Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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pily listened to the teachings of the monks, took the vow of fasting and found the final emancipation, after anihilation of the terrestrial interests, on 30-5-1035 Friday.
It opens with a rare Sanskrit invocatory verse: Let there be auspiciousnses to the ordinance of Jina, which is the friendly sun, awakening the host of lotuses in the form of pious persons, and which lends a supporting to the being who is oppressed by the peculiar darkness of the ocean of mundane existence [C.E. 1023]; this verse is repeated in a later charter [SII. IX-i. No. 387. A.D. 1297, Mannera Masalavāda (Ballary dt., Harapanahalli tk) p. 400].
Ganga māṇḍalika Rājamalladeva, a bee at the lotus feet of Arhat Parameśvara, was a chief lay votary of Ajitasenamuni, a connoisseur of the doctrine of non-absolutism, and chief of the four-fold synod. Rājamalladeva, son of Butuga-II, had crushed the enemies with his valour, washed off the hostile manḍaleśvaras with his matchless bravery, annexed the territories of his opponents. Even Hari and Hara, of the eternal trinity, happily joined Rājamalladeva, such was his prowess, an elephant in rut.
Kañcabbarasi, consort of Rājamalladeva, scion of the Ganga dynasty, an ornament to the glorious royal family, upheld her magnificence and lost interests in everyday worldly life, after the death of her husband. She sought relief from the burden and sorrow of existence and the series of births. Keñcabbarasi approached the stainless Ajitasena munisvara, the preceptor of the Gangakula, listned to his religious sermon on the rewards of the virtuous life. She, on her own accord, took to penance, achieved the most coveted three jewels and easily walked into the eternal world in the year saka 945, identical to 15-1-1023 Tuesday at the Kopaṇa-tirtha.
A fragmentary lithic record of the early eleventh cent. (undated), explains briefly the felicitous and efficacious personality of the sage Maladhārideva, who after attaining emancipation from the worldly bondage, was received by