Jayati Bhagavāñ Jinendraḥ

Jainism and Royal Representation in the Kadamba Plates of Palāśikā

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ID3963666
AutoresPeter C Bisschop (0000-0002-6355-9800), Elizabeth A Cecil (0000-0002-9205-4916)
Año2021
Volumen141
Número3
Fecha de publicación2021-10-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditorialAmerican Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7817/jameroriesoci.141.3.0613
OpenAlexW3204555459
IdiomaID
Referencias citadas7

In the fifth-sixth century CE the rulers of the Kadamba dynasty claimed the town of Halsi (ancient Palāśikā) in modern Karnataka as the northern capital of their expanding polity. Their investments in this locale are recorded in a corpus of copper-plate inscriptions spanning four generation of kings. The plates record the growth of a thriving Jain community at Palāśikā and are revelatory of their relationships with the Kadamba rulers and their agents. This study of the donative and political processes converging in Palāśikā shows that the use of Sanskrit inscriptions as media for royal representation and public self-fashioning was highly developed in the Kadamba polity, where idioms and trends developed independent of the Gupta royal model. Moreover, the evidence from Halsi is indicative of the centrality of Jain religious communities, ideologies, and institutions in the administration of the Kadamba polity and the expression of a lineage identity

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