Jaina Corpus of Koppala Inscriptions X rayed

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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This informatin confirms the statement of the historians that the Cālukyas of Kalyāna were Jains up to Jayasimhadeva "From inscriptions we understand that Jagadekamalla was a Jain and had the Jain biruda mallikāmoda. It is to be noted that all his predecessors from Tailapa downwards were Jains” [Venkataraya Sastry, V., Bilhana's Vikramänkadeva Charitam, article in the Chālukyas of Kalyāņa (ed) M.S.N. Rao: 1983: 75). Therefore, K. 61 supplies, additional and hitherto unknown information that his wife and his father-in-law were also ardent Jains.
Āhavamalla Tailapa II (973-97), founder emperor of Kalyāna Cālukya line of rulers, was the son of Bonthādevi and Vikramaditya IV; that Bonthādevi was the daughter of Lakşmaņa, Kalacuri king of central India. Thus the name of Bonthädevi has somehow continued for the second time in the Cālukya royal house.
Though, the fragmentary inscription contains only seven short lines, it is composed in Mattebha vikridita vștta. Śridharadeva of greater celebrity, brought credit and illuminated the Jaina church in the last decades of tenth cent. K.23, K.33, K.60, K.67 have recorded the scintillating spiritual personality of the sage Sridharadeva. Dorayya mentioned elsewhere is different from this person (MAR 1915, No. 19, 1050; EC. Vol. V. Hāssan No. 185].
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It furnishes the glimpses of the hagiography of some patriarchs of Jaina monastery who perpetuated the tradition of canonical literature.
Kondakunda ācārya is equated to an emperor: his virtue is the bounteous treasure, he is victorious by vanquishing the enemies of karma, his royal conduct in following the path traversed by the early ascetics. Thus, the chief of friars and nuns, the KKA is ruling the kingdom of penance (taporäjya). The fourfold congregation is obeying his commandments. With his undaunted courage and venerable charac