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tions of Nandivarman II were discovered. This is an extremely interesting record as it gives us a very clear idea regarding a Jaina temple complex of the Pallava period. The inscription records the renovation of the temple (i.e. the one established by Pavanandi) and the addition of mukhamandapa to it, the renovation of a pāļi, the construction of a temple of Yakși Bhațārī (iyakkipaļāri) and the gift of a big bell to the palli by Mādevi, the wife of Kādagadiyariyar. 182 It appears that this entire temple complex was possibly called paļļi. It had a main shrine dedicated to Jina, with a maņdapa in front, a subsidiary shrine of yakṣī, and the monastery (pāļi) where the Jaina monks lived. It is clear from the inscription that in this temple complex the main shrine and the monastery, which were built some fifty years earlier were renovated, while the mukha-maņdapa and the shrine for the yakṣī were added. The entire establishment called palli in this record is again mentioned in an inscription from the same site belonging to the reign of Rājarāja I, dated in his thirteenth regnal year, which is equivalent to AD 997–8.183 This palli there is called the temple of Tīrthamkara Vimala. The epigraph records the sale of land by one Baladevapidāran, a disciple of Sri Nandidevar, for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp in the temple. At present, however there is no trace of this temple, but there is a temple dedicated to Candranātha in another part of the village.
The Nolamba Pallavas, who came into prominence during the ninth and tenth centuries AD, ruled in parts of modern Karnataka and were feudatories of the Western Gangas. Three inscriptions of the time of Nolamba Mahendra are connected with the Jaina religion. The earliest epigraph dated Saka 800, corresponding to AD 878 discovered from the fort at Dharmapuri, which is the headquarters of the district of the same name in Tamil Nadu, records a grant 184 to a Jaina temple. The second Jaina inscription 185 of his reign bears the date Saka 815 corresponding to AD 893. It records that two citizens called Candiyaņņa and Nandiyaņņa, after receiving the gift of the village of Mullapalli from the king, gave it is a gift to Kanakasena Siddhānta, the pupil of Vinayasena Siddhānta of the Pogariya gaña, Senānvaya and Mūlasamgha, for the repairs of the basadi at Dharmapuri. Even now this place has a few Jaina antiquities. Dharmapuri was known in ancient times as Tagadūru. 186 The village Mūllapalli is now represented by the modern village of Mülakādu, nine miles west of Dharmapuri.187 The inscription further informs us that the basadi was originally built by two above-mentioned citizens,
