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or Sena I, the father of Kārtavirya II. This epigraph also records a grant by Kårtavirya II's elder brother Kannakaira II, whose guru was the great preceptor, the Traividya Kanakaprabhasiddäntadeva.
A 13th century epigraph 116, dated Śaka 1151, from Saundatti, belonging to the reign of the Raffa chief Maha mandalesvara Lakshmideva II, mentions a great Jain teacher Municandra, who is given the epithet (rajaguru) the royal preceptor'. Incidentally, the epigraph also mentions Prabhācandra Siddhāntadeva, the priest of Manikyatirtha basadi at Hüli and some other colleagues of that priest.
An epigraph116, from Hüli, gives us two important dates. The first is Šaka 966, corresponding to 1044 A.D. The reigning Western Cālukya king of that time, viz. Somesvara I, alias Ahavamalla has been mentioned in this epigraph. We are told that, at this great centre of Brāhmanical learning (the original name was Pūli), Lacchiyabbe, the wife of the governor of that district (viz. Kūndi, roughly corresponding to the modern district of Belgaum), constructed a Jain temple, and for its maintenance gave, some grant to its newly-appointed priest, called Bālacandra Bhațjāraka, who belonged to the Yāpaniya Sangha and Punnāgavệkshamūla gana. A monk of this gaña, as we have already seen in the first chapter of the present work, has been mentioned in a 12th century epigraph from Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. The present inscription was however, incised at least a century before the Kolhapur record. The second part of the epigraph, yields the date Śaka 1067, corresponding to 1145 A.D., and mentions, Jagadekamalla (1138-51 A.D.) as the reigning king. It also records some grant in favour of that Jain temple and also mentions its priest Rāmacandra. It should be remembered, in this connexion, that the Mānikyatirtha basadi at Hali, mentioned in another epigraph, noticed above, is different from the Jain temple, referred to in the present epigraph. This Māpikyatirtha basadi at Hüli is, however, mentioned
