Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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Kanakanandi-paṇḍitadeva,
Māghanandi Saiddhantika such as Candrakirti-paṇḍita, Prabhācandra-paṇḍitadeva and Vardhamāna. The last-mentioned disciple received the grant made to the Gonka-Jinālaya. In later times also the Gonka-Jinālaya continued its contact with the Jaina vasati of Rūpan ārāyaṇa at Kolhapur as explicitly stated in a supplement dated Śaka 1109 (A.D. 1187) of the aforementioned Terdal inscription.1
V. V. MIRASHI
Not only kings and Samantas but ordinary people also erected Jaina temples, some of which are known from inscriptional records. Thus, an inscription on an abhişeka-stand of the image of Pārsvanatha at Honnur near Kagal in the Kolhapur District records certain gifts made by the Silāhāra brothers Ballāla and Gaṇḍarāditya for the temple erected there by one Bamma-gāvuṇḍa, who, judging from his title, was only the chief of a district. At Sheḍbāl in the Athaṇī tālukā of the Belgaon District, then included in the Silahāra dominion, there was a Jaina temple erected by the Kottaligas of the place. A stone inscription discovered at the place records certain rates and taxes voluntarily granted to the temple by the local guilds and also some more levied on the marriages performed locally.3
Some of the Munis connected with these Jaina vasatis were engaged in literary activities. While editing the Terdāļ inscription dated Saka 1045 (A.D. 1123-24), K. B. Pathak put forward the suggestion that Śrutakīrti-Traivdya, the disciple of Māghanandī Saiddhantika mentioned in the inscription, was identical with the homonymous author of the kavya Raghavapāṇḍavīya mentioned by the Kannada poet Abhinava-Pampa in his Pampa-Rāmāyaṇa, and that he was the same as the poet Dhananjaya known as the author of that kavya. This view has been adopted by
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Ibid., Vol. XIV, p. 25.
Ibid., Vol. XII, p. 102.
An. Rep. Ind. Ep. for 1953-54, p. 31.
Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, pp. 4 f.
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