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 adjacent to Gangāpur, three KMs away from Jadacherla (Andhra Pradesh) included as part of Kandūr-nad olim Kandur-1000 region. 162
45.2 It is stated in an inscription from Balehalli that a certain Bammisetti constructed a basadi in Baleyahalli (AP: MN dt] and set up the image of Pārsvanātha therein and made certain gifts to Maladhārideva of Kondakundānvaya Desiga-gana Postaka-gaccha, while Jagadekamalla Boppadevarasa was governing Banavāsi-12,000, and registers other gifts to the Pārsva Jinālaya. 163 Bammisetti referred to the above para (45.1) may be identical with this pious Jaina lay votary.
45.3 The slab containing the above inscription has been fixed into the shrine of the Bāļenhalli tank; it gives the genealogy of Cālukya Cakravarti Jagadekamalladeva III (1137-49), grandson of Vikki. The place name Balehalli, a Kannada word, has been changed into Bādepalli, a Telugu form.
46.1 An inscription from Aihole mentions the name of SiddhantaCakravarti (other details of the name are lost) belonging to Müla-Sangha Desi-gana Postaka-gaccha, and Sātisetti of Gunda-Perūru. It is quite likely, as the circumstantial external evidence supports, that the Setti mentioned in ARIE 1968-69. No. 69 of 1123 (p. 31. Aihole) may be idential with Sātisetti of the present charter. The nature and the purpose of the gifts given by this donor are not known. 164
46.2 A fragment lying in the Banasankari temple of Asundi (Belgaum dt, Parasgad tk) of the period of Tribhuvanamalladeva, invokes the Jinaśāsana, mentions the Two Hundred Mahājanas of Asundi, versed in the four Vedas and in the six tarkas. The rest of the portion of the (undated) charter is lost. 165
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47.1 The main aim of the present paper is, not to interpret the fundamentals of Jaina Siddhānta (philosophy), but to focus the position held by the Jaina church during the conspicuously long reign of Vikki, from the historical genesis and its functional role, wherever possible. His reign is most notable for political success and outstanding by the patronage extended to religious activities; it was a period of a leap
162. Jinamanjari, 17-1, April. 98, pp. 56-58. 163. ARIE 1947-48. No. B. 176. A.P. 1146. p. 22. 164. IA. VIII. p. 245 1127. 165. ARIE 1939-44. APP. E-3. p. 240.