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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IDEALISM AND REALISM
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Thereby arose the Saraswati-gachcha on the mount Urjayanta. Hence, a bow to that lord of sages Padmanandi." (vv. 41-2). 'That Padmanandi is another name of Kundakundācārya is proved by the 4th verse of the same genealogy:
आचार्यः कुंदकुंदाख्यो वक्रग्रीवो महामतिः ।
gerandi geuiqes: quicîíâ qzqà || 91
It is interesting to notice that this verse is also found inscribed on the lamp-pillar of the Gaṇagitti-temple at Vijayanagara recording the grant of Irugapa, already alluded to; only instead of a qà in the second line we find the words ' इति तन्नाम पंचधा' This substitution was evidently necessitated by the previous lines of the inscription which read : श्रीमूलसंघेऽजनि नंदिसंघस्तस्मिन् बलात्कारगणोऽतिरम्यः । तत्रापि सारस्वतनाम्नि गच्छे स्वच्छाशयन्भूदिहपद्मनंदि ॥
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Prof. Jacobi has observed that "The inscriptions furnish materials for a necessarily incomplete history of their ancient schools (ganas); but they do not quite agree in all details with the more modern traditions of the Paṭṭāvalis."93 We have here at least one remarkable instance of epigraphical confirmation of the statements made in the Paṭṭāvalis referred to by Mr. Hiralal. It is clear also that Balātkāragaṇa was but a subdivision of the Nandi-Samgha. The words बलात्कारगणोऽतिरम्य : indicate the special pride of the members belonging to it. The Belgola inscription with like pride says,
Among these Samghas, the Nandi-Samgha, an eye to the world has the three subdivisions: gana, gachcha, and vali; and victorious is the lofty Ingulêśwara-vali of the pure Pustaka-gachcha of the virtuous Desigana of that Samgha. In it were Naga, Deva, Udaya, Ravi, Jina, Megha, Prabha, and Bala with the suffix Candra; Deva, Śri, Bhānu, Candra, Śruta, Naya, Guņa, Dharma and others with the suffix Bhuṣaṇa; as also Vidya, Dama, Indra, Padma, Amara, Vasu, Guna, and Manikya with
91 Cf. Hiralal, op. cit., p. iii.
92 Hultzsch, 8. I. I. I, pp. 156-57
93 Jacobi, Jainism, E. R. E. VII, p. 474.
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