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

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________________ THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 325 have been so scrupulously inscribed at Sravana Belgola. It may be that because that that locality being a celebrated place of pilgrimage, attracted a huge concourse of people. Thus in about A.D. 1407 six persons including those of the õjakula, visited Sravana Belgola.1 Mãyanna of Gangavati, a lay disciple of Candrakīrti, and one who had become famous as “the crest jewel of pure faith”, purchasing some specified land under the Gangasamudra tank of Belgola in A.D. 1409, granted it for the worship of Gummațasvāmi. This was done in the presence of the Jaina jewel merchants and two Gaudas (named) of the locality.2 The next year Bastāyi, a lay disciple of Panditadeva, caused an image of Vardhamānasvāmi to be made at Śravana Belgola. This may have been in imitation of the generous action of the Vijayanagara queen Bhīmā Devī mentioned in an earlier context.3 In about A.D. 1417 Kariya Gummata Sețți went to Belgoļa with a group of pilgrims from Biļiti, and honoured the sangha on the conclusion of the ratnatraya observance (Nompi) in the presence of the god Gummatasvāmi. + One noteworthy feature in connection with Sravana Belgola is its intimate relationship with Mārwār in the Vijayanagara age. Agaşuje Jagad of the Mūla sangha hailing from Mārwār, caused an image of a god to be constructed at Belgoļa in about A.D. 1486.5 Two years later Gomața Bhūpāla Prajansavāla, and Brahmacāri of the Kadika family belonging to Purasthāna, came on a pilgrimage to Belgoļa with 1. E. C. II, 497, p. 134. 2. Ibid, 255, p. 115. 3. Ibid, 338, p. 144, Op. cit., 4. Ibid, 232, p. 97. See also nos. 229, 233 ibid. 5. Ibid, 202, p. 93.

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