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 kāśraya Jinabhuvana in Kaļacumbharru in the Attilināņqu province. The grant was made at the instance of a lady (Śrāvaki), named Cāmekāmbā of the Pațțavardhika lineage, a pupil of Arhanandi.1
The same king granted another village named Malliyapūņdi in the Ongole tāluka, to the Jaina temple called Kațakābharaṇa, obviously in the same village. This temple had been constructed by Duggarāja, the great-grandson of Krşnarāja. And in the reign of the same ruler it was presided over by the guru Dhīradeva, the disciple of Divākara of the Yāpaniya sangha and Nandi gaccha.2 King Amma II granted gifts to basadis in other places as well, as for instance to the two temples at Vijayavātikā, also called Bijavāda, (mod. Bezwada) according to an undated inscription of that ruler. It is not unlikely that one of these two temples was the same to which the Queen Ayyaņa Mahādevi had given a grant in the eighth century A.D.4
Dānayulapādu in the Jammalamadugu tāluka, Cuddapah district, possessed a basadi which was patronized by the Rāşțrakūta monarch Nityavarşa (i.e., Indra IV). This ruler caused a pedestal to be made for the bathing ceremony of the god śāntinātha."
Rāmatirtha near Vizianagaram was likewise a prominent locality of the Jainas. A Kannada inscription of the reign of the Eastern Cālukyan king Vimalāditya (accession A.D.
1. E. 1. VII. pp. 177-192 ; Rangacharya, Top List, II. p. 907 ; Seshagiri Rao, op. cit., pp. 20-21.
2. E. I. IX, pp. 47 seg ; Rangacharya, ibid, p. 793. Butterworth-Chetty, Nellore Ins. I. pp. 167-175.
3. C. P. 8 of 1908-9; Rangacharya, ibid, pp. 8778.
4. Ep. Rep. S. Circle for 1917-1918, p. 116, op. cit., Seshagiri Rao, ibid, p. 20.
5. 331 of 1905 ; Rangacharya, ibid., II, p. 589.