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patron of a great Jaina teacher called Arikirti His son Amoghavarsha I (814-878 AD) sat at the fect of a great Jaina Acharya called Jinasena, who was the preceptor of Gunabhadra and wrote the Jaina Harivamsa, the first recension of which was completed in 783-4 AD in the time of Govinda III, and a portion of the Adi-purana, which was part of the Jaina Maha Purana while Gunabhadia completed Adı Purana by writing the second part of the Mahapurana in 897 AD, in the reign of Amoghavarsha's successor, Krishna II (880-911-12 AD). Among Jaina works that were written at the Rashtrakuta capital, mostly under the patronage of Amoghavarsha I, mention may be made, besides Harivamsa, Adz-purana and Uttara-purana of Akalanka Charita, Jayadhavalatika, a work on Digambara philosophy by Virasenacharya, a mathematical work called Sarasamgraha or Ganitasarasamgraha by Viracharya, and a treatise on moral subjects entitled Prasnoitararatnamalika, the authorship of which is attributed to Amoghavarsha himself In short it is said of Amoghavarsha I that he was the greatest patron of Digambara Jainism and that he adopted the Jaina faith In the reign of Krishna II his subjects and tributary chiefs either built or made grants to Jaina temples already built, doubtless under his pationage, and the Taina purana (Maha-purana) was consecrated in Saka 820 by Lokasena, the pupil of Gunabhadra.
Though the Chalukyas of Kalyanı did not take favourably to Jainism, we have the noble
