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ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
radius of 5 kros from the village of Siddhavattam. To the east of that Agraharam, on a narrow strip of high level ground, the Jaina kings founded, subsequently, a Bhairavālaya. A similar instance of Jaina liberalism also occurs in the tradition of Tenali, a village in the Andhra mandala proper. The Jaina Rajas that ruled there were so devoted to the god Rumalingaswami of that place that they got their own devotee figures sculptured on the walls of that Saivite shrine. Such liberalism on both sides enabled Jainism to command a large following and influence in the Andhra-Karnāta mandala down to the time of the Eastern Chalukya king Rāja Rāja Narēndra of Rajahmundry and Mukkanti Pratāparudra Ganapati Dēva of Warrangal.
The Warrangal Kaiphiyat mentions a great Jaina patriarch called Vrishabhanādha Tīrtha of the time of Rāja Rāja Ņarēndra of Rajahmundry as having been very powerful about Warrangal. Why such a great religious teacher had left Rajahmundry, the capital of the Vengi Kingdom, for the border district of Warrangal in the Andhra-Karnāta dēsa is clear enough. Rāja Rāja Narēndra - was perhaps the first of the Chalukyas of the Andhra country to begin definitely a seriously intellectual, and at the same time popular, campaign against Jainism or more properly, in favour of pauranic Hinduism.
The beginning of the decline of the Jaina influence in the Andhra dēsa may be referred
Hindu ! aggression,
