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the same place, of the reign of the famous Yādava king Singbana, dated 1243 A.D, mentions a gift for the same temple of Koppa Jinālaya by a few local marchants.
A Jain epigraph67, from Seram is only important from the religious point of view. This long epigraph contains a list of monks of Kiāņura gaña and Tintriņika gaccka, which originated from Mülasangha. The teachers of this particular Digambara branch, are also known from other inscriptions.68 Some idea about Digambara philosophy also can be gathered from this epigraph.
A few Jain epigraphs, from the same district, inscribed after 1300 AD., will be discussed in a later chapter. Let us now turn out attention to the Jain epigraphs from Raichur district of Karpāțaka.
Jain Epigraphs from Raichur District : The district of Raichur, in Karnatak, can boast of the second most important tirtha of the Jains viz. Kopaņatīrtha, which as we have already noticed in the first volume of the present work?o, came to be associated with Jainism, as early as the 7th century A.D. P. B. Desai, has brought to our notice several important Jain epigraphs from this place, a few of which, we propose to discuss here. One of the carliest epigraphsti, from Kopbal (the present name of ancient Kopana) is an inscription, containing the name of king Nypatunga Vallabha, who is no other than Amoghavarsha I (817-877), of the Rāshtrakūța dynasty. However, the epigraph does not give any information of religious nature, although we know from other sources, that this king was a good patron of Jainism.
Ths first really important Jain epigraph's, of our period, is a fairly long (eleven lines) inscription of the first year of Vikramāditya V's reign, which has been assigned to 1008 A.D. It refers to the voluntary death of the monk Simhanandi, who belonged to Kondakunda anyaya of Desiya gaña. Five of his spiritual predecessors viz. Ravicandra, Guņasāgara, Guņacandra, Abhayanandi and
