Medieval Jainism

SR No.: 011082
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM
fied villages. Rājendra Kongālvas mother Põcabbarasi showed her devotion on this occasion in a fitting manner, as we shall relate when describing the part played by women in the history of Jainism.
Pocabbarasi's guru was Gunasena Pandita, the disciple of Puspasena of the Nandi sangha and the Irunguļānvaya which latter is called in the record the great Aruñgaļāmnāya. He was a great grammarian, and he died in A.D. 1064.1
As to the guru of Rājendra Kongāļva Adatarāditya himself, we know that he was Gandavimukta Siddhāntadeva of the Mūla sangha, Krāņür gana and Tagarigal gaccha. For his sake, as is related in a record dated A.D. 1079, the Kongāļva ruler made a basadi named Adațarāditya caityālaya and endowed it with lands. This inscription also gives the name of another guru called Prabhācandra Siddhänta who is called Ubhaya-siddhānta-ratnākara. It cannot be made out whether he was the same as Gandavimukta Siddhāntadeva whose identity itself is uncertain.”
The Kongāļvas did not disappear on the expulsion of the Colas by the Hoysalas in the first quarter of the twelfth century A.D., as Rice opined, but continued to exercise their sway till the last quarter of the same century, as pointed out by Narasimhacarya. In about A.D. 1100 the Kongälva chief Duddammallarasa granted the village of Aybavalli to Prabhācandradeva for the erection and repairs of a basadi.5 About fifteen years later Vīra Kongāļva Deva is mentioned as a lay disciple of Prabhācandra Siddhāntadeva, the disciple of Meghacandra Traividya of the Desiya gana and the
1. E. C. IX, Cg. 34, p. 173. 2. Ibid. V, Ak. 99, p. 263. 3. Rice, My. & Coorg, p. 145. 4. M. A. R. for 1912-13, p. 32. 5. Ibid., p. 33.