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commissioned a Jaina temple at Asundi in Gadag district and the chief abbey of Dhora-Jinalaya of Bankapura diocese was also administering this basadi.
Mahasamanta Śrivijaya caused a Jaina temple at Manyapura in Bangalore district and prince Raṇāvaloka Sauca Kambadeva donated Pervvadiyur village in C. E.. 802. Vijaya-uasati Jinālaya at Talakādu was famous and it had a grant of Vadanaguppe village received by Vardhamana Guru. In C. E. 813, JagattungaGovinda-III gifted Jalamangala town to the Jaina temple in Saligrama. Śamkaraganda caused Jaina temples at Koppala and in Andhra country.
Jainism continued to be a paramount religion of the Rāṣṭrakūta empire with the flag of Ahimsa fluttering atop Jaina places of worship at Malkhed, Lakṣmeśvar, Hombuja, Śravanabelgola and a number of places in Andhra, Mahārāṣtra, Tamilnadu and Gangavāḍi. Mārasimha accepted sallekhanā at Bankapura and died in C. E. 974. Indra-IV, the last emperor of Rāṣṭrakūta dynasty also ended his life at Sravanabelgola by sallekhana in C. E. 982. ♣
REFERNCES
1.Altekar, A.S.: The Rashtrakutas and their Times: (1934), Poona, 1967.
2. Gopal, B.R.: (ed) The Rashtrakutas of Malkhed, Bangalore, 1994.
3. Nagarajaiah, Hampa: A History of the Rastrakuta Monarchy and Jainism, Bangalore: 4. Rajasekhara, S: Raṣṭrakūta Art in Karnataka, Dharwad: 1991. 5.Yazdani, Gulam: (ed) The Early History of the Deccan, Parts VII-XI (1960), 1982. 6. Jinamañjari, Vol. 9, No.1 April 1994 and Vol. 18, No.2 October 1998.
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