Svasti

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
Publisher: K S Muddappa Smaraka Trust

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C.S. Vasudevan, Donation Pattern to the Jinalayas
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Tribhuvanamalladeva camping on the bank of a streamlet Payani with a view to conquer the North and overthrow Bhijadeva of Malva and registers a grant of lands to the Jina Parshvadeva of Indra Jinalaya at Chilkuru.
Another record from the same Museum dated 1027 A.D. records the gift of 50 mattars of black land, 50 mattars of akade, 1 ghuna for the lamp and 1 mattar for a flower garden in the rajadhani (capital) Periya Mosangi to the Jaina basadi constructed by Basavoja under the direction of Sodera Vadeyora Revanayya at the request of Tambipattana Basavoja by the king's daughter Sahaja Vedangi, Somaladevi, while camping at the Appayana-vidu of Pulipodaru with the consent of her ministers. In this record a princess made the donation. Before making the donation, she got the approval of her ministers, a fact which underlines the power she enjoyed in making donations or taking decisions. An inscription from Saidapur, belonging to the reign of Jagadekammalladeva as ruling from the capital Pottalakere in 1034 A.D. records that the king at the request of Vaidyaratnakara Pranacharya Aggalayya made a gift to a Jaina temple Buddhasena Jinalaya at Mucchupalli constructed by Aggalayya himself and Vaidyaratnakara Jinalaya at Ikkuriki in Alur-40 which was a Kampana of Kollipake-7000. The Sanskrit portion of the record extols the greatness of the physician Aggalayya, a specialist in surgery and his capacity to cure severe diseases. A certain Jakabbe's Katte basadi is also referred to in the record. The importance of the record, like the previous instance, lies in the fact that the king makes the donation on the request of the person who constructed the Jinalaya. A record of 1051 A.D. from Sanigaram is interesting". It refers to the reign of the king Trailokyamalladeva and his Mahasamanta Kakatiya Betarasa. This records that Beta's Pergade Vaijaraja's son Naranayya renovated the Duddahmalla Jinalaya of Sanagara and endowed it with a ratana after obtaining the consent of the local gamundas Muppadayya and Punnireddi. Kakatiya Beta mentioned here is obviously Beta I. It is curious to note the ratana i.e., pulley is gifted to the temple. It is very rare to gift such items to the temple. We have very few references of making such gifts to the religious institutions. Besides endowing the temples with land and other gifts, it was also a common practice during the medieval and early medieval period to donate the taxes and levies. Generally, the king or a person authorized by him was empowered to make such donations. An inscription, dated 1056 A.D., from Kolanupaka is interesting. It opens with a Sanskrit verse describing the earth followed by a Kannada verse in the Kanda metre in praise of Jagadekamalladeva. It begins with the well-known Chalukyan
AREp, 1960-61, No. B 16; APAREP, 1965, No. 169; HAS, No. 18, pp. 42-43; KIAP, No. 367. 10 IAP, Nal. I, No. 5; Jainism in Andhra No. 40; KIAP, No. 858. 11 EA, IV, No. 9-1; IAP, Kr. No. 14; Bharati 49-50; pp. 45-57; Jainism in Andhra, No. 42; KIAP, No. 437. 12 APAREP, 1965, No. 280; IAP, Nal II, No. 3; Jainism in Andhra, No. 45; KIAP, No. 815.