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Study of Civakocintāmaņi
Vadiraja in his Parsvanātha carita says that he had finished his work in A.D. 1025, during the reign of Calukya king Jay isimha II. (A.D. 1015-1042).1 This is also confirmed by the Belgam ve Grant of the Cālukya king Jayasimha II Jagadekamilla, to the Lākula Vadirudragana in A.D. 1035 (saka 957).2 In this grant the following titles given to the Saiva saint Vadirudragana show that Vad bhasimha and Vadiraja are contemporaries.
...Vādibhasimha śarabham, vădira ja mukha mudra.. 3 (...a sarabha to the lion Vadiibha (or to Vādibhasimha sealer up of the mouth of Vădirāja ..)
This evidence shows that there is a possibility for Vadirāja and Vadibhasimha to be contemporaries and to be disciples of Somadevasūri.
Vadiraja in bis Parsvanatha carita mentions Matisāgara as his guru.4 This is also corroborated by the elaborate stone inscription in the Pārsvanātha basti at Śravaņa Belgola dated A.D. 1129. In this inscription it is said that Matisagara had two illustrious students, Dayāpala Muni, the author of Rūpasiddhi and Vadirāja.5 Therefore it is clear that Matisagira was the guru of Vadirāja. Venkataraman identifies Matisāgara as the contemporary of Rājarāja 1.6 He bases his argument on an inscription found in Pudukkottai. In Pudukkottai there is a place called 'Samaņarmētu' (Jain mound), on the north of the irrigation tank Vennāvikkuļam. This place was a mound before the excavation and now a whole group of shrines stand there. In this place a number of Jaina images and two inscriptions have been discovered. In one of the inscriptions there are fragments of the Prasasti of Rajaraja I and in the other the following fragment in Tamil is found.
udaya natisāgara-aruhar-ācār yar ippalli..? Venkataraman says that, the Matisāgara mentioned in this inscription may be identified with the Matisāgara, the guru of Dayāpāla who composed Hitarūpasiddhi and Vãdirāja.
Therefore if Matisāgara was a contemporary of Rājarāja I, Vādibhasimha who was a contemporary of his student, Vadirāja, also can be a contemporary of Rājarāja I.
All these above discussed facts contribute to the conclusion that Vadībhasimha was contemporary of Rājarāja 1 (A.D. 985-1015).
Since Vadībhasimha had lived in the period between the later part of 10th Cen1 Vadiraja, Parsvanathacarita, edited by Manoharalal Sastri, Bombay, 1953. 2 Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. VII, Shikarpur Inscriptions, Inscription No. 126, p. 174. 3 Ibld, p. 174. 4 Vadirāja, op. cit. p. 197. 5 Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol. II, Inscription No. 54, pp. 43, 44. 6 K. R. Venkataraman, "Jainis.n in Pudukkottai" Journal of the Oriental Research Institute, Madras,
Vol. XII, part I, p. 8. 7 Ibid, p. 8.
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