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the process are kept before the Mahālingeśvara temple. Among them is a Pārsva image in paryankäsana with a camaradhara on either side of the prabhāvali and Dharanendra-Padmavati at the bottom. [EC. V (R) Mysore. 180. 10th cent. A. D. p. 297).
11.1. Pārsvanātha-basadi at Sāligrāma (Mysore Dt/-Tk) contains a pillar consisting of
the portion of four lathe-turned Rudrakānta-pillars of the Ganga period. 12. A dated epigraph of A. D. 1059, records the death by the sanyasana-vidhi of a
Yāpaniya pontiff Nāgacandra, praised as a scholar-teacher of the Nirgrantha philosophy. He attained death in meditation in the Ghatāntakiya-basadi at Moramba (Morab-Dharwar Dt/Navalgund Tk) which enshrined Śrī-prabhu-Pāriśvadeva. (By the way, Ghatāntakī is another name of Padmăvatī-devi.) [SII. XV. A. D.
1059 Morab. pp. 359-60). 12.1. This cognomen 'Ghatāntaki has a special connotation in the context of Southern
Jaina pantheon. It is said in the hagiography of Akalankadeva, the great epistemologist, that while he was engaged in disputation with the Buddhists who were enjoying the impromtu coaching by the goddess Tārā-bhagavati behind the screen, it was goddess Padmăvati who helped Akalankācārya who, at her instance, pulled the curtain down and kicked the magic-pot 'ghata' placed there and defeated the opponent. Thereafter Padmāvati came to be called as
Ghatāntaki [Nagarajaiah 1976]. 12.1.1. Dānacintămani Attimabbe (A. D. 950-1016) patronised writers, sculptors,
musicians, dancers, storey-tellers, warriors, orphans, and so on and she built 1501 Jaina temples. She was equated with the Jina-śāsana-devī Padmāvati and got the biruda Ghațāntaki. Out of the 1501 temples she built, all the Pārsva basadis with Padmāvati-Dharana combine became popular as Ghatāntakī-basadis
[Kamala Hampana : 1995). 12.1.2. A Ghatāntakīya-basadi at Lakkundi near the Brahma-jinālaya (SII. XI-i. 52 & 53.
A. D. 1007.) has been converted into a Sivālaya and the Pārsva image has been replaced with Sivalinga, but the seven-hooded canopy is intact [Nagarājaiah, Hampa: 1995 : 11). There were Ghaṭāntakī-basadis olim Pārśva temples at cikka-Handigola [SII. XV. 128. 1174. pp. 161-63], at Kanenur [EC. III(R). 146. 1337. p. 266], at Konnur [SII. XV. 65. 1185. p. 91), at Adaki (Gogi, H : 1996: p. 174. A. D. 1172], at Mugad [SII. XI-i. 177. A. D. 1125. pp. 232-33], at Morab (ibid., 124. 1077. p. 144). A damaged epigraph of Anwāl (Bijapur Dt/ Bādāmi Tk) has recorded the gift of land to Ghatāntaki in the Jina-Pārsva temple (SII. XV. 629. 13 cent. A. D. p. 405). An inscription from Tumbagi (Bijapur Dt/Muddebinā! Tk) records a gift of land to the god Pāriśva-deva, a temple that was built in the 11th century (ibid., 198, 13th. c. p. 246).
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