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the chief town of Sāsaștigrama, in the south of the Kingdom of Goa....26
The Gururāya of this record and the Sálvamalla of the previous one ( quoted above) came of a family of rulers who had their Capital at Gersoppa. The epithets ' ರತ್ನ ತ್ರಯಾರಾಧಕರುಂ' (worshippers of the Ratnatraya: Right faith, Right understanding and Right action), “ ಜಿನ ಧರ್ಮ ಧ್ವಜಸ್ಥಾಪನಾಚಾರ್ಯರುಂ' (Implanters of the fag of Jaina Dharma), and ' ಹಿರಣ್ಯ ಚೈತ್ಯಾಲಯ ಸ್ಥಾಪನಾಚಾರ್ಯರುಂ ರತ್ನ ಸುವರ್ಣರಜತ ಜಿನ ಬಿಂಬ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾಪನಾಚಾರ್ಯರುಂ' (Builder of golden temples, consecrators of gold and silver images of Jina ) etc. applied to Sālvamalla indicate his enthusiasm for the Jaina faith. His ancestry is also described as consisting of those who obtained salvation by 'worshipping the feet of the Pancaparaméstins' or the five worshipful ones of the Jainas (ಕೃಮದಿ ರಾಜ್ಯಂಗೈದು ಪಂಚಪರಮೇಷ್ಠಿಗಳ ಚರಣ ಸ್ಮರಣದಿಂ ಪಂಚತ್ವ ಮನ್ನಿದಿ ಸದ್ದ ತಿಪಡೆದರ್')237 Concrete instances of the devotion to Jainism of these rulers are only too numerous.
For instance, Bhairava of the same family, being told by the blessed teacher Virasena, that such an act would tend to his prosperity in the future, got the third storey of the Tribhuvana. Cūdāmani-Basadi at the world famed Vêņupura, roofed with copper-plates. His family-priest is said to have been Panditácârya ( Virasena ?) and his family god Pārsvanātha :
• ಕುಲ ದೈವಂ ಪಾರ್ಶ್ವನಾಥಂ ಕುಲುಗುರುವನಿಪ ಪಂಡಿತಾಚಾರ್ಯವರ್ಯ೦.... ಧರೆಯೊಳಗಂ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ದಿ ಪಡೆದೊಪ್ಪುವ ವೇಣುಪುರಾಂತರಾಳದೊಳ್.......ಧರ್ಮಮಂ ವಿರಚಿಸಲುತ್ತರೋತ್ತರ ಸಮೃದ್ಧಿಗೆ ಕಾರಣಮಪ್ಪುದೆಂದು ತಾಂ ವರಗುರು ವೀರಸೇನ ಮುನಿ ಹೇಳಲು ಕೇಳೆನು ಭೈರವೇಶ್ವರಂ.......ಎಂದಾ ಮುನಿನಾಥಂ ಭೈರವೇಂದ್ರಗೆ ಹೇಳಿ ಕೇಳು.......ವೇಣುಪುರದ ಭವ್ಯ ಜನಂಗಳಂ ಕರೆಸಿಯೊಡಂಬಡಿಸಿ, ಆ ತ್ರಿಭುವನ ಚೂಡಾಮಣಿ ಬಸದಿಯ ತೃತಿಯ ನಿಲಯಕ್ಕೆ ಚೈತ್ಯಗೇಹಾಗ್ರದೊಳ್ ಕರ ಚಲ್ಪಾಗಿರೆ ತಾಮ್ರದಿಂ ಪೊದರೆಯಂ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದಂ'
226 Mangesh Rao, op. cit., p. 160 ; M . Orient. Lib. Local Records
XXX-XXXI, Bhatkal, 320. 227 Inscription in the Bhairadevi Mana tapa of the Hosa Basti at Mudbidre
Mangesh Rao, op. cit., p. 158.
| 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 |