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

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________________ 288 MEDIEVAL JAINISM a difficult issue to decide. It was in regard to the boundaries of the land that belonged to the ancient Pārsvanātha basadi of Tadatāla in Heddūrnā”. The temple ācārayas supported by the people of the Heddūrnād disputed with the Jaina sūris in regard to the land in question. The State ordered an enquiry to be held in the Arāga cāvadi (i.e., the public hall of Āraga, the capital of the Malerāja province. The Mahāpradhāna Nāgaņņa and various arasus (noblemen, all of whom are named ) together with the leaders of the Jainas called Mallappa, summoned the elders of the three cities and the Eighteen Kampaņas of Āraga ; and having made the nūd people agree, they fixed the boundaries of the land (specified) according to former custom as those of the temple endowment of Pārsvanātha. This decision was forthwith engraved on stone by the orders of the elders and the noblemen assembled there.! Five years later (A.D. 1368) a very great question presented itself before the Vijayanagara monarch Bukka Rāya I. The stone inscription dated A.D. 1368 relates that a dispute arose between the Jainas and the Srivaişņavas (called in this record the Bhaktas). And the Jainas of all the nādus (districts) including Ānegondi, Hosapattana, Penugoņda, and the city of Kalleha (the last named district being in the modern Māgadi tāluka), petitioned to the king Bukka Rāya about the injustice done to them by the Bhaktas (Bhaktaru māļuva annyāyangajanu binnaham mādalāgi). The monarch (evidently after due enquiry) “taking the hand of the Jainas and placing it in the hands of the Śrīvaişņavas of the eighteen nāļus, (in the presence of) including all the acāryas of the places, the chief of which are Kõvil (i.e., Śrīrangam), Tirumale (i.e., Tirupati), Perumā!-Kovil (i.e., Kañci) and Tirunārāyaṇakoțe 1. E. C. VIII. TI. 197, pp. 206-207.

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