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maintain the worship of Jina. It was issued from Raktapura. The donee was Vijayadevapandita who was the disciple of Jayadevapandita and the latter of Rāmadeva Ācārya belonging to Mülasamgha and Devagaņa. There were thus two prominent Jaina shrines at this place, one called Sankhatīrtha and the other of the name of Dhavala Jinālaya. It further appears that this Dhavala Jinālaya was then in a dilapidated condition and shortly in need of repair. It is interesting to note that in the Vividhatirthakalpa' Sankha Jinālaya is mentioned as one of the holy places, connected with the Jaina religion. This inscription of Vikramāditya II, as Fleet observes," was copied from a previous stone tablet or copperplate for the sake of confirmation and preservation.
Three other inscriptions, belonging to the time of western Cālukyas, should now be cited. The first from Dharwar district18 and belongs to the eleventh year of Vijayāditya and Saka 630. This copperplate refers to a Jina temple of Puligere, built by queen Kumkumadevi. The second,19 which is more important also comes from Dharwar district and belongs to the sixth year of Kirtivarman II. It therefore corresponds to AD 751. The inscription was discovered from a place called Annigeri situated in Navalgund, täluk of Dharwar district. The object of the inscription is to record the construction of a cediya (Jaina temple) by Kaliyamma, who was holding the office of the headman of Jebulageri and the erection in front of it a sculpture by a certain Kondiśularakuppa, whose other name was Kirtivarma-Gosāsi. The latter is clearly the name of his master (brabhu), as set out in the last line. The writer was one Disapāla. Another inscription 20 of the time of Kirtivarman II comes from Adur situated in the Hangal tāluk of Dharwar district. It records some land grants to the temple of Jinendra.
Quite a few short label inscriptions have been found from Aihole, 21 and have been assigned to the seventh century AD. They are engraved on a pillar in the Jaina temple close to the Meguti temple at Aihole (the site of Ravikirti's inscription). A few such names are also preserved at Badami and have also been assigned to the seventh century AD.22
Harișeņa in his Bịhatkathākośa? refers to a king Vijayāditya of Dakşiņāpatha, who may correspond to the Cālukyan king of the same name. Elsewhere also he refers to the glorious condition of the Jaina religion in south India. As we have already noted, another south Indian Jaina poet Ravişeņa, who lived in the seventh century
