Medieval Jainism

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

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ROYAL BENEVOLENCE
57 A.D. 1077, has to be utilized in this connection. According to this interesting record, king Vikramāditya VI, at the request of the Dandanāyaka Barmmadeva,--to whom hij official Pratikantha Singayya had petitioned for the same purpose. --made on the specified date (which is given with full details), the gift of the village of Manevane (location given in detail), for the services of the god of the CālukyaGanga-Permmänadi Jinālaya which he had caused to be made in the royal city of Balligāve, when he was a prince (kumāra), for the offerings, food of the îşis, repairs of the busadi, and for new works. This gift was made to the learned Jaina guru Rāmasena, who was the disciple of Mahāsenavrati, and who was said by all people to be in grammar Pūjyapāda, in lcgic Akalankadeva, and in poetry Samantabhadra. Rāmasena belonged to the Müla sangha, Sena gana, and Pogari gaccha.?
Two statements made in the above records may be noted here before we pass on to the narration of other details. One made in the Kattalebasti record that Prabhācandra, a colleague of Vasavācandra, was honoured by king Bhoja of Dhārā ; and the other made in the Baďagiyara Honda inscription that Vikramaditya VI was “to the lord Dhārā the source of a great fever of terror."2 King Bhoja of Dhārā who honoured Prabhācandra, and who was frightened by Vikramāditya (and later on routed) was no other than king Bhoja I, who has become renowned in history as the patron of learning. 3
From a later context we shall learn that it was the king
1. E.C. VII, Sk. 124, pp. 95-96. 2. Ibid., p. 96.
3. Read Ganguly, History of the Paramara Dynasty, p. 82, seq., 250 ; E. C. II, Intr. p. 80.