Book Title: Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs
Author(s): P B Desai
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur

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________________ 108 JAZNINE IN BOUTH INDIA Bhattáraka; his pupil: Uttarisaṁga Bhattāraka; his three pupils : Bhaskaranandi Pandita, Srinandi Bhattāraka and Aruhaņandi Bhattāraka; his papil: Arya Pandita. KANDAAL: The preceptors of the Krāņār gana of the Mūla Sangha are not commonly met with in the records of northern Karnāțaka. But here we have an instance of their existence in this area. An inscription found in the compound of the Hanuman temple at Kandgal' in the Hungund taluk, records the gift of land and money for feeding the Jaina ascetics and for offering worship, etc., to the god Pārsvanātha installed by the lady Nāgasiriyauve, a lay disciple of Sakalachandra Bhattāraka, who belonged to the Krāņūr gana of the Müla Samgha. The circumstantial details of the event narrated in the epigraph are interesting. The gift is stated to have been made when the members of the great trading corporation of the Five Hundred Svāmis of Ayyāvole, together with the Prabhus, the Mummuridundas and the One Thousand Nānādēsis of Halasige Twelve Thousand and Banavāse Twelve Thousand, were assembled as a Mahānāļu' (i. e., a conference of representative bodies) at Kandagale, the 'maligeya mane' (i, e., place of convention) of the district of Kannada Four Thousand. The record is dated in the 21st year of the Dēvagiri Yadava monarch Singhaņa, corresponding to A. D. 1220. BABĀNAGAR: A damaged inscription found in the ruined Siva temple at Bābānagar, in the Bijapur taluk, discloses the existence of a Jaina temple at the place in the 12th century A. D. It registers a gift of land into the hands of the preceptor Māņikya Bhattāraka of Mangaļivēda for the benefit of the temple in A. D. 1161 in the reign of the Kalachuri ruler Bijjala. The preceptor belonged to the Mūla Samgha and Dēsi gaņa. Mangalivēda wherefrom he hailed is identical with modern Mangalavēdhe near Pandharpur. This place had the privilege of being the home and the ancestral headquarters of the princes of the Kalachuri house throughout their regime. Mention is made in the epigraph, of the Kalachuri prince Mailugi who may be identified as a younger son of Bijjala.* Kannadige, wherein the Jaina temple was situated, must be the ancient name of Bābānagar. BIJĀPUR MUSEUM: An epigraph engraved on the pedestal of a Jaina image deposited in the local Archaeological Museum at Bijāpur,' states that 1 An. Rep. on 8. I. Epigraphy. 1928-29, Appendix E, No. 50. 2 This expression is of lexioal interest. Mahänādu is current in modern Tamil and often used in the sense of 'oonference or oonvention'. Modern Kannada is stranger to this word which was once in usage even in northern Karnataka. 3 An. Rep. on 8. I. Epigraphy, 1933-34, Appendix E, No. 120. 4 I have discussed in detail some of these points of Kalachuri history in a doormented article under publication in the Epigraphia Indica. This prince ruled for a brief period of two years at the end of Riyam urări Sovideva's reign. 0 An. Rep. eto., 1933-34, Appendix E, No. 164.

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