Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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basadi, is the speciality of this type of temple. Kogaļi was not far away from Koppaļa.
K.36
A fragmentary inscription records that Boppa a person earned a great reputation by causing jaina temple at Kupāņā-Śri-tirtha, perhaps in the early thirteenth cent.
K.37
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Indranandideva had the privilege of accomplishing his mission in his lifetime through restraint, respect to teachers, elders, penance, liberal outlook, preaching, pious acts and caring for betterment of others. Indranandi bhattāraka accepted the vow sanyasana, voluntarily inviting death, and attained the highest status on 3-5-1032 Wednesday. The adept Indranandi, teacher of Ponna (C.E. 960), (a major Kannada writer) and the author of Śrutāvatāra (A.D. 930), is almost a hundred years earlier to the present Indranandi. Similarly Indranandi who is referred in some other charters of eleventh century is a later preceptor (SII, IX-1 No. 117 A.D. 1055; ibid, No. 124 C. 1080 A.D; SII. XX. 55.1082). But the pontiff Indranandi, hailed as the lion cub for the elephant in rut, the opponent disputants, is identical with the person of the same name of K.37 inscription [SII. XI-i. 130 A.D. 1050, Kogaļi (Ballay dt/Hadagali tk)] Indranandideva also figures in K. 15 A.D. 1028, and K.52, A.D. 1050, of the present corpus.
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K.38
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The whole earth raised its brow and looked at the extraordinary creation of Talagarasa, a bee at the lotus feet of Gollācārya, an occean of the celebrated Jinadharma, the reiligion of the Jains. Talagarasa had caused Torana, a festoon suspended accross the gate ways and steps with ornamentation of large crocodile, crow and other animal and birds of excellent artistic design.
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Gollācārya's elder pupil was Trikālayogi munindra who, during the hot season of summer, observed penance, on