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 Jinasena Bhattāraka Pattācārya. Along with the people of that city and his sangha, he went to śravana Belgoļa in that year.1
The hill called Nidugallu in the Pāvagūda tāluka, Mysore State, once contained a basadi. Here in A.D. 1232 Nemi Paņạita's son (unnamed) had received the land belonging to it. This locality continued to be dear to the Jainas, in spite of the fact that the land around the basadi had passed into the hands of the Hindus in the middle of the fifteenth century. This is proved by the fact that in about A.D. 1450 the hill is called the gudda which belonged to Vrşabhasena Bhațțāraka of the Müla sangha. One of his lay disciples called Candavve, the wife of the Vaiśya Bimi sețţi, died there, and a nisidhi was set up to commemorate the event.3
Towards the last quarter of the fifteenth century A.D., we find Iduvaņi, Huligere, Vogeyakere, Hole Narasīpura, and even Melukõțe figuring as prominent Jaina centres. That Iduvaņi (or Idugani) owed its caityālayas to the piety of its local ruler is clear from a record dated A.D. 1472 which informs us that Pārīśva Gauda, who was devoted to the four kinds of gifts, had the Pārsvanātha basadi constructed in that city. And his lord the Mahāprabhu Bhairana Nāyaka granted various lands for the daily worship and the many kinds of worship (named) of the god. And Pārīśva Gauda and other Gaudas made suitable grants for the same purpose.4
Like Pāriśva Gauda was Padumaņa setļi who, during the
1. E. C. II. 496, p. 134. 2. Ibid, XII. Pg. 51, p. 124.
3. Ibid, Pg. 56, p. 126. See also Pg. 55 dated A.D. 1487 to note the Saivite temple on the hill.
4. Ibid, VIII. Sa. 60, p. 103.