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JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA
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Tribhuvanamalla Santara and mentions the erection of a Jain temple (basadi) by Cațţaladevi. The epigraph also refers to Ajitasena Bhattāraka, belonging to Dravida Sangha and Arungalānvaya. We have already seen that Cațţaladevi was a great Jain lay devotee, and did everything possible for the promotion of the religion of the Jinas. From Nidigi in the same district, we have a recordao, of the Cālukya Vikrama year 42, corresponding to 1117 A.D., recording the erection of a Jain temple by one Barmi-Sejți. Several monks, belonging to Krānūra gana, Meshapāshāna gaccha, including Prabhācandra and Subhakirti are mentioned in this epigraph. We have already seen that Prabhācandra of this gaccha, has been mentioned in the epigraph from Tattekere in the same district,
From Purle of the Shimoga taluk and district, has been found a fairly big epigraph, 201 dated 1112 A.D., mentioning both Tribhuvanamalla (Vikramaditya VI) and Hoysala Narasimha I. It also refers to one Ganga-Jinālaya, which was built at Kuruli-tirtha (modern Purle) by Satyagangadeya ; a gift was registered in favour of Madhavacandradeva. There is also a reference to a Caityälaya built at Kuntalāpura, which appears to be another name of Kuruli (Purle). Kuntalāpurā and its Jain temple are mentioned in another Jain epigraph 208 from Purle, dated 1204 A.D., of the time of Hoysala Ballāla II (1173-1220).
An epigraph 308 from Hire Abli of Sorab taluk, in Shimoga district, discloses the name of a local Pārsvanātha temple, which received a grant in 1142 A.D., during the reign of Jagadekamalla (1138-51). The donor was one Pergade Mayduna. It also mentions Daņqanāyaka YogeÁvara, who too, was probably a patron of the Jain religion, Hire Abli was known as Avali in ancient times. The epi. graph mentions Virasena and Mānikyasena, belonging to Mülasangha, Senagana and Pogari gaccha,
The above discussion of some of the epigraphs from Shimoga district, proves that this area could boast of a
