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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POPULAR SUPPORT
211 epigraph tells us that he died in Saka 1099 (A.D. 11761177). On the strength of these facts, we may assign the event mentioned concerning Nămi sețți to a period before A.D. 1177 in the reign of king Ballāļa II or earlier.
That quarter of Dorasamudra which contained Jaina temples was called Bastihaļļi. The basadis which lie in ruins in this village, as well as the inscriptions in its neighbourhood, enable us to conclude that Bastihalļi was, indeed, a prosperous centre of Jainism under the Hoysalas. In A.D. 1236 the guru Sakalacandramuni, a disciple of Bāhubali Siddhānta of the Desiya gana and the Müla sangha, after wandering through villages, cities, and hamlets, and causing Jainism to spread, at last died in the caityagriha of the village of Biļicā (in modern Basavapațțaņa of the Channagiri tāluka ?) after starving himself for three days. At this all the Jaina citizens (Bhavya-nagarangal) of the capital Dorasamudra erected a monument in his memory." From the statement made above concerning this guru, it is not improbable that he had popularized Jainism in the country.
Of the three temples now existing in Bastihaļļi—the Pārsvanátha, Ādinātha, and śāntinātha—we have a few details
quadrupeds, conveyance, bed, servants, vessels). The three daņdas which are hurtful are—acts of body, speech, and mind. E.C., II, p. 22, ns. 1-3.
1. E. C. II, 66, pp. 22-23. On the basis of this the date given to inscription number 182 (circa A.D. 1200), p. 90 (ibid) should be changed to an earlier date. See also 187, 333, pp. 91, 140. In the latter record we are introduced to the solitary figure of Somesvara described as a son of Vira Ballāļa a statement which is not met with elsewhere. Nayakirti's charter to the Jain merchants of Belgola is also to be noted in this record.