Book Title: Medieval Jainism
Author(s): Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House

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________________ JAINA MEN OF ACTION 147 Tumkur tāluka. We shall describe the pious deeds of his wife in the next chapter. These details are related in the stone record found in the same basadi and dated about A.D. 1160.1 The two great Jaina ministers of king Narasimha in A.D. 1165 were Hērggade Śivarāja and Hērggade Someya, who granted in that year certain specified taxes to the Hoysala Jirdālaya of Māņikavoļal in order to provide for gifts of food to ascetics (in that temple).2 As we remarked while dealing with the question of royal patronage, the reign of the next Hoysala monarch Ballāļa II opened another glorious chapter in the history of the land. Once again the military prestige of the Hoysalas rested to a very large extent on the prowess of the Jaina generals and ministers. Chief among them was the General Vasudhaikabandhava (Sole Friend of the World) Rēcimayya, the son of Nārāyana and Nāgāmbikā. He had seen State service first as a minister under the Kalacuriyas. It was le who had obtained the seven-fold wealth of empire for the Kaļacuriya king Bijjaladeva (A. D. 1156-A. D. 1167), and “caused the same seven-fold wealth to be visibly enjoyed by the line of kings who succeeded that emperor ". Rēcimayya, who was a Great Minister, Master over 72 officials, and Mahāpracanda-dundanāyaka, delighted in council, policy, bravery, fortune and good character. On his arm “the vine the kingdom of the Kaļacuriya kings might spread." He was so liberal that he "shone as the only kalpadruma in the world." Indeed, what Ganga Rāja had done for the whole of the Jaina world, Rēca did for the province under him : he set up a standard of liberality 1. E. C. XII. Tm. 38, p. 10. 2. M. A. R. for 1920, p. 32.

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