Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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ter. Possesing eminence of excellences, Nayamandi installed peace on earth. He was terrible to Kāma, free from astringent. He learnt that his days are numbered, recollected the wise sayings of the early learned ācāryas and left to join the divine men at Kupaņa-tirtha. Reciting the Jaina litany of reverent salutation to the five holy beings, Nayanandi bhattaraka, worshipped by the kings, achieved the triad, the three jewels and reached the final emanicapation. A nun (her name is lost), who was a disciple, caused this nisidhi stone for the merit of her teacher. A campakamāla vịtta of this inscription describing the non pariel qualities of the saint Maladhärideva, has been verbatem repeated in the colophon of the Dhavalā-Tika, copied in the year C.E. 1113 at the Jina-Pārsva temple of Bannikere. Maladhārideva never once scratched the body when itching was caused by the dirt which covered the whole of it like an armour; he never lay on the side when overcome by sleep; he never said 'shut or open the door'; he never spat; he never reposed - when such was the extraordinary self-control, character and penance, is even the lord of serpents able to describe the assemblage of good qualities of Maladhärideva?
The above verse of the description of Maladhārideva bhattāraka also finds a place in SB inscriptions [EC.11(R) 484 (351), 1119, p.304 and ibid, 135 (117) 1123.p.81]; and an epigraph of A.D. 1099 of Hungsi-Hadagali also contains the details of Maladhārideva and his pupil Nayanandideva.
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A. Revakanimmadi, wife of Būtuga II (C.E. 938-61) had partronised and popularised Jainism on such a large scale that it was she who did it on par with Bütuga, Sankaraganda, Mārasimhadeva, Maru!adeva, Cāmundarāya, Rājamalla and Gunadankakārti Attimabbe. Revakanimmadi influenced by the misery of worldly life and the note of impermanence, took to nunhood and finally, in the prescribed manner of Sanyasana-vidhāna, died at Koppaļa in the saka year 952 equivalent to 7-5-1030 Thursday.