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ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
basti or township. It was originally a forest side cleared by the Jainas for a habitation. It latterly became a big basti under a Jaina
king called Mallaraja with some villages
(అముద్దిరెడ్డిపల్లి, అద్దిరెడ్డిపల్లి, మిట్టభూపనపల్లి, విశ్వనాధపురం) as its component parts. This happened during a Jaina interregnum between the Chola and Kakatiya suzereignties. The Reddis after whom the villages are named must have been powerful Jaina chiefs in the vicinity of Vanipenta.
Similar in status was Kondrajupalem, a Jaina basti in the Retur paragana of Vinukonda Sarkar in the Andhra mandala. When it passed latterly into the hands of the Brahmanical revivalists, it was destroyed by them as a mark of the victory, under Mukkanti, of the Brahmans from Benares, over the Jaina gurus, in philosophical disputation.
To the isanya of Chunduru there used to be a similar Jaina foundation "called. Peddintimma. Jainism decayed there even before the rise of the Oddi, the Reddi and the Kakatiya Rajas to sovereign power. The villagers of Chundūru used the high level mound which represented it as their "granary and the place came subsequently to be known as Pedagādela (gāde grain-holder).
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Similar again was Tadinagarapupādu ( x) to the west of the village now known as Kolluru in the Mrutyunjayanagar Taluq of Chintapalli Sarkar. In the early years of the Sālivāhana Saka, according to tradition, several
