery, at this famous Jaina settlement in medieval period.
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35.3 The inscription is on a stone pillar, erected in the tank called as a komați-ceruvu, the nomen evidently suggesting that the tank (ceruvu) was built by the merchants who were the horse dealers. The Komatis are the Vaisyas who were the Jaina seṭṭis and were later branched off from the Jaina stalk and developed with a separate entity.1
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36.1 An epigraph from Aihole refers to the mountain (Per-giriyan) on which the temple is situated and to the Jaina ṛṣis of Mula-Sangha, the original congregation; it also mentions a certain Setti who must have gifted (lands) to the temple and for food to Jaina monks. 133
130. KI. IV. 10. 1121. Hire-Halli (Byadagi-Mahal), pp. 25-30.
131. IAP. Wg. No. 26. 1122. Govindapuram (AP: Wg dt. Narasampet tk). pp. 71-75. 132. Jawaharlal : Jainism in Andhra : 1994: 319-24.
133. ARIE 1968-69. No. 79. 1123, p. 31. Aihole.