Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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stone boulders; stood at the foot of the tree while the dark clouds roared, pouring incessant rain; stood in the ice-cold water during the winter season - that was the mental strength and eminence of Trikālayogi munindra.
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This is an undated and incomplete inscription, but supplements the information of K.21 and K.41 epigraphs and SB Nos. 71 (64), 156 (127) and 173 (140) inscriptions.
K.39
The accomplished Pallava-rama-mahipāla was a scion of royal stock. His three consorts Pariyabbarasi, Asagabbarasi and Revakayye, embellished with the three jewels of right insight, right knowledge and right conduct were jems of amiable disposition among the virtuous women folk.
These three queens of the king's seraglio constructed Jaina temples, arranged festivals to worship Jina, consecrated and anointed the images of Jina, had equal devotion to Jaina ascetics. All the three spouses joined the ascetic order at Koppaļa, renouncing the mahişipada the first properly consecrated queenship of mandaleśvara and preferred the mahendra-pada.
Revakayye listned to the three ritualized confessions, sitting on the thighs, one leg being on the other, a heroic posture practiced by ascetics of higher hierarchy, breathed her lost. Even the gods celebrated Revakayye's holy death by singing and dancing, repeatedly uttering Jayajaya-nandavardha (victorious - auspicious). Drums and other rare instruments of heaven made the sacred sound to the rythm of the melliflous music of Tumbura, the Gandharva and Nārada, the devarsi, to the tune of which the apsaras danced and thus the paradise above rejoiced the festival of the arrival of Revakayye āryikā from the earth below. Pariyabbarasi, also accepting the difficult vows of willing submission to the inevitable death, putting up with all sorts of bodily trouble by complete indifference to it, engrossed in deep meditation, walked into the company of deities in the year śaka 911 (C.E. 989).