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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM
Inscriptions assigned to the same century (the eleventh century A.D.) reveal the names of Jaina gurus and their disciples, and show the great popularity of Kopaņa. For instance, a stone inscription of the first year of king Vikramaditya informs us that Simhanandi Ācārya died by sarnyasana. The lay disciples of the latter (four in all) are named, while Simahanandi Ācārya's disciple Kalyānakirti is extolled as one who had observed the candrayana, and through whose administering of the law of Jina (Jina śāsana) many effected the karma kşaya (destruction of the evil effect of human action). Kalyāṇakirti is said to have built the Jinendra caityālaya at the spot where his guru Simhanandi Ācārya had died, and also consecrated the image of Sāntinātha in the village of Buccukundi. It is conjectured that the king Vikramāditya mentioned here was the Western Calukyan monarch Vikramāditya V who reigned from A.D. 1009 till A.D. 1017.2 This is inadmissible. It is more probable that the name refers to king Vikramaditya VI of the same dynasty, whose benevolent work as a Jaina we have already noted in this treatise
Evidence is not wanting to prove that Kopaņa continued to be a great Jaina centre in the twelfth century A.D. In about A.D. 1112 Kopaņa tirtha is said to be “ distinguished
given to the Tungabhadrā, and in two instances to Lakşmaņatirtha. E. C. X. Intr. p. 18 n. (1). For other notices of the battle of Koppam, read S. I. I., III, no. 55; ibid, VII. no. 827 E. I. XII p. 297 ; E. C. IV. Ch. 69, p. 8.
1. Charlu, Kannada Inscr., p. 9. Mr. Desai also notices the same but makes Ravicandra, Guņacandra ; Abhayacandra, Kavicandra ; and Desaņacandra,Ajayanandi respectively. K. H. R. II. no 2, p. 14.
2. Charlu, ibid, p. 9.
