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Study of Civakacintamani
by the reference made by a Jaina author Vidyānandi, 1 He also alludes to a contemporary king named Satyavākya in the colophon of four of his works. He also alludes to three other kings in the colophons of his three other works. In one work he refers to śivamāra, in another to Mārasimha and in another probably to śripurusha.3 All of these people are kings of the Ganga dynasty. Vidyanandi also mentiors the Rāştrak uta king Dhruva Dhārāvarsa (A.D. 780-92)* in his Astasabasri. Thus the Satyavākya alluded to by him appears to be the Ganga king Racamalla I (A.D. 818-837).
All the Ganga kings of Talakảd who came after Rācamalla I seem to have had the title Satyavākya with their names.' Therefore from the phrase 'Poyyāmoli pukal tiruttaku munivap' we can only infer that one of the Ganga Satyavākya kings who may bave lived any time from the early ninth century AD. up to about A.D. 10008 would have honoured the author of the Cc.
The reference to the city of Vanci in the phrase "vanci cēr poyyāmoli pukal is not very helpful in arriving at a more exact conclusion. Vanci is said to have been the capital of the Cēra kings. T. A. Gopinatha Rao 9 says that a chieftan belonging to Takatūr in the Ganga country called himself 'Vanciyar kulapati'. Hence the adjective 'vanci cēc' supports the conclusion that the word poyyānoli refers to a Ganga king.
(iii) The Mallişena Prasasti inscription of Sravana Belgola refers to two works called Cintamani and Cudamani. This epitaph was composed to perpetuate the memory of the Jaina preceptor Mallişena Maladharideva who committed rejigious suicide on Sunday 10th March A.D. 1129, 10(dark fortnight of Phalguņa, the expired Saka year of 1050). In this epitaph the author Mallinātha extols the glory of eminent Jaina ascetics. Though it cannot be said with certainty that these teachers have been listed in strict chronological order, we can say that there are no serious chronological discrepancies.
In this inscript on the authors of Cintamani and Cīļamani are praised in the following stanzas :
dharmärtthakāma parinirvrticarucintaś cintamanih pratiniketam akāri yena sa stü yate sarasasaukh yabhu jā su jātaś cintamanir minivrşå na kathan janena // cuļāmaṇiḥ kavinim cuļāmaņinā(ma)sevyakavyakavih
śrivarddhadeva eva hi kļlapunyaḥ kirttim äharttum // 11 1 Jyoti prasad Jain, The Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India, (100 B.C.-A.D. 900), Delhi,
1964, p. 199. 2 Ibid, p. 199. 3 Ibid, p. 199. 4 K. A. Niļakanta Sastri, op. cit. p. 210 5 K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, op. cit. p. 200. 6 M. V. Krishna Rao, op. cit. p. 124. 7 M. S. Ramaswami Ayyangar and B. Seshagiri Rao, op. cit. p. 155. 8 In A.D. 1004 Rajendra Cola suececded in capturing Talakad and extinguishing the Ganga
dynasty. M. V. Krishna Rao, op. cit. p. 127. 9 T. A. Gopinatha Rao 'Arunkalā vayam, Civakacintamani, Cula mari' Centamil, Vol. V, pp. 95-102. 10 Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III, p. 185. 11 Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III, pp. 190, 191,
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