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JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA
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Kollāpura (Kolhapur), which, as we have alredy seen, was a Jain tirtha of the mediaeval period.
A fairly long Jain epigraphe, from Uppina-Betgiri, which is some 15 miles from Kopbal, in Raichur district, mentions a Jain temple, called Jayadbira Jinālaya, which was erected by Sankaraganda, a prominent Rāshțrakūta governor of the luth century. Sankaraganda was a converted Jain, and is mentioned not only in several other epigraphic records81, but also in contemporary literature. 8 2 The temple, he constructed at Kopaņa, was fittingly named Jayadbira Jinālaya, Jayadhira being a title of that governor. The epigraph further mentions a Jain divine called Nāganandi, the disciple of Srinandi, belonging to Śūrastha gana. Desai is of the opinion that the stone, bearing the epigraph, originally belonged to Kopana, and later it was taken to Uppina-Betgiri. The contents of the epigraph also support the view of Desai.
We have three short image-inscriptions8s, from Yalbargi, in the same Raichur district. One of them mentions Māghanandi Siddhānta Cakravarti a great Jain pontiff, who gets the title of Rajaguru, the royal preceptor. 84 It also mentions Mülasangha and Desiya gaņa. Another Jain divine, called Mādhavacandra, belonging to Mülasangha, Deśiya gana, Pustaka gaccha and lögaleśvara section, is mentioned in the second epigraph85, from the same place. A third epigraph86, from Yalbargi, of the time of the Sinda prince Vira Vikramāditya, of the 12th century, mentions the temple of Pārsvanātha, which was apparently situated at that place. Jain epigraphs have also been discovered from Aduru and Rujuru of the same district. 87
From Maski in Raichur district, was discovered an important epigraph88, dated Śaka 953, corresponding to 1032 A.D., of the time of Jagadekamalla, a title of Jayasimha II (1015-43), the Western Cālukya monarch of Kalyāna. It refers to a Jain shrine called Jagadekamalla Jinālaya, which suggests that the temple was named after
