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 gana, Senānvaya, and Müla sangha, for the repairs of the basadi.1
In the ninth century Jainism flourished also in some parts of the Travancore State. Of these mention may be made of Citaral where Tirucchāṇattumalai was known as the mountain of the Cāraņas or śramaņas (i.e., the Jainas). This place which seems to have been originally Buddhist, witnessed the gift of some golden ornaments to the goddess Bhagavati by Guņandāngi Kurattiga!, the disciple of Arittanemi Bhațāra of Pērāyakuļi. This was in the 28th regnal year of king Vikrama Varaguņa (ninth century (A.D.) 2
That in the tenth and eleventh century A.D. there were Jainas throughout the Coļa and Pāņdya countries and the Tondaimaņdalam is proved by a record of the Cola king Rāja Rāja Deva I dated in his 24th regnal year (A.D. 1009), in which the State dealt with defaulters of land revenue held by the Brahmans, the Vaikhānasas, and the Jainas in the three provinces mentioned above. The monarch empowered the villagers to confiscate and sell the lands of those whose taxes were unpaid for full two years.3 This epigraph clearly shows that the great Coļa king made no distinction betwecn the Jainas and the other subjects of his Empire.
Vilappākkam in the North Arcot district was a Jaina locality in the same age (the tenth century A.D.) Here was Aristanenipiņārar of Tiruppānamalai, thc guru of the Jainas. One of his lay disciples (a woman) sank a well
1. 304 of 1901, E. I. X. pp. 54.70 ; see also 305 of 1901 for other examples.
2. Travancore Manual. II. pp. 194-5 For the Buddhist ante. cedents of the temple, read ibid., pp. 224-225.
3. 29 of 1893; Rangacharya, Top List., I. p. 69.