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THE JAINA GAZETTE
The Adi Purana was written in Saka year 863 Plava i.e., 941 A. D.; and as Pampa was born in the year Dundubhi, he was about 39 years old when he wrote this amous work. Pampa was evidently a disciple of Devendramuni. There is reason to suppose that he was in his time the only learned disciple of the Konda Kunda genealogy,
Pampa must have been a famous warrior under Arikesari of the Chalukya line at Puligere. Arikesari rewarded him amply for his poems which perpetuated the king's fame, and gave him --a gift of Saram-Dharmapura in Bacche sasira as agraharam. With these honours, Pampa got the titles_Sukavijana mano mana-sottamsa hamsam, Kavitagunarnavam, Samsarasarodayam, Sarasvati maniharam, and Puranakavi. *Kavitagunarnavam pleased him most.
Almost all Kannada poets praise Pampa. The dialect is the pure Kannada dialect of Puligere. Writers of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Anthologies have largely drawn from his works.)
[Incantation : Vrishabhasvami. Siddhas, Acharyas, Upadh. yayas, Sarvasadhus. Yakshi Chakresvari, Yaksha Vrishabha ; Sarasvati, Sruta-Skandha Vana, Samantabhadra, Kavi Parameshti, Pujyapadasvami, Griddha Pincchacharya, Jatacharya, Srutakirtyacharya, the heirarchy of acharyas ; Maladhari Siddhanta, Devendramuni, Jayanandimuni, and Akalankadeva.
The account is traditional having come down regularly from Purudeva, Ganadhara down to Virasena, Jinasenacharya. It was narrated by Vrishabhasena Ganadhara at the request of Bharata the first Chakravarti. The same came down by tradition and was narrated to (Srenika) the King of Magadha by. Gautama Ganadhara in the presence of Sri Vardhamana Jinendra in Vipulachala (Mount).) *
* In Alakapura East Vide ha there reigned King Atibala. His queen was Manohare, and their son was Mahabala. The king resigned his kingship to his son, and took the Jina diksha under
Gunadhara Kevali, and went to tapas. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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