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Significance of New Inscriptions from Koppala, Karnataka
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the rhythm of the mellifluous music of Tumburu the Gandharva and Nārada the Devarsi, to the tune of which the apsarases danced and thus, the paradise above rejoiced the festival of the arrival of Revakayye-āryikā from the earth below.
9.3.3. Pariyabbarasi, also accepting the difficult vows of the willing
submission to the inevitable death, engrossed in deep meditation,
walked into the company of deities in the year Saka 911 (989 C. E.) 9.4.
[K. 40] The renowned Padmabbarasi, consort of Ganga-GāngeyaPermādi-Būtuga II, an ideal lay votary of Jaina order, reached Kopana (Koppala), and amidst the all around applause and admiration, embraced the rite of sallekhanā. Her teacher Maladhārideva administered the ritual, and Padmabbarasi, while in meditation, passed away in the year Śaka 894 (973 C. E). Padmabbarasi had also built a Jaina temple at Naregal and endowed
it with several gifts (SII. XI-i. 38. C. E. 950 Naregal, PP. 23-24] 9.7. [K. 44] Revakanimmadi, consort of Būtuga II (939-61 C. E), had
patronised and popularised Jainism on such a generous scale that it was she whose good deeds were considered on par with those of Būtuga, Sankaraganda, Mārasimhadeva, Maru!adeva, Cāmundarāya, Rājamalla, and gunadankakārti Attimabbe. Revakanimmadi, in the prescribed manner of sanyasana-vidhana, died at Koppala in the Saka year 953 (1030 C. E)
9.5.1. [K. 44] Revakanimmadi was one of the four consorts of Būtuga II,
the other three being Padmabbarasi and Kallabbā (E1. XV. 23. 107172. PP. 337-48; SII. XX. 35. 1055; EI. XXXVI. PP. 97-110;IWG: 1984 : No. 139. 962 C. E and ibid., No. 138; El. VI. P. 71; El. IV. P. 352; Fleet, DKD p. 304;EC. VIII (1902) Nagara 35. 1077]. And Dīvalāmbā who commissioned a Jinālaya at Südi (Sündi) and her spouse Būtuga made a donation of land in C. E. 938 (IA. Vol. III. p. 184. C. 960 C.E.] Koppala inscription no. 40 has recorded the death of Padmabbarasi (vide paras no. 9, 4). Būtuga II, too, may have passed away at Koppala by persuing the path of sallekhanā.
9.5.1.1. Regarding the identity of Revakanimmadi [K. 44] there is a problem
which needs clarification. In the text of the inscription, this
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