Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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where, the monk Trikālayogi was concentration personified, and was equally firm-footed in jaina scripture. After his successful practice of abstract concentration (tapa) in the above three strenuous types of yoga, towards the end of his life, at the feet of Jina of Kopana, after perseverance in his tapas, and when the inevitable end had approached him, Trikālayogi bhalāra decided to perform sallekhanā, the ritual death by fasting. He did the religious obligation for three days and abandoning the cares of worldly possessions, destroying the strength of the effect of sin, was rewarded with the eternal bliss and attained final emancipation from the cycle of birth and death (moksa) on 1-11-997 (Monday). When he attained the salvation, the deliverance of the soul from the individual body, even the gods and Indra, their chief, bowed their head in reverence to the monk. Jakabbe kanti, a nun and confrere of Trikālayogi, got this epitaph erected in stone.
The austerities practiced by the adept are identical with the discipline of the senses as prescribed in the Prakrit and
Sanskrit yogi bhakti: śoșita-gātrayastaya iha śramaņā dịti kambalāvstāha | śiśira niśām tuşāra vişamām gamayanti catuspathe sthităha ||
[śloka No.7 in Sanskrit yogibhakti in the series of Daśabhakti). According to Jinasena ācārya of Punnāta Sangha, the monks were allowed to observe the varities of penance in the jaina temples also [Harivamśapurāṇam, C.E. 784] Trikālayogi alias Traikālyayogi, a famous pupil of Gollācārya, figures in some epigraphs and we have thus an access to his hagiography. He is one of the felicitous ascetics of tenth century whose efficacious influence is transparent in the description of Sravanabelagola and other charters (EC. 11(R) 173 (140) 1145 p. 119, lines: 50 to 59; ibid, 156 (127) 1115. p. 94, lines: 47-56; ibid, 71 (64) 1163 p. 28. lines: 4145 etc.) Trikālayogi Siddhāntadeva was worshipped by kings and māņdalikas. He was the royal preceptor of Sarvalokāśraya
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