Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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his hostiles; he besieged the fortresses of his enemies and became celebrated for his strength; thus he was considered an ornament of the Maṇḍali Gangakula.
Bhujabala Ganga had his capital at Eḍehalli. His consort crown queen Ganga Mahadevi had her first name as Candaladevi, her younger brother was Pattigadeva. A bee at the lotus feet of Pārśva Jinendra, mūlanayaka of the crown basadi on the Mandali hill, Bhujabala-Ganga-ll was a laic votary of Prabhācandra Siddhäntadeva-II. He made a grant of land (specified with boundaries) in Heg-Gangaile, for the daily worship and offerings of the Paṭṭadatirthada basadi of Mandali and for the food of the rṣis, the Jain monks, in the year 1105.
His kula-guru, the religious teacher of the royal family, was the exalted and of unassailable wisdom, Municandra Siddhantadeva, a confrere of both the PrabhācandraSiddhantadeva-ll and Anantaviryamuni and a revered teacher of the wise monk Śrutakirti. Bhujabala Ganga Permmāḍideva-ll caused a Ganga Jinälaya in the Kuruli-tirtha in 1112; after washing the feet of his friar Madhavacandradeva, made several grants. His second consort Bacaladevi had the biruda pätra-jagadale, conferred on her by the king. An inscription of 1103 [Sh. 97] has recorded a graphic description of Bacaladevi's wisdom and mastery in the performing arts, of which there is a seperate discussion elsewhere in this monograph.
The reign of Tribhuvanamalla Bhujabala Ganga Permmāḍideva-Il ushered in a new era of economic prosperity, ever since he assumed the crown to Ganga Mandali. Both he and his elder brother ruled the region under the imperial Cālukya monarch Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya-IV (1076-1126). Bhujabala Ganga's son Nanniya Ganga Permmāḍideva-Il succeeded him in 1118; the inscription of Nidige [Sh. 57. 1118] is the last inscription of the father and the first charter of the son [Sh. 14. 1103; Sh. 51. 1108; Sh 64. 1112; Sh. 97. 1113; Sh. 57. 1118; Sh. 12. 1220 and Sh. 4. 1121-22].