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8. Satya sadācāra nayavinayaşila sampannanum 9. Aharabhaya Bhaishajya şāstrādāņiyum 10. Jinasnāpana gandhodhaka pavitri kratölammanga 11. Nu mappa seimat Şantiah pattanasva 12. Mi Panca Parameshti samakshadhõlarādha 13. Na vidhiyam samādhiverasimüdipidam 14. Magamnāgiah pattana svāmiyu alli 15. Ya Nemiah Şattiyu kallamnimmisidar
Inscription Summary
It has two parts - first part mentions monk Diwākaranandi and the second part mentions Şantiah Pattanaswāmi, a șravaka.
Praising the sun and the moon and Rşabha Tîrthankara, the bhavyās [lay people) eulogize their spiritual preceptor Diwäkaranandi as famous Siddhānti Cūdāmani. Siddhi padedhar svastam which means to state that monk Diwākaranandi had his spiritual and pious death by following the sallekhana path.
The second part eulogizes that Şāntiah was a man of truth, good conduct, philanthropist and was a pious Jaina. He observed sallekhana after worshipping Panca Parameşhtis and other spiritual undertakings. Upon this, his son Nāgiah and son-in-law Meniah Şetti caused the nisadi (memorial) and incised the inscription,
The language of the inscription is Kannada. It does not mention the date, but characters of ji, and vi letters and their style suggest that it belongs to Eleventh Century.
The name of Diwakaranandi occurs in other eight inscriptions apart from the one from Kundādri. In addition, Poet Şhāntinātha in his work Sūkūmāra Carite and Poet Nayasena's the Dharmāmrata mention Diwākaranandi. The genealogy of Diwākaranandi and the sangha to which he belonged have been worked out by Dr. N. Hampana - a noted Kannada professor, linguist and Kannada Epigraphist of the University of Bangalore University.
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