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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THE ANEKANTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE
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Pārsvanatha in Terakaṇāmbi.1
There was a very learned guru in Maleyur in about A.D. 1380. He was Bahubali Pandita the disciple of Nayakīrtivrati. Bahubali was a poet in two languages, omniscient in the science of astrology, and "an emperor of all learning." He was attached to the Pustaka gaccha.2
Kanakagiri attracted learned men from distant parts. Candrakirtideva of Kopana already mentioned in connection with the latter mahātirtha, was one of them. He was the guru of the General Kūci Rāja, and he visited Kanakagiri in about A.D. 1400. His guru was Subhacandra of the Inguleśvara bali. It was Candrakirti who in the same year caused an image of Candraprabha to be set up at Kanakagiri, "intending it for his own tomb ".3
Prince Harihara Raya's gifts to the temple at Kanakagiri deserve special notice. He was the son of the Emperor Deva Raya I. His gift of the village of Maleyur itself together with all lands and taxes pertaining thereto, with its hamlets of Huņsūrapura, for the offerings, decorations, and processions of the god Vijayanatha of Kanakagiri made in A.D. 1422, was commemorated in two inscriptions-one a stone inscription and the other a copper-plate grant. These two inscriptions begin in the orthodox Jaina manner by invoking the syād vāda doctrine, and one of them ends with the accredited royal sign-manual-Virūpākṣa-written in Kannada. In the stone record the god is called Śrī Vijayadeva, while in the copperplate grant, Śrī Vijayanāthadeva. The gift in the copperplate grant was made in the presence of the god Triyambaka. This latter consideration may have led Rice to assert that
1. M. A. R. for 1934, pp. 169-170.
2. E. C. IV. Ch. 157, p. 21.
3. Ibid, Ch. 151, p. 20.