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Engraved on the Palkigundu hill in close proximity to the Asokan Inscription. States that Chavayya liad the foot prints of Jațasinganandi Acārya carved here (Foot print still there); 18th century.
6. Engraved on the roof-rock of a cave to the south of the Palkigundu boulder. Belongs to the reign of (the Western Chalukya King Vikrmāditya, V) A. D. 10091017). Records that saint Simhanandi tammadegal observed here the vow of sanjäsa (Imgiņimarana); his disciples Simhanandi-anna, Matisagara-Anna, Naralo Kamitra and Brahmachari-Anna attended upon him. He was succeeded by Kalyan.Kiiti; after him Ravichandra chārya; he was followed in order, by Gunasāgra—Munipati, Gunachandra-Munindra, Abhayanandi and Māghanandi. Kalyāṇakirti built the Jinendra-chaitya at Bichchukundi.
9. Engraved on the pedestal of a Jaina image found at Kopbal but now deposited in Salar Jang's palace at Surūr Nagar, Hyderabad (sre frontispices). Records that Bopanna and his wife who was the lay disciple of rāya-räjaguru, Mandalachārya Māghanandi---Siddhānta-Chakravarti, had the image of the 24th Tirthankaras made and presented it to the besadi constructed by Madana-Dandanayaka of the Desiya-gana of the Müla-sangha. (see Arch. Report of Mysore, 1916, P. 83 and Ind. Vol. XXXII. PI. IV).
10. Engraved on the pedestal of another Jaina image (now in Salar Jang's Collection). Records that this image of the Pancha-Parameşthins made by Devanna, the son of Achannaya who was the Kulagiri-senabone of Erambarge, the capital city, and who was the lay-disciple of Madhavachandra Bhattāraka of the Ingateśvara branch or school of the Pustaka-gachchha belonging to the Desiya-gana of the Mūlasangha. Pancha-Parameșthins described.
P. 14. Appendix-other literaty and epigraphical references of Kopbal and its antiquities.
Pp. 15-18. Index :
Illustration :
Plate I. No. 1--Chandrabandi Rock Jaina Sculptures and Kanarese inscrip
tion. No. 2. Chandrabandi Rock Jaina Canarese inscription Śaka 303.
Pates II-III. Nos. 3-5. Chandrabandi Rock Canarese inscription.
Plate IV. No. 6. Palki-Gundu Canarese inscription.
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