Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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one of the five sacred events in the life of a Tirthanakara. Parinirvāṇa is the final emancipation of an enlightened being followed immediately by salvation (mokşa)
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Madhurāntakasetti, son-in-law of Noļambasetti, died in meditation in the year 1023 C.E. He was a storehouse of humility, birth place of pleasentness, an heap of religious merit, an asylum of knowledge, the first in the path of Manu.
Noļamba-setti son of Revasetti, was a bee at the lotus feet of Nemicandra Siddhāntadeva. He was courteous, mild, just, liberal, worthy of merits and of impeccable character. At the time of his death he went to the Jinagrha, and at the feet of his revered teachers attained the holy death in the year 1039 C.E.
1. It is important to note that Revasetty voluntarily went to the Caityagrha, six months earlier to his death, practiced the vow of gradual fasting unto death, listening to the reading of the Ārādhanā text (Mūlārādhanā, Bșhadārādhanā, Bhagavati-ārādhaņā), and thus carried out the ritual prescription under the supervision of his mendicant teachers With the consecrated act of sallekhana, renunciation of all profane possessions and associations, Revasetti was considered a Mahāpurusa, a noble minded eminent person. He was a disciple of Abhayanandi panditadeva who is identical with Abhyanandi-pandita mentioned in Śravanabelago!a inscriptions (EC. 11 (R) 51 (48), 156 (127) and 173 (140)].
Abhayanandi-pandita was one of the foremost of Jaina mendicants in the Gangavādi 96000 region (K.9), and a preceptor of the Ganga kings. He was a disciple of Traikālyayogi and a grand disciple of Gollācārya (EC. II (R) 51 (48) Ilth cent.C.E. p. 17; ibid, 156 (127), p. 94; ibid, 173 (140) p. 119]. All these pontiffs accomplished ratnatraya, the threejewels, by observing the ritual of meditation and fasting unto death at Koppala.
K.6 and K. 27 Two inscriptions of Koppaļa vividly describe Kundanarasi alias Kundaņasomidevi, elder daughter of Būtuga-permādi