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 (Ganga Rāja's) hand raised with the desire of victory was lifting up the skin of his back, fell in the direction of Kañci enough ? O Ganga, unable to expose his body to the turn of your sword once in battle, that Tiguļa (i.e., Tamil) Dāma escaped and took refuge in the forest, and thinking of it again and again now, is frightened like the deer day and night causing palpitation in the hearts of his faithful wives. Having remained till now in Talakādu, astonishing people by his valour which put to flight many in any number of battles, the Sämanta Damodara, turning now his back on the fight through great fear of the blows of Ganga Rāja's sword, lives like a Saiva saint eating from a skull (or potsherd) from which (even) a dog will not eat.”1
There remained still one champion of Cala imperialism in Karnātaka-Narasingavarmā. This Cola feudatory was at first defeated and then slain. We infer this from the above record as well as from the stone inscription found in the Aregallu basti. The former asserts that “Moreover, he (Ganga Räja) put to flight Narasingavarma and all the other Sämantas of Cola above the Ghats and brought the whole nādu under the dominion of a single umbrella.". The other stone inscription dated about A.D. 1135 says that "making the abode of Yama a home for Narasinga, the general Ganga," "took Gangamandala and made it subject to the orders of king Vişņu."3 The reward which Ganga Rāja received at the hands of his royal master for thus asserting Hoysala supremacy in the east, will be presently mentioned.
The Tamil hegemony over Karnataka, no doubt, once and for ever was ended ; but there remained other rulers who were
1. E. C. II, 240, p. 102. 2. Ibid., 3. Ibid., 384, p. 166.