Jain Journal 1999 07

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

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NAGARAJAIAH : VIKRAMADITYA VI AND JAINISM four faiths, a bee at the lotus feet of Hari-Hara-Jina-Buddha, caused the Manastambha as a pillar of fame and victory; it manifested like a diamond pillar for supporting the woman earth. Kolanupāka, olim Kollipāka the modern Kulpak in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh
nerve centre of Jaina church for centuries, during the reign of the Rāstrakūtas and the Cālukyas of Kalyāna. 140 In fact, it was known as a tīrtha during the period of Cālukyas.141 It was accorded a specially favoured position during this period; An inscription of the time of Vikramaditya-VI has a reference to the famous Jaina stalwart, who governed Kollipaki-7000 and caused basadis.142
38.2 It was here that one of the royal (crown) temples and an ornament of the Calukya-kula existed and which was renowned as Cālukya-kulatilaka basadi olim Ambara tilaka basadi; It was also known as Akkabasadi or Ambikādevi temple because of the image of Ambikā the jinaśāsanadevi (Yaksī) of Neminātha-Tirthankara. 143 There were basadis at the Jattu-pura of Kollipake. 144 Mahamandalesvara CalukyaGanga-Permmādi Kumāra (crown prince) Someśvara-III, son of Vikramāditya, on the request of his minister-dandanāyaka Sāyimayya, endowed the Ambikādevi of Ambara-Tilaka olim Cālukyakula-Tilaka, temple par excellence for the anga ranga-bhoga, a village named
ura and was entrusted to the perggade of the temple.145 The inscription on the pillar near the tank, behind the Someśvara temple contains twelve Kannada and seven Sanskrit verses with the description of Jaina monks of Kāņür gana Meşapāsaņa-gaccha.
39.1 A record dated Saka 1047 (A.D. 1125), of the reign of Tribhuvanamalladeva, states that mahāsāmanta Bammadeva had the grant of land previously made by his uncle Mahā-sāmanta Mārtandayya, for the upkeep of a tank inscribed on stone; Bammarasa and his cousin Nākarasa, members of a prestigeous Jaina family, were descended from Cāvundarāya, the Nārgāvunda of Muguda-Thirty situated in Mahārājavāļi-nāļu, a sub-division of Palasige-12,000.146
39.2 Cāvundarāya had caused the acts of merit by building basadi, tank, well, an alms-shed for free distribution of water and buttermilk.
140. SEAP. IX. p. 22. 1100, and SEAP. X. p. 25. 1111. 141. Jawaharlal : 1994 : 93-94. 142 ARIE 1961-62. No. 84. 1067. 143. ARIE 1961-62. No. B-92. 144. APGRE 1965. No. B-260. 1056. 145. APGAS-iii Ng. 43. Ins. No. 45 1) 25 p. 56-57. 146. SII. XI-ii 177. 1125. Mugad (Dh. dt. tk) pp. 231-36.