Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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famous. Candabbarasi had the biruda sahaja. makardhvajam, dussaha sauryam; there was no subject which she did not know. She was the younger sister of the crown-jewel of the māndalikas - such was the greatness of Candabbarasi.
All of a sudden distress beseached the renowned Candabbarasi which made her to act swiftly. She immediately relinquished everything, accepted the vow of willing submission to death and attained the most respected and coveted pandita-pandita-maraņa, the highest and best of the varieties of death as prescribed in the Ārādhanā text of Śivakoți-ācārya, on 27-11-972 at Koppaļa.
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The problem of identification of the father and brother of Candibbarasi remains an enigma. But the possibility of Candibbarasi and Kundaņasāmidevi being one and the same is worth considering. The author of this record is Hiranyagarbha.
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The omniscient Sridharadeva was simultaneously both a fixed and mobile spiritual teacher. Kopana was a permanent piligrimage place for attaining mokşa, emancipation from the cycle of birth and death. "Sridharadeva was an animate tirtha for the world" - was the opinion of the people. The learned and the emperors worshipped the seer. He had broken the pillar of defilement, conquered the chain of bondage and the five senses, destroyed the sin and traversed the holy path of mukti, salvation or final liberation.
Cāmundaraya (A.D. 978) has described Āryasena muninātha as a jangama-tirtha (Cāmundarāya purāņam, verse no. 17). Meghacandra is also considered as a jangama-tirtha of tenth cent. [k.16); so was Nokkayya Pattanasetti, president of the chamber of commerce of the Sāntaļige-Thousand nād (EC. VIII (BLR) Nr. 57. 1077, line: 26]. There were some pontiffs in the Jaina monastery of tenth and eleventh centuries, who were highly respected