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Kannada country. Jains claimed a larger number of poets during the period :
Authors
Works
Date
Bahubali Pandit
Dharmanātha Purana
1352 A.D.
Keśava-Varni
Commentaries on the 1369 A.D. Gommata-sāra and Amitagati Srāvakāchāra
Manga-Rāja
1360 A.D.
Khagendra-manidarpana
Abhinavasrutamuni
1365 A.D.
A commentary on Mallisena's SajjanaChitta-vallabha.
Madhura
Dharmanātha-Purāna
1365 A.D.
Padmanaka Ayatavarma
Padmarāja-Purāna Kannada Ralnakarandaka.
1410 A.D.
P. 1523
Harihara II's Jain minister Baicha's son Irugappa, a famous general; several records of his : two of these culogies his guru Panditārya (Panditācharya, the guru of Bhima-devi; the Jain queen of Deva-Rāya 1)-E.C.II, Srav. Bel. 337. Another record states that he built the Kunthu Jinalaya at Vijayanagar (S. I. I i. 156)— this is evidently the temple known today as the Gänigitti temple at Hampi. An inscription dated in 1422 A.D. sets out his pedigree and records the grant by him of Belgola for Gommateśvar (E. C. II, Srav. Bel. 253). The founder of the family was Baicha I, a general and minister of Bukka I. Baicha I and Iruga I were ministers of Harihara II and Bukka II. Irugappa was a Sanskrit scholar. His brother Baicha lI was governing the Mangalur-räjya in 1407 A.D. (M.E.R. 1901. No. 41). In the reign of Harihara II, both Jainism and Virasaivism claimed an equal number of adherents and popularisers in the Kannada language.
P. 1529.
P. 1553.
The great minister Baiche-dandyaka, who had been minister in the reign of Harihara II and had been entrusted with many private affairs by Bukka II, granted in about 1420 A.D., under Deva
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