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1125 the King showed his devotion to Jain guru Shripaladeva. He also built with devotion the Jain abode at Shalya and bestowed gifts for the repairs of the basadi and for the maintenance of the Jain Rishis. In A.D. 1129 he also made gift to the Malli finalaya.In 1133 A.D. one of his Jain generals built a famous Jain temple in his capital, the king visited the temple, christened his son prince Vijaya Narasimhadeva after the God Vijaya Parshvadeva, and granted the village of Javagol for a Jinalaya in his capital.: These instances are enough to prove his devotion to Jainism.
King Vishnu's queen Shantaladevi was also a devout Jain. An expert in singing, instrumental music and dancing, she was also renowned for her beauty. Her guru was Prabhachandra Siddhantadeva. Her activities for glorifying Jainism were unending. She was the cause of the elevation of four samayas and delighted in making gifts of food, shelter, medicine and education and in the narration of stories relating to Jainism. She built in 1123 A.D. a beautiful Jaina temple namely “Savati - gandha - Jarana" basati at Shravanbelagola and with the pere
1. Ep. Car. V. 149, pp. 190-191. 2. Mysore arch : Report for 1911, p. 43. 3. Ep. Car. V. 124, p. 83.
