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other pious act of Gangarāja, will be discussed in connexion with the discussion of the Jain epigraphs of other districts.
Another general of Visbộuvardhana, viz. Bharata, was also a devout Jain, and like Gangarāja, built new Jina temples, everywhere in Gangavāời. According to an epigraph 2 8 , from Belgola, dated 1160 A.D., he built 80 new basadis and renovated 200 Jina temples in Gangavāời. This Bharata was a lay disciple of the well-known Gandavimukta Siddhāntadeva.8 84
Hulla, a treasurer (bhāņdāri) of Narasimha I (1152-1173), was another great Jain of the 12th century, and is mentioned in several Śravana Belgola epigraphs, of the time of Narasimba and Ballāla II. According to one inscription 285, he even served Vishnuvardhana. An epigrapho88, of 1159 A.D., informs us that the treasurer Hulla, erected at Belgola, a temple, dedicated to 24 Tirthankaras and it was popularly known as Bhāņdāri bassādi. His guru, according to the same epigraph, was Maladhāri Svāmi. The epigraph also records the visit of Narasimha I to Belgola, wbo paid homage to Gomateśvara and also visited the Caturvjmšati temple, built by Hulla. The king, we are told, gave it a second name viz. Bhavyacūļāmani, after Hulla's title Sam yaktva-Cūdāmani, and granted the village Savaneru to it, to provide for gifts, repairs, worship etc. The record closes with the statement that Hulla made over the village Savaneru to Bhānukirti of the Pustaka gaccha, Deśiya gana and Mūlasangha. One epigrapb287, dated 1159, mentions Hulla, as the third great promoter of the Jain faith, after Cāmundrāya and Gangarāja. The same epigraph refers to the restoration of two Jina temples at Bankāpura by Hulla. His religious activities also embraced Kopaņa. Mahāmandalācārya Nayakirti, the disciple of Guņacandra, was made the acārya of the Caturvimśati temple, set up by Hulla. Narasimha I's visit to Belgola is also mentioned in a late epigraph288, dated 1175 A.D., which states that he granted, along with the village Savaneru, the two villages Bekka
