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
36.2 An inscription, now in the museum of Bijapur, of this period, contains verses of Nagacandra, the court poet of Vikramaditya.134
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36.3 The town Ponnavartti, the modern Honnatti village, was more scintillating with the reddish Jain temples [cem-basadiya tintiniyin alumbam sogayisugum] and the lay votaries were striving to attian the mokṣa (svargga-pavargga-sādhakas).135
37.1 A fairly long record of Teridāļa, a sub-division of Kuhundi3000, in Kuntala country, records that māṇḍalika Gonkadevarasa, the lord of Terdāļa, belonging to the Jimutavahana clan, had the GonkaJinalaya constructed in the midst of his residence and installed Nemi Jinanatha. His immediate master was Kārtaviryadevarasa of the Saundatti-Raṭṭa-family, who was a feudatory of Vikramaditya-VI. Himself a devout Jaina, Kārtaviryadevarasa was physically present on the holy occasion of installing the image of Arhat (jina-bimba). 136
37.2 In the presence of Kārtviryadevarasa, his mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, Gonkadevarasa māṇḍalika made a grant of land and garden for the worship and offerings of Neminātha-Jina; the gifts were received by his preceptor Maghanandi-Siddhantadeva who was the chief abbot of the diocese of the Rūpa-nārāyaṇa-basadi at Kolhapura. The epigraph contains an account of the ascetics of this genealogy. It is of historical value to note that the adept Maghanandi-ācārya was also the preceptor of Nimbadevasāmanta, a famous Jaina votary of this period.
37.3 The merchants of the town including the oil-mill owners, the potters, and the betel-leaf merchants, made liberal grants for the worship of eight kinds, for feeding the Jaina monks, for the repairs and for the dāna-sāle the house of charities. 137 This Gonkadevarasa is different form Vira-Gonkarasa-I and II, the feudatories of Taila-III.138 Gonka Jinalaya was one of the prestigeous Jain-temples of this period. Third Decade
38.1 A mānastabha, characteristic Jaina pillar of eminence, at Kolanupaka was erected by Svämideva, a daṇḍādhisa of Kollipaka7000.139 Daṇḍādhīsa Svāmideva alias Sāyimayya, protector of all the
134. SII. XVIII. 125. C. 1123. pp. 155-57.
135. ibid.,, 124. 1124, p. 155. Honnatti (Ranebennur tk) p. 155, lines: 34-35. 136. KI. V. 21. 1125.
137. IA. xiv. 1125. Terdal (Bij Dt. Jamakhandi tk) p. 14.
138. ARIE 1960-61. Nos. 513-14, p. 30.
139. APGAS-iii. Ng. 43. Ins. No. 45. 1125, pp. 53-57.