Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions / 59
jewels and died in the manner prescribed in the Arādhanā text at Koppaļa in the year saka 931 corresponding to C.E. 5-10-1003 Tuesday.
This is the first and only inscriptional reference to Bijjāmbikā, daughter of Būtuga and Padmāvati (Padmabbe). Padmāvati is elsewhere mentioned as Padmabbarasi (SII. XI-1.38.950 C.E.]. So far it was known that Būtuga had only one daughter (Kundaņasāmidevi), who was elder to all his children except Maru!adeva, who was the eldest son among all his six children. But the present inscription has supplied an extra information that Būtuga had one more daughter (Bijjāmbā). Both mother Padmāvati (Padmabbarasi, K.40) and daughter Bijjāmbikā (k.60) have died at Koppala by the rite of sallekhanā. Similarly sisters, Kundaņa-sāmidevi and Bijjāmbikā, and co-wives Padmāvati and Revakanimmadi, have met the similar death at Koppa!a.
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K.6, 12, 44, 47 and 60 provide reliable historical information, throwing fresh light on the history of Gangas, facilitating an authentic reconstruction of the family tree of Būtuga. There was a good number of luminaries in the very royal house of the Gangas, who heralded the glory of Jainism. Bütuga bequeathed a rich legacy for his successors to emmulate and keep the lamp of syādvāda burning bright.
K.61
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An incomplete and undated inscription, provides some useful historical information. A certain Dorayya, a devout Jaina was the father of Bonthādevi and father-in-law of Jagadekamalla Jayasimhadeva, an ornament of the Cālukya emperors (1015-42); a rare feet of wonder for others.
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This fragmentary charter contains the important material of supplementing the name of the wife of Jayasimhadeva as Bonthādevi; for the first time, we hear this name. She is the daughter of Dorayya, a jinabhakta and a laity of Sridharadeva, a wildfire for the terrible wood, the siņ.