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 all his gifts for holy munindras, did he divide with great joy, the Camūpa Bharata. That this praise given to General Bharata was not unfounded is borne out by a stone record dated about A.D. 1160, which tells us that he erected Jaina images in Śravana Belgola, built eighty new basadis and renovated 200 old ones in Gangavādi “so that they met one's gaze wherever one looked."?
From many records we know that his guru was Gandavimuktavrati, the disciple of Māghanandi of the Deśiya gana and the Pustaka gaccha. We may incidentally note in this connection that the same Jaina sage was the guru of Bharata's elder brother Mariyāne II ;4 while the guru of Bharata's wife (the junior) Hariyale was Māghanandi himself."
We may digress here a little in order to narrate a few more details about this illustrious family of the Jaina general who continued to serve under the next Hoysala ruler king Narasimha I. An inscription at Kambhadahaļļi rclates that the brothers received a grant from this king in A.D. 1145.6 It was they who, while continuing in their hereditary office of great ministers, gave king Narasimha I 500 honnu as a gift obtaining in retum a renewal of the grant of their ancestral estates of Sindagere, Baggavasli, and Dadiganakese.8 Bharata II and Bāhubali, the sons of Mariyāne II (?), while serving under king Narasinga I's son and successor king Ballāļa II, obtained in A.D. 1184 a reconfirmation of their ancestral
,1. E. C. VI, Cm. 161, p. 58. 2. Ibid., II, 265, 267, pp. 122-123. 3. Ibid., VI, Cm. 161, p. 58. 4. Ibid., II, 64, p. 18. 5. Ibid., VI, Cm., 160, p. 57, IV, Ng. 32, p. 121. 6. M. A. R. for 1915, p. 51. 7. Cf. E. C. VI, Cm. 160, op. cit. 8. Ibid., IV, Ng. 32, pp. 121-122.