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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JAINA MEN OF ACTION
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estates; and they themselves made certain specified grants for the new basadi which they had caused to be constructed at Aṇuvasamudra and for the old basadi at Cakeyanahalli. These grants were made over by them in A.D. 1184 to the priest Devacandra Pandita, the disciple's disciple of Gaṇḍavimuktadeva, of the Savanta basadi of Kollapura (mod. Kolhapur) attached to the Mula sangha and the Inguleśvara bali.1
To the great circle of Jaina military leaders of the reign of king Visnuvardhana Deva belonged three other generals-Boppa, Eca, and Immadi Biṭṭimayya. Of these we have already seen a few details concerning General Boppa, the eldest son of Ganga Rāja. Boppa's wife was Bāganabbe, the lay disciple of Bhanukirti Deva. Their son was Eca who also rose to be a Danḍādhisa. About him it is said in A.D. 1134 that he made Jina temples in Sravana Belgola look like those in the tirtha of Kopana and other places. Like his father Boppa, General Eca was a large-hearted Jaina. This accounts for the specified grant of land which he made in the same year, along with his father and mother, for the god Mūlasthāna Gangesvara of Belgali, in the presence of fifty families of the locality and the local officer Perggade Sōmayya. He died in A.D. 1135 by the rite of sallekhanā 'after living for a long time in happiness, delighting in bestowing gifts and rejoicing in the advancement of the Jina dharma."s
1. E. C. IV, Ng. 32, pp 121-122.
2. Ibid., V, p. 229.
3. Ibid., II, 384. This inscription makes Eca son of General Bamma and Bāgaṇabbe, and Bamma himself brother of Ganga Rāja. Ibid. Read, ibid., Intr. p. 57. As in the case of Mariyanes and Bharatesvaras, there is some discrepancy in the lithic records concerning these two generals of king Visņu.