Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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40/Jaina Corpus of Koppala
K.17
K.18
K.19
The importance of this charter in the context of jaina ägama and ācārya tradition needs no exaggeration. The Śārdulavikriḍita Vṛtta (in the first six lines of the epigraph), extolling the towering personality of KKA, figures again in k.52, k.60 and k.62, in the Huṇasi-Haḍagali inscription of 1099 and in the colophon portion of the Dhavala-Ṭikā. Again, it is note worthy that Meghacandra Siddhanta munindra who figures so prominently in the colophon of the Mahā Dhavala-Ṭika (Mahābandha), along with his worthy pupil Māghanandi Vratindra, died at Koppala. He was an adroit in different discipline and a connoisseur in agamas, and the four fold congregation considered him as a mobile piligrim centre (jangama-tirtha)!
Mākāļayya, free from evil ways, ardent follower of Ajitaswamy, the second Tirthankara, who had quelled all the sin, protector of all, worshipped by even the divine beings. However we ponder, Bayūra Mākāļayya shines unparalleled on this earth, generous in virtues. Karamayya, his father, Caṭṭakabbe, his mother, possessed pure qualities. Mākāļayya of Bayur learnt, well in advance, that the inevitable death is knocking his doors, renounced the sense of belonging. With a smile on his lips, invoked the lotus feet of Arhat-Parameśvara, an epithet of one who has attained kevala-jñāna, infinite knowledge, the omniscient, breathed his last in virtuous concentration on 9-7-998 Saturday. Caṭṭakabbe, his mother erected the post-mortem memorial stone column.
An axil is important to the wheel of a chariot; Nemicandra Siddhanta Munindra, who had reached the other end of Jaina āgama, was like a moon to the ocean of Jaina order. [It is an incomplete inscription].
Jayanandi Siddhanti, a mine of knowledge, shone brilliantly, as an ornament to Maiļāpa anvaya, a sect of Jaina mendi