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JAINISM IN INDIA
In Kambadur west of Anantapur we find three-stepped pyramidal temples. One of them is a Jaina temple. Thogarakunta to the west of Dharmavaram of the Anantapur district has a temple on the hill which has an inscription which says that Kumara Tailapa son of Vikramaditya VI gave gardens, lands, sites etc., to the basti of Candraprabha at Togarakunta. Amarapuram at the southern corner of the A district was the last military outpost of Taila II. He constructed a fort at Tailagiri. Several Jaina monks from Ingalesvara in Bijapur district came down to Tailagiri and its surrounding villages. The monks at Amarapur constructed a brahmajinālaya and established a teaching centre. Alupadevi a queen of Irungola (A.D. 1226) saved a vasadi at Kottasivaram by effecting timely repairs.
At Tadiparti on the banks of the Pennar there were two Jaina temples, one for Candraprabha and another for Parsvanatha. In 1208 a chieftain of Cola descent, Udayaditya by name, was ruling the country round with Taliparapura as his capital. He donated gifts for the repairs of the temples, for conducting the eight kinds of worship and for providing food. Unfortunately we do not find in modern Taidpatri any traces of Jainism.
To return to the country east of Hyderabad, Prola installed the figure of Jalandhara Bhairava at Inugurthi and perhaps also the Jaina figure said to be there. Mailama the wife of his minister Betana built the Kadalalaya rasadi at Hanumankonda.
In the Warangal fort itself there are four Jaina temples still standing. One of these is called the Medarayangudi. The Parsvanatha figure in Sambhunigudi is a beautiful one. Perhaps the Warangal sort area was a Jaina basti before it was made the capital of the Kakatiya empire.
There are other places in the Telengana region, where there were Jaina vasadis and temples before that date. The Telengana inscriptions Vol. Il contains 35th inscription recording gifts in aid of angabhoga naivedva, dvipa, Müpa, thambula, etc., services to Chenna Parsvadevara of the Baddi jinālaya in the fort at Ujjili (Ujjala of Mahaboobnagar district). On the other side of the same stone is another inscription recording at about 1097 A.D. gifts made to Indrasena Pandita for maintaining the regular services and the temple repairs. The Ujjali temple belonged to the times of the 11th century Calukyan feudatories and was a western Calukyan construction. The temple was later occupied by Veersaivaits and lingas replaced the Jinas inside. No. 2 of the miscellaneous inscription in the same book records gifts to a Jaina Gunasena for maintenance
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