Medieval Jainism

Author(s): Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House

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Tripura Akalanka and Abhayacandra is uncertain. It cannot be made out whether the latter is to be identified with Abhayacandradeva mentioned in a record dated A.D. 1398 as a guru who came after Maghanandi muni. But about the other names, some information is forthcoming in epigraphs. Vädiraja is of course the great figure whom we have described above.
MEDIEVAL JAINISM
As regards Vādībhasimha, we have ample evidence to prove that his other names were Vädigharaṭṭa and Ajitasena. For instance, the Pārsvanatha basti inscription at Sravana Belgola gives us the following details about him :-Resplendent is Vādībhasimha Ajitasena, the head of a school, splitter up of the front globes of all the rutting lordly elephants the disputants, whose lotus feet were kissed by the tops of the glittering crowns worn on the bowing heads of all the kings. The same record gives further details concerning "the intensity of his indifference to the world." He was evidently the same Ajitasena Bhaṭṭāraka who is said to have been the guru of Camuṇḍa Raya,3 about whose great contribution to Jainism we shall presently describe in this treatise. And he is to be identified with the author of the work Gadyacintamani.+
The same Pārśvanātha basti inscription refers to another Western Calukya monarch who has now to be identified. It says the following-" Alone fortunate is the sage, on whom the Pandya king, who had acquired superior knowledge through his favour, conferred the name Svami, and who had
1. E. C. II, 254, p. 111.
2. Ibid, 67, p. 31.
3. Ibid, Intr. pp. 45-46.
4. P. P. S. Shastri, A Catalogue of Mss., in the Tanjore Library, VII. Nos. 3993-4, pp. 2996-98.