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
141 mcritorious wisdom and his faithfulness, bestowed on him Sūranahalli, where that devout Jaina general crected a Jaina caityālaya for which the monarch granted money payments. This temple was made over to Deva Rāja's guru Municandradeva, and the village of Sūranahaļļi rechristened by the king Parvapura.
A more celebrated Jaina devotee and general was Hulļa. Details about the family to which this remarkable commander belonged are met with in stone records but with this peculiarity : whereas the lithic records found at Śravaņa Belgoļa uniformly give the names of his parents in one manner, other epigraphs, like that found in the Nāgamangala tāluka, have different names to give concerning them. All records, however, tell us that the family to which Huļļa belonged was called the Vāji kula. In the śravaņa Belgoļa records ranging from A.D. 1159 till A.D. 1163, his father's name is given as "the blameless ” Yakşarāja or Jakkarāja and his mother's, “the well-behaved ” Lokāmbike. Huļļa's wife was called Padmāvati, and his younger brothers Lakşmaņa and Amara.? But the Madeśvara temple stone inscription found in Nāgamangala and dated A.D. 1164, while confirming the name of the family to which Huļļa belonged, says that Kaņțimayya, Hariyaņņa, and Huļļa, and their younger sister Duggale were the children of Madhusudana and Muddiyakke. It cannot be made out whether these latter names were the popular names of the parents of Huļļa.
Leaving aside this divergence in epigraphic evidence concerning the parents of Hulla, we find that both as a great minister-general and a patron of Jainism he attained wide
1. E. C. IV, Ng. 76, p. 132. 2. Ibid. II, 64, 345, 349, pp. 147-9, 153. 3. Ibid., IV Ng. 30, p. 119.