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Jyoti Prasad JAIN.-Some unpublished Jaina Inscriptions. (Jain Ant., vol. XXII, No. II) Arrah, 1964, Pp. 1 to 8.
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1. Pallava Charter from the Tanjavur district of the State of Madras dated in the 6th regnal year of Pallava Simhavarman (c. 550-575 A.D.) which records the grant of lands in Amnserkkai and Tomar the Jain saint Vajranandin of Paruttikkunru in the earliest copper-plate inscription of the Pallavas of Kanchi. The saint Vajranandin of this record is most probably identical with Vajranandin, the author of Nava-stotra and the founder of the Dramila or Dravida Sangha.
A copper-plate grant of the Western Chalukya emperor Vijayaditya issued in Saka year 630 (A.D. 708) from Shiggaon (in the Dharwar district of the present State of Maharashtra) recording certain donations made by that king to the Jain bhavana which had been erected by the princess Kumkunadetti, a sister of Vijayaditya proves that the family creed of the Western Chalukyas of Vatapi in the 7th8th centuries was Jainism, and that Vijayaditya's feudatory chiefs the Alupa rulers of Vanavasi were also followers of Jainism.
3. Stone inscription from Macherla (In Palnad talug of Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh) of the region of the Eastern Chalukya king of Vengi, Jayasimhavallabha II, and issued in the 8th year (C. 714 A.D.) of his reign records gift of land to the god Arhanta Bhatara by certain officers of Pallinandu. It is curious that the region (Palnand talug) has retained its original Jaina nomenclature during the past thirteen centuries.
4. A stone inscription from Lemulavada (in the district of Karimnagar of the erstwhile Nizam's dominion) belonging to the reign of King Baddega of the Chalukya royal family of Lemulavada records the construction of Jinalaya (Jain temple) by king Baddega at the instance of or for the benefit of Somadeva Suri of the Gauda Samgha. There is no doubt that the Somadeva Sūri of this record is none else but the reputed author of Nativakyamrita and Yasastilaka Champu and that the Jain temple referred to the Subhadhama Jinalayo for the maintenance of which King Arikesari, the son and successor of this Chalukya Chief Baddega or Vaddega issued a copper-plate grant in Śaka 888 (A.D. 966) in favour of his guru Somadeva Suri.
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5. A spurious epigraph from Kallubhavi (in the Belgaum district of the Mysore State), dated Saka 261 (?) Kihhawa but written in characters of the eleventh century, records that in the reign of Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsa his Mahamandaleshvara Saigotta-Ganga Permandi (alias Shivamāra) made a gift of the village of Mukkudavada in Kadalavalli 30 the temple of Jinendra and states that this grant was renewed by Kancharasa. It seems that at the time of the rene
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