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JAINISM AND KARNĀTAKA CULTURE
the suffix Nandi : Destroyers of sin, breakers of the tusks of the elephants the disputants, conferers of various kinds of good fortune, bees to the lotuses universal learning, possessors of bright bodies uninfluenced by the world-conqueror Cupid, lofty by their pure conduct, and free from the ties of the world were these celebrated ones.” 94
It need hardly be pointed out that the list of the names and suffixes contained in this epigraphical record must serve as a valuable index to the class, sect, or subsection of any given Acārya or teacher, though obviously not an infallible guide owing to much overlapping. There are indications in Tamil inscriptions as to separate villages being occupied by the Jainas, Brāhmaṇas, and others.95 Names of villages or places like Samaņa-halli or village of the Gramaņas, Śravaņa Belgo!a or the white pond of the Sramanas, and Savaņoor, Savaņadurga, etc. surely seem to confirm the same fact. Mr. Rice, for instance, has likewise pointed out that Pansøge or Hansôgê in Coorg was the official centre of the Hottage-gachcha which he identifics with Pustaka-gachcha.96 Some of the other sub-divisions met with mostly in the inscriptions are Valahāri-gana, Kālôgra-gana, Karanür-gana or Kanurgaña; Yāpaniya-Samgha, Māthurasamgha, Gopyasamgha, Addakali-gachcha and Trintrini-gachcha.o? Gaņa, Samgha and Gachcha, are often used as convertible terms, as for example: an inscription of Amma II speaks of Dhiradeva, disciple of Divākara, as belonging to the Yāpaniya-Samgha of Nandi-gachcha ;98 and the Jaina-Siddhānta-Bhaskara gives the apostolic line of the Sena-gana founded by Jinasena 1.99 We
94 Ep. Car. II SB. 254, pp. 110-11. 95 Cf. Oh. IV n. 40 above. 96 Rice, Ep. Car. IV Ya 26; cf. Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions,
pp. 141-42. 97 Cf, Rangāchārya, op. cit. II. SK 215, NI 397, C. P. 324 (Madras
Museum); Sheshagiri Ras, Studies in 3. I. J. II, pp. 61-2; Nathuram
Premi, op. cit p. 117. 98 Cf. Rapgācharya, op. cit. NI. 397. 99 Ibid., p. 995.
| SR No. | 011062 |
| Book Title | Jainism and Karnataka Culture |
| 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 |