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 their brothers and sons.1 And in A.D. 1490 Brahmadharmaruci-Brahmaguņasāgara Pandita, the lay disciple of Abhayacandra Bhattāraka, came also from Mārwār to Belgoļa.2 The influx of the northern Jaina merchants into the Vijayanagara Empire during the fourteenth century and earlier, may have been partly responsible for the institution of an official enquiry under the orders of the Emperor Deva Raya II concerning the distinction between the Uttarapathanagareśvaradevatopāsakas and the southern Jaina and nonJaina merchants to be mentioned in a later context.
The year A.D. 1500 was eventful in the annals of Sravana Belgoļa, and, therefore, of Jainism. For in that year was made the mahābhişeka (great anointment) of Gummatasvāmi for which the guru Panditadeva gave certain specified grant.3 About that same time Nāga Gonda of Belguļanādu and the Gavudagal of Muttaga Honnēnahall-all of whom were the disciples of Paņạitadeva, granted specified lands for the basadi which had been built by Mangāyi.4
We have already seen that Kalleha was an important Jaina centre. It is mentioned in connection with the great controversy between the Jainas and the Srivaişņavas which the king Bukka Rāya settled in A.D. 1368. We see its importance since the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D. when Pāyi Seçţi, the son of Nāga Sețţi of Kalleha, a most pious Jaina, and one who had the biruda of Samyaktva-cūļāmani (crest jewel of firm faith in Jainism), expired by the orthodox manner of samadhi at Belgola. He was the disciple of Abhinava Panditācārya of
1. E. C. II, 192, p. 91. 2. Ibid, 203, p. 93. 3. Ibid, 231, p. 97. 4. Ibid, 395, p. 169.