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Inscriptions at Śravaņa Belgola.
Lewis Rice. (Epigraphia Carnatica. Vol. II.) Bangalore, 1889.
This work is of a capital importance for the history of the Jainism. It comprises four principal sections.
Introduction :
Text of the inscriptions in Latin characters; Translation of the inscriptions ; Text of the inscriptions in Canara characters.
To these four parts, it is proper to add a list of inscriptions with summary of each of them.
Introduction.
Pages.
1. Description of Sravana Belgola. 1-2. Episode of Bhadrabāhu coming from the north to be settled in this
locality and died there towards 290 B. c.
3-15. Tradition relating to Bhadrabāhu and to his establishment at
Śravana Belgola, according to a compendium of Jaina history, entitled "Rajavalikathe", and drawn up in Canara, in the last century, by Devacandra. Tradition relating to the emperor Candragupta, disciple of Bhadrabāhu--critical study of the chronological harmony
between Bhadrabāhu and Candragupta. 15.17. Notes on the Jaina suicide by deprivation of food (Sallekhana). 17-18. Description of the temple of Candragupta.
22-23. Historical ideas on Camundarāya, minister of the king Rājamalla, of
the Ganga dynasty. It is this minister who caused to raise the colossal statue of Gomateśvara (towards Saka 905--983 A.D.).
24-25: Historical ideas and legends on Gomata.
29-33. Description of the colossal statue of Gomateśvara, and reviews on
the two analogous statues of Kārkala and of yénür.
36, Reviews on the philosophical doctrine of the "Syädvada",
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