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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Both the inscriptions have been assigned to A.D. 1500.1 We may note here by the way that the fine image of Candraprabha in the Candranatha basadi, about two and a half feet high, representing a seated boy of about eight years, and made of white marble, as Dr. Krishna relates, is said to have been found near Taḍasa, four miles away, in the Bhadra, and brought to the basadi for worship. The image is said to bear even now the marks of having been in water for a long time.2
But the basadis in the renowned Advaita centre of Sringer were, as we have already seen in the previous pages, of an earlier date. At least we know that the Parsvanatha basadi of Sringeri certainly existed in Sringeri in the twelfth century A.D. The fact that this basadi is in the centre of the Sringeri town,3 suggests that the Jaina influence in this stronghold of Advaitism must have been rather powerful in the early days. In the first quarter of the sixteenth century, Sringeri continued to attract devout Jaina pilgrims to it. In A.D. 1523 Devana Sețţi (descent stated) presented an image of Anantnatha to the Parsvanatha basadi of Sringeri. And in the same year Bommara Setți (descent stated) presented an image of Candranatha to the same basadi.
Maddagiri had a basadi in about A.D. 1531. It received specified land from Govi Danimayya's wife Jayama. Nothing more can be made about this basadi excepting the fact that
1. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 84.
2. Ibid for 1931, p. 12. Dr. Krishna also relates that a group of Jaina buildings near the Jvālāmālinī temple to the south-west of Narasimharajapura, are almost entirely of wood and earth. Ibid.
3. Ibid for 1931, p. 15.
4. Ibid for 1933, p. 124. signed this record to A.D. 1583.
The late Mr. Narasimhacarya asIbid for 1916, p. 84.