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143. MAR, 1911, p. 38; see also Saletore, op. cit., p. 207; see also Jaina Silälekha Samgraha, 4, no. 77.
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144. See EI, X, pp. 147 ff.
145. ASIAR, 1905-6, pp. 121 ff. According to this inscription, king Indra (Nityavarsa) caused the pedestal to be constructed for the Santinātha bathing ceremony. See also V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of Madras Presidency, pp. 589-90; see also C.L. Jain, Jaina Bibliography, p. 199.
146. See EI, X, p. 149.
147. See IA, 12, pp. 224 ff.
148. ASIAR, 1928-9, p. 125.
149. According to some, the earlier inscription dated Śaka 847 belongs to the reign of Indra III; see Desai, op. cit., p. 139. But Indra III, it appears, died in AD 922; see The Age of Imperial Kanauj, p. 13. 150. See Bombay Karnataka Inscriptions, I, pt. I, no. 34.
151. Annual Report of South Indian Epigraphy, 1916, App. B, no. 540. See also Desai, op. cit., p. 149.
152. Desai, op. cit., p. 149.
153. See Jaina Epigraphs, pt. III, no. 48 in Desai's work Jainism in South India, etc.
154. Ibid., no. 46.
155. See ibid., pp. 369 ff.
156. Aśvāra XII, vs 9; see also Desai, op. cit., p. 370.
157. Desai, op. cit., p. 372.
158. Annual Report of South Indian Epigraphy, App. B, no. 65.
159. Desai, op. cit., p. 42.
160. See Bombay Karnataka Inscriptions, I, pt. I, no. 38.
161. For the relevant passage from that text see Premi, op. cit., p. 179,
n. 1.
162. See Naik, A List of the Inscriptions of the Deccan, 1949, no. 173.
163. Ibid., no. 172.
164. See Desai, op. cit., p. 48; see also Jainism and Karnataka Culture, p. 34. 165. See Mysore Gazetteer, II, pp. 769-70.
166. See Jaina Šilalekha Samgraha, 4, no. 87.
167. EC, II, (revised), no. 133. It has been suggested that no. 134 from the same place belongs to time of Indra IV (see EC, II, no. 134).
168. See Watters, On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, II, pp. 224, 226, 228. 169. Chowkhambha edn., p. 9. P.B. Desai, therefore, is incorrect when he says that this play does not refer to the Jainas (see op. cit., p. 35). 170. See in this connection IA, 40, p. 215; 42, p. 307. See also Desai, op. cit., pp. 33 ff. See also SII, I, p. 29.
171. See Desai, op. cit., p. 34.
172. The Periyapurānam refers to the destruction of several structural monuments of the Jainas at Cuddalore by Mahendravarman I, see IA, 40, p.
