Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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great sage Dāmanandi, well-known in the line of Kāņür gana, attained his liberation on 13-3-1036 Saturday. Nāņabbe kanti, a nun, also breathed her last.
A remarkable feature of the present record is that the details mostly coinside with the list of friars mentioned in the colophon of the Dhavala-Tikā, Ravicandra, Śridharadeva, Dāmanandi figure prominently. [Dhavalā Tikā of C.E. 1113; KJS: 1996: p. 230, Huņasi-Hadagali inscription of A.D.
1099].
K.24
Pittakabbe alias Pittabbe erected a post obitum to her precetpor (other details are not known). She is identical with the Pittabbe mentioned in K. 17 and K.26, all of later tenth cent.
K.25
A man who had quelled the feelings of lust took to the vow of fast unto death (much mutilated].
K.26
Ereyabbe, disciple of the learned Mauni-yogi-munindraVallabhācārya, was vulnerable and appreciated by the bhavya-jana, persons capable of attaining mokşa. She was deceased and she wanted to retaliate the sickness by taking refuge in deep meditation, Enduring with resignation, the privations imposed by austerities for five years, which only Ereyabbe could afford, she achieved remarkable fame. She travelled to the world of gods by observing the ritual fasting to death on 11-10-976. Pittabbe, a bee at the lotus feet of Tribhuvanacandra swamy, erected this nisidhikā with,
affection to the nun Eseyabbe kanti. K. 27
This has been discussed along with K. 6.
K.28
1.
Candabbarasi, elder daughter of the reputed father and the ruler of the earth surrounded by sea, head in the lkşvāku family, shining bright like the moonlight, was charming and