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P. 145. Bina-mim-ki-masjid in Ujjain was built upon (and with the material) of an old Hindu or Jaina temple.
Plate VIII-Rock-cut Jaina sculptures, Gwalior fort 15th century.
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C.R. KRISHNAMA CHARLU, The Kannada descriptions of kopbal (Hyderabad Archaeological Series No. 12), Calcutta, 1935.
Pp. 1-13. The village of Kopbal (locally called Koppala) situated on the left bank of the stream Hirehall an important tributary of the river Tungabhadra. Earliest mention of this great Jaina sanctuary (Kopanapura) in the 7th century (Karn. Hist. Review, Vol. II, P. 48) record of the Western Chalukya king Vijayaditya (A. D. 696-733). An Epigraph of Saka 1032 (A.D. 1110) of the time of Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana, states that through the benefactions of--the Jaina GanganaDandanatha, a general of the king, the province of Gangavadi became famous like Kopana. His elder brother Bamma Chamupa, built many Jain temples at the Adi-tirtha Kopana. Hulta-Senapati, the chief Minister of the Hoysala king Narasimha, son of Vishnuvardhana granted gold for the benefit of the Chaturvimšati --- Jinamuni-savigha at Kopana-Mahātirtha. (Ep. Carn. Vol. II-Revised Edi. Kan. Texts. No. 127, 384, 345). In a record of about A. D. 1283 engraved on the pedestal of the Chaturvimsati-Tirthankara image in the Chandranātha-basti of the village it is mentioned as Kapana-tirtha. (My. Ar. Rep. 1916).
Kopana was not only a great nagara and place of literary celebrity in the 9th century but also it was reputed as a great Jaina-tīrtha, Adi-tistha (original tirtha).
Inscriptions : Texts and Translations: Fully given : 1. Engraved on the Chandrabandi Rock and refers to the tomb (nisidhi) of Gurugala Bhandappa, the disciple of Chamdrasenadeva of Kopana. (13th century AD.).
2. Engraved on the Chandrabandi Rock ; dated Saka 803 (A. D. 881); states that Svanandi-Bhatara, the disciple of Edachattugada-Bhatara, belonging to the Kundakunda line, completed here the vow of renunciation (sanyāsa).
4. Do. Records erection of the Jaina tomb (nisidhi) of Pattanasvāmi Pāyakanna lay disciple of ..... of Bhațāra of the Senagana of the Müla-sagha; 13th century.
5. Engraved below the canopy-shaped boulder to the west of the Palkigundu. Records that Vardhamänadeva disciple of Devendrakirti-Bhatāraka had the image of Chhaya--Chandranāthaşvāmin carved here (the image is there); 18th century A. D.
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