Significance of New Inscriptions from Koppala Karnataka

Author(s): Hampa Nagrajaiha
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Significance of New Inscriptions from Koppala, Karnataka
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8.3.
Nemicandra-Bhatāra of Balātkāra-gana, attained sanyasanamarana. Revabbe, respected by the three worlds, erected a nisidhi stone. [K.3] Gandavimukta-ācārya of Balagāra (Balātkāra-gana), a profound scholar, gained the abode of moksa-laksmi (emancipation from the cycle of births and deaths) in the year Śaka 899 (977 C.E). His lotus feet had the dust of the crown of māndalikas; his character was so transparent that he was praised by the world at large.
This ācārya is identical with the Gandavimukta-deva mentioned in the later inscriptions of Gävarwad [E1. XV. 23. 1071-72. C. E), Mugud [S11. X1-i. 78. 1045 C. E] and of Bodan (ARIE 1961-62. B-113. 1041 C. E].
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(K. 4] Devanandi-Bhatāra, a disciple of Vimalacandra-Bhatāra of Krānūr-gana, attained the world of gods in the year Saka 926 (1004. C. E); Deyakabbe-kanti, a nun in obeisance to her teacher, erected this post-mortem memorial column.
Krānūr-gana is one of the prominent cohorts (ganas) of friars and nuns of the Yāpanīya-sangha; Kanur, Kandūr, Kädūr are the other variants for that gana. (Nagarajaiah : 1997 -B- : 234-48).
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[K. 5] This epitaph records the death of three different persons on three different dates : In the saka year 946 (1024 C. E), Revasetti of Kellengere achieved ratnatrayas, holy death, the day synchronising with the auspicious day of the parinirvana-mahākalyana, one of the five sacred events in the life of a Tirthankara : Parinirvana is the final emancipation of an enlightened being followed immediately by salvation (moksa).
Madurāntaka-setti, the son-in-law of Nolambasetti, died in meditation in the year 1023 C. E. He was a repository of humility, birth place of pleasentness, a heap of religious merit, an asylum of knowledge, the first in the path of Manu.
Nolamba-setti was the son of Revasetti, a bee at the lotus feet of Nemicandra-Siddhäntadeva. He was courteous, mild, just, liberal, worthy of merits, and of impeccable character. At the time of his