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86 / The Later Gangas : Maņdali-Thousand
Utpala and mattebha-vikridita form/metre. The epigraph betrays the poet's mastery in handling the historical events in the frame of an inscription, with a touch of poetic excellence. He is proficient in both Sanskrit and Kannada languages and equally at ease in Jaina philosophy.
Apart from Dāmarāja, Kaviśvara Brahmadeva (Sh. 69. 1320) and Senabova Bogadeva, a lay disciple of Kanakanandi traividya deva (Sh. 89. 1111), are the poets who have composed some of the Mandali inscriptions. Except for a few such inscriptions of literary merit, poetic flash and brilliance of ideas, the rest are all conventional and stereotyped.
The mendicant Prabhācandra Siddhantadeva-ll was learned (budha), versatile author in both Kannada and Sanskrit, superior among the poets and was proficient in the three branches of knowledge (trai-vidya); he was a moon to the ocean of Siddhānta (Sh. 57. 1118. Nidige. p.59); The word 'Siddhānta' needs a clarifiction. Digamabara apostle Dharasena transmitted (C.E. 156) to his two disciples Puspadanta and Bhutabali, who compiled Satkhaņdāgama, scripture in six parts; Ganabhadra-l compiled Kaşāyaprābhịta, dealing with theories of bondage of the soul. These two works, being highly technical, are comprehensible to the most advanced scholars or the mendicants. Pontiff Virasena (C.E. 816) wrote Dhavalā, the luminous, a commentary on Satkhanļāgama. The adept Jinasena (C.E. 820) wrote Jayadhavalā, the victoriously luminous, a commentary on Kaşāyaprābhịta. A mendicant possesing full knowledge of Satkhandāgama and Kaşāya prābhrta, the two primoridal Siddhanta canonical works, was honoured by the title SiddhāntaCakravarti. All the preceptors of the Maņdalinād patriarchate were proficient in grammar, epistomology, scripture, Sabdāgama, Yuktyāgama and Paramāgama; the last three are traividyas,
In importance, the most notable event of Bhujabala Ganga Permmādidev's reign was the copying of the Dhavala-Tikā, commentary on the first five parts of Satkhaņdāgama (KammapayadiPāhuda alias Karma-praksti-prābhịta). The illustrious erudite
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