Jain Journal 2009 07

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

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLIV, NO. 1 JULY. 2009
commencing from early sixth century. Doṇagāmunda, El agāmunda, Ballagāvuṇḍa, Vikramagāvuṇḍa, Keśavagavuṇḍa, Hariyamagavunda, of the genealogy of Dharmagāmunda, continued to lit the lamp of Jaina faith at Aḍur. Similarly, pontiff Sirinandi Bhaṭṭāraka, Madhavacandradeva, Anantakīrtiyati, Maunīśvaradeva, Devendradeva, Kumārasena Muni formed an unbroken chain of monkhood. These repeated epigraphical evidences emphasise the existence of a Jaina monastery at Āḍūr, which was profusely patronised by the Sindas.
The genealogy and the chronology of the Sindas are rather nebulous. All the inscriptions, discovered so far, put together do not enlighten us much about the exact political history of the dynasty. Interestingly, so often, the data suggests a possibility of the Sindas and Sendrakas being two branches of a common stalk. Both of them belong to Nāgavaṁśa and were followers of Jaina faith. The fact that Madhavatti Arasa is mentioned as a Sindarasa lends credibility to the assumption that these two feudatory families are two faces of the same coin. Therefore, the possibility of them being dynastic compeers needs consideration. Aycarāja alias Ayacaparāja, and Acarāja, his brotherin-law, devoted Jainas for whom Jinapati was daivam, belonged to the later Sinda family. Both of them figure as subordinates of Vikramaditya VI (1076-1125), emperor of the Calukyas of Kalyāṇa.
Acarasa alias Acarāja, sen of Barmedeva, ruled Kisukāde, the area around KisuveĻal (mod. Paṭṭadakal), as Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara. Acarāja, mentioned above, was pergade, elder of Abbeyageri, modern Abbigeri in RON Taluka of Gadag Dt. Acarāja, chief Belvola-300 and Nareyangal-12 (s.a Naregal in RON Tk), renovated the Jinālayas built earlier. A charter records that the Sinda chief Niḍudola ("long armed') was born to Dharanendra (s.a Phaṇirāja, Nāgarāja 'the king cobra'). The Sindas had hooded-serpent on their banner and ruled over Sindavāḍinādu, olim Sinda-Viṣaya, the Sendrakas were Bhujagendras ('the serpent-kings') and the Senavāras had Phanidhvaja, 'serpent-flag'. The Santaras basically belonged to Maha