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JIANA KPIGRAPES : PART III
351 INSCRIPTION No. 24
(Found on a pedestal at Kopbal) This inscription was observed on another mutilated stone pedestal of an image at Kopbal. The pedestal was lying in the same place where the pedestal containing the foregoing inscription was discovered. As in the farmer case, the image set up on this pedestal also was missing. This epigraph is more dainaged than the previous one and many of the letters have been irrevocably lost. Three lines could be traced in the available portion of the epigraph which is engraved in tiny handsome alphabet, identical with that of the other epigraph noticed just before. The characters of the record are Kannada and the language Sanskrit. The inscription contains no date; but it might be ascribed approximately to the 11th century A. D. on palaeographical considerations. It may be further seen that even the contents of the present inscription are almost the same as those of the preceding epigraph. Thus it appears that both these pieces of sculpture were prepared simultaneously as a gift to the same temple by the same donor and their labels engraved by the same engraver.
As stated above the record is zore mutilated than the previous one, But with the help of its twin we can find out its purport. It seems to register the gift of the image to the Kuśa Jinālaya in memory and for the merit of [Sā]marāya. The donor might have been the same person [ Mā ]chidēva. There are traces of the letters 'prabha' at the end of the third line. This might be a remnant of the effaced name Chandraprabha. In that case the lost image might be that of Chandraprabha Tirthankara which along with the images of other Tirthankaras might have been installed in the Kuća Jinālaya.
TEXT 1 .... dēvā......drūpam.......... 2 .... Samarāya-parõ.......... 3 ....Kusa-jinālayē... ....... prabha
TRANSLATION This......true form of the god......(was caused to be made )......(for being installed) in the Kuća Jinālaya.....in memory of......[ Sā]marāya...... (This is) [Chandra ) prabha.
INSCRIPTION NO. 28
(Found on a podestal at Kopbal) .. This inscription was discovered on a stone pedestal of a mutilated Jaina image at Kopbal. The pedestal was lying in the ditch near the well,
