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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jain temples at Bezwada (Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Kistna, 54). He granted a village for meeting the expenses of the repair of a dining hall of a Jain temple called Sarvalokasrya Jinabhavana At that time the superintendent of the temple was Arahanandin of the Valaharigana and Adḍakali gaccha. Arahanandin was the disciple of Ayyapati, who was the disciple of Sakalacandrasiddhänta, who was well versed in Siddhanta writings (Epi. Ind. Vol. VII. p. 191). Jinnandin was the earliest known member of another line of Jain teachers. He belonged to the Nandigaccha, and was the chief lord of the Kotimaduva (?) gana, attached to Yapaniya-Samgha. His disciple was Divākara. Diväkara's disciple was Śrimandiradeva, was the superintendent of the Katakabharaṇa-Jinälaya, to the south of Dharmapuri, modern Dharmavaram, in the Ongole taluk of the Guntur district. This temple of Jina was built by Durgaraja of the Pattavardhini family, an officer under Amma II. Durgaraja was a contemporary of Srimandiradeva. Amma II, at the request of Durgaraja, granted a village for the maintenance of temple (E.I. Vol. IX. P. 56). The king Vimaladitya embraced Jainism, Trikalayogi-Siddhantadeva called also Trikalayogi-Munindra, an acarya of the Desigana school, was his guru (South Ind. Epi. 1918, p. 133).
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P. 174. Jain teacher Mahaviracārya's mathematical treatise in Sanskrit was versified into Telugu by Pavaluri Mallanna, a Niyogi Brahman (A D. 1060-1070) (History of Telugu literature, by P. Chenchiah and Raja N. Bhujanga Rao Bahadur).
Architecture.-Durgaraja, an officer under Amma II, built a temple of Jina named Katakabharana to the south of Dharmapuri (Ep. Ind. Vol. IX.
P. 56).
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D. B. DISKALKAR-Reference to Kushan Period (from Circa 1st century to the 3rd. cent. A.D.)-Large majority of sculptures pertain to Buddhism and Jainism (ABORI. Vol. XVIII; 1937) P. 169.
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B. A. SALETORE-Internal Security in the Vijayanagar Empire, (Ind. Cul. Vol. IV. 1937-38 Calcutta).
P. 472. Riots and local risings; An inscription at Udri dated A.D. 1380 refers to the reign of King Harihara Raya II, when Mädhava Raya was placed over the Konkana Country as viceroy, and riot there-the bravest person who quelled the rising was Baicapa (a Jain official) one of the most celebrated men in the City of Uddhare.
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