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
Gojjyakka, spouse of Mārtandayya had the title of Ghatāntaki, a cognomen of Dānacintāmaņi Attimabbe and jina-sāsanadevate, attendent goddess of the Jina.147 Nakarasa a banner of Jinadharmma, had constructed the Jain temples (āyatanas), distributed food, respected the four faiths as his own and lived like a bee in the lotus feet of Jina; so were Bammarasa and Mārtanďayya. The record was composed by the poet Nagarjuna-pandita; This epigraph is a continuity of an early inscription, 148 and there are two other charters providing additional information of this illustrious Jaina family. 149
40.1 A damaged inscription from the village Togarakunta records the grant of one flower garden, two house sites (nivesaņa), one oilmill, twelve mattars of land and pasture-ground by the dandanāyaka Komanayya and others to the basadi of Candraprabhadeva, the eighth Tirthankara at Togarikunţe in Kudiyape-40 sub-division for an oblation (nivedya) for conducting worship, for feeding the rșis, for the repairs and white washing. 150 This gift was made for the merit of Mahāmandalesvara Kumāra-Tailapadeva, son of Vikramāditya and his wife Candaladevi.
41.1 A much damaged and broken slab in two parts mentions that mahāmandalesvara Sankaradeva made a gift of land of black soil (twelve mattars), a garden, an oil-mill, a house site and certain other lands (specified) to a Jaina temple.151
42.1 Manigāra Kāļisetti, a great trader of Tumboļa caused a Jinagriha at Gangāpura and installed Cenna-Pārśva. 152 An inscription on the slab opposite to Cenna-Keśava-devālaya at Gangāpur provides this information. Megacandrabhattāraka of Mūla-sangha, Kānūr-gana Meşapāşāņa-gaccha was the pontiff of this temple. The Five HundredSvāmins of Aiyyavole, 36 Bidus, Mummuri-dandas, the whole ubhayanānā-desis, all the faiths, the setti jointly endowed the temple. 153 It is possible that Bammisetti of Manakere installing once more the CennaPārsva image caused by Kālisetti of Tumbola, after washing the feet of Meghacandra-Siddhāntadeva, and made serveral grants. 147. ibid., lines : 35 and 47. 148. SII. XI-i. 78. 1045. Muguda. p. 68. 149. ibid., Nos. 206. Sirūr, p. 261, and 211. Mugud pp. 254-65. 150. SII. IX-i, 221. 1125. Togarikunta (AP : Anantapur dt. Dharmāvaram tk)
pp. 224-25. 151. SII. IX-i. 290. C 1125. Kuruvatti (Bellary dt, Harapanahalli tk) pp. 309
10. 152. ARIE 1961-62, B-39 C. 1125. 153. EA. IV. No. 7. 1125. Jadacherla.