Vaishali Institute Research Bulletin 7

Author(s): Nand Kishor Prasad
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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Arikesarin III, son of Boddega II, was also a Jaina. In his Prabhani plates, 1 dated $. 888, Arikesarin III is said to have given a gift of the village Kuttam-vritti Vanikațupalu in the midst of Repaka, Twelve in the Sabbi and thousand to Soma devasūri who was perbaps the Stāna pati of the Subhādāma Jainalaya.
The Chāļukya's of Vemulavāda, though a petty dynasty, were, indeed, great patrons of Jainism and men of letters. It was under them that Jainism in Andhra enjoyed a glorious career. The great Jaina scholars like Pampa and Somadevasūri, who were held in great esteem by many kings of the age, flourished under the aegis of the Chāļuk yas of Vemulavada.2 Under them, the Jaina organisations became important seats of learning where the monks taught the day disciples all the branches of knowledge.
10. JAINISM UNDER THE LATER CHĀĻUKYAS OF KALYÄŅA
(Cir. 1000 to 1100 A. D.)
The later Chāļukyas of Kalyāņa, who succeeded the Rāstrakūtas in Andhra, were also patrons of Jainism. A large number of inscriptions, ascribed to this period, bear testimony to their patronage and their rich contribution to the glorious career of Jainism in Andhra during their hegimony. Mālkhed, for a time was the temporary capital of the early rulers and later Potalakire and finally Kaļyāņa founded by Somēśvara, were the capitals in succession. Out of them, Poțalakire was of great strategic importance to the Chāļukyan Empire, from its inception. It was the town from which Brahmeśvara, a powerful advocate of Jaina Law and author of two Kannada works, hailed.8 It was also the capital of Jayasimha II according to the Kannada Barava purāna. It was very important Jaina centre comprising 500 Jaina basadis then. Numerous Jaina -images of that period belonging to this town have been collected and are preserved in the Khajāna building Museum at Hyderabad. This ancient Potalakire is identified with the present Pathāncheruvu, 27 km from the city of Hyderabad.
Jagadekamalla (i.e. Jayasimha II), whose capital was Pathāncheruvu, patronised Jainism. Inscription No. 39 from Māski4, deposited in the State Museum Hyderabad and assigned to Jayasimha II (A. D. 1027), registers the gift of 50 mattars of black-soil, 50 mattars of akadi etc., to the Jaina Besadi, constructed by Basavoja in the year S. 949 (A. D.
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N. V. Ramanayya : op. cit. pp. 92-98. S. Gopalakrishna Murthy : op. cit., Pt. XI and XII. Karnataka Kavichanite, 1, p. 131. Māski record, HAS, XVIII, p. 42-33.