Beautiful coverage of an ancient monument. Aihole was the epicenter of Jainism with many Chalukyan kings being ardent followers of Jainism. As the Jain population decreased and the temples went into disuse, many of the Jain temples were converted to Hindu Temples by placing a Lingam . This temple and another one at Lakkundi, also known as Brahma Jinalaya are some of the surviving examples.
No Chalukyas were earlier Vaishnava and later Shaiva. They promoted Jainism but nothing more than it. I think you're confused, later Rashtrakutas(from Amoghavarsha), Western Gangas, Rattas and early Hoysalas(until Vishnuvardhana) were Jains but don't give false history.
No temple was converted by placing a linga because there are thousands of basadis in North Karnataka, Tulunad and South Karnataka. Go check Shravana Belagola, kamala basadi, Karkala and Narasimharajapura.
@@user-io7sh7nx7c Chalukya Badami were Vaisnavas but Early Chalukya kalyani kings were jains and Later chalukya vengi kings were also jains and Chalukya vemaluvada were also jains famos Mahalakshmi temple in kolhapur is jain temple but converted to hindunism
@S Jain. Yes sir. This is the same temple. I am giving below the complete translation of the inscription. Please see the verse No 33. (Verse.) Victorious is the holy Jinendra - he who is exempt from old age, death and birth - in the sea of whose knowledge the whole world is comprised like an island. (V. 2.) And next, long victorious is the immeasurable, wide ocean of the Chalky family, which is the birth - place of jewels of men that are ornaments of the diadem of the earth. (V. 3.) And victorious for very long is Satyashraya, who in bestowing gifts and honours on the brave and on the learned, both together on either, observes not the rule of correspondency of number. (V. 4.) When many members of that race, bent on conquest, applied to whom the title of Favourite of the Earth had at last become appropriate, had passed away, - (V. 5.) There was, of the Chalky lineage, the king named Jayasimha - vallabha, who in battle - where horses, foot soldiers and elephants, bewildered, fell down under the strokes of many hundreds of weapons, and where thousands of frightful headless trunks and of flashes of rays of swords were leaping to and fro - by his bravery made Fortune his own, even though she is suspected of fickleness. (V. 6.) His son was be who was named Ranaranga, of divine dignity, the one master of the world, whose superhuman nature, (even) when he was asleep, people knew from the pre - eminence of his form. (V. 7.) His son was Pulakeshin, who, though endowed with the moon’s Beauty, and though the favourite of Fortune, became the bridegroom of Vatapipuri. (V. 8.) Whose path in the pursuit of the three objects of life the kings on earth even now are unable to follow; and bathed by whom with the water of the purificatory rite, when he performed the horse - sacrifice, the earth beamed with brightness. (V. 9.) His son was Kirtivarman, the night of doom to the Nalas, Mauryas and Kadambas, whose mind, although his thoughts kept aloof from others’ wives, was attracted by the Fortune of his adversary. (V. 10.) Who, having secured the fortune of victory by his valour in war, being a scent - elephant of a king, of great strength, at once completely broke down the multitude of the broad kadamba trees - the Kadambas. (V. 11.) When his desire was bent on the dominion of the lord of the gods, his younger brother Mangalesha became king, who by the sheets of dust of his army of horse, encamped on the shores of the eastern and western seas stretched an awning over the quarters. (V. 12.) Who in that house which was the battle - field took in marriage the damsel, the Fortune of the Kalachchuris, having scattered the gathering gloom - the array of elephants, with hundreds of bright - rayed lamps, (viz.) the swords. (V. 13) And again, when he was desirous of taking the island of Revati, his great army with many bright banners, which had ascended the ramparts, as it was reflected in the water of the sea appeared like Varuna’s forces, quickly come there at once at his word. (V. 14.) When his elder brother’s son, named Pulakeshin, of a dignity like Nahusha’s, was coveted by Fortune, and finding his uncle to be jealous of him thereat, had formed the resolution to wander abroad as an exile, - (V. 15.) That Mangalesha, whose great strength became on all sides reduced by the application of the powers of good counsel and energy gathered by Him, abandoned, together with the effort to secure the kingdom for his own son, both that no mean kingdom of his and his life. (V. 16.) Then, on the subversion of that rule encompassed by the darkness of enemies, the whole world grew light again, invaded as it were by the lustrous rays of His irresistible splendour. Or when was it that the sky ceased to be black like a swarm of bees with thundering clouds, in which flashes of lightning were dancing like banners, and the edges of which were crushed in the rushing wind? (V. 17.) When, having found the opportunity, he who was named Appayika, and Govinda approached with their troops of elephants to conquer the country north of the Bhaimarathi, the one in battle through his armies came to know the taste of fear, while the other at once received the reward of the services rendered by him. (V. 18.) When He was besieging Vanavasi, which for a girdle has the rows of hamsa birds that sport on the high waves of the Varada as their play - place, and which by its wealth rivalled the city of the gods, that fortress on land, having the surface of the earth all around covered with the great sea of his army, to the looker - on seemed at once converted into a fortress in the water. (V. 19.) Although in former days they had acquired happiness by renouncing the seven sins, the Ganga and Alupa lords, being subdued by his dignity, were always intoxicated by drinking the nectar of close attendance upon him. (V. 20.) In the Konkanas the impetuous waves of the forces directed by Him speedily swept away the rising wavelets of pools - the Mauryas. (V. 21.) When, radiant like the destroyer of Pura, He besieged Puri, the Fortune of the western sea, with hundreds of ships in appearance like arrays of rutting elephants, the sky, dark - blue as a young lotus and covered with tiers of massive clouds, resembled the sea, and the sea was like the sky. (V. 22.) Subdued by His splendour, the Latas, Malavas and Gurjaras became as it were teachers of how feudatories, subdued by force, ought to behave. (V. 23.) Harsha, whose lotus - feet were arrayed with the rays of the jewels of the diadems of hosts of feudatories prosperous with unmeasured might, through Him had his mirth melted away by fear, having become loathsome with his rows of lordly elephants fallen in battle. (V. 24.) While He was ruling the earth with his broad armies, the neighbourhood of the Vindhya, by no means destitute of the lustre of the many sandbanks of the Reva, shone even more brightly by his great personal splendour, having to be avoided by his elephants because, as it seemed, they by their bulk rivalled the mountains. (V. 25.) Almost equal to Indra, He by means of all the three powers, gathered by him according to rule, and by his noble birth and other excellent qualities, acquired the sovereignty over the three Maharashtrakas with their nine and ninety thousand villages. (V. 26.) Through the excellencies of their householders prominent in the pursuit of the three objects of life, and having broken the pride of other rulers of the earth, the Kalingas with the Kosalas by His army were made to evince signs of fear. (V. 27.) Hard pressed by Him, Pishtapura became a fortress not difficult of access; wonderful, the ways of the Kali age to Him were quite inaccessible! (V. 28.) Ravaged by Him, the water of Kunala - coloured with the blood of men killed with many weapons, and the land within it overspread with arrays of accoutred elephants - was like the cloud - covered sky in which the red evening - twilight has risen. (V. 29.) With his six fold forces, the hereditary troops and the rest, who raised spotless chowries, hundreds of flags, umbrellas, and darkness, and who churned the enemy elated with the sentiments of heroism and energy, He caused the splendour of the lord of the Pallavas, who had opposed the rise of his power, to be obscured by the dust of his army, and to vanish behind the walls of Kanchipura. (V. 30.) When straightway He strove to conquer the Cholas, the Kaveri, who has the darting carps for her tremulous eyes, had her current obstructed by the causeway formed by his elephants whose rutting - juice was dripping down, and avoided the contact with the ocean. (V. 31.) There He caused great prosperity to the Cholas, Keralas and Pandyas, he being the hot - rayed son to the hoar - frost - the army of the Pallavas. (V. 32.) While He, Satyashraya, endowed with the powers of energy, mastery and good counsel, - having conquered all the quarters, having dismissed the kings full of honours, having done homage to gods and Brahmans, having entered the city of Vatapi - is ruling, like one city, this earth which has the dark - blue waters of the surging sea for its moat; (V. 33.) (Now) when thirty and three thousand and five years besides, joined with seven hundred years, have passed since the Bharata war; (V. 34.) And when fifty and six and five hundred years of the Saka kings also have gone by in the Kali age; (V. 35.) This stone mansion of Jinendra, a mansion of every kind of greatness, has been caused to be built by the wise Ravikirti, who has obtained the highest favour of that Satyashraya whose rule is bounded by the three oceans. (V. 36.) Of this eulogy and of this dwelling of the Jina revered in the three worlds, the wise Ravikirti himself is the author and also the founder. (V. 37.) May that Ravikirti be victorious, who full of discernment has used the abode of the Jina, firmly built of stone, for a new treatment of his theme, and who thus by his poetic skill has attained to the fame of Kalidasa and of Bharavi!
All the scholars have relied on this inscription found in the Jain Temple at Aihole prepared by one Chalukya King Pulakeshi. It says, according to scholars, that the temple was constructed in 30+3000+700+5 = 3735 years, after the Bharat War and 50+6+500 = 556 years of Shaka era in Kali era. Today Shaka era is 1910. Hence 1910- 556 = 1354 years ago the temple was constructed. Thus the year of inscribing this note is 634 AD. At this time 3735 years had passed from the Bharat War. So the date of the War comes to 3101 BC. This is also the date of Kali Yuga Commencement
From the statue on the outer side of temple the temple neither Hindu nor Jains temple it belongs to the followers of some other religion which resembles Hinduism,however temple is too old to say anything
Broad faces, wide noses, full lipped this temple’s carvings are of Krishna’s race. Revealing more ancient black peoples culture is a great antidote for today’s racism. The Kurushetra war was fought over racial lines although Krishna’s side won the war he knew the solar dynasty would come to an end in Kali Yuga so Yudhisthira would give one last waning effort at solar dynasty rulership under his son Parikshit afterwards then to cede temporary rulership over to the white race with Indra ruling heaven. The righteous rulership under the solar dynasty black kings starting from the 7th Manvantara Sun God Vaivasvata Manu in the Satya Age came to an end after Krishna past to mark the beginning of Kali Yuga. We all know it’s a sad story of invaders defacing prior built temple images but just as your parents are carved on temple walls it’s heavy karma to try to erase their image for eternity. So there seems to be a racial story on all these ancient temples that outweigh other facts that needs to be remembered.
Instead showing temple & related history of temple much time u wasted showing the creatures in the temple the temple is definitely much older please share history
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So very beautiful ❤️🙏
અતિ સુંદર.
Aap bahot atcha kary kar rahe he.
Om namah shivay.
Excellent thanks valga valamudan
கனிவான வார்த்தைகளுக்கு நன்றி. மீண்டும் நன்றி
Sir you are doing a great Job this and next generation will be greatful to you what anice voice correect pronounciation I salute by heart
Thanks a lot.. 🙏🙏🙏
Love to see all over our kannada inscription
Beautiful coverage of an ancient monument. Aihole was the epicenter of Jainism with many Chalukyan kings being ardent followers of Jainism. As the Jain population decreased and the temples went into disuse, many of the Jain temples were converted to Hindu Temples by placing a Lingam . This temple and another one at Lakkundi, also known as Brahma Jinalaya are some of the surviving examples.
No Chalukyas were earlier Vaishnava and later Shaiva. They promoted Jainism but nothing more than it. I think you're confused, later Rashtrakutas(from Amoghavarsha), Western Gangas, Rattas and early Hoysalas(until Vishnuvardhana) were Jains but don't give false history.
No temple was converted by placing a linga because there are thousands of basadis in North Karnataka, Tulunad and South Karnataka. Go check Shravana Belagola, kamala basadi, Karkala and Narasimharajapura.
@@user-io7sh7nx7c Chalukya Badami were Vaisnavas but Early Chalukya kalyani kings were jains and Later chalukya vengi kings were also jains and Chalukya vemaluvada were also jains famos Mahalakshmi temple in kolhapur is jain temple but converted to hindunism
Founder name of Chalukya is handiga. In kanada meaning of handiga is pig catcher. We find only this about chalukya and they kept pig as there symbol.
Belief is stronger than stones.
Thank you.
What a beautiful engineering in that time
I admire old indian' art.
اشكرك اخي على هذه المناضر القديمه
وهذه الموقع لاتخلو من الكنوز المعابد غنيه
جدن
شكرا على التقدير.
Save these monuments please
is this not the temple with famous inscription that some claim speaks of Mahabharata war?
@S Jain. Yes sir. This is the same temple. I am giving below the complete translation of the inscription. Please see the verse No 33.
(Verse.) Victorious is the holy Jinendra - he who is exempt from old age, death and birth - in the sea of whose knowledge the whole world is comprised like an island.
(V. 2.) And next, long victorious is the immeasurable, wide ocean of the Chalky family, which is the birth - place of jewels of men that are ornaments of the diadem of the earth.
(V. 3.) And victorious for very long is Satyashraya, who in bestowing gifts and honours on the brave and on the learned, both together on either, observes not the rule of correspondency of number.
(V. 4.) When many members of that race, bent on conquest, applied to whom the title of Favourite of the Earth had at last become appropriate, had passed away, -
(V. 5.) There was, of the Chalky lineage, the king named Jayasimha - vallabha, who in battle - where horses, foot soldiers and elephants, bewildered, fell down under the strokes of many hundreds of weapons, and where thousands of frightful headless trunks and of flashes of rays of swords were leaping to and fro - by his bravery made Fortune his own, even though she is suspected of fickleness.
(V. 6.) His son was be who was named Ranaranga, of divine dignity, the one master of the world, whose superhuman nature, (even) when he was asleep, people knew from the pre - eminence of his form.
(V. 7.) His son was Pulakeshin, who, though endowed with the moon’s Beauty, and though the favourite of Fortune, became the bridegroom of Vatapipuri.
(V. 8.) Whose path in the pursuit of the three objects of life the kings on earth even now are unable to follow; and bathed by whom with the water of the purificatory rite, when he performed the horse - sacrifice, the earth beamed with brightness.
(V. 9.) His son was Kirtivarman, the night of doom to the Nalas, Mauryas and Kadambas, whose mind, although his thoughts kept aloof from others’ wives, was attracted by the Fortune of his adversary.
(V. 10.) Who, having secured the fortune of victory by his valour in war, being a scent - elephant of a king, of great strength, at once completely broke down the multitude of the broad kadamba trees - the Kadambas.
(V. 11.) When his desire was bent on the dominion of the lord of the gods, his younger brother Mangalesha became king, who by the sheets of dust of his army of horse, encamped on the shores of the eastern and western seas stretched an awning over the quarters.
(V. 12.) Who in that house which was the battle - field took in marriage the damsel, the Fortune of the Kalachchuris, having scattered the gathering gloom - the array of elephants, with hundreds of bright - rayed lamps, (viz.) the swords.
(V. 13) And again, when he was desirous of taking the island of Revati, his great army with many bright banners, which had ascended the ramparts, as it was reflected in the water of the sea appeared like Varuna’s forces, quickly come there at once at his word.
(V. 14.) When his elder brother’s son, named Pulakeshin, of a dignity like Nahusha’s, was coveted by Fortune, and finding his uncle to be jealous of him thereat, had formed the resolution to wander abroad as an exile, -
(V. 15.) That Mangalesha, whose great strength became on all sides reduced by the application of the powers of good counsel and energy gathered by Him, abandoned, together with the effort to secure the kingdom for his own son, both that no mean kingdom of his and his life.
(V. 16.) Then, on the subversion of that rule encompassed by the darkness of enemies, the whole world grew light again, invaded as it were by the lustrous rays of His irresistible splendour. Or when was it that the sky ceased to be black like a swarm of bees with thundering clouds, in which flashes of lightning were dancing like banners, and the edges of which were crushed in the rushing wind?
(V. 17.) When, having found the opportunity, he who was named Appayika, and Govinda approached with their troops of elephants to conquer the country north of the Bhaimarathi, the one in battle through his armies came to know the taste of fear, while the other at once received the reward of the services rendered by him.
(V. 18.) When He was besieging Vanavasi, which for a girdle has the rows of hamsa birds that sport on the high waves of the Varada as their play - place, and which by its wealth rivalled the city of the gods, that fortress on land, having the surface of the earth all around covered with the great sea of his army, to the looker - on seemed at once converted into a fortress in the water.
(V. 19.) Although in former days they had acquired happiness by renouncing the seven sins, the Ganga and Alupa lords, being subdued by his dignity, were always intoxicated by drinking the nectar of close attendance upon him.
(V. 20.) In the Konkanas the impetuous waves of the forces directed by Him speedily swept away the rising wavelets of pools - the Mauryas.
(V. 21.) When, radiant like the destroyer of Pura, He besieged Puri, the Fortune of the western sea, with hundreds of ships in appearance like arrays of rutting elephants, the sky, dark - blue as a young lotus and covered with tiers of massive clouds, resembled the sea, and the sea was like the sky.
(V. 22.) Subdued by His splendour, the Latas, Malavas and Gurjaras became as it were teachers of how feudatories, subdued by force, ought to behave.
(V. 23.) Harsha, whose lotus - feet were arrayed with the rays of the jewels of the diadems of hosts of feudatories prosperous with unmeasured might, through Him had his mirth melted away by fear, having become loathsome with his rows of lordly elephants fallen in battle.
(V. 24.) While He was ruling the earth with his broad armies, the neighbourhood of the Vindhya, by no means destitute of the lustre of the many sandbanks of the Reva, shone even more brightly by his great personal splendour, having to be avoided by his elephants because, as it seemed, they by their bulk rivalled the mountains.
(V. 25.) Almost equal to Indra, He by means of all the three powers, gathered by him according to rule, and by his noble birth and other excellent qualities, acquired the sovereignty over the three Maharashtrakas with their nine and ninety thousand villages.
(V. 26.) Through the excellencies of their householders prominent in the pursuit of the three objects of life, and having broken the pride of other rulers of the earth, the Kalingas with the Kosalas by His army were made to evince signs of fear.
(V. 27.) Hard pressed by Him, Pishtapura became a fortress not difficult of access; wonderful, the ways of the Kali age to Him were quite inaccessible!
(V. 28.) Ravaged by Him, the water of Kunala - coloured with the blood of men killed with many weapons, and the land within it overspread with arrays of accoutred elephants - was like the cloud - covered sky in which the red evening - twilight has risen.
(V. 29.) With his six fold forces, the hereditary troops and the rest, who raised spotless chowries, hundreds of flags, umbrellas, and darkness, and who churned the enemy elated with the sentiments of heroism and energy, He caused the splendour of the lord of the Pallavas, who had opposed the rise of his power, to be obscured by the dust of his army, and to vanish behind the walls of Kanchipura.
(V. 30.) When straightway He strove to conquer the Cholas, the Kaveri, who has the darting carps for her tremulous eyes, had her current obstructed by the causeway formed by his elephants whose rutting - juice was dripping down, and avoided the contact with the ocean.
(V. 31.) There He caused great prosperity to the Cholas, Keralas and Pandyas, he being the hot - rayed son to the hoar - frost - the army of the Pallavas.
(V. 32.) While He, Satyashraya, endowed with the powers of energy, mastery and good counsel, - having conquered all the quarters, having dismissed the kings full of honours, having done homage to gods and Brahmans, having entered the city of Vatapi - is ruling, like one city, this earth which has the dark - blue waters of the surging sea for its moat;
(V. 33.) (Now) when thirty and three thousand and five years besides, joined with seven hundred years, have passed since the Bharata war;
(V. 34.) And when fifty and six and five hundred years of the Saka kings also have gone by in the Kali age;
(V. 35.) This stone mansion of Jinendra, a mansion of every kind of greatness, has been caused to be built by the wise Ravikirti, who has obtained the highest favour of that Satyashraya whose rule is bounded by the three oceans.
(V. 36.) Of this eulogy and of this dwelling of the Jina revered in the three worlds, the wise Ravikirti himself is the author and also the founder.
(V. 37.) May that Ravikirti be victorious, who full of discernment has used the abode of the Jina, firmly built of stone, for a new treatment of his theme, and who thus by his poetic skill has attained to the fame of Kalidasa and of Bharavi!
All the scholars have relied on this inscription found in the Jain Temple at Aihole prepared by one Chalukya King Pulakeshi. It says, according to scholars, that the temple was constructed in 30+3000+700+5 = 3735 years, after the Bharat War and 50+6+500 = 556 years of Shaka era in Kali era. Today Shaka era is 1910. Hence 1910- 556 = 1354 years ago the temple was constructed. Thus the year of inscribing this note is 634 AD. At this time 3735 years had passed from the Bharat War. So the date of the War comes to 3101 BC. This is also the date of Kali Yuga Commencement
Very very very!!!!! Old temple easily megalithic and probably close to 10,000 years old
Iske samane aj ka vigyan kaha he
Good one. Is this your full time job. Just wondering. Great job.
From the statue on the outer side of temple the temple neither Hindu nor Jains temple it belongs to the followers of some other religion which resembles Hinduism,however temple is too old to say anything
Broad faces, wide noses, full lipped this temple’s carvings are of Krishna’s race. Revealing more ancient black peoples culture is a great antidote for today’s racism. The Kurushetra war was fought over racial lines although Krishna’s side won the war he knew the solar dynasty would come to an end in Kali Yuga so Yudhisthira would give one last waning effort at solar dynasty rulership under his son Parikshit afterwards then to cede temporary rulership over to the white race with Indra ruling heaven. The righteous rulership under the solar dynasty black kings starting from the 7th Manvantara Sun God Vaivasvata Manu in the Satya Age came to an end after Krishna past to mark the beginning of Kali Yuga. We all know it’s a sad story of invaders defacing prior built temple images but just as your parents are carved on temple walls it’s heavy karma to try to erase their image for eternity. So there seems to be a racial story on all these ancient temples that outweigh other facts that needs to be remembered.
Instead showing temple & related history of temple much time u wasted showing the creatures in the temple the temple is definitely much older please share history