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Rashtrakūtas. Jain gurus Virasena and Jivasena. Jayadhavala, Vijayadhavala, Atidhavala and Mahādhavala the four scholarly works. Jaina Mathas were established in all parts of Karnataka.
P. 253. Queen Malala-Devi partonised the Jain monastery at Kuppatur. Jaina monasteries at Bhandavapura & Belagami.
Growth of Jainism brought about the decay of the Saiva worship.
P. 257. Jain ceremonies, the eight rites of the Jaina temples, self-destruction by starvation. Jakkiabbe who was holding the office of nalgaunda of the Nāgarkhanda seventy expired in performance of the Jain vow of fasting.
P. 265. No. 26-Photo of Jain Basti at Halsi.
P. 288. No. 31. - Photo of Jain Basti at Yalavatti.
Pp. 291. and 294. Students of different races and creeds and from all quarters flocked to agrahāras to acquire knowledge at the feet of the Savanta-the agrahāras of Kuppatur and Belagami were famous in the Kadamba dominions,
Pp. 296.297. An epigraph at Chikkamagadi in the Shikarpur Taluqua tells that the Kadamba king Boppadeva made a gift to the Jaina matha at Magadi where a Jain temple was built by Sankara-Samanta, the general of Boppa-deva.
Pp. 297-98. That most important of the mathas in the Kadamba dominions were those of Belagami, Kuppatur and Bandhavapura. The professors in these monasteries were very learned, the second acharya of the temple at Bandhavapura was a great scholar who published commentaries and was a grammarian, logician. poet and dramatist and the acharyas of the Jaina monastery at Kuppatur were also distinguished for their learning.
P. 301. Literature --Sāntinātha the finance minister of Lakshmaņa of 1068 compiled the Sukumaracharita, his preceptor was Vardhamana. His titles were Dandanātha Pravara, Para mjina Matambhojini Rājahamsa, Saraswatimukhamukura, Sahajakavi, Chaturkavi and Nissahāyakavi.
P. 309. The earliest of the Kadamba temples did not radically differ from the Andhrabharitya structures. The oldest monuments seem to be at Halsi, the old ciiy of Palasika, (Pl. 26. p. 265) there is a Jain basti at this place, which was built by the Kadamba king Mrigesvarmma (5th century a.v.); its description.
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