Jainism and Karnataka Culture

SR No.: 011062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S R Sharma
Publisher: Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 263
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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done well. Its eyes are not done well. Its paws are not well done. Its legs are not properly done."
"Rāma, Rāma, Bêrmêtti !", exclaimed Kalkuda, “Many have seen and examined my work; many have been satisfied with it. You were born but yesterday, and are only just grown up; still you have found out a mistake in my work. If the king heard of this, he would tie me to an elephant's leg and beat me with horse-whips. He would dishonour me, and then what would be the use of my life?" So saying, Kalkuda put down his tools and took out a knife from his girdle and cut his own throat. Thus did he kill himself.
“ Father, althongh you are dead, I will not leave your tools,“ said the son.... And he worked at Belgola better than his father had done. He built the seven temples; he established a Brahma128 (?), etc.
Bairaņa-sūda (Bairāsu Wodeya ? ), King of Karkala, heard the news, sent for him, and told him to work in his kingdom ........ He made a basti with a thousand pillars, 120 images, a dancing room, a lodging for dancing girls, etc.
"Go to a rock on dry land and make Gummațasāmi there,” said the king. He made the Gommațasāmi. He made a pillar called Banțakamba, a pillar of Mahārņavami. He made a garden inside the temple.
"You people, bring fifty cocoanuts in a basket, and betel-nut on a fan; call together the 5,000 people of Kärkala, and raise the Gommațasāmi, he said. But they could not do it."
" Very well,” said Kalkuda ( the younger), and he put the left hand under the Gummața and raised it, and placed it on a base, and then he set the Gummata up-right."
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This is evidently a reference to the Brahma-deva Pillar, or Mánas. tambha on the Candragiri Hill which is a beautiful work of art. Cf. Ep. Car. U Introd., p. 24.