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JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA
TEXT Jayina-mriga-bēņtekāram Jayin-āgamadhūmakētu Jagina-kuthārań i Jayina-phani-Vainatēyam Jayin-antakan-enisi negaļdan-i-Goggarasar 11 Aggada Ghatāṁtakiyan-ada nurg-āgire yoạedu kaleda Jinanam tām sale Durgatiyoļ-ikki mețțida Goggarasaṁ raņa-Kumāran-āhavadhiram 11
TRANSLATION This Goggarasa became widely known by his acts which characterised him as the hunter of the wild beasts which are the Jainas, a fire to the Jaina scriptures, an axe to the followers of Jina, an eagle to the snakes, namely the adherents of the Jaina doctrine, and God of Death to those who professed the Jaina creed. Unshaken in encounters, veritable God of War on the fields of battle, Goggarasa smashed to atoms the highsouled deity Ghatāntaki and reduced to an abject state the Jina, bereft of his grandeur.
We have one more epigraph which narrates the activities of the champions of the Saivite faith against those of Jainism and Buddhism. It is from Tālikõți' in the Muddebihāl taluk of the Bijāpur Dt. It belon ys to the same reign as that of the Aņņigēri inscription, viz., Tribhuvanamalla Sõnēśvara IV, and bears an almost identical date which is in A. D. 1184. In this record, large portions of which are unfortunately damaged and lost, are set forth in detail the achievements of Saivite devotees with special reference to an eminent upholder of the faith. I give below the relevant extract culled from this inscription.
TEXT Para-samaya-giri-vajra-damdaruń jagadal-uddamdarum Jina-sanayavana-dahana-dāvānalarum munidarge hāļāhalarum Bauddha-samaya-vidhvamsanapravīņaruń bageyalu jāņaruń anya-samayigaļa benna bāran = ettuvarum seņasuvara nettarań maru!gaļim kudisuvarum parasamaya.gharaţtarum ... ... ... ... kālana nālageyam kiļvaruń ... ... ... namjan= amjad = umbaruń ... ... ... ... ... bahuvidha-nishthegir Haranaṁ parikse-bhavanam-tarisi para-sama[ yigalu ]mañ saṁharisi jaramam māṁkarisuv = uddamdarum ... ... ... Pariyalige Aņilevāļa Uņukallu Sampagāvi Bölūru Mārudige Anampūru Karahāda Kembāvi Bammukūru modálāgi anantadāśa-dēśāntaradal = idirāda parasamayigaļaṁ padalpadisi lõkaman =ākaṁpam-goļisi basadigalam hosedu mukki Sivaliṁga-simbásanaman kangoļisi chalamaṁ meredu dhiradoļu neredu syarga-martya-pātāļado! = Anamgāriya hemmeyumam tamma prīty-āchārada tõrmeyumam kaladal = ikki torpante tõrida purātana-nūtanar=enisida asamkhyāta ganamgala nāmādi-samasta-prasastisahitam ......... sakala ganamgaļa dēvatārchanega!am māļpamtāgi Śrīmanu-Mahāmandalēśvaram Viruparasadēvaru Vira-Dāsaṁge gana-maţhavāgi koţta keyi
1 Op. cit., 1929-30, App. E, No. 68. This inscription is not fully published. Only a brief
summary of its contents is given at the above place,
