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Significance of New Inscriptions from Koppala, Karnataka
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Nemicandra-Bhaṭāra of Balātkāra-gaṇa, attained sanyasanamarana. Revabbe, respected by the three worlds, erected a nisidhi
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[K.3] Gandavimukta-ācārya of Balagāra (Balātkāra-gana), a profound scholar, gained the abode of mokṣa-lakṣmi (emancipation from the cycle of births and deaths) in the year Śaka 899 (977 C. E). His lotus feet had the dust of the crown of māṇḍalikas; his character was so transparent that he was praised by the world at large.
This ācārya is identical with the Gandavimukta-deva mentioned in the later inscriptions of Gavarwad [E1. XV. 23. 1071-72. C. E], Mugud [S11. XI-i. 78. 1045 C. E] and of Bodan [ARIE 1961-62. B-113. 1041 C. E].
[K. 4] Devanandi-Bhaṭāra, a disciple of Vimalacandra-Bhaṭāra of Krāṇūr-gaṇa, attained the world of gods in the year Śaka 926 (1004. C. E); Deyakabbe-kanti, a nun in obeisance to her teacher, erected this post-mortem memorial column.
Krāṇur-gana is one of the prominent cohorts (ganas) of friars and nuns of the Yapanīya-sangha; Kānūr, Kaṇḍūr, Käḍur are the other variants for that gaṇa. [Nagarajaiah : 1997 -B- : 234-48].
[K. 5] This epitaph records the death of three different persons on three different dates :
In the Śaka year 946 (1024 C. E), Revasetti of Kellengere achieved ratnatrayas, holy death, the day synchronising with the auspicious day of the parinirvāṇa-mahākalyāṇa, one of the five sacred events in the life of a Tirthankara : Parinirvāṇa is the final emancipation of an enlightened being followed immediately by salvation (mokṣa). Madurantaka-setti, the son-in-law of Nolambasetti, died in meditation in the year 1023 C. E. He was a repository of humility, birth place of pleasentness, a heap of religious merit, an asylum of knowledge, the first in the path of Manu.
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Nolamba-setti was the son of Revasetti, a bee at the lotus feet of Nemicandra-Siddhantadeva. He was courteous, mild, just, liberal, worthy of merits, and of impeccable character. At the time of his
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