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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tury AD. For a whole line of Jaina gurus were called by the name of this city-Acaryas of the Uddhare-vamsa. This we know from a record dated A.D. 1388 which tells us that Munibhadradeva belonged to the Uddhare-vamśa. It was he who had the Hisugal basadi made, and the Mulugunda Jinendra temple extended. And when Harihara Rāya was established in Vijayanagari, the elders of the Sena gana bowed down to the virtues of that yati." This seems to have been done because they were anticipating his end. For the inscription continues to relate that after performing his penance, elucidating his chosen agama, practising the prescribed rites, the great Munibhadradeva with all the rites of samnyasana died. And his disciple Värisasenadeva set up a nisidhi to commemorate the event.1
About another Jaina centre Huligere, also in the Sohrab täluka, we have interesting details in a record dated A.D. 1383. These concern the broadmindedness of the important commercial magnates called the Salu-mūles or Associations of Merchants. It was only in the previous year (A.D. 1382) that the Salu-mules and Vira Banajigas of the city of Vijayanagara, Hastināvati, Dorasamudra, Udayagiri, Ādavāni, and quite a number of other places, had assembled together in the courtyard of the great temple of Virupaksa in the capital and conferred the title of Mayor of the Earth (Pṛthvi-setti) upon the distinguished Minister-General of king Harihara Rāya II, Muda Danṇāyaka.2 And now in A.D. 1383 a huge concourse of Salu-mūles met at Huligere. These came from Edenaḍ (in Gutti), Kondarade, in Nagarakhaṇḍa, Hänugal, the Cikka Jigalige and
1. E.C. VIII. Sb. 146, p. 21.
2. Ibid, V. Bl. 75, p. 63; Saletore, S.P. Life, II. pp. 107,
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