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Text. Note---one more Epi. an archaic inscription from Pāñchapāndavamalai, dated in the 50th year of the Pallava King Nandipottarasar, which speaks of the creation of an image of a Golden Yakshi on the hill. Evolution of the Yakshi worspips. Images of Yakshi, like those of the Jinas, were installed independently in shrines. Helāchāryā (Elächārya) of the Dravidagaña, inventor of the cult of Jvālāmālini, An inscription at Sedam in the Gulbarga Dist. (Hyderabad) States mystic rites for propitrating jvālāmälini.
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P. B. Desar.--- More Inscriptions at Ablur. (Epi. Ind. Vol. XXIX, 1952) Delhi, 1955.
P. Ablur, a village about six miles north of Hirekerur headquarters of Kot Taluk, Dhārwār District. The activities of Ekāntad Rāmayya, the militant protagonist of the Saiva upheaval, are centered in the temple of Someśvara ; this temple contains an inscription above a panel of sculptures depicting the scene of Rāmayya's encounter with the Jains as described by Fleet (above vol. V, pp. 260-61). Text, Translation - The sculptures depict the scene of a Jina placed horizontally ready to be broken. The Text, Translation. Ekāntada Rāmayya breaking the image of Jina and setting up the Sivalinga. Ekāntada Rāmayya.
P. 143 N.I.-His persecution of the Jainas. A parallel instance from the neighbouring province. With the ascendency of Jainism the Jainas of the Tamil country were persecuted and the scenes of such persecutions are depicted in sculptures on the walls of the Temple at Tiruvatlur in the N. Arcot. Distt. (An Rep. on S.I. Epi. Ind. 1923 p. 4).
N. 4.-In the wake of Rāmayya's victory conversions for Jainism to Saivism took place on a mass scale according to the Abalur-Charitre.
P. 144. By the middle of the 12th century Karnatak witnessed the upsurge of a great religious movement emphasising the superiority of God Siva and his devotion. The Kalachuri usurper Bijjala a protagonist of the orthodox Brahmanical creeds. Harihara's Basvarājadevara Ragale-conflict between Bijjala and Basaveśvara. The theory of Jaina leanings of Bijjala exploded (above vol. XXI, Pp. 9ff and 17 Arjunavada inscription).
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