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Hampa Nagarajaiah
Jambu-jyoti
the 18th century. Obviously, the fort-builders started their operations of constructing the bastion with the material pilfered from the Jaina temples. Moreover, the carelessness on the part of the masons involved in the construction was to such an extent that they recklessly cut and damaged these archaeological documents of sterling significance.
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8.1
I shall now take a bird's eye view of the contents of the new epigraphs; the number in the brackets indicate the number of the concerned inscription in the printed text; e. g. K. 1. = Koppala No. 1. [K. 1] Nayanandi Bhattāraka of Kundakunda-anvaya, Desiga-gana, had two lay disciples, Cinnakabbe and her son Dilīpa (?), dandanāyaka (general), who had a number of titles; satya-saucasampannam, kali-kala-Karnan, äśrita-kalpavrksam, patikāryadakşam, piridittu-marevam, naya-mummerevan, pati-hitāñjaneyam, gunada-bedangam, niti-parāyanam, gadiyankamallam, gandapracandam, kirtige-nallam, and paricchedi-gandan. He was a bee at the lotus feet of Jina the Conquerer and an ocean of virtues : and he worshipped the three jewels of Jaina faith. He died in Saka 953 [1032 C. E) at Koppala by the religious rite of Vira-sanyasana-vidhāna (ritual death by fasting and while in meditation). This inscription belongs to the period of the Kalyāna Cālukya king Jagadekamalla-Jayasimha (1016-42].
8.1.1. An undated and a fragmentary inscription [K. 61] states that Dorayya
was an ardent worshipper of Jinendra, the destroyer of all sins, and a lay disciple of Śrīdhara-deva. Dorayya was also the father of Bonthādevi and father-in-law of Jayasimha-deva, an ornament of the emperors (cakreśvara-abharanam]. It is obvious that the Cālukya king Jagadekamalla Jayasimhadeva had married Bonthā-devī; this is the only inscription giving this information not earlier known. Dorayya mentioned elsewhere (MAR. 1915. No. 19. 1050; EC. V.
Hassan. 185) is different from this Dorayya. 8.2. [K.2) In the year Śaka 913 [990. C. E.], a nun by name Jakkiyabbe
kanti and another nun [whose name is lost), both disciples of
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