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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simha Deva." It was to the Droharagharatta Jinālaya in Dorasamudra and for the prosperity of his son and for the promotion of universal peace that the same monarch, we may be permitted to repeat, gave the village of Javagal together with others to the god.1
Commander Boppa maintained the liberal traditions of his illustrious father. For in addition to the above Jinālaya at Dorasamudra, he built two more Jina temples. He erected the Santiśvara basadi at Kambhadahalli, Nāgamangala täluka. The name of the architect who designed it was Droharagharaṭṭācāri. It cannot be made out whether this temple was constructed as a memorial to Boppa's father." As an inscription assigned to A.D. 1138 relates, he caused to be made the basadi of Trailokyarañjana, otherwise called Boppaṇa-caityalaya. In this record General Boppa is described as "the learned son of the General Ganga", the affluent Ēcana, friend of the learned, friend of the good." Learned works by Boppa, however, have not been discovered so far.
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But in regard to his martial nature we know a few details. He possessed the valiant qualities of his great father. He seems to have been entrusted with the work of subduing the Kongas. For in A.D. 1134 it is said that he attacked and put to flight the mighty enemies, and by force of arms subdued the Kongas.5
What influence the pious wife of Ganga Raja and the
1. E. C. V, Bl 24, pp. 82-83
2. M. A. R. for 1915, 51; E. C. II, Intr., p. 55.
3. E. C. II, 120, p. 49. The image of this temple seems to have been transferred at some later date to Sravana Belgola. Ibid., Intr., pp. 6, 55.
4. E. C. V, BI 124, p. 83.
5. Ibid., Cp. 248, p. 229, ibid., II, 384, p. 166.